Chicago-based photographer Jason Lazarus (born 1975) is known for using both traditionally developed photography as well as found and solicited images and texts in collaborative installations. Among the projects examined is Too Hard to Keep, an ongoing archive through which Lazarus preserves photographs too emotionally charged to keep yet too meaningful to destroy.

Jason Lazarus: Your Time Is Gonna Come

Arts & Photography

Photography & Video

University Galleries of Illinois State University

34 color plates, 74 black/white illustrations. Essays: "Fables,Facts, Riddles and Reasons in Wojnarowicz's Mythopoetica," by Carlo McCormick; "AIDS, Pure War and 'Being Queer In America'," by Curtis White; "David Wojnarowicz: As The World Turns," by John Carlin; "The Compression Of Time: An Interview With David Wojnarowicz," by Barry Blinderman. Writings by David Wojnarowicz: "Losing The Form In Darkness," "Self Portrait In Twenty-three Rounds," "Being Queer In America: A Journal Of Disintegration," "Living Close To The Knives," and "Post Cards From America: X-Rays From Hell." Biographical dateline by David Wojnarowicz. Comprehensive list of exhibitions, chronology and bibliography.

David Wojnarowicz: Tongues of Flame

Individual Artists

Dennis Oppenheim: Drawings And Sculpture

California-based artist Kendell Carter (born 1970) draws from hip hop culture and modernist painting, architecture and furniture design to create immersive installations addressing race, gender and consumer culture. This volume is a survey of work from 2006–2013, including the artist’s recent collaboration with Darren Hostetter.

Kendell Carter

History & Criticism

In their own highly individualistic styles, Illinois natives Mark Forth and David Hodges combine the mundane and the absurd, producing paintings that vividly conjure Middle America.

Fractured Tales From The Heartland: Paintings by Mark Forth and David Hodges

Collections, Catalogs & Exhibitions

Four women artists create works addressing ecological issues, the unsettling interface between biology and technology, and humanist cultural concerns.

Signs Of Life: Kiki Smith, Rebecca Howland, Cara Perlman & Christy Rupp

Jane Dickson's luminous paintings of Times Square explore the links between voyeurism, desire and the lure of the urban night. She portrays lone pedestrians enveloped in neon glow, with a rare feel for social complexity, and a determination to excavate the neglected undersides of familiar places.

Jane Dickson: Peepland: Paintings 1983-1993

This retrospective catalogue examines how both the techno-pop appeal of Kenny Scharf's work and its playful commentary have established him as an important player in late twentieth-century art.

Kenny Scharf (UNIVERSITY GALL)

McBride, Bill

Dismal Science is the definitive edition of seven acclaimed photographic projects made by Allan Sekula over the last 24 years, and also includes a number of critical essays by Sekula on contemporary photography, His hybrid works, incorporating photographic sequences, slide projections, texts, and audio recordings, question the conventions of documentary photography, while tracing strange linkages between everyday life and the global economic system. Dismal Science is published in conjunction with an exhibition organized by the University Galleries of Illinois State University that travelled to eight venues between 1996-1998 including the Netherlands foto institute, Rotterdam, the Munich Kunstverein, and the John Curtin Gallery, Perth, Australia.

Allan Sekula: Dismal Science: Photoworks 1972-1996 (UNIVERSITY GALL)

post-hypnotic examines the resurgence of pronounced optical effects in the work of 28 painters living in the U.S., Switzerland, England, and Japan. Since the 1980s, numerous artists have revisited Op phenomena involving pulsating patterns, afterimages, vibrating illusionistic space, and other sensations often associated with altered states. This book will offer the first comprehensive view and critical assessment of optical phenomena in the 1980s and 1990s. Curator Barry Blinderman and artist/critic Tom Moody trace Op from its quasi-scientific origins in the 60s through its so-called deconstruction in the 80s to its present incarnation. Peter Halley contributes an interview updating his essay on Ross Bleckner and Op, "Painting at the End of History." Among the artists included are: Ross Bleckner, Peter Halley, Bruce Pearson, Philip Taaffe, John Armleder, and Yayoi Kusama.

Post-Hypnotic (UNIVERSITY GALL)

Hickey, Dave

Halley, Peter

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