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Katie Holten: Paths of Desire
May 18 - August 5, 2007

A 9x7 inch, 120 page, paperback artist book. Foreword by Paul Ha. Edited by Katie Holten. Text by Lia Gangitano. Contributions by Elizabeth Kolbert, James Howard Kunstler, A. M. Homes, Rebecca Solnit, Fritz Haeg, J.G. Ballard, Andrea Zittel. In her first museum exhibition in the United States, Irish artist Katie Holten joins the Contemporary Art Museum, St. Louis, as an artist-in-residence to create her largest and most ambitious work to date. The exhibition presents a new site-specific indoor installation that explores global ecology and social gestures within moments of environmental crisis. Interested in our fragile ecology from an international perspective--while also considering local concerns--Holten's work is a relative, aesthetic proposition for community-friendly solutions. She renders nature essential, and in the process asks individuals and communities to ponder their natural environment, and to consider human fragility in an uncertain future.
Catalog Available $25

I Remember Heaven: Jim Hodges and Andy Warhol
January 26 - April 8, 2007

A 9x12 inch, 112 page, hardback catalog. I Remember Heaven explores shared affinities in the work of the Pop art superstar Andy Warhol, and contemporary artist Jim Hodges. This cross-generational study looks at both artists' work within a continuum of art production that finds history in everyday artifacts and uses aesthetic representation as a means to understand visibility and invisibility, sexuality, selfhood, love and death. Essayist Jose Esteban Muñoz discusses the artists' work in relation to queer aesthetics before and after Stonewall. Susan E. Cahan examines the personal and social aspects of collective grief, a subject which preoccupied both artists. I Remember Heaven captures a sense of the America of the 60s as not so different from today: Once again, the American public is fiercely divided over social issues; once again, an unpopular war enters American homes via television; and once again, American culture is experiencing an explosion of information--this time spawned by the Internet.
Catalog Available $35

 

Janaina Tschape : Melantropics
September 15 - December 31, 2006

A 64 page full-color catalog that includes new essays by exhibition curator Andrea Green, Curatorial Assistant at the Contemporary, and Ricardo Sardenberg, an independent curator based in Brazil. Melantropics, is Tschape's first U.S.-based publication.
Catalog Available $30

Larry Krone: Artist/Entertainer Limited Edition Boxset
September 15 - December 31, 2006

Inside this rare, Limited Edition Artist Box Set you'll find a unique peek at an artist's life while also establishing a mini-Krone collection for one. The Larry Krone: Artist/Entertainer Limited Edition Artist Box Set functions as an interactive visual key to Krone's diverse art making practice and performance history. The Box Set contains a 98-page, full-color exhibition catalog exploring a decade of Krone's work with essays by Shannon Fitzgerald and Carin Kuoni. Additionally, the portfolio includes a new music CD by the artist and collaborators, a collection of hand-designed performance playbills from ten years of performances, artist-designed patterns to create your own Underpants of Many Colors, a suitable for framing poster, an etched shot glass, a postcard, a sticker collection, and a complimentary pass to the Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis. All objects are designed to fit in a miniature replicated suitcase complete with a handle and made to travel. The Box Set includes a signed and numbered Official Certificate of Authenticity.
Box Set available $100
Edition of 500

Great River Biennial 2006
January 20 - March 26, 2006

The Great Rivers Biennial is a collaboration between the Contemporary and Gateway Foundation designed to strengthen the local art scene in St. Louis. Three artists are selected by a panel of esteemed national jurors to receive an award of $15,000 each and an exhibition at the Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis. The goal of this innovative awards program is to identify talented emerging local artists, provide them financial assistance, raise the visibility of their work in both the Midwest and national arts community, and provide them with professional support from visiting critics, curators and dealers. The three winners for the Great Rivers Biennial 2006 are Moses, Matthew Strauss, and Jason Wallace Triefenbach.

Essays by Shannon Fitzgerald, Andrea Green, and Ben Shepard. Artist biographies, exhibition checklist, Director’s foreword and acknowledgements. 36 pages total, saddle stitched into three 12 page signatures, more than 15 color and black and white illustrations, unique four fold letter pressed cover, 5 ½ in. x 6 in.
Catalog available $10

 

Cindy Sherman: Working Girl
September 16 – December 31, 2005

“Putting her Buffalo years behind her, Sherman moved to Manhattan with Longo in the summer of 1977 and began her working life as a full-fledged artist. While Sherman’s Untitled (Secretary), (1978), is not a part of the Untitled Film Stills series that she started in the fall of her arrival on the New York art scene, it is yet another link between her early work and the photographs that would become her first work as a mature artist.”
Excerpt from essay by Catherine Morris

Essay by Catherine Morris, artist’s biography, exhibition checklist, Director’s foreword and acknowledgements. 56 pages, more than 20 black and white illustrations, soft cover, 10 in. x 8 in.
Catalog available $20

Dzine: Punk Funk
March 18 – July 17, 2005

“Dzine is a builder, constructing visual language through physical and conceptual layers, employing arrangements of color, form, abstraction and sound. He uses materials like acrylic, metallic, silver and copper paint, and layers of resin to render paintings like collages, communicating meaningful phrases, clauses, and sentences.” - Excerpt from an essay by Shannon Fitzgerald

Essay by Shannon Fitzgerald and 16 track CD composed by DJ Cam, arranged and compiled by Dzine. 45 pages, over 60 color illustrations, 11½ in. x 8 in.
Catalog and CD available $30

 

Ruby Osorio: Story of a Girl (Who Awakes Far, Far Away)
March 18 – July 17, 2005

“Several years into teaching elementary school, Ruby Osorio found this rather pragmatic chapter in her life so illuminating that she spontaneously began drawing adolescent girls, enabling her to process the complex dramas awaiting her innocent students”
- Excerpt from the essay by Sue Spaid

Essays by Shannon Fitzgerald and Sue Spaid, an interview with the artist conducted by Tyler Stallings. 66 pages, more than 50 color illustrations, hardcover, 9 in. x 6½ in.
Catalog available $30

Laylah Ali: Types
December 3, 2004 – February 27, 2005

Known for her cartoon-like characters engaged in ambiguous activities, Laylah Ali’s work implies narratives that address a wide variety of political and social concerns.  Organized on the occasion of the exhibition, Laylah Ali: Paintings and Drawings, this book contains reproductions from the artist’s Types series. These new drawings focus on portraits of individuals that compress various traits to create new character “types.” This small, 36 page book features new black and white and color drawings. This is the first time Ali’s drawings have been published. 14 illustrations (7 color), paper, 4 1⁄4 in. x 5 1⁄2 in. Organized by Andrea Green, Curatorial Assistant, the Contemporary.
Available $10

Michael Lin
 April 23 - June 27, 2004

“Michael Lin creates large-scale installations that explore painting, design, ornamentation, and culture through an interaction with architecture. His installations are environments or aesthetic slices of life that invite the viewer to share the space of art and architecture in socially contemplative ways. They are sites of confluence.” - Excerpt from essay by Shannon Fitzgerald

Foreword by Paul Ha, essays by Shannon Fitzgerald and Frances Stark. Biography of artist and Stark included. 64 pages, 55 color illustrations, hardcover, 9 in. x 9 in.
Catalog available $30

 

Yun-Fei Ji: The Empty City
January 23 – March 28, 2004

“This series addresses the specific histories and problematic issues surrounding the construction of the world’s largest dam, the Three Gorges Dam along the Yangtze River. Created in a narrative format, Ji’s series offers a looming look at the current situation in China and the past, present, and future within mystic, veiled landscapes. The paintings portray the failure of modernist utopian ideas and perhaps warn of what China’s future may hold….” - Excerpt from the introduction by Shannon Fitzgerald

Foreword by Paul Ha, essays by Shannon Fitzgerald, Tan Lin, Gregory Volk, and Melissa Chiu with biography of artist included. 95 pages, more than 40 color illustrations, paper,
8 in. x 9 ½ in.
Catalog available $30

 

A Fiction of Authenticity: Contemporary Africa Abroad
September 20, 2003 – January 4, 2004

“… is an exhibition and catalog that represents new work by a selection of the most prominent African and African diaspora artists working in Europe and the United States. The artists represent an important generation of artists born before or during the postcolonial era in Africa….Their work, creative strategies, and formal vocabularies considered within this context challenge prevailing notions-fictions-about Africa and the largely Western desire for an authentic African art. - Excerpt from the essay by Shannon Fitzgerald

Full biographies on all 11 artists involved. Foreword by Paul Ha, with essays from Shannon Fitzgerald, Tumelo Mosaka, Gilane Tawadros, Okwui Enwezor, Orlando Britto Jinorio and Ery Camara. 184 pages, more than 60 color illustrations, paper, 7 ¾ in. x 10 in.
Catalog available $35

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