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Sabina Ott: Everywhere There is Somewhere
November 7, 1997 - January 3, 1998

"...I like to think of Sabina's art as song filled tear filled too. Because these palimpsestic panels are major works of visual music...music the most interior, the most headful, of the arts. And if they take us on a spiritual journey in search of the self, they find it where Rose finds it--in the lyrics" - Excerpt from the essay by William H. Gass

Introduction by Elizabeth Wright Millard and Mel Watkin, with essays by William H. Gass and Rochelle Steiner Assistant Curator of Contemporary Art at The St. Louis Art Museum. 52 pages, 14 color illustrations, paper, 5 ¾ in. x 8 in.
Catalog available $15

Carroll Dunham: Paintings and Drawings
April 4- May 31, 1997

Organized by the Santa Barbara Contemporary Arts Forum, guest curator Phyllis Plous
"Transcending the explainable, Carroll Dunham's art is open- ended and fragmented. He is committed to abstract practices that span generations and sensibilities; to visual thinking; and to an excavation, via line, of a psychological landscape of felt experience. When he began working in the seventies he resolved to jettison the exhausted paradigms and rhetorical taboos of high modernism while employing formal discipline, content and context to find a new continuity for painting. Dunham has been working as an artist for more than twenty years. His development has been intentional and considered one and his recent paintings and drawings, remarkably accomplished and audacious, reflect an intense, unwavering maturation. In the nineties, Dunham's works have reached new levels of significance. Spontaneous but rigorous concoctions of line, color, space, and shape, they infuse the contemporary painting enterprise with exuberant vitality and fresh ideas." - Excerpt from the essay by Phyllis Plous

Foreword by Nancy Doll with an essay and catalogue descriptions from Phyllis Plous, includes an artist’s biography. 52 pages, 23 color illustrations, paper, 8 ½ in. x 10 in.
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Reconditioned Abstraction
November 15, 1996 - January 4, 1997

Featuring: Charles Clough, Lydia Dona, Moira Dryer, Rochelle Feinstein, Mary Heilmann, Jonathan Lasker, Fabian Marcaccio, David Reed, Philip Taaffe. Guest curator Martin Ball.
"The idea of abstraction restored to a usable condition, or "reconditioned," had its origins in my own practice as a painter, spurred on by a lecture given by artist and critic Saul Ostrow. Ostrow discussed the issue of whether recent abstract painting was new or merely renewed formalism, prompting me to re-evaluate my own views on recent neo-conceptual abstract painting." - Excerpt from the essay by Martin Ball

Introduction by Mel Watkin with an essay by Martin Ball. 20 pages, includes color illustrations form each artist and their biography’s, paper, 11 in. x 8 ½ in.
Catalog available $10

On Beyond the Book
November 10 - December 30, 1995

An Exhibition of Contemporary Artists' Books
"...If you innocently venture the question: "What is an artists' book?", step back, the explosion might blow you out onto the sidewalk. Asking the question is like walking into a conference of art theorists and saying, "Yes, but is it art?" I will discuss definition, but first a disclaimer. This exhibition does not attempt to define contemporary artists' books or to produce an historical survey. Rather, I wish to show the incredible breadth of the field. I am interested in artists who explode the techniques of traditional publishing and meld their ideas with installation art, painting, sculpture, film, video, literature, computers, science, history, popular culture, music,...and beyond...." - Taken from an essay by Mel Watkin, curator

Essay written by Mel Watkin, 12 pages, 30 black and white illustrations, paper, 9 in. x 12 in.
Catalog available $10

Toshiko Takaezu: New Works
November 26 – December 30, 1994

“A color photograph in a recent issue of American Craft magazine pictures three of master potter Toshiko Takaezu’s spherical forms placed like stepping stones in the water at the edge of a pond. It is their reflection, half hidden as the waters depth rises to their centers, always ephemeral, compromised by wind or movement, that visually completes the spheres.”
- Excerpt from introductory essay by Patricia Degener

Introduction by Elizabeth Wright Millard and essay by Patricia Degener, biography of artists and full checklist included with 7 color illustrations, softcover, 11in. x 8½in.
Catalog available $10

 

Philemona Williamson: Fables and Fantasies
Exhibition sponsored by Hypo-Bank at Financial Square opening 15 December, 1994

“Life, in Philemona Williamson’s paintings, appears to be a balancing act in which there are two sides to every coin and actually intentionally raises more questions than it answers.”
- Excerpt from essay by Nina Felshin

Introduction provided by Hypo- Bank Director and essay written by Nina Felshin (both German and English), brief artist biography, with 7 color images, softcover, 11 in. x 8 ½ in.
Catalog available $8

 

History 101: The Re-Search for Family
January 21 – March 26, 1994

“The title of this exhibition refers to the first history course offered at most universities. Its purpose is to lay the foundation for further study. Family is the foundation of an individual’s history. Long or short, good or bad, it is the basic structure from which we thrive or fail” - Excerpt from Mel Watkin, Curator’s essay

Interviews with all four artists, Deborah Small, Rebecca Belmore, Clarissa Sligh, and Walton Ford, with introduction by Mel Watkin and essay written by Lucy Lippard. 23 pages with 7 illustrations, softcover, 9 in. x 12 in.
Catalog available $12

 

Kim Mosely: Sixteen Stages of Psychosexual Development with Wordy Drawings & Annotations

This book was “publish [sic], annotated, drawn, sold, & financed by the author’s vanity press” and contains 46 pages of the artists work and writings from 1991 and before. Softcover, 11 in. x 8 ½in.
Available $8

 
 
   
 
 

 
 

 

 
 

 
 

 

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