Rick Lowe

Copublished with Gagosian, this is the first book devoted to the work of a major contemporary artist, with a focus on his painting.
 
Houston-based artist Rick Lowe is widely known for his pioneering contributions to the development of “social practice art,” work that landed him a MacArthur fellowship in 2014. What few people realize is that he was originally trained as a landscape painter. In recent years, Lowe has increasingly turned back to painting, producing complex multi-panel and quasi-abstract images that are deeply rooted in thirty years of work creating “social sculptures,” recalling the urban fabric of cities around the world that have formed the backdrop of many of his community-based art projects. This book, which brilliantly reproduces Lowe’s paintings, is the first dedicated to the work of this important American artist, focusing on his painterly practice and its origins in his work in the public sphere.

Dieter Roelstraete is the curator at the Neubauer Collegium for Culture and Society. He has served as a curator for documenta14 and the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago, and is the author or editor of several books.

Antwaun Sargent is a director and curator at Gagosian. His writing has appeared in The New York Times, The New Yorker, and The New York Review of Books, among other publications, and he has contributed essays to museum and gallery catalogues. Sargent has co-organized exhibitions including Social Works at Gagosian in New York (2021) and The Way We Live Now at the Aperture Foundation in New York (2018). His first book, The New Black Vanguard: Photography between Art and Fashion, was released by Aperture in 2019.