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Hardback. Condition: Good. This striking exhibition catalog celebrates the late artist whose deeply emotional works intermingled realism with abstraction to address complex themes of identity, race, and community. American artist Noah Davis (1983?2015) believed ?painting does something to your soul that nothing else can. It is visceral and immediate.? Drawing on art history, personal archives, anonymous photography found in Los Angeles? flea markets, and his own imagination, he compiled a ravishing body of figurative paintings that explore a range of Black life. Alongside his celebrated paintings, Davis made drawings, collages, and sculptures, and co-founded the Underground Museum. This elegantly designed volume documents the span of Davis?s career and attends to his commitment to representation in the art world and community engagement at the Underground Museum. Alongside new scholarship from writers, artists, and musicians like Tina M. Campt, Claudia Rankine, Marlene Dumas and Jason Moran, this catalog features high-quality reproductions of Davis?s more widely-known works as well as previously unseen archival material. A vital resource for understanding the depth and significance of his practice, this beautiful publication reveals how humanity, humor, imagination, and above all, people, were the epicenter of Davis?s work.…

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dj. First Edition. First edition. Large softcover. 143 pages. Exhibition catalog for a show that ran May 12 through June 18, 2022. Features texts by Michaela Mohrmann, Rosalind E Krauss, Mami Kataoka, along with the text of a conversation between Wells Fray-Smith and Meppayil. Includes numerous illustrations, a checklist, and a list of previous exhibitions. A very good plus copy in wrappers with some minor wear to the fore edge of the pages and from the library of Lucas Samaras with estate stamp to the front free endpaper and in a very near fine dust jacket. A very nice copy with an interesting provenance.…

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Hardcover. Condition: new. Hardcover. This striking exhibition catalog celebrates the late artist whose deeply emotional works intermingled realism with abstraction to address complex themes of identity, race, and community. American artist Noah Davis (19832015) believed 'painting does something to your soul that nothing else can. It is visceral and immediate.' Drawing on art history, personal archives, anonymous photography found in Los Angeles' flea markets, and his own imagination, he compiled a ravishing body of figurative paintings that explore a range of Black life. Alongside his celebrated paintings, Davis made drawings, collages, and sculptures, and co-founded the Underground Museum. This elegantly designed volume documents the span of Davis's career and attends to his commitment to representation in the art world and community engagement at the Underground Museum. Alongside new scholarship from writers, artists, and musicians like Tina M. Campt, Claudia Rankine, Marlene Dumas, and Jason Moran, this catalog features high-quality reproductions of Davis's more widely-known works as well as previously unseen archival material. A vital resource for understanding the depth and significance of his practice, this beautiful publication reveals how humanity, humor, imagination, and above all, people, were the epicenter of Davis's work. AUTHORS: Wells Fray-Smith is Curator at the Barbican Art Gallery, London. She was formerly Curator at the Whitechapel Gallery, London, and held similar positions at Pace Gallery, London, and The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. Paola Malavassi is founding Director of DAS MINSK Kunsthaus, Potsdam, Germany. She was formerly Head of the Julia Stoschek Collection, Berlin, and curatorial assistant of Kasper Koenig at Museum Ludwig, Cologne, Germany. Eleanor Nairne is the Keith L. and Katherine Sachs Curator and Head of Modern and Contemporary Art at the Philadelphia Museum of Art. She was formerly Senior Curator at the Barbican Art Gallery, London. SELLING POINTS: . Perfect for those interested in contemporary painting. . Exclusive insights into the life and work of Noah Davis from curators who knew him, and artists whose work he has influenced. . Gorgeously illustrated with 200 colour images . Beautifully designed by APFEL with special features including Wibalin cover, screenprint and flush cut edges 200 colour illustrations Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…

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Hardback. Condition: New. Real Life is introduced and curated by Wells Fray-Smith. It is published in collaboration with Gallery Sofie Van de Velde on the occasion of the group exhibition Real Life. The publication gathers works by Ilse D'Hollander, Lois Dodd, Christopher Colm Morrin, Jesse Murry, Heidrun Rathgeb, Peter Shear, Trevor Shimizu, and Frank Walter, presenting a dialogue across generations and geographies around painting's enduring engagement with lived experience. The book explores how these artists, much like Ilse D'Hollander herself, use paint to address reality in its most porous, poetic, and capacious sense. Whether working through figuration or abstraction, their practices blur the boundaries between pigment and picture, illusion and observation, the tangible and the transcendental. At its heart Ilse D'Hollander's quiet yet profound vision. Through sketchbooks and paintings from 1988 onward, she offered intimate glimpses of her daily surroundings - a window frame, a stairway, a cat - each rendered with the same precision and restraint that define her painting. These drawings were not preparatory studies but complete reflections on perception itself, acts of seeing that transformed the ordinary into the contemplative. …

Hardcover. Condition: new. Hardcover. A contemplative exploration of Ilse D'Hollander's poetic abstractions - where color, form, and silence converge. Real Life is introduced and curated by Wells Fray-Smith. It is published in collaboration with Gallery Sofie Van de Velde on the occasion of the group exhibition Real Life. The publication gathers works by Ilse D'Hollander, Lois Dodd, Christopher Colm Morrin, Jesse Murry, Heidrun Rathgeb, Peter Shear, Trevor Shimizu, and Frank Walter, presenting a dialogue across generations and geographies around painting's enduring engagement with lived experience. The book explores how these artists, much like Ilse D'Hollander herself, use paint to address reality in its most porous, poetic, and capacious sense. Whether working through figuration or abstraction, their practices blur the boundaries between pigment and picture, illusion and observation, the tangible and the transcendental. At its heart Ilse D'Hollander's quiet yet profound vision. Through sketchbooks and paintings from 1988 onward, she offered intimate glimpses of her daily surroundings - a window frame, a stairway, a cat - each rendered with the same precision and restraint that define her painting. These drawings were not preparatory studies but complete reflections on perception itself, acts of seeing that transformed the ordinary into the contemplative. AUTHORS: Wells Fray-Smith is a London-based curator currently working at the Barbican Centre. She is a co-curator of Unravel: The Power and Politics of Textiles in Art, an exhibition exploring textiles in relation to themes such as imperialism, exclusion, resilience, love, and hope. The exhibition features works by fifty international and intergenerational artists, ranging from hand-crafted objects to large-scale installations, reflecting the broad scope of the project she co-curated. In March 2024, she led a public curator tour of Unravel at the Barbican. Fray-Smith has also written curatorial texts for exhibitions, including Christopher Colm Morrin's solo show notes (JanuaryFebruary 2024) at Gallery Sofie Van de Velde in Antwerp. Her writing also appears in material related to Morrin's exhibition Witnessing Change. Her contributions to international exhibitions highlight her active presence within contemporary curatorial practice. Ilse D'Hollander (19681997) was a Belgian painter whose concise yet profound body of work continues to captivate audiences for its quiet emotional intensity and refined formal language. Educated at the Higher Institute of Fine Arts in Antwerp, D'Hollander developed a deeply personal vocabulary that bridges abstraction and representation. Her palette - muted yet luminous - reflects the atmospheric subtleties of the Flemish landscape and the psychological depth of solitude. Though her career was tragically brief, her paintings have gained significant posthumous recognition, exhibited internationally at venues such as Sean Kelly Gallery (New York), and Gallery Sofie Van de Velde (Antwerp). Today, D'Hollander is regarded as one of Belgium's most distinctive voices in contemporary abstraction. SELLING POINTS: . The most recent publication devoted to Ilse D'Hollander's oeuvre, highlighting new insights and key works . Features high-quality reproductions of D'Hollander's paintings and drawings . Includes critical texts reflecting on her legacy within Belgian and international abstraction 55 colour illustrations A contemplative exploration of Ilse DHollanders poetic abstractions where colour, form, and silence converge. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…

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Hardback. Condition: New. Real Life is introduced and curated by Wells Fray-Smith. It is published in collaboration with Gallery Sofie Van de Velde on the occasion of the group exhibition Real Life. The publication gathers works by Ilse D'Hollander, Lois Dodd, Christopher Colm Morrin, Jesse Murry, Heidrun Rathgeb, Peter Shear, Trevor Shimizu, and Frank Walter, presenting a dialogue across generations and geographies around painting's enduring engagement with lived experience. The book explores how these artists, much like Ilse D'Hollander herself, use paint to address reality in its most porous, poetic, and capacious sense. Whether working through figuration or abstraction, their practices blur the boundaries between pigment and picture, illusion and observation, the tangible and the transcendental. At its heart Ilse D'Hollander's quiet yet profound vision. Through sketchbooks and paintings from 1988 onward, she offered intimate glimpses of her daily surroundings - a window frame, a stairway, a cat - each rendered with the same precision and restraint that define her painting. These drawings were not preparatory studies but complete reflections on perception itself, acts of seeing that transformed the ordinary into the contemplative. …

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Hardcover. Condition: new. Hardcover. The transformative power of contemporary textiles is the subject of this exhibition catalog that examines how and why textile has been a fertile medium for artists to question regimes of power and hierarchies of value. Bringing together more than 100 works by a diverse range of international practitioners, this eye-opening volume explores how textile art can be as discomforting as it is beautiful, and how age-old materials and processes are being reimagined with boundary-smashing innovations. From intimate hand-crafted works to large-scale sculptural installations, this book celebrates the legacies of artists such as Pacita Abad, the arpilleristas, and Jose Leonilson. Also featured here are works by living artists such as Igshaan Adams, Tracey Emin, and Cecilia Vicun~a. With new scholarship and beautifully produced imagery, this collection of renowned artists from around the world reveals the extraordinary potential of textiles to confront fixed notions of history, race, gender, sexual expression, and class-and how, ultimately, it can be a powerful force for both resistance and repair. AUTHOR: Lotte Johnson is curator at the Barbican Museum in London. She previously worked at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City. She lives in London. Amanda Pinatih is Design Curator at the Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, PhD candidate and founder of Design Museum Dharavi. She lives in Amsterdam. Wells Fray-Smith is a curator at the Barbican Centre, London. She was formerly Curator at the Whitechapel Gallery, London and has also worked at Pace Gallery, the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City. She lives in London. SELLING POINTS: . Perfect for lovers of contemporary textile art. . Exhibition highlight: accompanies a major new exhibition at the Barbican, London and Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam. . Compelling essays: engaging and accessible essays deepen our understanding of the history, politics and tradition of textile art. . Comprehensive survey: includes over 150 works by a diverse range of international artists including Faith Ringgold, Nick Cave, Tracey Emin and Do Ho Suh. . Lavishly illustrated with 300 colour images. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…

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Hardback. Condition: New. This striking exhibition catalog celebrates the late artist whose deeply emotional works intermingled realism with abstraction to address complex themes of identity, race, and community.American artist Noah Davis (1983-2015) believed 'painting does something to your soul that nothing else can. It is visceral and immediate.' Drawing on art history, personal archives, anonymous photography found in Los Angeles' flea markets, and his own imagination, he compiled a ravishing body of figurative paintings that explore a range of Black life. Alongside his celebrated paintings, Davis made drawings, collages, and sculptures, and co-founded the Underground Museum.This elegantly designed volume documents the span of Davis's career and attends to his commitment to representation in the art world and community engagement at the Underground Museum. Alongside new scholarship from writers, artists, and musicians like Tina M. Campt, Claudia Rankine, Marlene Dumas and Jason Moran, this catalog features high-quality reproductions of Davis's more widely-known works as well as previously unseen archival material. A vital resource for understanding the depth and significance of his practice, this beautiful publication reveals how humanity, humor, imagination, and above all, people, were the epicenter of Davis's work.…

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Hardback. Condition: New. This striking exhibition catalog celebrates the late artist whose deeply emotional works intermingled realism with abstraction to address complex themes of identity, race, and community.American artist Noah Davis (1983-2015) believed 'painting does something to your soul that nothing else can. It is visceral and immediate.' Drawing on art history, personal archives, anonymous photography found in Los Angeles' flea markets, and his own imagination, he compiled a ravishing body of figurative paintings that explore a range of Black life. Alongside his celebrated paintings, Davis made drawings, collages, and sculptures, and co-founded the Underground Museum.This elegantly designed volume documents the span of Davis's career and attends to his commitment to representation in the art world and community engagement at the Underground Museum. Alongside new scholarship from writers, artists, and musicians like Tina M. Campt, Claudia Rankine, Marlene Dumas and Jason Moran, this catalog features high-quality reproductions of Davis's more widely-known works as well as previously unseen archival material. A vital resource for understanding the depth and significance of his practice, this beautiful publication reveals how humanity, humor, imagination, and above all, people, were the epicenter of Davis's work.…

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Hardback. Condition: New. The transformative power of contemporary textiles is the subject of this exhibition catalog that examines how and why textile has been a fertile medium for artists to question regimes of power and hierarchies of value.Bringing together more than 100 works by a diverse range of international practitioners, this eye-opening volume explores how textile art can be as discomforting as it is beautiful, and how age-old materials and processes are being reimagined with boundary-smashing innovations. From intimate hand-crafted works to large-scale sculptural installations, this book celebrates the legacies of artists such as Pacita Abad, the arpilleristas, and Jose? Leonilson. Also featured here are works by living artists such as Igshaan Adams, Tracey Emin, and Cecilia Vicun~a.Featuring new essays by Julia Bryan-Wilson, Miguel A. Lopez and Denise Ferriera da Silva, and texts by Michelle Adler, Diego Chocano, Wells Fray-Smith, Lotte Johnson and Amanda Pinatih, this beautifully produced book features a collection of renowned artists from around the world and reveals the extraordinary potential of textiles to confront fixed notions of history, race, gender, sexual expressions, and class-and how, ultimately, it can be a powerful force for both resistance and repair.…