Mark Flood: Gratest Hits - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1933619597 ISBN 13: 9781933619590

Publisher: Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, 2016

Synopsis

Mark Flood: Gratest Hits is the first survey of the work of Houston-based artist Mark Flood (born 1957) dating from the 1970s to 2016. Described by The New York Times as a “painter and punk propagandist,” Flood has, despite remaining barely visible at the museum level, maintained an active and influential career for decades in painting and, increasingly, exhibition practice, producing work characterized by deep wisdom and trenchant humor. With Gratest Hits, Flood--an artist so absolute in his judgments that one 2012 painting featured the words “Whore Museums, Gutless Collectors, Blind Dealers, So-Called Artists” emblazoned on it--finally gets the monographic museum treatment in his hometown, and a career-spanning catalogue to boot. This fully illustrated, full-color volume features texts by Carlo McCormick, Alison Gingeras, El Topito, Scott Indrisek and Bill Arning, the exhibition’s curator and director of the Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston.

About this title

About the Author:

Bill Arning is the Director of the Contemporary Arts Museum Houston who has organized numerous exhibitions. Stan VanDerBeek: The Culture Intercom (2011), which Arning co-curated with Joao Ribas, Curator, MIT List Visual Arts Center, received the prestigious award of Best Show Involving Digital Media, Video, Film, or Performance from the United States section of the International Art Critics Association (AICA/USA).

McCormick is a writer and critic.

About this edition

• Publisher: Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston
• Publication date: 2016
• ISBN 10: 1933619597
• ISBN 13: 9781933619590
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 208
• Editor: Arning Bill