Can't Breathe Without You (signed by the artist)

Howard, Rachel. Orr, Deborah. Steel, Kate.

ISBN 10: 0954594908 / ISBN 13: 9780954594909

Published by Pulchritude Press, London, 2003

About this Item

14 x 22cm 48pp deep red cloth, no dustjacket as issued. High gloss colour prints throughout. Signed on the front end paper: "Kind Regards, Rachel Howard". Essay by Deborah Orr. Poem by kate Steel. Fine condition. Seller Inventory # 8563

Bibliographic Details

Title: Can't Breathe Without You (signed by the ...

Publisher: Pulchritude Press, London

Publication Date: 2003

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fine lacking dustjacket

Signed: Signed by Author(s)

Edition: 1st Edition.

About this title

Synopsis:

This limited edition artist’s book features reproductions of Rachel Howard’s pure abstract canvases and figurative works. The abstract works elicit an immediate visceral emotional response, whilst the more figurative pieces make a play for the mind. By layering and interweaving these elements to create a whole, Howard pulls together the corporeal and the cerebral.

Exploring our ever present need to make sense of our existence Can’t Breathe Without You is a search for answers and a search for reassurance in the absence of answers, be it through religion of the mundane. It includes reproductions of the sin painting series from the exhibition Guilty at the Bohen Foundation New York (2003/4) and a short introductory text by the artist entitled So Who Made God? There is also a longer essay by Deborah Orr, award-winning columnist for The Independent newspaper.

About the Author:

Born in County Durham in 1969, Rachel Howard graduated from Goldsmith’s College, London in 1992. She has exhibited in many group exhibitions including ‘The Choice’, Exit Art, New York, 1998; ‘Shimmering Substance’, Cornerhouse, Manchester and Arnolfini Gallery, Bristol, 2002, ‘Intuition/(im)precision’, Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Salzburg, 2004 and most recently ‘In the darkest hour there may be light – works from Damien Hirst’s murderme collection’, Serpentine Gallery, London, 2006. Recent solo exhibitions include ‘Tightrope’, Shaheen Modern and Contemporary Art, Ohio, 2002; ‘Guilty’, Bohen Foundation, New York, 2003-4; ‘New Paintings’, Gagosian Gallery, Los Angeles, 2007 and ‘Fear/Fiction/Fact’, Bohen Foundation, New York, 2007. Forthcoming exhibitions include Museum Van Loon, Amsterdam, Galeria Hilario Galguero, Mexico City and Haunch of Venison, London. Howard lives and works in London.