Uta Barth: To Draw with Light: Blind Spot Series 03

Barth, Uta

ISBN 10: 0983998930 / ISBN 13: 9780983998938

Published by Blind Spot Series, 2012

About this Item

Copy #37 of 100 numbered copies signed by the photographer n title page. Laid in loose is a signed sealed inkjet print (Untitled 2012.LE'), numbered 37/100 and signed by Uta Barth in pencil on verso. A fine copy of the deluxe edition in original hardcover binding and publisher's slipcase. Print in original archival sleeve, with descriptive text sheet. Seller Inventory # 631433

Bibliographic Details

Title: Uta Barth: To Draw with Light: Blind Spot ...

Publisher: Blind Spot Series

Publication Date: 2012

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fine

Signed: Signed by Author(s)

Edition: First Edition.

About this title

Synopsis:

In 2011, Blind Spot magazine launched Blind Spot Series, publishing small-format, limited-run artist’s books that present concise suites of images from single bodies of work by important contemporary artist-photographers. The newest in this series is Los Angeles–based Uta Barth’s stunning To Draw with Light, featuring 46 color photographs from the acclaimed . . . and to draw a bright white line with light and Compositions of Light on White series (recently exhibited at the Art Institute of Chicago, 1301PE in Los Angeles and Tanya Bonakdar Gallery in New York) alongside new works created specifically for the book. According to essayist Paul Soto’s recent review in Art in America, these works are especially remarkable because they include, for the first time, traces of the artist’s body as she arranges the elements within her photographs--the gauzy curtains in front of her sundrenched windowsill, or the light which projects through her window blinds to create floating geometric monochromes upon her closet doors.

Review:

Barth is not simply observing the changing light, she’s manipulating it, altering the flow of what appears to be a meandering river or path. Barth may be a minimalist, but her work is as ravishing as it is restrained, and never without sensuality. (Vince Aletti Photograph Magazine)