Description
Book SynopsisInternationally acclaimed for paintings, collages, and prints that draw inspiration from sources as diverse as twentieth-century modernism, the geometry of Cubism and Minimalism, nineteenth-century English botanical illustrations, and the floral and geometic forms of traditional Indian and Egyptian art, Dan Rizzie is an artist with a seemingly endless capacity to absorb visual information and transform it into a unique iconography of the natural world. Since the mid-1970s, he has had some ninety solo exhibitions and has been included in over one hundred group exhibitions. Rizzie’s work is in the permanent collections of leading art museums, including the Museum of Modern Art, the Parrish Art Museum, and the Dallas Museum of Art.
Dan Rizzie is the first monograph on this major American artist. It presents a hundred works to showcase an artistic career trajectory that has been both broad-ranging and consistent over four decades. Jane Livingston sets Rizzie’s w
Table of Contents
Introduction. Dan Rizzie: Building and Repairing (Jane Livingston)
Plates 1
My Train of Thought Makes Many Stops: Interview with Dan Rizzie (Terrie Sultan)
Plates 2
A Singular Modernist: Dan Rizzie as Printmaker (Mark Smith)
List of Plates
Exhibition History
Selected Collections
Selected Bibliography
Acknowledgments
