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Paul Kasmin Gallery Elliott Puckette
“Puckette has taken something that seems so simple and demonstrated its true complexities—the line … the artist’s work redefines the traditional role that geometry plays in art.” –Cultured This is the first major monograph on Brooklyn-based painter and sculptor Elliott Puckette (born 1967), long acclaimed for her abstract paintings of elegant lines wandering freely through sparse, monochromatic space. “I was always interested in graphology,” she told a recent interviewer, “not necessarily what someone was writing but reading into the psychology of how it’s written.” In recent years, the artist has also experimented with sculpture, lifting her tangling lines off the canvas and suspending them in the air. This catalog charts Puckette’s career in painting and sculpture, including photographs from her foundry as well as installation images of her sculptures. Texts by art historian David Anfam, one of the most significant voices in scholarship on abstraction, and curator Stephanie Cristello and artist Maya Lin also figure in the book, as well as a rare interview with the artist herself.
£47.70
Paul Kasmin Gallery Dorothea Tanning: Doesn’t the Paint Say It All?
A concise introduction to the later work of the self-taught American Surrealist artist and author American Surrealist artist Dorothea Tanning (1910–2012) worked across painting, sculpture, printmaking, installation and writing over the course of seven decades, producing one of the 20th century’s most enigmatic oeuvres. Tanning’s work conjures dreamlike worlds that straddle the hazy border between figuration and abstraction, pioneering a unique prismatic formal language that resonates keenly today. This fully illustrated catalog highlights Tanning’s works created between the 1950s and ’90s, a particularly fruitful period in the artist’s career, and traces her stylistic arc through over 20 significant paintings drawn from interrelated phases of the artist’s practice. Scholars Mary Ann Caws, Victoria Carruthers and Kate Conley contribute essays to the volume; additionally, it reproduces Tanning’s 1986 essay “To Paint,” a poetic and impassioned manifesto on painting and Surrealism. The catalog takes its title from the last line of this text.
£33.30
Paul Kasmin Gallery Lee Krasner: The Umber Paintings 1959–1962
This book focuses on the iconic Umber Paintings of Lee Krasner (1908–84), which consist of only 24 paintings. Painted between 1959 and 1962, the Umber Paintings were realized during one of Krasner’s most ambitious periods of cproduction following the sudden and tragic loss of her husband, Jackson Pollock. During this time of newfound solitude, Krasner moved into Pollock’s studio at their home in the Springs, East Hampton, which enabled her to experiment on large canvases for the first time. In addition to the increase in scale, this period was also characterized by a further commitment to %allover% compositions. By the end of the 1950s, Krasner’s emotional turmoil confined her to work only at night under artificial light. The Umber Paintings convey a distinctive rawness and intensity that was unprecedented in her oeuvre until this point, and remain lauded as the artist’s most psychologically evocative works.
£51.30
Paul Kasmin Gallery Alma Allen: Nunca Solo
£42.30
Damiani Joan Myers: Where the Buffalo Roamed: Images of the New West
Walt Cassidy (b. 1972) is a multimedia artist and designer based in Brooklyn, New York. Throughout the 1990s, as Waltpaper, he was at the center of the New York City Club Kids movement. In 2014, Walt Cassidy Studio was established as a jewelry brand and has expanded to include interiors-based murals. Cassidy’s explorative and allegorical work incorporates photography, drawing, sculpture, painting, and jewelry, and has been exhibited at MASS MOCA, Paul Kasmin Gallery, Deitch Projects, 303 Gallery, Torrance Art Museum, Watermill Center, Miami Basel Art Fair, Leslie- Lohman Museum, and Invisible Exports. Publications include Vogue, Elle, Artforum, Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, and others.
£36.00