Search results for ""Illinois State University, University Galleries""
Illinois State University, University Galleries Michelle Grabner
£17.20
Illinois State University, University Galleries Pixerina Witcherina
In the typology of fairy tales, women are routinely reduced to caricatures of innocence or evil, either impossibly saintly and self-sacrificing or malevolent in ways that only the male sex would project. That said, fairy tales also provide a wealth of inspiration for art, and the work in Pixerina Witcherina transforms these polarities into whimsically abstracted visual yarns (the title is taken from an invented language used by Virginia Woolf to share secrets with her niece, and refers to this polarization of women’s roles as either pixies or witches.). These women embrace the power of myth while deconstructing it, re-imagining its pungency for our times. Pixerina Witcherina features work by Meghan Boody, Amy Cutler, Margi Geerlinks, Claudia Hart, Julie Heffeman, Julia Latané, Tracey Moffatt, Maria Porges, Amy Sillman, Elena Sisto, Karen Arm and Katharina Fritsch.
£17.50
Illinois State University, University Galleries Signs Of Life: Kiki Smith, Rebecca Howland, Cara Perlman & Christy Rupp
Four women artists create works addressing ecological issues, the unsettling interface between biology and technology, and humanist cultural concerns.
£22.00
Illinois State University, University Galleries Basim Magdy: To Hypnotize Them with Forgetfulness
This book published in conjunction with Egyptian artist Basim Magdy's (born 1977) solo exhibition at Illinois State University documents six films, a photographic installation and a newly commissioned text-based work.
£24.29
Illinois State University, University Galleries Jen Bervin: Shift Rotate Reflect: Selected Works (1997–2020)
“Bervin produces fastidious and often collaboratively made artifacts that resist scholarly conclusiveness for the purpose of illuminating the process of understanding.” –Jessica Baran, Artforum Published for the first survey exhibition of Connecticut-based poet and visual artist Jen Bervin (born 1972)—well known for her artist’s book Nets and her work on/with Emily Dickinson—Shift Rotate Reflect features 23 individual and collaborative projects from 1997 to 2020: installations, artist's books, embroideries, videos, drawings, prints and performances that demonstrate the range of Bervin’s interdisciplinary researches, from the legacies of women artists and writers to relationships between text and textiles and abstractions of language and landscape. The book features an essay by academic Jayme Collins, a conversation on the multichannel video and textile installation Su Hui’s Picture of the Turning Sphere with collaborator Charlotte Lagarde and Jen Yee, and a newly commissioned 20-page discussion with writer Claudia Rankine.
£33.75
Illinois State University, University Galleries Melanie Schiff: Sun Land
In photographs characterized by subtle geometries and penetrating natural light, Los Angeles–based artist Melanie Schiff (born 1977) achieves dramatic effects with everyday objects, found landscapes and interiors. This is the first survey of Schiff’s photographs including work from 2002–2012.
£24.00
Illinois State University, University Galleries Carrie Schneider: Nine Trips around the Sun
Featuring photographs and films made between 2006 and 2015, Nine Trips around the Sun offers a survey of what Carrie Schneider (born 1979) describes as “documents of something performed for the camera,” and demonstrates the range of lens-based processes she has employed. Included is Schneider’s entrancing recent series Reading Women, for which the artist photographed and filmed 100 individual female artists, curators, writers and musicians in their homes and studios as they each read a book of their choosing by a woman author. The project resulted in 100 intimate portraits and a four-hour film. Published in conjunction with Schneider’s first comprehensive survey exhibition, this volume--the artist’s first monograph--includes essays by Julie Rodrigues Widholm and Joanna Szupinska-Myers, and an interview with the artist conducted by exhibition curator Kendra Paitz.
£24.00
Illinois State University, University Galleries Oliver Herring: TASK
TASK documents a burgeoning phenomenon begun in 2002 by artist Oliver Herring. Herring developed TASK as a self-generating, improvisational gathering in which a community engages in a collaborative art-making event. Using cardboard, tape, aluminum foil, pipe cleaners, markers and other materials, participants follow a simple set of rules: write a task for someone to perform, then randomly select a task to perform yourself (e.g. “Use cardboard mailing tubes to make a symphony;” “Form a conga line;” “Create a crime scene” ). The cycle continues, task building upon task, as people share new ways to develop ideas and solve problems. This volume includes a detailed history of TASK by Herring; extensive photo-documentation of TASK parties and events in the U.S., Canada, England, France and Japan; statements by participants; instructions on how to organize a TASK party; and essays by curators/ organizers Ian Berry, Kendra Paitz and Kristen Hileman.
£29.00
Illinois State University, University Galleries The UFO Show
Appearances of blinking ellipsoids, whirling orbs and other such sinister sightings have been reported throughout history, but nowhere has the idea of contact with extraterrestrials taken hold so powerfully as in the postwar United States. The UFO Show presents these phenomena in a fresh context, as inspiration and subject matter for contemporary visual art. Creating two- and three-dimensional work relating directly or symbolically to discs, saucers and other related images, 12 artists including Mariko Mori, Ionel Talpazan, Keith Haring, Panamarenko, Oliver Wasow, Claire Jervert and Paul Laffoley confront a culturally ingrained (and commercially lucrative) millennial obsession.
£22.00
Illinois State University, University Galleries An Infinite and Omnivorous Sky
A group exhibition exploring the mysteries and militarization of outer space Accompanying the eponymous group exhibition at University Galleries of Illinois State University, this catalog features 29 works by artists that critically engage in poetic, scientific and geopolitical views of the cosmos. Artists include: Amy Balkin, Jen Bervin, William Cordova, Ala Ebtekar, Trevor Paglen and Cauleen Smith.
£30.60
Illinois State University, University Galleries Sad Songs
In this volume, contemporary visual artists investigate sadness through painting, sculpture, photography, and video. Sad Songs features a diverse collection of works unified by their melancholic tone and characterized by isolation, nostalgia and emotional desperation. From Katy Grannan's haunting photographic portraits in which the subjects are locked in some mysterious exchange with the unseen artist, to Keith Edmier's sculptural meditations on lost adolescence, the artists here continue a long tradition of romanticizing the somber. Also included are Justine Kurland, Jack Pierson, Robert Blanchon, René Ricard, Whitney Bedford, Robert Blanchon and Benjamin Butler amongst many others.
£12.50
Illinois State University, University Galleries Siebren Versteeg
Siebren Versteeg creates computer-driven video installations that situate the viewer in paradoxical realms where the real and the virtual seem to interconnect. At once humorous and unsettling, his works feed real-time online data culled from CNN, the AP, and Internet diaries into video animations with digitally produced sound. This full-color monograph, which comes with a DVD, is the first devoted to Versteeg's work.
£18.89
Illinois State University, University Galleries Jane Dickson: Peepland: Paintings 1983-1993
Jane Dickson's luminous paintings of Times Square explore the links between voyeurism, desire and the lure of the urban night. She portrays lone pedestrians enveloped in neon glow, with a rare feel for social complexity, and a determination to excavate the neglected undersides of familiar places.
£17.50
Illinois State University, University Galleries Aram Han Sifuentes: We Are Never Never Other
Chronicling the community-based projects of a prolific Californian fiber artist Chicago-based artist Aram Han Sifuentes (born 1986) makes textiles and participatory works confronting disenfranchisement. This monograph focuses on four community-based projects: A Mend, U.S. Citizenship Test Sampler, Protest Banner Lending Library and Official Unofficial Voting Station.
£24.29
Illinois State University, University Galleries Terry Adkins: Soldier Shepherd Prophet Martyr
The first survey of videos by multimedia artist and musician Terry Adkins (1953–2014), this catalog features 12 videos created between 1998 and 2013, with installation views, stills and interviews.
£28.00
Illinois State University, University Galleries Strange Oscillations And Vibrations Of Sympathy
This publication explores the relationships between works by 21 contemporary women artists and the women writers they acknowledge and reference, from Mary Wollstonecraft to Octavia Butler. Includes works by Anne Collier, Moyra Davey, Coco Fusco, Xaviera Simmons and Carrie Mae Weems, among many others.
£34.00
Illinois State University, University Galleries Walter Robinson: Paintings and Other Indulgences
By 1980 Walter Robinson (born 1950) had established himself as a critic for Art in America and member of the New York artists' collective Collaborative Projects. He became notable for paintings of square-jawed detective-hero types and swooning vixens based on pulp romance covers. Employing what critic Carlo McCormick termed a "devious sense of irony done with incredible sincerity," he examined painting's relationship to mass-culture images of desire, mining lurid illustrations from the 1940s and 50s and rerepresenting them in a style culled from "how to paint" books. Robinson's subsequent paintings of beer cans and bottles, pharmaceuticals, fast-food burgers, Lands' End models and online erotic "selfies" continue to address our indulgence of longing and excess in a media-saturated world. Walter Robinson: Paintings and Other Indulgences is the first monograph on Robinson, with photographs of 140 paintings spanning his 35-year career.
£30.00
Illinois State University, University Galleries The House of the Seven Gables
The House of the Seven Gables is inspired by Nathaniel Hawthorne's 1851 novel. Serving as a repository of memory and atonement, the titular mansion itself functions as a portrait of the family's collective trauma. This publication features 27 works by 22 contemporary artists who explore themes of haunting, portraiture and the architectural uncanny. In acknowledgement of its direct relationship to an existing book, The House of the Seven Gables' design references the layout of the first edition of Hawthorne's novel, and features essays by exhibition curator, Kendra Paitz, as well as Justine S. Murison, Christopher Atkins and Corinne May Botz. Artists include: Sue de Beer, Anne Collier, Dario Robleto, Anya Gallaccio, Katy Grannan, Rachel Khedoori, Jacco Olivier, Robert Overby and Gregor Schneider.
£28.00
Illinois State University, University Galleries Fractured Tales From The Heartland: Paintings by Mark Forth and David Hodges
In their own highly individualistic styles, Illinois natives Mark Forth and David Hodges combine the mundane and the absurd, producing paintings that vividly conjure Middle America.
£13.50
