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Perspectives 145: Bodys Isek Kingelez
As part of a 2005 Houston-wide project focusing on contemporary art from Africa, the Contemporary Arts Museum Houston presented the work of the seminal African sculptor Bodys Isek Kingelez, his first solo museum exhibition in the U.S. Partly in reaction to the urban chaos of Kinshasa in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (formerly Zaire) where the artist lives and works, Kingelez creates architectural models—at times grouping them into virtual cities—from recycled materials such as paper, cardboard, and plastic. Kingelez conceives these structures as prototypes for community dwellings that exemplify civic values such as peace, justice, and freedom. Includes a statement by Kingelez; documentation on the artist’s career.
2005. 13 pages. Paperback. 7 black-and-white reproductions. ISBN 0-936080-93-0. $2.00 |
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Charles Mary Kubricht: Where Time Dwells [Perspectives
123]
The natural world provides Texan Charles Mary Kubricht
with material that she systematizes and analyzes to make glorious
vistas of the landscape and sky. Each large-scale work is made
of many smaller panels, all completed individually and then
joined to evoke abstract images of these scenes from nature.
Includes an essay by Richard Howard; documentation on the artist’s
career.
2000. 20 pages, 12 black-and-white reproductions. ISBN
0-936080-62-0 $2.00 |
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Lather, Rinse, Repeat:
Work from Houston High Schools [Perspectives 120]
Area high schools students submitted works for this
juried exhibition, the first biannual show organized
by the Museum’s Teen Council (TC) a group of
high school students employed by the Museum to plan
programs for themselves and their peers. The theme
of the show—hair—unified the diverse entries
and explored personal aesthetic, sexual, social and
religious ideologies of adolescents. Thirty-one young
artists careen through various media to represent their
views of themselves and the world. Includes an essay
by Peter Precourt; a statement by Meredith Wilson and
a statement by the TC members.
2000. 20 pages, 28 black-and-white reproductions. No
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Richard Long: Circles
Cycles Mud Stones
For more than 30 years, Richard Long has used natural
materials such as stones, wood and mud to create simple,
meditative work that evokes his own experiences walking
in a variety of landscapes all over the world. The
artist makes archetypal forms like lines, circles,
crosses and spirals in nature and in site-specific
installations. This publication documents a monumental
installation conceived by Richard Long especially for
the spaces of the Museum’s 9,000 square foot
Brown Foundation Gallery. It included two large mud
drawings executed directly on the gallery’s 100-foot
walls, five large-scale floor circles and ten works
on paper. Includes essays by Dana Friis-Hansen and
Richard Brettell; documentation on the artist’s
career.
1996. 60 pages, 13 color, 27 black-and-white reproductions.
ISBN 0-936080-38-8 $14.95
THIS PUBLICATION IS OUT OF PRINT
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Jim Love: From Now On
Published to accompany the first major retrospective in over 20 years of the work of Texas sculptor Jim Love. Love first gained national recognition in 1961 when his work was included in The Museum of Modern Art’s groundbreaking exhibition The Art of Assemblage. He began his career as an urban archaeologist of sorts, scouring junkyards for interesting castoffs and later welding original forms in iron and steel, elevating ordinary objects to inventive works of art. These include his early “put-togethers”; his signature bears, birds and dogs that take on life’s dilemmas; his flower and bouquet motifs; and his portraits, theater sets, and designs for furniture and other functional objects. Known also for his large-scale public commissions in Houston, such as Portable Trojan Bear (1974) in Hermann Park and Call Ernie at William P. Hobby Airport, Love was a central figure in Texas art circles from the 1950s until his death in 2005. Co-published by the Contemporary Arts Museum Houston and Philip Wilson Publishers Limited, the catalogue includes essays by Mel Chin, Lynn M. Herbert, Don Quaintance, and Paula Webb; a text by Dominique de Menil reprinted from the 1980 exhibition catalogue Jim Love Up to Now: A Selection; reproductions of exhibited work; and documentation on the artist’s career.
255 pages. Hardcover. 255 Illustrations, including 130 duotones and 10 color plates. ISBN 0 85667 609 8. $44.95.
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Bill Lundberg: Syntax of
Illusion [Perspectives131]
Artist Bill Lundberg began working with video and film
in New York in the 1970s and moved to Austin, Texas,
in the late 1970’s. The publication documents
an exhibition that combined a number of his rarely
seen works from early in his career with two new video
installations. Includes an essay by Valerie Cassel,
documentation on the artist’s career.
2002. 24 pages, 12 black-and-white reproductions. ISBN
0-936080-72-8 $2.00 |
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