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Brian Maguire [Perspectives 121]
Selections from three cycles of work by Irish artist
Brian Maguire are presented in this publication that accompanied
an overview of a ten-year period in the artist's work. Three
cycles of his oeuvre were shown: drawings and photographs
of favalas in Brazil which comprised the artist's participation
in the XXIV Bienal de São Paulo; documentation of
public works and paintings from a government sponsored residency
working with political prisoners in Northern Ireland and
paintings that capture the social and political turmoil of
the 1990s in both Ireland and the U.S. Includes an essay
by Marti Mayo.
2000. 4 pages, 2 black-and-white reproductions. ISBN
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Melissa Miller: A Survey
1978-1986
This catalogue accompanied a 12-year survey of the
artist’s work, her first major museum exhibition..
Miller, who lives and works in Texas, paints a fantastic
world where animals often personify human emotional
states. Characterized by a thick impasto and animated
with bright, charged color, Miller’s paintings
and her interest in the expressionist brushstroke initially
identified her with the 1980s interest in painting
that was bold and evocative but her later work has
become more contemplative and mythological. Includes
essays by Linda L. Cathcart and Douglas G. Schultz;
documentation on the artist’s career.
1986. 96 pages, 33 color, 41 black-and-white reproductions.
ISBN 0-936080-17-5 $14.95 |
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Mind the Gap: Work from
Houston Area High Schools [Perspectives 136]
The publication documents the third biannual show organized
by the Museum’s Teen Council (TC). The theme
of this year’s juried exhibition focused around
orifices. In the words of the organizers, “There
are orifices, holes, gaps, in everyone’s life—especially
teenagers. This is where art comes from: we try to
fill those holes and gaps in our life, and some people
choose to fill them with art.” The exhibition
was organized, juried and installed by the TC, whose
members were not eligible to submit work. The work
of 31 young artists was shown. Includes statements
by Paula Newton, Peter Precourt and TC member Samantha
Gordon (with help from members Elizabeth Moran and
Alexis Herrera).
2003. 22 pages, 31 black-and-white reproductions. ISBN
0-936080-66-3 $2.00
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Pieter Laurens Mol
The first exhibition of this Dutch artist to tour North
America was co-organized by the Contemporary Arts
Museum Houston and the Stedelijk Van Abbemuseum in
Eindhoven; the catalogue was published jointly. Mol’s
work is characterized by meticulous craftsmanship,
extraordinary dexterity within a wide range of media—performance
art, photography, painting and sculpture. Its multiple
layers of meaning interact with each other and the
viewer. Includes essays by Mark Kremer and Selma
Klein Essink; documentation on the artist’s
career.
1994. 68 pages, 18 color, 25 black-and-white reproductions.
No ISBN $19.95
Published jointly by the Contemporary Arts Museum Houston
and the Stedelijk Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven.
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Kirk McCarthy and Jackie
Tileston: Hybrid Vigor [Perspectives 97]
The exhibition documented by this publication comprised
sculpture by McCarthy and large-scale paintings by
Tileston. Both artists employ powdered pigment, color
in its most intense and vibrant state, to create abstract
works based on organic forms. Both, says the author,
bring together complimentary and contrasting elements
to create a 'hybrid vigor.”
Includes an essay by Lynn M. Herbert, documentation
on the artists’ careers.
1996. 116 pages, 9 black-and-white reproductions. No
ISBN $2.00
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David McGee: Black Comedies
and Night Music [Perspectives 106]
David McGee, a Houston painter, has spent the last
several years exploring his role as an artist who is
a black man. He combines racial stereotypes and legendary
iconography from art history to comment on contemporary
culture and his place within it. The exhibition included
12 large paintings and a series of works on paper—Juba
to Jive, fifty works that form an African-American
visual lexicon. Includes an essay by Lynn M Herbert;
documentation on the artist’s career.
1998. 20 pages, 20 black-and-white reproductions. No
ISBN $2.00
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Robert Morris: Selected
Works 1970-1980
During the 1970s, Robert Morris pushed the boundaries
of his work as he abandoned the minimalist tenets of
his art and art criticism of the 1960s for sculpture
and drawing that were politically and socially charged.
His oeuvre of this period ranges from major earthworks
in the U.S. and abroad to monumental sculpture made
from a variety of industrial materials including railroad
ties, industrial felt and large mirrors. The exhibition
and publication focused on documentation of major public
works, a representative selection of the sculpture
and a number of works on paper—including the “blind
time” drawings—that marked the artist’s
progress through this pivotal decade. Includes an essay
by Marti Mayo; documentation on the artist’s
career from 1970 to 1981.
1981. 60 pages, 30 duotone, 25 half tone reproductions
ISBN 0-936080-06-X $8.00
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Ernesto Neto:
Nhó Nhó Nave
[Perspectives 118]
For the exhibition documented by this publication,
Brazilian artist Ernesto Neto constructed an environmental,
participatory installation for the Contemporary Arts
Museum Houston’s Perspectives gallery. As with
much of Neto’s work, it was characterized by
biomorphic forms. The large sculpture was made from
stretched Lycra secured with sandbags constructed from
women’s nylon stockings. Viewers were invited
to enter and tour its spaces, exploring the otherworldly
tunnels and rooms perfumed by hanging shapes filled
with spices. Neto works in a tradition of full-body
artistic experience following the tradition of earlier
Brazilian artists such as Lygia Clark and Helio Oiticica.
Includes an essay by Lynn M. Herbert; documentation
on the artist’s career
1999. 20 pages, 10 black-and-white reproductions. ISBN
0-926080-55-8 $2.00 |
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Nexus Texas
Second largest in the union, the “nation state” of Texas offers an exciting nexus of maverick pride, go-go entrepreneurship, and cultural blending. These factors, combined with its strong museums, galleries, art schools, and collectors, make Texas fertile territory for distinct and thriving visual art scenes. Organized by the Contemporary Arts Museum Houston’s three curators—Toby Kamps, Paola Morsiani and Valerie Cassel Oliver—this exhibition in The Brown Foundation Gallery looks at the multiple layers of creativity at work in the state today and the blending of curatorial perspectives helped to set the tone for an exhibition that celebrates variety and innovation. Spanning generations, subjects, and media, Nexus Texas presented new work by a group of artists living and working in the state.
The 16 artists featured in Nexus Texas are: Sterling Allen (based in Austin), Roberto Bellini (San Antonio), Amy Blakemore (Houston), Justin Boyd (San Antonio), Margarita Cabrera (El Paso), Augusto Di Stefano (Houston), Leslie Hewitt (Houston), Lauren Kelley (Houston), El Franco Lee II (Houston), Richard Patterson (Dallas), Paul Slocum (Dallas), Cauleen Smith (Austin), George Smith (Houston), Michael Smith (Austin), Gary Sweeney (San Antonio), and Jeff Zilm (Dallas). The exhibition and the catalogue highlight some of the inventive ways artists forge their own visions as they negotiate art and life in Texas and the world. The catalogue includes an essay by Toby Kamps and entries of the featured artists by Toby Kamps, Paola Morsiani, Valerie Cassel Oliver and complete biographical and bibliographical information on the participating artists.
2007. 95 pages. Paperback. 67 color and 1 black-and-white reproductions.
ISBN 978-1-933619-08-8
Library of Congress Control Number: 2007931921
$24.95
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Nic Nicosia: Real Pictures
1979-1999
Real Pictures: 1979-1999 accompanied the first retrospective
exhibition of the Dallas photographer/filmmaker’s
work. Surveying his photographs and films over a twenty-year
period, the show traced the artist’s development
from his early photographs of altered interior and
exterior environments through several series of color
and black-and-white photographs that lampoon suburban
existence and suggest the subconscious evil that often
lurks beneath life as we know it. The catalogue documents
the artist’s film work and his energetic forays
into fashion, theater and opera. Includes essays by
Dana Friis-Hansen, Lynn M. Herbert, and Dave Hickey;
documentation on the artist’s career.
1999. 104 pages, 25 color, 68 black-and-white reproductions
ISBN 0-936080-53-1 $19.95
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