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Other Narratives
Artists who explore personal worlds received increasing
critical attention during the 1990s. Many have made work
focused on the civil and moral injustices perpetrated against
those outside the mainstream and on their customs and cultures—most
of which are unknown to the majority of Americans. The exhibition
and catalogue include a number of artists who have chosen
to make art that deals with these issues—whether they
are from “other” worlds of race, culture or gender
or from new points of view. The exhibition and catalogue
include the work of Jean-Michel Basquiat, Enrique Chagoya,
Sam Durant, Felix Gonzales-Torres, The Guerrilla Girls, Annette
Lawrence, Glenn Ligon, Kerry James Marshall, David McGee,
Pepon Osorio, Elaine Reichek, Lorna Simpson, Masami Teraoka,
Kara Walker, Carrie Mae Weems, and Pat Ward Williams. Includes
essays by Robert Atkins, Dana Friis-Hansen, and Greg Tate;
documentation on the artists’ careers.
1999. 96 pages, 12 color, 69 black-and-white reproductions.
ISBN 0-936080-49-3 $24.95 |
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Out of the Ordinary: New
Art from Texas
The end of the 1990s in Texas was marked by a number
of emerging and mid-career artists, who—although
living and working in the state—were not defined
by its geography, myths or a common artistic view.
The exhibition featured the work of eleven of these
artists who transform ordinary objects and materials
into extraordinary works of art. A sofa-bed arranged
to represent the archaeological site where the remains
of prehistoric "Lucy" were discovered, late-nineteenth
century display cabinets filled with hay, feathers
and gold lamé paint used to define the gallery’s
spaces, film containers arranged into a monumental
ramp, and other transformative works of art were included
in the show. Taking as source the tenets of Dada, Surrealism
and the Pop Art movement, the catalogue examines the
work of Helen Altman, Todd Brandt, Zoë Charlton,
Brian Fridge, Francesca Fuchs, Trenton Doyle Hancock,
Rebecca Holland, Chris Sauter, Brent Steen, Erick Swenson
and Mel Ziegler. Includes essays by Lynn M. Herbert
and Paola Morsiani; documentation on the artists’ careers.
2000. 112 pages, 54 color, 24 black-and-white reproductions.
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Other Realities: Installations
for Performance
This tabloid-format publication documents both the
complicated installations and the elaborate performances
held within them by the six artists included in the
exhibition—Vito Acconci, Eleanor Antin, Colette,
Tina Girouard, Joan Jonas and Robert Wilson. These
artists had in common a resistance (at the time) to
more theatrical art performance, preferring to remain
firmly within a tradition marked by art making. Includes
essays on each artist and descriptions of the performances
by Marti Mayo; documentation on the artists’ careers.
1981. 24 pages, 58 black-and-white reproductions. ISBN
0-936080-05-1 $4.95
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Perspectives147: Adrian Paci
Perspectives 147: Adrian Paci documents the first U.S. solo exhibition of Albanian artist Adrian Paci, who creates video installations, photographs, and drawings that explore traditions from his native country and their place in the culture of present-day Europe. Paci immigrated to Italy in 1997 following the collapse of Communism in Eastern Europe, and his work evokes the psychological tension inherent in the immigrant experience. The exhibition included the premiere of a video work that tells the story of the Virgin Mary of Shkodra, an icon that disappeared from the Albanian village of Shkodra and resurfaced as a painting, the Madonna del Buonconsiglio, in a church outside of Rome in the 15th century. It also featured new drawings based on scenes from two films by writer and director Pier Paolo Pasolini; a video documenting the mourning of the artist’s own death; and new photographs of abandoned churches. Includes an essay by Paola Morsiani; documentation of the artist’s career.
2005. 15 pages. Paperback. 18 black-and-white reproductions. ISBN 0-936080-95-7. $2.00
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Outbound: Passages From
the 90s
Organized by the Museum’s director and curators,
the exhibition documented by this publication consisted
of ten installations that the team agreed were among
the most arresting, important and poetic of the decade.
Each work symbolized a pivotal moment in the 1990s
and its art and it was organized to commemorate the
new millennium. Artists included are: Janine Antoni,
Matthew Barney, Cai Guo-Qiang, Robert Gober, Ann Hamilton,
Jim Hodges, William Kentridge, Project Row Houses (Rick
Lowe & Deborah Grotfeldt), Shirin Neshat, and Fred
Wilson. Includes essays by Dana Friis-Hansen, Lynn
M. Herbert, Marti Mayo, and Paola Morsiani, an illustrated
timeline of the decade compiled by William R. Thompson;
documentation on the artists’ careers.
2000. 119 pages, 39 color, 80 black-and-white reproductions.
ISBN 0-936080-57-4 $29.95 |
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Roxy Paine/Second Nature
Brooklyn-based artist Roxy Paine questions our assumptions
about the role of the artist’s hand in the
creation of works of art by employing computer-driven
art-making machines, and by constructing meticulously
crafted botanical sculptures. The programmed output
of the machines produces sculpture, paintings, and
drawings rich in gestures that suggest the touch
of the human hand. The supra-real botanical installations
appear too real to have been made by the human hand.
This mid-career survey exhibition explored the dynamic
place where technology converges with nature and
science. Includes an interview with the artist by
Lynn M. Herbert, essays by Joseph D. Ketner and Gregory
Volk; documentation on the artist’s career.
2003. 79 pages, 30 color, 26 black-and-white reproductions.
ISBN 0-936080-74-4 $24.95 |
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Aaron Parazette (see Perspectives
141: Aaron Parazette)
THIS PUBLICATION IS OUT OF PRINT |
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Perspectives
Series exhibitions
The Perspectives series was established in 1979
to present to Houston audiences new work by emerging
artists or unfamiliar bodies of work by established
artists. From 1979 through 1989 [Perspectives 1 to 60], these exhibitions
were accompanied by professionally designed and printed brochures, usually
six-panel publications that included two to four black-and-white reproductions,
(some after 1987 included one or two color reproductions) an essay by the
organizing curator and documentation on the artists’ careers. The
brochures were assembled biannually into notebooks, volumes one through
four. A few complete sets of the four volumes are available, and some individual
brochures are available. Perspectives exhibitions between 1989 and mid-1994
were often not documented by publications. Since October, 1994, all Perspectives
shows have been accompanied by modest catalogues; they are listed individually
by artist or title.
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Perspectives@25: A Quarter Century of New Art in Houston
Published to accompany a 2004 exhibition that showcased the Museum’s dedication to the art of our time by celebrating the 25th anniversary of its Perspectives series, the catalogue brings to life the series’ innovation and prescience through a retrospective look at its history, exhibitions, and participating artists. Perspectives was one of the first U.S. museum series to focus on developments in contemporary art, and it has continued uninterrupted from its inception in 1979 to the present. The catalogue reviews the series’ distinguished history and highly successful record of introducing audiences to some of the most exciting art of the last quarter century through reproductions of and entries about the work of the 77 regional, national, and international artists selected for the exhibition to represent the over 800 artists who have exhibited in Perspectives shows over the years. Featured artists are: Amy Adler, Ghada Amer, Laurie Anderson, Dotty Attie, Sanford Biggers, Elmer Bischoff, Nayland Blake, Ross Bleckner, Gay Block, Christian Boltanski, Christine Borland, Mark Bradford, Nancy Burson, Sophie Calle, Chuck Close, Sue Coe, George Condo, Russell Crotty, Abraham Cruzvillegas, Stan Douglas, James Drake, Sharon Engelstein, Brian Eno, Inka Essenhigh, Eric Fischl, Vernon Fisher, Philip Glass, Nan Goldin, Rodney Graham, Trenton Doyle Hancock, Eve Hesse, Gary Hill, Jenny Holtzer, Benito Huerta, Lucas Johnson, Emma Kay, Mel Kendrick, Barbara Kruger, Charles Mary Kubricht, Guillermo Kuitca, Annette Lawrence, Roy Lichtenstein, Robert Longo, Manual, John McCracken, David McGee, Melissa Miller, Yasumasa Morimura, Ernesto Neto, Nic Nicosia, Yoko Ono, Aaron Parazette, Paul Pfeiffer, Ken Price, Rachel Ranta, Alan Rath, Neo Rauch, Robert Rauschenberg, Dario Robleto, Lordy Rodriguez, Susie Rosmarin, Sigrid Sandström, Cindy Sherman, Ann-Sofi Sidén, Lorna Simpson, Matthew Sontheimer, Al Souza, Gael Stack, Earl Staley, Mark Tansey, Sam Taylor-Wood, Robin Utterback, Liz Ward, Carrie Mae Weems, William Wegman, Anne Wilson, and Robert Ziebell. The catalogue also includes essays and contributions by Marti Mayo, Theresa Papanikolas, Nayland Blake, Cheryl A. Brutvan, Peter Doroshenko, Dana Friis-Hansen, Lynn M. Herbert, Paola Morsiani, Paula Newton, Valerie Cassel Oliver, Peter Precourt, Stephanie Smith, Emily Leland Todd, and Marilyn A. Zeitlin; reminiscences about the series by members of the Houston arts community; a list of the artists whose work has been included in Perspectives exhibtions; and an illustrated chronology of the series’ exhibitions.
2004. 208 pages. Paperback. 82 color and 72 black-and-white reproductions. ISBN 0-936080-90-6. $29.95
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Perspectives 138: Russell
Crotty
The book documents recent artist’s books and
drawings on globes by Russell Crotty, a California
artist and amateur astronomer who records his observations
of the night sky from his home observatory in Malibu.
Includes an interview with the artist by Lynn M. Herbert;
documentation on the artist’s career.
2003. 20 pages, 9 black-and-white reproductions. ISBN
0-93-6080-82-5 $2.00 |
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Perspectives
139: Abraham Cruzvillegas
The publication accompanied the first U.S. solo museum exhibition of the
work of Abraham Cruzvillegas, who lives and works in Mexico City where
he is an active and influential member of a new generation of contemporary
artists. Known for his composite, three-dimensional sculpture, Cruzvillegas
draws upon diverse materials and ready-made elements to create peculiar
assemblage-based pieces. His ingenious arrangements of discrete, seemingly
unrelated objects, form unusual and thought-provoking work. Includes an
essay by Paola Morsiani; documentation on the artist’s career.
2003. 24 pages, 13 black-and-white reproductions. No ISBN $2.00 |
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Perspectives 140: Anne Wilson
Known for her delicate two- and three-dimensional work
in unusual materials, Chicago-based Anne Wilson made
her Texas debut in this exhibition and publication
showcasing three major works by the artist made over
the last six years: A Chronicle of Days, 1997-1998;.
Topologies, 2002-2004; and the affable and menacing
video and sound installation, Errant Behaviors, 2004,
which premiered in this exhibition. Originally associated
with the feminist movement, Wilson has moved beyond
an examination of “women’s work” to
the use of materials more akin to Eva Hesse or the
artists associated with Arte Povera. Includes an
essay by Valerie Casssel Oliver; documentation on
the artist’s career
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2004. 20 pages, 13 black-and-white reproductions. No
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Perspectives 141: Aaron
Parazette
The work of Aaron Parazette was first seen at the Contemporary
Arts Museum Houston in the iconic 1999 exhibition,
Abstract Painting Once Removed.
This publication accompanies his first solo museum
exhibition and focuses around a new body of work based
on terms common in California surfer lingo. In his
earlier work, the artist used appropriated geometric
forms, clip art and wallpaper patterns as the basis
for his iconic abstractions. The exhibition focused
around the new paintings in which Parazette manipulates
the order and scale of the letters in these words to
create a new set of “borrowed” lines and
shapes and uses them as the basis for paintings concerned
with the same formal issues with which he has always
been involved–color, materiality, scale, and
process. Contains an interview with the artist by Lynn
M. Herbert, and documentation on the artist’s
career.
2004. 22 pages, 28 black-and-white reproductions. ISBN
0-930680-87-6 $2.00 |
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Perspectives 149: It's Only Rock 'n' Roll!
Perspectives 149: It’s Only Rock ‘n’ Roll! featured photographs of musicians from the early 1950s to the present, including portraits and candid shots of such artists as Elvis Presley, Buddy Holly, Chuck Berry, Bob Dylan, The Rolling Stones, The Beatles, Aretha Franklin, Sonny and Cher, The Velvet Underground, The Sex Pistols, and Nirvana by a variety of well-known documentary photographers including John Marshall, Barry Feinstein, Kate Simon, Lee Friedlander, David Bailey, and Richard Avedon. Includes an essay by Glenn O’Brien; catalogue of the exhibition.
2005. 15 pages. Paperback. 6 black-and-white reproductions. ISBN 0-936080-98-1
$2.00
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Perspectives 151: Dan Steinhilber
Perspectives 151: Dan Steinhilber exhibition documented site-specific sculpture designed for the spaces of the Zilkha Gallery. Steinhilber works in a variety of media and materials to create paintings that in fact are sculptures or hybrid “painting-sculptures,” composed of accumulated objects. The artist constructs his sculptures from large quantities of consumer detritus-plastic spoons and hangers, take-out containers, and packing materials which he sees as the signifiers of a culture of consumption that is global in nature. Includes an essay by Valerie Cassel Oliver; documentation of the artist’s career.
2006. 12 pages. Paperback. 7 black-and-white reproductions. ISBN 1-933619-00-8
$2.00
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Perspectives 152: 4 Artists 4 Stories
Perspectives 152: Four Artists Four Stories featured work by Houston-based artists Michael Bise, Darryl Lauster, Janaki Lennie, and Soody Sharifi, all in their first museum exhibition. The exhibition draws connections between themes in the artists’ work despite their diverse subject matter and use of different media. Bise’s drawings of domestic settings, Lauster’s sculptural recreation of historical decorative arts, Lennie’s painted city horizons, and Sharifi’s photographs of neighborhoods and communities all focus on contemporary psychological anxieties and cultural paradoxes. All four of the artists received their MFA degrees from the University of Houston. Includes essays by Paola Morsiani; documentation of the artists’ career.
2006. 15 pages. Paperback. 7 black-and-white reproductions. ISBN 1-933619-01-5
$2.00
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Perspectives 153: Demetrius Oliver
Perspectives 153: Demetrius Oliver documented the first solo museum exhibition of this Houston-based artist who works in a range of media, including performance, photography, and sculpture. By incorporating the elements of performance, prose and poetry into his work, the artist decodes history as told through American literature of the 19th century. Oliver uses his body to animate the literary musings of writers such as Melville, Mark Twain, Emily Dickinson, and Walt Whitman, whose poetry about the American landscape also provides jarring, yet insightful, understanding of inequity and oppression in 19th century America. Includes an essay by Valerie Cassel Oliver; documentation of the artist’s career.
2006. 12 pages. Paperback. 9 black-and-white reproductions. ISBN 1-933619-02-03
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Perspectives 154: Robert Pruitt
Perspectives 154: Robert Pruitt documents the first solo museum exhibition of this Houston-based artist who takes a tongue-in-cheek look at issues of race and identity in today’s society. His work, which ranges from drawings on paper to sculpture, video, and installations, draws upon the vernacular of black culture to examine the historical and contemporary struggles of black Americans. The exhibition includes drawings and sculptures over the last four years, as well as new work that debuted in the Contemporary Arts Museum’s presentation. The artist received his MFA degree from the University of Texas at Austin. Includes an interview with the artist by Valerie Cassel Oliver; documentation of the artist’s career.
2006. 15 pages. Paperback. 7 black-and-white reproductions. ISBN 1-933619-03-01
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Perspectives 155: Francesca Fuchs
Perspectives 155: Francesca Fuchs is the first solo museum exhibition for the artist and is comprised of all new paintings created specifically for the exhibition. A critical component of the exhibition is how Fuchs considers the relationship between her paintings and the architecture and space surrounding them. Fuchs has developed a discrete series of works that share flatness of color and precision of line, while reflecting her impulse to address the extension of painting. To accomplish this, she sometimes extends the painting’s composition onto the wall itself and at other times has drawn attention to the work’s surroundings by the use of unconventionally proportioned canvases.
2007. 12 pages. Paperback. 8 black-and-white reproductions.
ISBN 1-933619-05-08
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Perspectives 156: Impulse! Work from Houston-Area Teens
Perspectives 156: Impulse! Work from Houston Area Teens, a biennial exhibition organized by the Contemporary Arts Museum Houston’s Teen Council (TC), a group of dedicated high school students who create programs to help foster a dialogue between the Museum and the young museum-going public. The TC selected the exhibition’s theme and title, sent out the call for entries to high school students throughout the Houston area, chose the guest juror, and programmed related events. The 25 featured artists in the exhibition included Jessica Adams; Dakota Anderson; Katie Ayres; Corrin Barnes; Jodie Berg; Patrick Burnham; Crystal Delgado; Thien Dihn; Jon Eng; Sarah Holman; Zoe Kanan; Kristin LaFrate; Brendan Moody; Jennifer May Reiland; Kris Rife; Samara Rosen; Darcy Rosenberger; Eric Ruiz; Cameron Smith; Adelina Solis; Kayla Stokes; Humberto Tamez; Sydney Weitkunat; Georgia Williams; and Francisca Wistuba. Includes an essay by Jason Kishell, Teen Council Coordinator and Francesa Fuchs, exhibition juror; catalogue of the exhibition.
2007. 16 pages. Paperback. 25 black-and-white reproductions.
ISBN 978-1-933619-06-6
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Perspectives 157: Xaviera Simmons
Perspectives 157: Xaviera Simmons exhibition marked the first Texas exhibition for Simmons and the debut of Simmons’s installation, Electric Relaxation: Digital Good Time (How to Break Your Own Heart), which also doubled as a performance space. The installation comprised of hundreds of vintage record album sleeves covering the walls of the Zilkha Gallery. The evolving aspect of the installation is music, supplied throughout the run of the exhibition by archival footage of jazz, rhythm and blues, and hip hop concerts, as well as soundscapes created by the artist. Includes an interview with the artist by Valerie Cassel Oliver; documentation of the artist’s career.
2007. 12 pages. Paperback. 9 black-and-white reproductions.
ISBN 978-1-933619-07-1
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Perspectives 158: Kelly Nipper
Kelly Nipper, the multimedia artist based in Southern California, was
featured in her first solo museum exhibition, Perspectives 158: Kelly
Nipper. Working in photography, video, and performance, Los Angeles-based
artist Kelly Nipper draws on a wide range of inspirations including, to name
a few, contemporary dance, psychology, and anthropology and post-Einsteinian
theories of time. Equally interested in the form and content of her moving
and still images, she peels back the layers of familiarity surrounding the
dynamics of the everyday: body movements, interpersonal relationships, and
even the weather. Nipper attempts to capture, analyze, and perfect elements
from the chaotic flow of life. The exhibition was comprised of one video
installation, An Arrangement for the Architect and a Darkroom Timer (2005);
a single color photograph, The Future (2006); and three groups of
photographs, Weather Center (2006), Love with the Sound Technician (2004),
and Evergreen (2005).
2007. 12 pages. Paperback. 9 black-and-white reproductions.
ISBN
978-1-933619-09-5
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Perspectives from Texas
Collections: California Light [Perspectives 89]
California Light focuses around three seminal California
painters—Elmer Bischoff, Richard Diebenkorn and
David Park—who first came to national attention
in the 1950s as pioneers of the Bay Area Figuration
movement and its emphasis on the representation and
symbolism of light in painting. All work included in
the exhibition was from Houston public and private
collections. Includes an essay by Alison de Lima Greene;
selected bibliography.
1995. 16 pages, 6 black-and-white reproductions. No
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Pertaining to Painting
[Perspectives 133]
The publication accompanied an exhibition documenting
recent activity by nine international artists who ignore
more technological media to work in the traditional
medium. The artists have in common a belief in the
visual power of painting to express very contemporary
ideas about everyday social and political life. All
have, as well, contributed to a redefinition of the
tenets of this two-dimensional approach to art making.
Artists included are Michaël Borremans, Mark Bradford,
Inka Essenhigh, Hilary Harnischfeger, Udomsak Krisanamis,
Nader Ahriman, Thomas Nozkowski, Neo Rauch and Sigrid
Sandström. Includes an essay by Paola Morsiani;
documentation on the artists’ careers.
2002. 26 pages, 18 black-and-white reproductions. ISBN
0-936080-76-0 $2.00
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Projected Allegories: A
Video Series [Perspectives 109]
The eight artists included in this exhibition—Douglas
Gordon, Rodney Graham, William Kentridge, Leone & Macdonald,
Nic Nicosia, Sam Taylor-Wood, Rosemarie Trockel, and
Gillian Wearing—work from experiences of common,
everyday life igniting it with meaning and insight.
They create allegories that critique the contemporary
world or celebrate some of its most bizarre aspects.
Includes essays by Dana Friis Hansen, Lynn M. Herbert
and Alexandra Irvine; selected documentation on the
artists’ careers.
1998. 20 pages, 16 black-and-white reproductions. No
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