The work of Jennie C. Jones (born 1968) spans multiple mediums, from paintings, sculptures and works on paper to audio collages and immersive sound installations. Jones employs the visual languages of abstraction and minimalism to draw out the parallels and disjunctions between the history of...
Read More about Jennie C. Jones: CompilationNew York-based artist Paul Ram rez Jonas (born 1965) investigates how publics are constituted and convened through the exploration of public forms like the equestrian statue, the bronze plaque and the key to the city.
Published to accompany the artist's first survey exhibition in the Americas, Atlas...
Read More about Paul Ramírez Jonas: Atlas, Plural, MonumentalPublished on the occasion of the Contemporary Arts Museum Houston's 65th anniversary, Outside the Lines documents the conceptual framework of the institution's ability to act and think outside the norm. This publication, originally conceived as an ongoing curatorial dialogue, features six...
Read More about Outside the LinesNew York-based artist Cheryl Donegan (born 1962) is well known for her integration of performance and video with painting and installation, and her subversive spin on issues pertaining to gender, sex and art. This first substantial survey of her work, published for her 2018 traveling exhibition...
Read More about Cheryl Donegan: Grlz + VeilsEntertaining, lyrical and informative, Art Life is a selection of essays by well-known contemporary art curator Lawrence Rinder, all written since 1991. Rinder's work is distinguished by a concern for art's role in reflecting and shaping daily life. Informed by history, philosophy and popular...
Read More about Art Life: Selected Writings 1991-2005Mark Flood: Gratest Hits is the first survey of the work of Houston-based artist Mark Flood (born 1957) dating from the 1970s to 2016. Described by The New York Times as a "painter and punk propagandist," Flood has, despite remaining barely visible at the museum level, maintained an active and...
Read More about Mark Flood: Gratest HitsMATRIX is published on the occasion of the thirtieth anniversary of this groundbreaking contemporary art exhibition series at the UC Berkeley Art Museum. Originally conceived in 1978 as a rotating program of single-artist exhibitions, it continues as a space of active engagement with contemporary...
Read More about Matrix: Berkeley: A Changing Exhibition of Contemporary ArtThis career-spanning volume documents the first museum retrospective devoted to the work of Mary Weatherford, a daring practitioner of American abstraction and a leading painter of her generation.
This career-spanning volume documents the first museum retrospective devoted to the work of Mary...
American independent filmmaker Stan VanDerBeek (1927-1984) was one of the first to extend film projection into multimedia spectacle and to embrace video and computer technology: a supreme instance of what critic Gene Youngblood dubbed "Expanded Cinema.
Read More about Stan VanDerBeek: The Culture IntercomMatthew Day Jackson (born 1974) blends history, hagiography and technology in sculptures, constructed painting objects, books and videos.
Read More about Matthew Day Jackson: The Immeasurable Distance