GARDEN PARTY
A full-color catalogue for 'GARDEN PARTY', an exhibition highlighting motifs of flora and fauna in the work of five distinguished New York-based painters, including Joe Andoe, Donald Baechler, Ross Bleckner, John Newsom, and Enoc Perez.
FLORA
A full-color catalogue for 'FLORA', an exhibition of paintings by nine stylistically diverse contemporary artists: Donald Baechler, Ross Bleckner, André Butzer, Petra Cortright, Marc Handelman, John Newsom, Rachel Rossin, Julian Schnabel, and Brian Willmont and their idiosyncratic approaches to floral and plant motifs. Including text by Logan Royce Beitmen
PETRA CORTRIGHT
Petra Cortright's varied style is finally encapsulated in a wide-encompassing monograph that covers the directions her art has taken throughout her career.Known for her video works available on YouTube and in galleries, Petra Cortright has experimented with the image of physical bodies in digital spaces, exploiting the main formal properties of video software. Her video research led to outcomes at times controversial (such as her works with strippers in VirtuaGirl), at times heralded and lauded.
Shangri-La
Shangri-La takes its title from the mythical Himalayan utopia imagined by the early twentieth-century British novelist James Hilton. Inspired by his joy at the birth of his first daughter, Ruby, John Newsom offers his own visions of earthly paradise in this series of abundant compositions infused with tenderness, wonder, and an almost transcendental calm. In the catalogue essay accompanying the exhibition, Phoebe Hoban writes: "It is that transcendental calm that Newsom has channeled into lovely, delicately patterned paintings whose essential prettiness belies their intense visual complexity and underlying formal rigor." The works in Shangri-La are boldly and unapologetically beautiful. Their beauty transports the viewer to a pure land of the imagination, far removed from today's global threats and uncertainties, where the dream of a blissful, jubilant, and harmonious world can still be nurtured and cultivated.
You are not alone Angels listening
Rachel Lee Hovnanian
For many years the artist Rachel Lee Hovnanian has been analyzing the drifts of our hyper-technological and hyper-connected society. She presented at the 59th Venice Biennale, “Angels Listening”, an interactive exhibition featuring seven large-scale bronze angels staged around a silver confessional box, each figure rendered in silence with its mouth “taped” shut.
Viewers were invited to participate by relinquishing their innermost thoughts, whether repressed due to fear of judgement or sheer inability, by writing them onto pieces of ribbon, placing these ribbons into The Cathartic Box, and ringing the awakening bell, a symbol of the role of the angels as mute listeners.
At the end of each day all of the new messages were compiled onto prayer-like mats and dispersed throughout the exterior gardens for future visitors to encounter and share as a collective stream-of-consciousness.
The book shared the messages. In listening to these stories, perhaps it is people who become the angels listening.