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.
James Perkins: Burying Painting Book
James Perkins’, Burying Painting, commemorates the opening of his Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art (SMoCA) exhibit, presenting never seen before images of his performances and post-totem installations spanning the sands on the beaches of Fire Island to dirt of the Sonoran Desert and more. Take a visual journey through his Post-Totem Philosophy as he attemps to make a totem for all mankind. Accompanied by essays, the book reveals his process and philosophy of collaborating with nature to make a mark. 246 pages. ISBN 9798218845674
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.
John Newsom and Raymond Pettibon
“Classical Elements is inspired by earth, air, water, fire, and aether, the five basic substances which Aristotle believed produce all others. For this exhibition, Raymond Pettibon and John Newsom have both pared down their art to its most elemental level. Pettibon, whose immersive installations sometimes contain hundreds of individual works on paper, has restricted himself to just five. And Newsom, who typically works at a monumental scale, has chosen to paint on two-foot wooden panels as an homage to medieval icon paintings. Resolutely understated, the ten works in Classical Elements invite us to approach closely and contemplate them acutely.” - Logan Royce Beitmen (catalogue excerpt)