Sentences with phrase «memoir accompanies the show»

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Today, following her first major American show at the New Museum in 2009 and accompanying exhibit at Anton Kern Gallery, she's mixing memoir and art - making in this monograph, recounting her famed 1967 «Icelandic Saga» — an odyssey across the Atlantic where she met and fell in love with the Swiss artist Dieter Roth — and her other searches for «ecstatic unity» (her term) as a reborn Buddhist.

Organized by Scott Rothkopf, the museum's deputy director of programs and chief curator, and Jessica Man, a curatorial assistant, the show is accompanied by a catalog of more than 650 pages, which includes a memoir by the artist's mother, Carol Hendrickson, a public health nurse, who lives with her second husband next door to Owens and her family; testimonies about how wonderful Owens is as a person and a painter from a bevy of artists, curators, dealers, and studio assistants; price lists from early exhibitions; essays, including one about Elizabeth Murray by Francine Prose; statements by influential people who were among the first wave to recognize her importance.