Often when I read
the writings of visual artists or writing about visual art I feel the need to go write.
Not exact matches
Tim Rollins came to New York in 1975 high on the
writings of Joseph Kosuth — first studying with and then assisting the conceptual
artist at the School
of Visual Arts.
In the second video
of this series exploring the Minotaur's family history, Swinburne's Pasiphae (2014), Reid Kelley brings to life an unpublished text by the Victorian poet Algernon Charles Swinburne, which is rich with bawdy double entendres and
visual language that aligns with the
artist's own
writings.
The
artist's approach to abstraction is not a conceptual or analytical exercise, but a life - affirming method
of communication with the viewer, each brush stroke containing much more than just
visual information: «Paint strokes do a number
of things, but they do not simply describe the form in my work: they affirm the human spirit, the involvement
of the human spirit» (S. Scully, Resistance and Persistence: Selected
Writings, London, 2006, p. 25).
His publications include Visionaries and Outcasts: The NEA, Congress, and the Place
of the
Visual Artist in America (2001) and Acts
of Engagement:
Writings on Art, Criticism, and Institutions, 1993 — 2002 (2004).
An internationally renowned
visual artist who has been showing in major museums
of modern and contemporary art, and a distinguished thinker, Bracha L. Ettinger is also one
of the world's leading theorists in the realm
of art and philosophy
of aesthetics, ethics, sexual difference and French psychoanalysis and feminism, whose
writings have influenced film and literary thinking, queer studies, contemporary aesthetics and ethics, and art history.
Alongside newly commissioned essays by leading international scholars and works by contemporary
visual artists, key historical texts trace a trajectory
of writings across religions, cultures, genders and ages to reflect the breadth
of conflicting and constantly shifting attitudes towards the veil.
Cage Unrequited is a 25 - hour marathon reading
of experimental composer John Cage's influential book Silence: Lectures and
Writings (1961) organized by
visual artist Pope.L.
She is a Santo Foundation Individual
Artist Grant recipient and her critical
writings have been published in Art in America, The Brooklyn Rail, Hyperallergic and M / E / A / N / I / N / G. Rooney earned her MFA from the School
of Visual Arts and is an Editor Emeritus for The Brooklyn Rail.
His socio - cultural research has led Kader Attia to the notion
of Repair, a concept he has been developing philosophically in his
writings and symbolically in his oeuvre as a
visual artist.
Published on the occasion
of an exhibition at the MIT List
Visual Arts Center, this anthology offers a selection
of the Los Angeles - based
artist's
writings from 1997 to 2010, including important out -
of - print and hard - to - find texts.
His
writings have profiled some
of the most dynamic
visual artists working today — Derrick Adams, Mickalene Thomas, Kehinde Wiley, Lorna Simpson and street
artist JR..
Besides gathering
visual documentation
of LeWitt's wall drawings and his sculptures - or «structures» as he preferred - the publication also includes his complete
writings; spreads from his
artist's books; plus interviews and essays by virtually every
artist and author closely associated with LeWitt, among them Lucy Lippard, Rosalind Krauss, Mel Bochner, Dan Graham and Robert Smithson.
Accompanied by an extensive curatorial survey, art historical contributions, prose poem, biographical
visual essay, as well as the collected
writings and correspondence
of the
artist, this book offers an in depth exploration
of Bowling's career and aspects
of his journey from his home in Guyana to London and New York.
He has documented contemporary art happenings for various publications and his
writings have profiled some
of the most dynamic
visual artists working today: Derrick Adams, Mickalene Thomas, Kehinde Wiley, Lorna Simpson, and street
artist JR..
«If you Lived Here You'd be Home,» Curated by Josiah McElheny, Tom Eccles and Lynne Cook, CCS Bard Hessel Museum, Annandale - on Hudson, NY, June 25 — Dec 11, 2011 «Black Swan: The Exhibition Regen Projects,» Los Angeles, CA, Feb 25 — April 16, 2011 «American Exuberance,» Rubell Family Collection, Miami, FL, Nov 30 2011 - July 27, 2012 «America: Now + Here,» a travelling exhibition in multiple expandable trucks, in many US Cities including Kansas City, Detroit, and Chicago, and Aspen, curated by Eric Fischl April 2010 — November 2011 «Untitled (12th Istanbul Biennial),» September 17 — November 13, 2011 «We Will Live, We Will See,» Zabludowicz Collection, London, July 7 — August 14, 2011 «The Bearden Project,» The Studio Museum In Harlem, Bronx, NY, November 10, 2011 — September 2, 2012 «HIDE / SEEK: Difference and Desire in American Portraiture,» Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY, November 18, 2011 - February 12, 2012 «Nothing in the World But Youth,» Turner Contemporary, Kent, United Kingdom, September 17, 2011 - January 8, 2012 «The Bearden Project,» Studio Museum, New York, NY, November 10, 2011 — March 11, 2012 «Jean Genet,» Nottingham Contemporary, Nottingham, United Kingdom, July 16 — October 2011 «The Last First Decade,» Ellipse Foundation, Portugal, April 30 — December 18, 2011 «Human Nature: Contemporary Art from the Collection,» Los Angeles County Museum
of Art, March 13 — July 4, 2011 «Seeing Gertrude Stein: Five Stories,» Contemporary Jewish Museum, San Francisco, CA, May 2011; travels to the National Portrait Gallery, Washington, DC, October 2011 «Face Off: Portraits by Contemporary
Artists,» Lyman Allyn Art Museum, New London, CT, April 10 — September 18, 2011 «ARTiculate: Links Between
Visual and Verbal Expression,» Camden Stedman Gallery, Rutgers University, Rutgers, NJ, January 18 — February 26, 2011 «Robert Mapplethorpe: Night Works,» Alison Jacques Gallery, London, England, January 19 — March 19, 2011 «Collecting Biennial,» Whitney Museum
of American Art, New York, NY, January 16 — November 28, 2011 «Distant Star / Estrella Distante,» An exhibition around the
writings of Roberto Bolaño, Regen Projects, Los Angeles, United States; kurimanzutto, Mexico City, Mexico, 2011