CORY REYNOLDS | DATE 4/14/2021

'Frank Stella's Stars: A Survey' is a New Release

Featured spreads are from Frank Stella’s Stars: A Survey, published to accompany the artist’s current survey of works based on star shapes—from early drawings and lithographs, to paintings of the 1960s, to recent sculptures, wall reliefs and painted objects—at the Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum in Ridgefield, Connecticut. Gorgeously produced, with tipped-on front and back cover images, thick matte paper and superb reproductions—including exhibition photographs—this compact, action-packed volume is a must-have for any serious contemporary art library. “The star is characterized in this survey as a breakthrough element,” curator Amy Smith-Stewart writes. “From a simple, planar shape to an ornamented, spatial object, its manifestation reveals stylistic continuity amid decisive variation. Stella’s stars personify a built abstraction that is insistently hyperkinetic, unremittingly on the move.”