Including paintings, sculpture and works on paper, this book documents new works by DC-based color-field painter Sam Gilliam (born 1933). A new interview with the artist brings insight into his life and practice, as well as the experience of making this body of work, which represents an aesthetic shift from Gilliam’s canonical drape” paintings.

Published for the artist’s inaugural 2020 exhibition at Pace Gallery, in advance of the artist’s solo exhibition at the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden in spring 2022—which will be Gilliam’s first retrospective in the US in over 15 years—the book also includes new scholarship by Courtney J. . . . .go to book page >>

With a new text by Marc Mayer, this exhibition catalog honors the life and work of New York-based painter Thomas Nozkowski (1944-2019), featuring the artist’s final works.

The 15 paintings featured here continue Nozkowski’s use of rich color and his abstract visual language that related to personal memories or experiences of the world.

Mayer recounts his own personal experiences with the work and details Nozkowski’s approach to pictorial abstraction, one that involved the nuances of feeling rather than confident identification to achieve his oeuvre, or what the writer calls a record of creative thought.”

The catalog also includes a eulogy for Nozkowski written . . . .go to book page >>

New York-based painter Loie Hollowell (born 1983) has evolved a dynamic vocabulary of dimensionality, color and geometric shape. Abstracting the human figure, Hollowell’s paintings explore the dualities of light, and volume and scale, blurring the lines between the illusory and the real. In particular, her latest body of work explores her relationship to different stages of her pregnancy from conception to birth to motherhood. Nonetheless, subject matter in Hollowell’s work often emerges through phenomenological encounter rather than narrative content, tapping the depth of the artist’s embodied experience.

This catalog for Hollowell's exhibition Plumb Line, an inaugural show at Pace Gallery's new . . . .go to book page >>

With multiple essays by renowned scholars, artwork and installation images, and a suite of historic photographs of Alexander Calder’s (1898-1976) work taken by Marc Vaux in the 1930s, this catalog traces the breadth of Calder’s innovative practice, leading up to his conception of the mobile in 1931—an unprecedented form of kinetic sculpture that radically altered the trajectory of modern art.

Alexander Calder is one of the most acclaimed and influential sculptors of the 20th century. He is renowned for his invention of wire sculpture—coined by critics as drawings in space”—and the mobile, a kinetic sculpture of suspended abstract elements whose actual . . . .go to book page >>