This monograph offers an intimate and expansive introduction to the work of American textile artist Diedrick Brackens (born 1989). His practice is shaped through sustained contemplation of American history, autobiography and myth, conjuring imagined spaces where time oscillates between past and future. Drawing from a wide range of textile traditions—West African weaving, quilting from the American South and European tapestry-making—alongside literature and poetry, his figurative and abstract works build a collaged visual language that is both deeply personal and open-ended. Brackens depicts nuanced visions of Black life and identity, while also alluding to the complicated histories of labor and migration . . . .go to book page >>

On the occasion of Pacific’s 10-year anniversary, the creative agency and publishing imprint—led by Adam Turnbull and Elizabeth Karp-Evans—debuts a catalog highlighting its long-lasting collaborations with leading artists, galleries, brands and cultural institutions.

Published with Contemporary Arts Museum Houston.

This publication commemorates the American artist Robert Pruitt (born 1975), who works across drawing, sculpture, photography and animation. Pruitt is famed for rendering large-scale drawings of Black subjects in conté on hand-dyed paper. He places his subjects—who are often modeled after friends and family—within imagined scenarios, narrativized through clothing and accoutrements that reference historical Black struggles as well as hip-hop culture and comic books. In doing so, he advances a diverse and radical vision of Blackness past and present.
This substantial monograph aims to broaden public understanding of Pruitt’s practice by including his lesser-known sculpture, graphic . . . .go to book page >>

As a part of the United States Pavilion for the 2022 Venice Biennale (for which she won the Gold Lion), Simone Leigh (born 1967) organized a three-day symposium, Loophole of Retreat, to take place during the exhibition. The title is drawn from a passage in the 1861 autobiography of Harriet Jacobs, who, for seven years after escaping enslavement, lived in a crawlspace she dubbed the loophole of retreat. This publication brings together the collected contributions from Leigh's symposium by more than 60 international theorists, activists, historians, artists and writers. Structured around guiding themes—Maroonage, Manual, Magical Realism, Medicine and Sovereignty—each essay, dialogue, performance and artwork . . . .go to book page >>