Posted by Radius Books, July 15th, 2010
| July 15, 2010 |
| 5:30 pm | to | 7:30 pm |
RADIUS BOOKS & THE NEW MEXICO HISTORY MUSEUM
invite you to a panel discussion and booksigning for the release of
DAVID TAYLOR, “WORKING THE LINE”
Thursday, July 15, 5:30–7:30 pm
Join photographer and Guggenheim Fellow David Taylor along with a panel that includes curator Mary Anne Redding, Border Patrol agent Paul Wells, Tohono O’odham Nation member David J. Garcia, essayist Hannah Frieser, and publishers David Chickey and Darius Himes for a discussion of current issues along the U.S.-Mexico border as reflected in Taylor’s new book, Working the Line (Radius Books, Spring 2010).
This free event will be held in the New Mexico History Museum Auditorium at 113 Lincoln Avenue in downtown Santa Fe. A selection of Taylor’s border images will be on view in the Triangle Gallery next to the auditorium. David Taylor is represented by James Kelly Contemporary in Santa Fe.
Come and celebrate the release of this highly anticipated book!
Buy NOW! $50.00
Buy the Limited Edition NOW! $800.00 (Print choices below)
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Posted by Lara Shipley, July 15th, 2010
The results are in for the 2nd Annual AIGA New Mexico Showdown competition and we couldn’t be more thrilled! Design duo David Skolkin and David Chickey (Skolkin+Chickey) receive Best in Show for Radius Books title Ed Moses and Judge’s Choice for the 2009 Radius Books catalog! For more work from these acclaimed designers and Radius Books founding members, check out their design firm site: Skolkin+Chickey.
Showdown is a juried design competition open to companies and individuals in New Mexico. The judges for this years competition were DJ Stout of Pentagram, an Austin based design firm, Lynda Weinman of tutorial site lynda.com, and Louis Ocepek, Professor Emeritus of Art.
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Posted by Lara Shipley, May 13th, 2010
Ed Moses will exhibit some of his early drawings at the historic Ferus Gallery, a show to be kicked off with a pig roast in the alley on Friday, May 21st.
Ed Moses began his career with the Ferus Gallery not long after it’s opening in 1957 by Walter Hopps and Ed Kienholz. The careers of both the artist and the gallery have grown together to dominate the Southern California art scene they helped create.
The drawings exhibited show the same controlled chaos of his paintings. But there is a suggestion of figuration, and a loose, pared down quality that separates them from the dense patterns and lush colors of his mature work. They show the promise of an artist who would become famous for his ever-changing styles and experimentation in the genre of abstraction.
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Posted by Radius Books, May 13th, 2010
| June 26, 2010 |
| 11:00 am | to | 1:00 pm |
Michael Light, whose second title with Radius Books will be out this fall, will be participating in the Emerging Landscapes conference at the University of Westminster, London. The conference runs from June 25-27, 2010, and is an international, interdisciplinary venture dedicated to re-examining the idea of landscape and the intersection of the built environment with the represented environment. Focusing in large part on the synergies between photography and architecture, the conference will “examine and critically reassess the interface between production and representation in the creation of contemporary landscape.”
Light will be giving an artist talk, Some Dry Space: An Inhabited American West, as part of the Photographic Practice: Altered Terrain section of the conference. He will be speaking at 11:30 am GMT on Saturday, June 26th. For the last fifteen years, Light has aerially photographed over-settled and unsettled areas of American space, pursuing themes of mapping, vertigo, human impact on the land, and various aspects of geologic time and the sublime. A private pilot and 2007 Guggenheim photography fellow, he is currently working on an extended aerial photographic survey of the arid West.
Radius Books published the first of a planned multi-volume series of this work, Bingham Mine/Garfield Stack in Fall 2009. With LA Day/LA Night, due out in November 2010, Light continues his ongoing aerial examination of the arid American West by bringing together two opposing views of the city in a double volume set.
Both titles are available for purchase at our online store:
Bingham Mine/Garfield Stack available here
LA Day/LA Night available for pre-order here
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Posted by Lara Shipley, May 13th, 2010
Phil Underdown has won the first Hey, Hot Shot! Curator’s Choice Award, chosen by panelist and guest curator Darius Himes.
The winning project, The Trappers Lament, takes place on the photographer’s property in the Adirondack park in upstate New York. The images attempt to suss out the confusion and guilt that accompanies those moments when our love of nature can lead to its demise. “I try to live my life with respect and concern for the future of our planet. I recycle, I drive a Prius, I give money to environmental organizations… and I kill Beavers. This is the landscape of that confusion, the trapper’s lament.”
Himes writes:
Using the visual language of a Shore or Struth, Underdown presents the viewer with a record of his tramping through the gentle woods of upstate New York with his view camera and film holders by his side. Dense undergrowth, meandering creeks and a carpet of browned and decaying autumn leaves are stoically pictured in exquisite detail, the trademark of a large format camera. I can almost picture him in his wellies and khaki pants, red-checked flannel shirt loosely tucked in and a spot meter draped around his lightly bearded neck. But there is murder and betrayal lurking in the bucolic settings of Mr. Underdown’s photographs. All is not what it seems…
…His images, quiet and formally elegant, inject a sense of foreboding and mystery that draws you deeper into the frame.
Underdown will receive a gift book bag with three titles published by Radius, including Transfigurations by Michael Lundgren, The Spirit & The Flesh by Debbie Fleming Caffery and Domestic Vacations by Julie Blackmon.
Check the Hey Hot Shot! blog for all five images, and a further discussion of Underdown’s work and the judging process.
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Posted by Radius Books, May 13th, 2010
| May 21, 2010 8:00 pm | to | June 18, 2010 8:00 pm |
Alec Soth will be a visiting artist at the American Academy in Rome from May 17 to May 23, 2010. In conjunction with his visit, the Academy will host an exhibition of his photographs, titled Alec Soth: Portraits.
The exhibition will feature a variety of portraits of Americans taken over the last 12 years, from mothers of Marines serving in Iraq to teenage mothers in the Louisiana Bayou, from religious propaganda in the American workplace to the mortgage crisis in Stockton, California. The exhibition is made possible by the Gagosian Gallery, Rome.
An opening reception will be held on Friday, May 21, 2010, from 6:00 – 9:00 pm, at the Academy’s Gallery, Via Angelo Masina, 5, Rome, Italy. The exhibition will run until June 18, 2010, viewed by appointment.
This fall, Radius Books is releasing a book featuring works by Alec Soth and photographer John Gossage. The product of a 2009 collaborative trip to New Zealand, the publication is titled The Auckland Project.
Pre-order The Auckland Project at our online store.
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Posted by Radius Books, May 13th, 2010
| September 10, 2010 6:00 pm | to | October 23, 2010 6:00 pm |
Suzan Frecon’s first exhibition at David Zwirner in New York will be shown from September 10 to October 23, 2010.
Frecon, an American abstract painter, critically acclaimed for her distinguished arrangements of color and form, is known for her monumental and balanced nonrepresentational works. She is included in the 2010 Whitney Biennial.
Radius Books is pleased to have the opportunity to publish a companion book to this exhibition. This monograph features her most recent work.
Pre-order this monograph from our online store.
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Posted by Radius Books, May 13th, 2010
| September 10, 2010 6:00 pm | to | October 23, 2010 6:00 pm |
John McCracken will be celebrating his fifth show at David Zwirner in New York this fall. Since the mid-1960s, Southern California artist John McCracken—a contemporary of Donald Judd—has been a leading voice of Minimalist sculpture. His monochromatic fiberglass and resin sculptures (that are worked to a high and nearly translucent polish) are iconic pieces of this genre. The show will run from September 10 to October 23, 2010.
2010 is shaping up to be a year of many show for McCracken. His works will be shown this fall in Europe as well, starting with a group show titled Take Me To Your Leader: The Great Escape into Space, from October 16, 2010 to January 30, 2011. The show, an international group exhibition featuring artists who have drawn inspiration from works of science fiction, will be held at the National Museum of Art, Architecture, and Design, in Oslo, Norway. The Castello di Rivoli, in Turin, Italy, will be hosting a solo exhibition of McCracken’s work, scheduled to open on November 3, 2010.
In 2008, Radius Books published John McCracken’s Sketchbook, on the occasion of his exhibition at David Zwirner. Sketchbook presents volume one of two treasured sketchbooks that McCracken kept for a few brief years in the mid- to late-60s. The format, paper and reproduction quality of the book have been designed to faithfully reproduce in facsimile the original pages from this fascinating document; a supplemental booklet of color photographs shows the sketches in their realized form and features an interview with the artist by Neville Wakefield.
Sketchbook is available for purchase through our online store.
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Posted by Lara Shipley, May 13th, 2010
An exhibition of new work by Joan Watts will open at Charlotte Jackson Fine Art in Santa Fe on May 7. The show runs through June 7.
Watts has had numerous solo shows around the country since she began exhibiting in 1968. Inspired by her long-time meditation practice, her non-objective work has become increasingly devoid of figures and referents. In this new work, there is an invitation to contemplate and engage reminiscent of Rothko’s contemplative work for the Rothko Chapel. Yet instead of darkness, Watts gives us radiant light.
Essayist and curator Lily Wei wrote:
“Light, created out of increasingly subtle modulations of color and contained within an imagined space…[is] Joan Watts’ primary subject…. Although Watts’ work is reductive, part of the Modernist legacy and often considered Minimalist, she insists it is not. Premised as it is on the immaterial and transcendent, in intention, it has greater affinities to the paintings and statements of Agnes Martin, the installations of James Turrell and other artists of light and space, to Buddhist teachings and the spiritual.”
An opening reception with the artist on May 7 from 5-7 p.m. Visit Charlotte Jackson Fine Art for more information.
Purchase Watt’s monograph with an essay by Lily Wei in our online store.
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Posted by Lara Shipley, May 6th, 2010
Reconstructing the View is a collection of photographic collages and panoramas from an ongoing project on the Grand Canyon by Mark Klett and Byron Wolfe. The pieces are as expansive as their subject, elegantly weaving together historical and contemporary photographs, maps and drawings. They create a visual history not only of the place but of our looking at it.
Millions of travelers have paid homage to the canyon and strove to capture some of that beauty, whether they are Ansel Adams, an anonymous snap-shooter or a 19th century lithographer. By culling these efforts into one piece, Klett and Wolfe demonstrate the equalizing effect of this singular landscape, whose contours inspire those with little in common save their awe and a powerful impulse to render its source.
The exhibit is at the Lisa Sette Gallery May 6 through June 26. The limited edition of Mark Klett: Saguaros is available in our online store. The trade edition is currently out of print.
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