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OUT OF STOCK Liz Craft *MATURE CONTENT If California is often characterized by the myth of the easy rider, relaxed sexiness, and a spirit of experimentation, Liz Craft—who was born in Mammoth and studied sculpture at UCLA—is in the right place. With a variety of different media, Craft builds large objects that give new meaning to the shape and surface of contemporary art. Referencing pot smokers, skeletons, and motorcycles, Craft explores our notions of California counterculture, as well as our relationship to formal exploration. The catalogue itself contains full page images, some showing different angles of the work. SCULPTURE 2006, 7 x 9 inches, 160 pp, color illus. Hardcover, ISBN 978-3905770100 code: mbg liz E-6

OUT OF STOCK Barnaby Furnas This catalogue of the artist’s recent large-scale oil paintings and smaller watercolors explores themes such as monumental floods, the parting of the red sea, the prophet/martyr, the accursed, and images in effigy. Furnas is known for his paintings of historical battle scenes, suicides, lovers, and rock and roll concerts. In this body of work his subjects have gone from real life precedents to mythic and religious realms, and his painting technique has become more physical, with the artist interacting with the picture plane. In the largest flood works, up to 30 feet in width, the paint is poured from one end of the canvas to the other, with the canvas held aloft in a diagonal position, and the artist directing the paint across the surface. In other paintings he employs an oil and water resistant technique, which creates fluorescent skeletal images on a black background that seemingly glow with an inner light. Furnas’ watercolors also employ physical processes (their surfaces marked by burn holes, for example). These are deeply personal and cathartic works that address greed and dishonesty in contemporary society. Although Furnas is here interested in myth and pre-history, the influence of new media—such as cinematic special effects and video game animation—is unmistakable in the works. PAINTING 2006, 7 x 10 inches, 72 pp, color illus. Hardcover, ISBN: 978-1903655245 code: mbg bar E-6

OUT OF STOCK Lisa Yuskavage *MATURE CONTENT Contemporary American figurative painter Lisa Yuskavage is known for her overtly sexualized representations of the painted female nude. While her works are, at times, explicit and confrontational, they, at other times, reference classical forms, exaggerating but not eroticizing the female figure. This catalogue includes an introduction and interview with the artist by curator Claudia Gould. PAINTING 2001, 8.5 x 11 inches, 80 pp, color illus. Softcover, ISBN: 0-88454-097-9: code: mbg yus E-6

OUT OF STOCK Sarah Sze The work of installation artist Sarah Sze is documented in this catalogue, which features images from her shows in San Francisco, New York, Pittsburgh, London, Milan, Venice, Sao Paolo, and Paris. Sze’s sculptures are flowing structures compiled from small-scale household items (such as toothpicks, breath mints, flashlights, thumbtacks, aquariums, and pipes) that respond to and infiltrate the surrounding architecture. Like the information flow of the World Wide Web, her compositional language takes form by successively linking small bits of discrete information into a complex network. With an intense patchwork technique that is at once painterly and sculptural, her interplay between individual components and overall structure allows Sze to explore the boundaries between art and everyday life. This book also includes an interview with the artist. INSTALLATION/SCULPTURE 2005, 9 x 12.5 inches, 96 pp, color illus. Hardcover, no ISBN code: mbg sze E-6

OUT OF STOCK John Waters: Unwatchable * MATURE CONTENT "The word ‘unwatchable’ is the ultimate insult in film criticism. But when "unwatchable" movie images are kidnapped off of the screen, isolated out of context, edited together with phony credits and hung on the wall to form new low-concept narratives, these hostage film stills can no longer be ‘watched,’ they must be ‘seen.’” Filmmaker and artist John Waters thus explains the working method behind this exhibition of 45 new photographic works. Each of the pieces tells a new story, frame by frame, until the original source material has been transformed into the John Waters "re-make." The art world, celebrity miscreants, politicians and Waters himself are not spared from his satirical directorial glare. Some of the catalogue’s images are erotically overt, while others speak of the comedic space between underground and popular American cultures. Indeed, Waters hopes to translate his insider show-biz knowledge into an "artistically incorrect" celebration of the ludicrous and wonderful extremes in both the film and art world he so loves. CONTEMPORARY ART 2006, 9.5 x 13 inches, 96 pp, color illus. Softcover, ISBN 0-9779503-0-1 code: mbg unw E-6

 

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