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OUT OF STOCK 100 Drawings and Photographs: Tenth Anniversary Exhibition Published on the occasion of the tenth anniversary of the gallery, this beautifully produced volume includes one work each by 100 artists, arranged alphabetically, one to a page. Including an enormous variety of works, among them drawings by Cezanne, Georgia O'Keeffe, Picasso, Jackson Pollock, Dieter Roth, Marcel Broodthaers, Jasper Johns, Henry Darger and Adolph Wöffli and photographs by Julia Margaret Cameron, Man Ray, Walker Evans, Jack Smith, Ed van der Elsken, Wols, Nan Goldin and Andreas Gursky. Bound in a hand-printed four-part letterpress cover listing the names of the 100 artists in the book. DRAWING/PHOTOGRAPHY 2001, 8 x 10 inches, 115 pp., 100 color plates Softcover, ISBN 1-880146-34-7 code: mmg 100 F-6

OUT OF STOCK Robert Adams: No Small Journeys, Across Shopping Center Parking Lots, Down City Streets No Small Journeys relates to a series of photographs of Denver and its suburbs near the Rocky Flats Nuclear Weapons Plant, a version of which was published by Aperture under the title Our Lives and Our Children in 1983. In recent years, Adams felt it was important to expand the project to emphasize the simple beauty and humanity that can be found in the seemingly improbable environments we have created for ourselves all across America. Rather than focus on some looming disaster, he composed this series as a testament to that unlikely and markedly human beauty, summing up his new reaction to the work with a quotation by Edward Dahlberg: "Homer sang of many sacred towns in Hellas which were no better than Kansas City." PHOTOGRAPHY 2003, 9 x 10.5 inches, 110 pp., 52 b&w plates Softcover, ISBN 1-880146-42-8 code: mmg ad K-8

OUT OF STOCK Richmond Burton Richard Burton paints highly structured abstractions whose density and vibrant colors easily engulf the viewer. This exhibition catalogue contains an interview with the artist and more than 20 colorplates of both his paintings and their preliminary sketches. PAINTING PB, 26 pp., illus. 1996, ISBN 1-880146-14-2 code: mmg bur A-2

OUT OF STOCK Peter Cain: More Courage and Less Oil An artist who made his fame marketing paintings of cars until his early death at age 37, Peter Cain paintred a Camaro as if it were a Dali. This books illustrates Cain's complete working process, from collage to drawings to the final large-scale canvas. His mix of photorealist technique and surrealist composition are among the strangest and most underrated paintings of the 1990s. PAINTING PB, 26 pp., illus. 2002, ISBN 1-880146-37-1 code: mmg cai F-6

OUT OF STOCK Willem de Kooning: 1987 Paintings A collection of some of the last great works by this iconic artist, which diverge from his earlier figurative compostitions. These canvases of abstrasct areas of color and broad, sweeping brushstrokes cascade up-and-down, back-and-forth, seemingly floating in space, much like the work of Kandisnsky. PAINTING 2001, 10 x 12 inches, 47 pp., 12 color plates Hardcover, ISBN 1-880146-35-5 code: mmg d87 K-8

OUT OF STOCK Willem de Kooning: Sculpture A catalogue raisonné of de Kooning's 33 sculptures. Published to accompany the first exhibition of de Kooning's monumental outdoor sculptures, this book includes specially commissioned photographs by Adam Bartos of the three sculptures installed outside the artist's studio in East Hampton, New York, as well as a wealth of previously unpublished photographs from the artist's archives. SCULPTURE 1996, 9 x 12 inches, 76 pp., 25 color, 31 duotone, and 13 b&w plates Hardcover, ISBN 1-880146-15-0 code: mmg de K-8

OUT OF STOCK Paul Feeley: Painting and Sculpture Although rarely exhibited since the 1960s, Feeley's work has had a subtle, far-reaching influence and remains today as vital and fresh as when it was first shown. This catalogue, reproducing many works not seen publicly in over 30 years, is the first publication on the artist to appear since 1968. PAINTING/SCULPTURE 2002, 8.5 x 9 inches, 112 pp., 42 color plates 2002, ISBN 1-880146-38-X code: mmg fee F-5

OUT OF STOCK Lucian Freud: Etchings Freud's subjects are often the people in his life: friends, family, fellow painters, lovers, and children. As he has said, "The subject matter is autobiographical, it's all to do with hope and memory and sensuality and involvement." While reknowned for his sensuous oil portraits, this book provides rarely seen working proofs and etchings made between 1982 and 2000. PRINTMAKING PB, 60 pp., illus. 2000, ISBN 1-880146-29-0 code: mmg fre F-6

OUT OF STOCK Roni Horn: Gurgles, Sucks, Echoes This renowned contemporary artist eludes classification into a specific category, as she works in a variety of mediums, including painting, photography, sculpture, design, and writing. This book features 50 small-scale text drawings that range from the appropriation of prose by Emily Dickinson and Kafka, to quotations by the artist herself. PAINTING PB, 86 pp., illus. 1995, ISBN 1-880146-10-X code: mmg hor A-2

OUT OF STOCK Ellsworth Kelly: Drawings 1960-1962 This book features thirty-five abstract drawings in ink and graphite derived from nature and executed with Kelly's characteristic elegant line. Linda Nochlin's essay places these drawings in the context of Kelly's major works from the period. DRAWING 1999, 10 x 10.5 inches, 86 pp., 31 color and 5 b&w plates Hardcover, ISBN 1-880146-26-6 code: mmg kel F-5

OUT OF STOCK Brice Marden: Attendants, Bears, and Rocks This special limited-edition volume in wraps features a deluxe clamshell case with a magnetic closure, bound in maroon silk and printed with a drawing by Brice Marden in dark blue ink. Published in 2002 to accompany Marden’s most significant exhibition since “Cold Mountain” at the Dia Center for the Arts in 1991, this book contains over 70 full-color plates of paintings, drawings, and etchings completed between 1997 and 2002. PAINTING 2002, 11 x 12.5 inches, 120 pp., 112 color plates Hardcover, ISBN 1-880146-36-3 code: mmg mar K-8

OUT OF STOCK Ellsworth Kelly: Matrix This book features 28 large-scale canvases, three sculptures, and two public commissions Kelly has executed in recent years. Benjamin Buchloh’s essay explores Kelly’s singular contribution to the modernist dialectic. PAINTING 2003, 11 x 12 inches, 90 pp., 24 color plates Hardcover, ISBN 1-880146-40-1 code: mmg mat K-8

OUT OF STOCK Pablo Picasso: Works From the Rue des Grands-Augustins Studio This book explores the paintings created by Picasso in the context of his studio on the Rue de Grands-Augustin, where he worked before, during, and after the German occupation of Paris during WWII (between 1939 and 1947). Within this environment, the artist created some of his most brilliant masterpieces, including "Guernica." PAINTING 1995, 9 x 11 inches, 36 pp., 12 color plates Softcover, ISBN 1-880146-12-6 code: mmg pic K-8

OUT OF STOCK Terry Winters: 1981- 1986 This is the first publication to focus exclusively on the artist’s work from the early to mid 1980s, the period during which the artist first became known. At that time, Winters was among several pioneers to embrace a painterly style after minimalism, reviving an interest in visible brushwork and organic form and thus heralding the return of painting to the international art world. PAINTING 2004, 8.5 x 10 inches, 96 pp., 38 color plates, 10 b&w illus. Hardcover, ISBN 1-880146-44-4 code: mmg win F-6

OUT OF STOCK Tony Smith: A Drawing Retrospective The first publication devoted to this aspect of Smith’s oeuvre, this book contains a comprehensive chronology of the artist’s works on paper, from his earliest architectural renderings, to sculptural plans, to abstract drawings from the 1970s. It includes essays by Klaus Kertess and Joan Pachner. DRAWING 1995, 8 x 6 inches, 127 pp, 40 b&w and 21 color plates Softcover, ISBN 1-880146-13-4 code: mmg smi K-8

OUT OF STOCK Ellsworth Kelly: Relief Paintings 1954 This exhibition catalogue presents twelve works by American painter Ellsworth Kelly. Each painting was constructed from two brightly colored panels on canvas. The catalogue Includes an essay by Sarah Rich situating Kelly’s work within the history of the relief, as well as twelve full-page color reproductions of the exhibited paintings and eight color reproductions supporting the essay. PAINTING 2001, 12 x 10 inches, 43 pp, 20 color reproductions Hardcover, ISBN 1-880146-31-2 code: mmg rel K-8

OUT OF STOCK Robert Adams: Turning Back: A Photographic Journal of Re-Exploration Two hundred years ago, Lewis and Clark reported finding in the American Northwest a vast forest of ancient evergreens. Turning Back looks again at the region’s trees, discovering evidence both of America’s failure and of a continuing promise. "Going east," Adams suggests, "was more difficult than going west." Turning Back documents two kinds of predictive evidence. On the one hand Adams observes the results of greed so unrestrained that they are indistinguishable from those of nihilism. On the other we see what still lives, whether by our design or neglect, or Providence. From coastal landscapes populated with tourists to timber clear-cutting and small family farms in eastern Oregon, Turning Back reflects on what was lost, what is retained, and what we value as a people with a common history. PHOTOGRAPHY 2005, 10 x 12 inches, 234 pp, 164 tri-tone plates code: mmg back

OUT OF STOCK Gary Hume: Karnival/Carnival Published in conjunction with an exhibition organized by the Kestnergesellschaft, the contemporary art institute in Hannover, Germany, this catalogue includes recent paintings, drawings, and sculptures. In this new body of work, Hume continues to employ his unusual palette, making awkward color combinations that, in his hands, are always beautiful: muddy greens and browns with pale lavenders, pinks, oranges, and yellows. Executed in his signature high-gloss enamel paint on aluminum, several of Hume’s new paintings are characterized by a dramatic use of negative space of the unpainted aluminum, allowing its muted surface to play off the shiny reflections of the enamel paint. He also continues to interrogate figurative abstraction and the relationship between pigment and ground in new and innovative ways. For the first time, Hume has brought together his interest in portraiture, plant forms, and geometric abstraction into a single body of work, giving the pictures a tremendous formal range, including both some of the most beautiful flower paintings and some of the most reduced, abstract pictures of his career. CONTEMPORARY ART 2005, 9 x 11 inches, 96 pp. 64 color plates and fold-out color poster Hardcover, text in English and German, ISBN 1-880146-43-6 code: mmg hume B-2

OUT OF STOCK Ellsworth Kelly: Diagonal Since he first began exhibiting work publicly more than 60 years ago, Ellsworth Kelly has had over 150 one-person exhibitions in museums and galleries around the world. A room of his new paintings was included in the most recent Venice Biennale, and in 2007 an exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art in New York showed a selection of his work from their permanent collection. The exhibition catalogue features a series of two-panel paintings from 2007 and 2008 each consisting of a black or white rectangle with a contrasting black, white, or colored rectangle placed diagonally on top and extending beyond the boundary of the canvas below. In her catalogue essay Johanna Burton writes: “What Kelly is producing does not end at the edge…a shadow is thrown, but rather than demarcating the shape and space of the work more clearly, it works to utterly confuse what is being looked at: these are paintings that, in places, don’t end or, perhaps, refuse to show how they begin. Rather than a perceptual fluke or an experiment in phenomenology, however, this is, I think, a part of the painting.” Also included are multi-colored paintings in three and four-panels related to ideas with which Kelly first started working in the 1950s, as well as images of recent sculptures installed in outdoor settings. PAINTING/SCULPTURE 2009, 11 x 13 inches, 56 pp, 27 color plates Hardcover, ISBN 1-880146-51-7 code: mmg diag B-1

OUT OF STOCK Tony Smith: Not an Object. Not a Monument Between 1960 and 1980—the year of his death—sculptor Tony Smith produced 47 large-scale outdoor works that were both revolutionary and vastly influential. This publication is the first to bring together all of Smith's monumental sculptures in a single volume, chronologically exploring the developments that were taking place within them over the course of these pivotal years. As Smith’s children Seton and Kiki Smith (both artists in their own right), describe in their introductory text, Smith’s “background in architecture gave him a unique understanding of both human scale and public space. Elusive from a single vantage point, his complex geometric structures were intuitively composed. He was devoted to the idea of creating a new language for American art and its landscape.” Images are presented alongside text by the artist. SCULPTURE 2007, 9.5 x 12.5 inches, 104 pp, 49 tri-tone plates Hardcover, ISBN 978-3-86521-313-6 code: mmg not B-2

OUT OF STOCK Terry Winters: Knotted Graphs The paintings and graphite drawings presented in this exhibition catalogue mark an important step forward in Winters’ oeuvre. The influence of mathematical theory is present in familiar grids and patterns upon which the images are built, and yet they possess a spontaneity and fluid movement in space that breaks away from any kind of rigid underpinning. One important reason for this is the artist’s decision to use transparent lake pigments almost exclusively. Winters notes that the transparency of the paints allows for one to witness “all the events that went into the making of the painting”. Winters continues to investigate the complexities of space that painting alone is able to conjure, drawing on the tension between organic and in-organic forms. In the paintings, columnar forms suggested by built-up geometric patterns appear alongside mathematically derived shapes which the artist calls “knot-forms”. As Kathryn Tuma observes in her catalogue essay, this body of work “speaks not of forms but of forces and intensities, not of the stabilities of the grid but of dynamic movement – of some of the conceptual possibilities available to pictorial space when one pushes paint around and through and ultimately off the grid.” PAINTING 2008, 10 x 11 inches, 88 pp, 46 color plates Hardcover, ISBN 1-880146-50-9 code: mmg knot B-2

 

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