Mary Weatherford
Published on 9. September 2019
Book
Hardback
144 pages
978-1-84822-246-5 (ISBN)
Description
This is the first monograph to offer a comprehensive account of the work of Californian artist Mary Weatherford (b.1963), beginning in the mid-1980s and extending to the present.
Weatherford was a student of pioneering twentieth-century art historian Sam Hunter at Princeton. Her broadly literate and visually arresting paintings address the legacies of American modernists from Arthur Dove and Agnes Pelton to Willem de Kooning and Morris Louis, while grappling with the politics of gender, the representation of specific moods and experiences, and other concerns squarely rooted in the present moment.From her early monumental targets, through canvases studded with real shells and starfish, as well as more abstract evocations of landscape inspired by caves, to her recent neon-appended panels whose atmospheres of rolling colour foreground the painting process itself, Weatherford's works argue forcibly and convincingly for the engagement of painting with contemporary life.
Suzanne Hudson's text, the fruit of many studio visits and long interviews, reveals a singularly inventive artist whose boundless facility for reinvention will compel any viewer, student or critic of painting.
Weatherford was a student of pioneering twentieth-century art historian Sam Hunter at Princeton. Her broadly literate and visually arresting paintings address the legacies of American modernists from Arthur Dove and Agnes Pelton to Willem de Kooning and Morris Louis, while grappling with the politics of gender, the representation of specific moods and experiences, and other concerns squarely rooted in the present moment.From her early monumental targets, through canvases studded with real shells and starfish, as well as more abstract evocations of landscape inspired by caves, to her recent neon-appended panels whose atmospheres of rolling colour foreground the painting process itself, Weatherford's works argue forcibly and convincingly for the engagement of painting with contemporary life.
Suzanne Hudson's text, the fruit of many studio visits and long interviews, reveals a singularly inventive artist whose boundless facility for reinvention will compel any viewer, student or critic of painting.
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Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Product notice
Paper over boards
Illustrations
Illustrations
Dimensions
Height: 287 mm
Width: 247 mm
Thickness: 20 mm
Weight
1049 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-84822-246-5 (9781848222465)
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Person
Suzanne Hudson (MA, PhD, Princeton University) is an art historian, critic, and Associate Professor of Art History and Fine Arts at the University of Southern California. Her publications include Robert Ryman: Used Paint (2009), Painting Now (2015) and Agnes Martin: Night Sea (2017). She is also a regular contributor to Artforum.
Content
Foreword, Barry Schwabsky; Introduction; 1 Origins: 1963-1980s; 2 Concentric Circular Timelines: 1985-1991; 3 Stains and Starfish: The 1990s; 4 Rocks, Caves, Weeds, Vines: The 2000s; 5 Atmospheres and Lights: The 2010s; Notes; Selected Bibliography; Biography; Selected Exhibitions; Selected Public Collections; Acknowledgments; Index;