
A Punch of Color
Fifty Years of Painting by Camille Patha
Tacoma Art Museum (Publisher)
Will be published approx. on 2. June 2014
Book
Hardback
96 pages
978-0-924335-40-2 (ISBN)
Description
Throughout her six-decade career, Camille Patha's painting has oscillated between the figurative and the abstract. Patha began painting gestural abstraction in the 1960s then deliberately explored various painting styles, including hard-edged abstraction and surrealist-infused photorealism and, finally, a return to abstraction. During each era of her career, Patha demonstrated a full mastery of painting, presenting canvases that wholly embody her imagery and vocabulary with an unwavering voice and shocking vigor. Patha asserts her power as a painter by creating imagery of a complete universe that enables the viewer to be fully absorbed within a boundless volume. In her paintings, she shares a sense of wonder about the existential conundrums confronting every person and with the exuberance of her elastic symbolism. A Punch of Color is the first retrospective of her work since 1979.
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Series
Language
English
Place of publication
Tacoma
United States
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
sewn/stitched
Cloth over boards
Illustrations
49 color illus.
Dimensions
Height: 264 mm
Width: 211 mm
Thickness: 16 mm
Weight
699 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-924335-40-2 (9780924335402)
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Persons
Rock Hushka is curator of contemporary and Northwest art and director of curatorial administration at Tacoma Art Museum.