Cynthia Carlson : sixty years

Title:

Cynthia Carlson : sixty years / contributors: Marcia E. Vetrocq, Thomas Mellins, Anna Katz, Alexandra Schwartz, Cynthia Carlson

Resource Type:

Book

Language:

English

Imprint:

New York, New York : D.A.P./Distributed Art Publishers, [2023]
©2023

Description:

223 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 29 cm.

Summary:

"This is the first comprehensive volume on Cynthia Carlson (born 1942), a key artist of the Pattern & Decoration group who responded to Minimalism's dominance in the 1970s. The work of this group has recently been revisited and reappraised in exhibitions and by art scholarship. A Chicagoan under the influence of the Chicago Imagists, Carlson landed in New York City in 1965 and has exhibited widely (she was included in Lucy Lippard's seminal 1971 exhibition 26 Contemporary Women Artists at the Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art). Her interest in the domestic--as a source of shapes and as a realm of familial experiences, chores and memories--intersects with the works of contemporaries ranging from Jennifer Bartlett to Joel Shapiro and Elizabeth Murray. Carlson's utilization of architectural motifs might align at one moment with the vernacular embraced in the buildings of Venturi & Scott Brown and, at another, with the postmodern rehabilitation of Beaux-Arts ornament. Her hand-painted "wallpaper" is considered a significant contribution and influence on contemporary installation art. Carlson's artistic identity continues to morph: from room-size wallpaper and a life-size gingerbread house to unexpected shaped canvasses, architectural constructions and pet portraits. Whatever she creates, however eccentric, is high-spirited, genial and insightful"-- Publisher's description.

Contents:

Foreword / Marcia E. Vetrocq -- Making sense of the parts and the whole : a conversation between Cynthia Carlson and Thomas Mellins -- Early work 1961-1974 -- Cynthia Carlson : painting 1967-1976 / Alexandra Schwartz -- Paintings & works on paper 1974-2010 -- Installations & public art 1976-2020 -- Rooms to live in : Cynthia Carlson's wallpaper installations / Anna Katz - Artist books 2009-2019 -- Recent works 2015-2021 -- Chronology.

Bibliographic Note:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 212-217)

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