Art Gallery of Windsor
Art Gallery of Windsor
Willie Bester: Apartheid Laboratory
Gloria House & Alison Kenzie
Willie Bester is regarded as one of South Africa's most important resistance artists. Using found objects and discarded materials in his sculptures and paintings, Bester creates narratives about the ways in which institutions manipulate individuals - with particular reference to the inner workings of Apartheid. Born in Cape Town in 1956, Bester left school early, held seasonal jobs and was once sent to punlishment camp because he could not find work. He began taking art classes at a community college in the 1980s, won local prizes, and has since exhibited throughout Africa and Europe, notably at the 45th Venice Biennial, the Centre Pompidou and the Hayward Gallery. This publication documents his first solo exhibition in North America. Two essays, a biography and several colour plates comprise this striking publication.
Art Gallery of Windsor (05/2008) 40 pp 14 col. ill. 6.5 x 7.5 in hardcover 978-0-919837-78-2 $20.00 Can. ($24.00 U.S. / 16 euros)
David Rokeby: Plotting Against Time
Peter Ride
A survey of work by the Governor General's Award-winning artist, where the science of cutting-edge technology meets the fine art world. Includes a discussion of five new media artworks, including the World Premiere of the Windsor adaptation of "WATCH", a site-specific piece featuring the Windsor bus station.
Art Gallery of Windsor (03/2008) 12 pp col. ill. 6 x 9 in 978-0-919837-79-9 $8.00
David Blatherwick: Cheese, Worms and the
Holes in Everything
James D. Campbell
Blatherwick's paintings express the complex and undefined
relationship between digital worlds and nature. With a limited
vocabulary of painted lines and shapes that form organic
structures of chains or sequences, his works appear to infect the
gallery, colonizing its spaces with new life. An essay and several
colour illustrations document a new direction for an artist
hitherto known for his digital output.
Art Gallery of Windsor / The Robert Mclaughlin Gallery
(01/2008) 44 pp 22 col. ill. 6.5 x 9.5 in softcover 978-0-919837-77-5
$14.95
Yousuf Karsh: Industrial Images
Cassandra Getty & Jerry Fielder
In 1951, Yousuf Karsh accepted a Ford commission to photograph workers for use in the carmaker's advertising and annual reports. While not the subjects normally associated with the internationally-renowned photographer, the workers at the Ford Motor Company and Atlas Steels in Ontario and Sharon Steel in Pennsylvania are portrayed with the same luminsoity as his celebrity portraits. But some were not published. Considering them provocative and suggestive, Ford rejected many of the photographs including the cover image shown here. In retrospect, these portraits reveal Karsh's uncanny ability to seize the individuality of each of his subjects through a meticulous attention to detail and great technical prowess.
En 1951, Yousuf Karsh accepte une commission de la Ford Motor Company de photographier les travailleurs de la compagnie automobile pour les fins publicitaires. Même si ces travailleurs n'étaient pas les sujets régulièrement associés au photographe réputé, les jeunes hommes sont tout de même photographies avec la même luminosité que les sujets plus connus de Karsh, tels Hemmingway, Churchill et Einstein. Mais ce ne sont pas tout les clichés qui seront utilisés. Ford digne certains des portraits comme etant trop provocants et suggestifs et en rejette plusieurs, dont la page couverture de ce livre. Richement illustrée, cette publication en couverture rigide rassemble la série complète de ces portraits pour la première fois. Tous les textes sont rédigés en français et en anglais.
Art Gallery of Windsor (09/2007) 150 pp 100 col. ill. 11 x 8.5 in hardcover 978-0-919837-76-8 $45.00 Can./U.S. (36 euros)
Passing Through: Iain Baxter& Photographs 1958 to 1983
David P. Silcox, Lucy Lippard, Christophe Domino, Marie Josée Jean and James Patten
This major publication is the first to document the photographs of the internationally acclaimed artist's photo-based work, including colour prints, Polaroids and duratrans, produced over 25 years. A wide range of distinguished writers examine Baxter's contribution to contemporary photography, notably in Vancouver. In doing so they also document the internationalization of Canadian art that took place during the 1960s and 1970s. Iain Baxter first caught the world's attention as co-founder of 'N.E. Thing Co.' in 1966. Iain Baxter first caught the world's attention as co-founder of 'N.E. Thing Co.' in 1966. The adoption of a corporate persona enabled him to organize his artistic output into separate 'departments' : photography, painting, publishing and multi-media projects. Viewed in retrospect, these photographs of Vancouver, Berkeley, the American midwest and Canadian small towns possess an innocence that is both disarming and profound. Hailed as Canada's first conceptual artist, Baxter has worked to change art and our ideas about seeing art. By focusing on just one of his 'departments', photography, this publication shows Baxter's engagement in contemporary social, political and environmental issues. Publication of an exhibition that will travel the country throughout the coming year. In English and French.
Art Gallery of Windsor (12/2006) 160 pp 80 col. ill. 9 x 12 in hardcover 978-0-919837-75-1 $39.00 Can.U.S. (31 euros)
Drawings by Marcel Dzama: From the Bernardi Collection
James Patten & Wayne Baerwaldt
Over the past few years Marcel Dzama's drawings have been attracting considerable attention. His odd mutant figures, with their ambiguous relationship to other figures, objects and situations, are infused with a radiant innocence and an idiosyncratic sense of humour far removed from other strategies that have fueled artmaking over the past decade. In this most comprehensive publication on Dzama's work to date, Patten examines the seminal evolution of Dzama's idiosyncratic approach to drawing between 1996 and 2001. Referring to Mikhail Bakhtin's concept of grotesque humour and the carnivalesque, he demonstrates how each drawing is an amalgam of allusions to 20th century popular culture. With an introduction by Wayne Baerwaldt, director of the Power Plant. Originally from Winnipeg, Marcel Dzama has had numerous solo exhibitions, notably at the Los Angeles Invitational Biennial, Richard Heller Gallery of Santa Monica and Sies + Hoke of Dusseldorf. He has also exhibited widely as a member of the Royal Art Lodge, most recently at New York's Drawing Room.
Art Gallery of Windsor (2005) 124 pp 100 col. ill. 8 x 7.5 in softcover 0-919837-70-0 $30.00 (24 euros)
David Mabb: A Factory As It Might Be or The Hall of Flowers
James Patten & Colin Mooers
Incorporating William Morris' 19th century textile designs and referencing everything from the Renaissance to Rodchenko, Mabb creates videos, installations and paintings that examine the relationship between industrialization, design and utopian socialism. Two essays are accompanied by a text by the artist in which he provides detailed information on his sources and working methods.
Art Gallery of Windsor (2003) 61 99 26 ill (22 col) 0-919837-68-9 softcover $15.00 (12 euros)
The Performance Sites of Colette Urban
Helga Pakasaar, Betsy Coulter & John Massier
Publication of a retrospective exhibition of Urban's key performances over the past several years. Social commentary disguised as burlesque, Urban's practice is part of a long history of artists inserting themselves into everyday life to provoke reactions from unsuspecting passers-by. Pieces like Consumer Cyclone are performed at a shopping centre and collapse distinctions between spectator and performer, enabling her to make her point much more powerfully. Three essays discuss a wide range of topics including Urban's intentions, her elaborate mise-en-scene and the intrinsic difficulty in documenting such ephemeral work.
Art Gallery of Windsor (2001) 48 pp col. 23 ill. 8x6.5 in softcover 091983762X $15.00 (12 euros)
Rae Davis: Unfoldings
Rae Davis & Robert McKaskell
A multi-layered presentation of the performer's professional and personal life. McKaskell writes as researcher, audience and friend.
Art Gallery of Windsor (2001) 144 pp ill. 11x8 in softcover 0919837646 $27.00
Stephen Andrews: Likenesss
Annette Hurtig & Joseph Wolin
Essays on the work of the multidisciplinary artist accompanied by several individual bookworks, the whole encased in a clear plastic binding.
Art Gallery of Windsor (2001) 80 pp col. ill. 9x6 in 0888656203 $19.95
Making it New! (The Big Sixties Show)
Robert McKaskell & Marco Y. Topalian
The first national survey of avant-garde artworks made in Canada during the 1960s. Two essays define the art and artists socially and politically in both English Canada and in Québec. With detailed presentations on 22 key figures including Iain Baxter, Greg Curnoe, Charles Gagnon, Michael Snow and Joyce Wieland.
Art Gallery of Windsor (2000) 94 pp 48 illl. (30 col) 0919873603 $20.00
Jamelie Hassan: Boutros Al Armenian / Mediterranean Modern
Janice Seline
Texts on two in situ installations, one at a private home and the other at the National Gallery of Canada.
Art Gallery of Windsor (2000) 16 pp 15 ill. (4 col) $5.00
Sylvie Belanger: de La Seduction à la Resistance
Christine Ross, Dot Tuer, Masashi Ogura
A significant study of the Toronto-based artist's long-standing investigations of technology and the body. Tuer's essay, "The Instability of the Self", accompanies a text by Ogura and a conversation between Ross and Bélanger.
Art Gallery of Windsor (1999) 64 pp. 16 ill. (11 col.) 0919837573. $22.50
Iain Baxter: Products, Place, Phenomenon
Ihor Holubitzky
Holubitzky traces the career of this central figure in contemporary Canadian art from N.E. Thing Co. in the 1960s to solo work in the 1990s. Baxter's personal reflections on several works illustrate his long-standing social and artistic concerns.
Art Gallery of Windsor (1998) 44 pp. 19 col. illus. 0919837565 $16.50
Source/Derivations: Allan Harding MacKay
Robert Stacey & Terrence Heath
The first full-length monograph on the important Canadian artist. Stacey surveys Mackay's Duchamp-influenced waxed bookworks of the 1970s to his current conceptualist work.
Art Gallery of Windsor (1998) 202 pp. 105 ill. 0919837476. $22.50
Studiolo: The Collaborative Work of Martha Fleming & Lyne Lapointe
Martha Fleming, Lyne Lapointe et al
An overview of one of the most successful and long lasting collaborations in contemporary Canadian art. Essays and interviews document the duo's site-specific installations around the world.
Art Gallery of Windsor (1997) 201 pp 75 ill. 2980287059 $29.95
Sites of the Visual
Rodney Graham, Steven Pippin, David Thomas
Essays on the work of Rodney Graham, Steven Pippin and David Thomas.
Art Gallery of Windsor (1997) 65 pp. 24 ill. (7 col.) 0919837549 $16.00
Jamelie Hassan: Aldin's Gift
Nataley Nagy, Loretta Yarlow & Homi K. Bhabha
A conversation between Hassan and Bhabbi, entitled "Identity and Cultural Displacement", accompanies works from an exhibition held at both the Art Gallery of York University and the Art Gallery of Windsor.
Art Gallery of Windsor (1996) 48 pp. 13 ill. (8 col.) 0921972172 $15.00
Sugluk Sculpture in Stone 1953-1959
Ted Fraser
Publication stemming from the discovery of the Birmingham, Michigan collection of Peter Landry. Essays and interviews with the artists give voice to the brief period of artistic production from this community in Arctic Québec.
Art Gallery of Windsor (1992) 72 pp. 75 ill. 0919837026 $10.00
Fibre: Tradition/Transition. Historic Textiles from Essex and Kent Counties and Contemporary Canadian Quilts
Kathy M' Closkey & Robin Morey
Art Gallery of Windsor (1988) 56 pp., 24 ill. 0919837166 $8.00
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