McMaster Museum of
Art
McMaster Museum of
Art
John Abrams: Cinema Vernis
Edited by R.M. VaughanA review of Abrams' film inspired paintings with short essays by acclaimed Canadian filmmakers Sky Gilbert, John Greyson, Jeremy Podeswa and Christina Zeidler. Abrams takes Beineix's Betty Blue, Goddard's Breathless and Wertmuller's Swept Away, from the language of film to the language of painting.
McMaster University Museum of Art (02/2008) 48 pp col. ill. 8 x 8.5 in softcover 978-0-9783585-4-9 $15.75
Robert Houle: Troubling Abstraction
Carol Podedworny, Mark A. Cheetham, Gerald McMaster & W. Jackson Rushing III
Robert Houle has been a visionary artist since the beginning of his career. "Native artists," he wrote in 1982, "are committed to involvement in the polemics of modern art. Meaning derives from living in the twentieth century, where painting ranges from realism to abstraction and sculpture varies from shamanism to assemblage." Employing the traditions of modernist painting, particularly as practiced by Jackson Pollock and Barnett Newman, Houle has tenaciously insisted on reciprocity among the aesthetic and cultural specificities with which he engages. After years of breathtaking solo exhibitions, he returns here to his first stylistic impulse: abstraction and the parfleche figure. This important publication, with three essays and an artist's statement, documents a unique and vital side to Houle's innovative artistic practice. Mark A. Cheetham is Chair of the Department of Art at the University of Toronto. Gerald McMaster is Curator of Canadian Art at the Art Gallery of Ontario. W. Jackson Rushing III is the author of numerous books, notably, Native American Art in the Twentieth Century (Routledge) and Allan Houser: An American Master (Abrams).
McMaster Museum of Art / The Robert McLaughlin Gallery (11/2007)
105 pp 36 ill. (24 col.) 7 x 5 in softcover 978-0-9783585-2-5 $20.00 Can./U.S. (16 euros)
Wilfredo Prieto: Mute
Ingrid Mayrhofer et al
Only recently exhibiting outside of his native Cuba, the young artist's site-specific installations are gathering interest around the world. Prietro responds to the contrasts and contradictions of place which, in the case of Hamilton Ontario, meant highlighting the city's great industrial past with its current state of abandon. 'Mute' reproduces a fully functional 70s discotheque with no sound. With an interview with the artist.
McMaster Museum of Art (07/2007) 28 pp col. ill. 10 x 7 in 978-1-894088-74-9 $10.00 Can./U.S. (8 euros)
Stephen Foster & James Gillespie: Re-Meditations
Carol Podenworny & Anna Hudson
Using media spectacle to comment on itself, Stephen Foster, a Haida Metis from British Columbia, and James Gillespie, of European descent and living in Toronto, each confronts how a dominant European culture has marginalized and silenced the "other". Their provocative photo-media images prompt us to question our everyday responses to issues of race, region and class and help open up dialogue on post-colonial issues. Published in collaboration with the Kelowna Art Gallery and the Art Gallery of Sudbury.
McMaster Museum of Art (07/2007) 40 pp col. ill. 10 x 8 in softcover 978-1-894088-76-3 $10.00 Can./U.S. (8 euros)
Listening Awry
Jim Drobnick
Catalogue of a group exhibition of sound artists from around the world: Kimsooja (New York City), Christian Marclay (New York City), Santiago Sierra (Mexico) and Su-Mei Tse (Luxembourg).
McMaster Museum of Art (07/2007) 30 pp col. ill. 978-9783585-0-1 $5.00 Can./U.S. (4 euros)
Sharon Switzer: Falling from Grace
Carla Garnet et al
Switzer's work in digital video stems from years of working in new media and her familiarity with her medium allows for a fluidity of practice that has been likened to that of a painter. In these new works, text, animation and video footage are combined to create short looping sequences which relate moments in time characterized by both the artist's dry humour and a sense of pathos.
McMaster Museum of Art (01/2007) 36 pp col. ill. 7 x 9.5 in 978-1-894088-72-5 $7.00 Can./U.S. (5 euros)
The Togo Salmon Centenary Exhibition: The Classical World and its Influence
A.G. Mckay
Distinguished scholar of Classics and Ancient History, Dr. E. Togo Salmon (1905 - 1988), is commemorated in this exhibition catalogue which features a display of ancient coins, ceramics and glassware, and classically inspired paintings, etchings, drawings, prints, engravings and sculptures dating from between the 15th and 20th centuries. Also included are contemporary works by Canadian artists who make reference to antique themes and motifs, notably Spring Hurlbut.
McMaster Museum of Art (09/2005) 40 pp 17 ill. (10 col.) 10 x 7.5 in softcover 1-894088-58-1 $10.00 Can./U.S. (8 euros)
Simon Frank & Reinhard Reitzenstein: Landscapes
Alexandria Pierce
Simon Frank and Reinhard Reitzenstein have each chosen the natural world as their respective frame of aesthetic reference. The idea of the scenic view, of "landscape" as such, and the use-value it creates are all central points of enquiry in their work, explored variously through photography, performance, sound, gallery installation, and in situ work.
McMaster Museum of Art (09/2005) 32 pp 15 col. ill. 9 x 8.5 in 1-894088-56-5 $15.00 Can./U.S. (12 euros)
Yechel Gagnon: Palimpsest
Alexandria Pierce, Bernard Chassé & Stéphane Aquin
Yechel Gagnon's monumental plywood relief murals, formed by ripping and chiseling with grinders, routers, sanders and knives suggest topographical forms, Chinese landscapes and a fictional mapping of the world. 'Palimpsest' refers to multiple layers on the surface of the reliefs, in the strata of the monumental wood columns, and in the frottages made by rubbings, embossings and drawing. The complexity and enigma of these fragmented and seductive works are characterized by the same unworldliness, abstraction and minimalism explored by classical Chinese literati painters. Essays explore Gagnon's work in relation to various topics, including Chinese aesthetics and Baudrillard's simulacra. Accompanied by an interview with the artist. In English and French.
L'oeuvre de Gagnon rappelle la peinture de paysage de la Chine médiévale, des formes topographiques et des cartographies de mondes fictifs par l'effet visuel des marques produites par évidage, ciselage et entaillage de la surface stratifiée du contreplaqué. Le mot palimpseste nous renvoie à la stratification, aux multiples couches nécessaires afin de créer les territoires fictifs et fragmentés de Gagnon. La complexité de ces oeuvres fragmentées et séduisantes est caractérisée par l'intangibilité de l'univers créé par l'artiste ainsi que par son abstraction et son minimalisme, tels qu'explorés par les peintres chinois literati. L'art de Gagnon agit comme une visualisation de notre interface quotidien où les diverses mutations sont infinies. Les essais explorent l'oeuvre de Gagnon en relation avec divers sujets dont l'esthétique chinoise et le simulacre de Beaudrillard. Accompagné d'une entrevue avec l'artiste. En français et anglais.
McMaster Museum of Art (2004) 64 pp 20 ill. 10 x 8 in softcover 1-894088-50-6 $24.95 Can./U.S. (20 euros)
The Prints of William Hogarth
Alexandria Pierce
McMaster Museum of Art (2004) 22 pp 9 ill. 8.5 x 7 in softcover 1-894088-48-4 $6.00 (5 euros)
Erica James: Flotilla
Richard Butler
McMaster Museum of Art (2004) 4 pp 4 col. ill. 9.5 x 9 in pamphlet (No ISBN) $2.00 (euros)
Lee MyungSook: My Mother Tongue
Rivka Birkan & Miroslav Lovric
McMaster Museum of Art (2004) 4 pp 9 col. ill. 9.5 x 9 in pamphlet (No ISBN) $2.00 (2 euros)
Germaine Koh: Open Hours
Steve Reinke & Rosemary Heather
McMaster Museum of Art (2002) 32 pp 11ill. (8 col.) 10 x 7.5 in softcover 1-894088-36-0 $10.00 (8 euros)
C. Wells: 1911
C. Wells
McMaster Museum of Art (2002) 36 pp 11 ill. (9 col.) 9.5 x 8 in softcover 1-894088-34-4 $10.00 (8 euros)
Shelley Niro: Unbury My Heart
Gerald McMaster
McMaster Museum of Art (2001) 24 pp 9 col. ill. 10 x 8 in 1-894088-28-X $10.00 (8 euros)
Douglas Clark: North of America
Kim G. Ness
McMaster Museum of Art (1997) 28 pp 14 ill. 5 x 5 in softcover 0-920603-46-7 $7.95 (6 euros)
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