SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
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Per Diem: The Gerd Metzdorff Collection Publisher: Griffin Art Projects, Vancouver, BC, 2023 Per Diem: The Gerd Metzdorff Collection chronicles the extensive art collection of Gerd Metzdorff. Ranging from drawing, painting, photography, installation and sculpture, Metzdorff’s collection was drawn together over a period of almost forty years. Metzdorff began collecting contemporary art while working as a flight attendant and his collection may be said to parallel his international travels. Originally derived from the per diem funds provided to him by the airline where he was employed as a steward, Metzdorff’s keen eye allowed him to amass a collection of some of the most important artists and movements in contemporary art. 82 pages |
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COSMOS: The Art and Science of the Universe Publisher: Reaktion Books Ltd, London, 2019 Since time immemorial, the nocturnal skies have mesmerized us, and heavenly bodies have inspired the imaginations of artists, poets, and scientists. Featuring paintings, sculpture, drawings, watercolors, prints, as well as plates from books, celestial diagrams, and astronomical photography, this book showcases the superstars of the firmament and the universe beyond in sumptuous illustrations. Cosmos: The Art and Science of the Universe charts the human love affair with the heavens in art and astronomy in a story based on sound science and insightful art and cultural history. With thrilling and seductive illustrations, Cosmos recounts in ten lively chapters the fascinating history of the human quest to unlock the mysteries of the universe. Showcasing works of art and new information, interpretations, and amusing anecdotes, this stunning book weaves a rich tapestry of celestial interconnections and our efforts to understand the universe, unveiling the beauty of the cosmos and its compelling story. Hardback, 304 pages, 306 illustrations |
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PEINDRE LA NUIT Publisher: Centre Pompidou-Metz Editions
, 2018 Catalogue de l'exposition "Peindre la nuit," présentée Centre Pompidou Metz (13 Octobre 2018 – 15 Avril 2019). Source d’inspiration majeure de toute l’histoire de l’art, la nuit demeure aujourd’hui encore un terrain d’expériences fécond. Revenir à un sujet aussi vaste que la nuit permet de poser des questions essentielles sur notre condition et notre place dans l’univers, comme sur le rôle de l’art. La nuit permet, tant sur le plan physique que symbolique, ce « détachement du monde » si cher à la modernité. Le moment du crépuscule pourrait d’ailleurs être la parfaite métaphore de la volatile frontière entre figuration et abstraction. À travers une approche liée à la perception de la nuit plutôt qu’à son iconographie, l’exposition se présente elle-même comme une expérience nocturne, une déambulation qui transforme le visiteur en noctambule, et qui transmet ce vertige que procure la nuit : vertige des sens, un vertige intérieur, un vertige cosmique. Le catalogue de l’exposition est un riche ouvrage illustré qui dépasse le corpus exposé pour retracer une histoire des liens entre la peinture et la nuit au XXe siècle et aujourd’hui. Il comporte un essai inédit du philosophe Michaël Fœssel, Inévidences nocturnes, et une étude approfondie du sujet par Jean-Marie Gallais, commissaire de l’exposition. Hardback, 240 pages |
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UNIVERSE: Exploring the Astronomical World Publisher: Phaidon, 2017 Explore the stars and planets and beyond through art over the ages – an international panel of experts take you on a journey through man's record of the universe – from ancient cave paintings to animation. "Universe" is a groundbreaking survey that celebrates the popular subject of astronomy through 300 images created by those who have tried to understand - or who have been inspired by – the beauty and mystery of stars, planets, and beyond. Carefully chosen by an international panel of experts and arranged to highlight thought-provoking contrasts and similarities, the selection includes paintings, photographs, sculpture, animation, prints, sketches, and digital renderings with iconic works by renowned photographers, artists, and astronomers alongside previously unpublished finds. Hardback, 352 pages, 300 images |
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TAHOE: A Visual History Publisher: Skira Rizzoli, 2015 The definitive survey of art about this national treasure, from Albert Bierstadt to Ansel Adams. Located between California and Nevada, the vast body of water known as Lake Tahoe has lured artists to its shores for centuries. This lavishly illustrated, large-scale book celebrates Lake Tahoe, as well as Pyramid Lake, Donner Lake, and the surrounding Sierra Nevada region’s magnificent scenic beauty, through more than 350 paintings, photographs, buildings, and objects. This deluxe volume features lush landscape paintings by Albert Bierstadt, Marianne North, and Thomas Moran; photographs by Ansel Adams, Imogen Cunningham, Dorothea Lange, and Edward Weston; Native American Washoe baskets; historical maps and sketches by the region’s early explorers; ephemera related to Tahoe tourism of the 1940s–60s; and architectural drawings, such as Frank Lloyd Wright’s proposed cabin community in Emerald Bay and the historic Glen Alpine Springs Lodge design by Bernard Maybeck. Hardcover, 468 pages |
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COMPASS IN HAND: Selections from The Judith Rothschild Foundation Contemporary Drawings Collection |
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The Judith Rothschild Foundation Contemporary Drawings Collection CATALOG RAISONNE |
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VITAMIN D: New Perspectives in Drawing |
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NEW YORK, NEW DRAWINGS 1946-2007 |
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ART AND TEXT |
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DRAWING NOW: Eight Propositions Publisher: The Museum of Modern Art, NY, 2002 |
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MADE IN CALIFORNIA: Art, Image, and Identity 1900-2000 |
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DRAWING FROM THE MODERN: 1975-2005 |
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THE DRAWING BOOK: A Survey of the Primary Means of Expression |
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CONTEMPORARY DRAWING Publisher: Tate Publishing, 2014 Drawing is at the very forefront of contemporary art practice. The radical shift in the treatment and development of drawing since the 1960s has resulted in a renewed status and relevance for it within current practice, with some of the most exciting artistic ideas of the last fifty years indebted to its use. This brand new study into contemporary drawing structures itself around three broad subjects: abstraction and drawing, looking at the way drawing really came into its own at a time when notions of art and the employment of media were radically challenged; drawing as narrative, borrowing and developing ideas on illustration and cartoon art, and investigating the use of drawing with the moving image; and drawing as engagement, with its role in offering a visual description of our environment, as well as the notion of its own physical presence, particularly in relationship to landscape. Including work by artists such as Ellsworth Kelly, Agnes Martin, Richard Serra, Philip Guston, Claes Oldenburg, Len Lye, Gordon Matta-Clarke and Richard Long, the book explores how practitioners have addressed and redefined notions of medium specificity in relation to drawing, and how it has been particularly significant for artists pursuing an interdisciplinary practice. Paperback, 160 pages |
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SURF CULTURE: The Art History of Surfing |
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STOKED! A History of Surf Culture |
CATALOGS & BOOKS
2023
Per Diem: The Gerd Metzdorff Collection
Griffin Art Projects, Vancouver, BC, 2023; texts by Lisa Baldissera, Emmett Hanly
2019
COSMOS: The Art and Science of the Universe
Reaktion Books Ltd, London; by Roberta J.M. Olson and Jay M. Pasachoff
2018
Peindre la nuit
Centre Pompidou-Metz, Paris, France; edited by Jean-Marie Gallais
2017
Universe: Exploring the Astronomical World
Phaidon Press, London, England
Look Back in Time: Russell Crotty and Lick Observatory
Institute of the Arts and Sciences, University of California, Santa Cruz
2016
Ballpoint Art
by Trent Morse: Laurence King Publishing, Ltd., London, England
2015
TAHOE: A Visual History
Nevada Museum of Art, Reno, Nevada, co-published with Skira Rizzoli
2014
Contemporary Drawing from the 1960s to Now
by Katharine Stout; Tate Publishing, London, England
Marking 20 Years
Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, Kansas City, Missouri
2013
How to Read Contemporary Art: Experiencing the Art of the 21st Century
by Michael Wilson; Ludion, Antwerp; Abrams, New York
The Blue Route: Journeys and beauties from the Mediterranean to China
Villa Empain, Fondation Boghossian, Brussels, Belgium
La Dernière Vague: Surf, Skateboard & Custom Cultures in Contemporary Art
La Friche Belle de Mai, Marseille, France
Ballpoint Pen Drawing Since 1950
Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, Ridgefield, CT
The Emblem of My Work
Laurence Sterne Trust, Shandy Hall, Coxwold, York, UK
2012
Louis Vuitton: The Birth of Modern Luxury
Editions de La Martinière, France
Art on Paper 2012: The 42nd Exhibition
Weatherspoon Art Museum, University of North Carolina, Greensboro, NC
Art=Text=Art: Works by Contemporary Artists
(Sally and Wynn Kramarsky Collection), Jane Voorhees Zimmerli Art Museum, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, New Brunswick, NJ (virtual catalog)
How to Read Contemporary Art
by Michael J. Wilson; Ludion Publishers (Antwerp, Belgium)2011 Revealed: Turner Contemporary Opens, Turner Contemporary, Margate, England
Drawn / Taped / Burned: Abstraction on Paper
Katonah Museum of Art, Katonah, New York (virtual catalog)
2010
Compass in Hand: Selections from The Judith Rothschild Foundation Contemporary Drawings Collection
Institut Valencià d'Art Modern, Valencia, Spain
2009
Collecting California: Selections from Laguna Art Museum
Laguna Art Museum, Laguna, CA
Compass in Hand: Selections from The Judith Rothschild Foundation Contemporary Drawings Collection
Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
The Judith Rothschild Foundation Contemporary Drawings Collection: Catalogue Raisonné
Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
New York / New Drawings, 1946-2007
Museo de Arte Contemporaneo Esteban Vicente, Segovia, Spain
Art and Text
Black Dog Publishing, London, England
2008
Landscapes of the Mind: Art Collection of the United States Embassy
ART in Embassies Program, U.S. Dept. of State
to:Night, Contemporary Representations of the Night
The Hunter College Art Galleries, New York, NY
2007
The Drawing Book: A Survey of Drawing: The Primary Means of Expression
Black Dog Publishing, London, England
The Temptation of Space
Espace Louis Vuitton, Paris, France
Copro/Nason Fine Art; A Catalogue Raison
Last Gasp, San Francisco, CA
If Everybody Had an Ocean: Brian Wilson, an Art Exhibition
Tate St. Ives, Cornwall, UK and CAPC Musee d’Art Contemporian, Bordeaux, France
New Directions in American Drawing
The Columbus Museum, Columbus, GA
2006
Russell Crotty
Marquand Books, Seattle (August 2006); essay by David Frankel
Off the Shelf; New Forms in Contemporary Artists’ Book
Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center, Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, NY
2005
Vitamin D: New Perspectives in Drawing
Phaidon Press Inc., New York, NY
Drawing from The Modern
Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
LA Artland, Contemporary Art from Los Angeles
Black Dog Publishing, London, England
Russell Crotty
Galerie Suzanne Tarasieve, Paris with La Criee Centre d’Art Contemporain de Rennes, France
a very liquid heaven
The Frances Young Tang Teaching Museum & Art Gallery at Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, NY
2004
A Grain of Dust, A Drop of Water
Gwangju Biennale, Gwangju, Korea
Blue Sky: Visionaries, Romantics, Dreamers
Pomona College Museum of Art, Claremont, CA
Baja to Vancouver: The West Coast and Contemporary Art
CCA Wattis / ICI, NY
National Drawing Invitational
Arkansas Arts Center, Little Rock
2003
Perspectives #138: Russell Crotty
Contemporary Arts Museum Houston, TX; Lynn Herbert
Russell Crotty: Globe Drawings
Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, Kansas City, MO
For the Record: Drawing Contemporary Life
Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver, BC
Bigger Than Us: Russell Crotty and Kelly McLane
Phoenix Art Museum, Phoenix, AZ
2002
Drawing Now: Eight Propositions
MoMA QNS, New York, NY
Lab Results: Three Artists’ Residencies in the Sciences
Weatherspoon Art Museum, Greensborough, NC
Personal Plans
Kunsthalle, Basel, Switzerland; Christina Veigh
Drawing on Space
The Drawing Room, London, England; Kate Macfarlane
Surf Culture: The Art History of Surfing
Laguna Art Museum, Laguna Beach, CA
2001
The Universe: A Convergence of Art, Music, and Science
Armory Center for the Arts, Pasadena, CA
Panoramas
Kunstmuseun Thun, Switzerland; Madeleine Schuppli
By Hand: Pattern, Precision and Repetion in Contemporary Drawing
University Art Museum, California State University, Long Beach, CA
2000
Made in California 1900-2000
Los Angles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA
The Sea and the Sky
Beaver College Art Gallery, Glenside, PA
1999
Seven Wonders of the World
Book Works, London
WDAYANO?
University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ
1997
Stoked: a History of Surf Culture
General Publishing Group, Los Angeles, CA
Mars Microprobe Mission Flip Book
NASA, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA
STOPSTOP 1997
Glasgow, Scotland
1996
The Power of Suggestion, Notation and Narrative in Contemporary Drawing
Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA
1994
Russell Crotty
University of Missouri, St. Louis, MO
Love in the Ruins
Long Beach Museum of Art, Long Beach, CA
1993
Hybrid Magazine
London, England, project page: “Visual Feature"
Picture Book
London, England, cover and pull-out, Issue #2
1992
Drawing Show
Bliss, Pasadena, CA
1990
Frontier Tales
Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions (LACE), Los Angeles, CA