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Talking Beauty
It is a conversation. Not an interview. Not a critical assessment of an artist's oeuvre. Not a historical overview. Not a promotional celebration of an artist's work. But an honest, wide-ranging, free-wheeling back-and-forth between two fairly idiosyncratic individuals who have never met: an expatriate painter in his 80s who has lived in the South of France for 30 years, and an art critic and professor in his 50s who has lived in Southern California for 30 years, where he writes, in plain English, art criticism for the Los Angeles Times and teaches at Claremont Graduate University.
Cold Feet
Cold Feet-the title says it all: Written from the wide-eyed, self-effacing perspective of a mountaineer who pursues epic adventure while locked in a perpetual struggle with fear and self-doubt, David Pagel's stories-featured in Climbing magazine, Ascent, and Rock and Ice magazine-are modern climbing classics chronicling the experiences of an Everyman climber who dreams big. From Africa to Alaska, from the sheer walls of Devils Tower and El Capitan to the icy flanks of the Matterhorn and the mythic North Face of the Eiger, Pagel has never let his status as a run-of-the mill, middling climber (from the Great Plains, no less!) deter him from tackling the world's iconic peaks or seeking out the sport's legendary mountaineers. An insightful and hilarious collection of whimsical climbing stories, profiles, and perspective...including a never-before-published selection of verse!
John Sonsini: Broad Reminders
When art critic David Pagel realized he had written five reviews about John Sonsini over the past thirty years, this book project was born. Even though he had been covering the work of the Los Angeles-based painter for three decades, they had never met until they began collaborating on this project. The unique, intimate compilation brings together an extensive essay by Pagel--including facsimile reproductions of the original five articles--along with illustrations, plates, and archival pieces that cover Sonsini's artistic trajectory, from early works to his most recent watercolors and large-scale commissions. Broad Reminders provides a rambling, joyful, engaging look into the world of art and artists, critics, and creators.
Jim Shaw
Blending the reflected cultural climate of his adopted home, Los Angeles, with the multi-layered world of American popular culture, Jim Shaw creates rich dreamlike worlds within distinct bodies of work. Addressing, for the first time, how the artist's oeuvre inter-relates, this substantial monograph argues that the artist's seemingly disparate series actually function together to present a lucid and insightful portrait of America today. Emerging out of the long West Coast shadows of California Assemblage by way of LA Pop and Conceptualism, Shaw's narrative-driven art marries art history and contemporary existence, as well as literature and comic books, ancient myths and modern movies, science and its variations in popular psychology--not only blurring the boundaries between art and life, but also cultivating that confusion to consider the relationship between fact and fiction that seems to define so much of the world we inhabit today. Giving contemporary viewers an effective way to think about art, this publication is an invaluable resource for those interested in painting today and its interaction with modern life.
Telling Stories
Telling Stories focuses on the role narrative plays in our capacity to understand reality and interact with one another. Organized by Parrish Adjunct Curator David Pagel, Telling Stories features eight artists whose works are driven by a particular kind of narrative: open, self-reflective, and welcoming of outside input. Their works engage various realms of experience from the personal to the political-including memory and history as well as fact and fancy, dreams and nightmares-to create multilayered spaces that reflect on the relationship between the past and the present, the individual and the group, the planet and the cosmos. The participating artists span decades in ages, career stages, geographic locations, and media: JooYoung Choi (born 1982); Jeremy Dennis (born 1990); Jeffrey Gibson (born 1972); Elliott Hundley (born 1975); Candice Lin (born 1979); Mary McCleary (born 1951); Jim Shaw (born 1952); and Devin Troy Strother (born 1986). What ultimately ties together the artists in Telling Stories is their ability to take their personal histories and traditions and make them universal.
David Klamen
Chicago-based artist David Klamen fuses op-art effects with art historical images to create high impact and engaging artworks. Looking like obsessive crosses between bar codes, puzzles, and old master paintings, these works plead to be interpreted through a dizzying kaleidoscope of colors and shapes. Distributed for the Chazen Museum of Art, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Sabina Ott
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History Out of Joint
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Unfinished Business
Published to accompany the exhibition of the same name held at Parrish Art Museum, Water Mill, New York, 30 July-16 October, 2016.
Robert Rahway Zakanitch
To Robert Rahway Zakanitch, life is full of ordinary miracles and the boundless beauty of humanity, which he expresses on paper and canvas in what essayist David Pagel calls "a wild collision between freewheeling bohemian abandon and settled-down domestic sociability." Zakanitch, who was trained in commercial art and has a background in advertising, began to paint seriously amid the 1960s culture of artistic intellectualism, when beauty was out of fashion and modern art seemed bent on excluding rather than including its audience. After exploring formalism and abstract expressionism, Zakanitch began painting what he described as "gestural things and patterns that were anathema to modernism. T...
