Blackness in Abstraction Books ” “blue” and “black” paintings

” “blue” and “black” paintings

Joel Shapiro: Sculpture and Works on Paper 1969–2019 is the first book in more than twenty years to survey the artist’s entire working career

Featuring a foreword by Nerman director JoAnne Northrup

and transparency—through which she explores the fluidity of line

made in close collaboration with the Sam Gilliam Foundation

Blackness in Abstraction Books ” “blue” and “black” paintingsProduced for Paces 2016 group exhibition Blackness in Abstraction, this publication explores Blackness as a powerful, evocative, and animating force in abstract art from the 1940s to the present day. With an essay by curator Adrienne Edwards, the book reproduces in full color the work of 29 essential intergenerational artists including Robert Irwin, Pope L., Sol LeWitt, Glenn Ligon, Lorraine OGrady, Adam Pendleton, Carrie Mae Weems, Jack Whitten, and