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A 2012 MacArthur Fellow, Uta Barth was born in Berlin and currently lives and works in Los Angeles. Notable solo exhibitions have been presented at the Art Institute of Chicago; Henry Art Gallery, University of Washington, Seattle; the SCAD Museum of Art, Savannah; SITE, Santa Fe; Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston; Lannan Foundation, Santa Fe; Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago; and Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles. Her work is well represented in both private and public collections worldwide, including the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; Museum of Modern Art, New York; Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York and Bilbao; the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D. C., Tate Modern, London; Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh; Dallas Museum of Art, Texas; UCLA Hammer Museum, Los Angeles; Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles; Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago; Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles; The Getty Museum, Los Angeles; and The Walker Art Center, Minneapolis.
This publication includes work from Uta Barth's series …and to draw a bright white line with light along with images from Compositions of Light on White, and a new series being created for the publication of this book.
Publisher: Blind Spot
ISBN: 978-0-9839989-3-8
Born in Berlin in 1958 and now based in Los Angeles, Uta Barth is among the most influential artists working with photography to have emerged in the last decade. Her photographs take the complete opposite approach to the famous Dusseldorf school of photographers which include Thomas Struth and Andreas Gursky. While they record their subjects in sharply objective archival detail, Barth's images of interiors, buildings, suburban roads or natural environments are often out of focus, perversely cropped and apparently empty of any foreground subject. Yet what emerges from this reduction and abstraction of subject matter is a body of photographs of extraordinary, haunting beauty, evocative of great moments in the history of painting, from Vermeer to Whistler, or of a cinematic ambience such as the fume-laden neon haze of Martin Scorsese's Taxi Driver.
Paperback: 160 pages
Publisher: Phaidon Press (November 1, 2004)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0714841536
ISBN-13: 978-0714841533
Product Dimensions: 11.3 x 9.9 x 0.8 inches
Shipping Weight: 2.2 pounds
Barth's work draws its strength from its blurring of the familiar and strange, bringing the viewer to a liminal space between the two. It is in this space that Barth begins her investigation into the very nature of perception, where the epistemological importance of such formal qualities as lighting and composition becomes astoundingly evident. Uta Barth: In Between Spaces is the first comprehensive book on Barth's oeuvre, presenting a carefully selected survey of her works, and as such is a must-have for viewers, collectors and students attracted to contemporary art and photography. The poetic resonance, radical intelligence and sheer beauty of Barth's pictures are given perfect illustration in this book, designed with the artist herself. Uta Barth's work is represented in numerous public and private collections worldwide, including the Museum of Modern Art, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Guggenheim Museum, and the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York; the Tate Gallery, London; the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago; and the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles. She has had solo exhibitions in Los Angeles, New York, London, San Francisco, and Stockholm.
Hardcover: 176 pages
Publisher: Henry Art Gallery; illustrated edition edition (November 15, 2000)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0935558373
ISBN-13: 978-0935558371
Product Dimensions: 11.8 x 10.3 x 1 inches
Shipping Weight: 3 pounds
Satellite, a book conceived and constructed by Angela Bulloch, samples texts written by numerous writers, ranging from Ulf Poschard to Mae West. Organized around current interests pursued by the artist, her own work, photographs, and other material in the book are divided into the following sections: " Places," "Behavior," "Vehicles," "Time Passing," "Construction" and "Tools." Included are examples of Bulloch's early videos, collaborative work with Liam Gilick, her interactive drawing machines through to her most recent work "Superstructure with Satellites."
Paperback: 144 pages
Publisher: Black Dog; Bilingual edition edition (September 1, 1998)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 3907064054
ISBN-13: 978-3907064054
Product Dimensions: 10 x 7.9 x 0.8 inches
Shipping Weight: 1.4 pounds