Publisher Description

This career-spanning volume documents the first museum retrospective devoted to the work of Mary Weatherford, a daring practitioner of American abstraction and a leading painter of her generation. Over the last three decades, Mary Weatherford has developed a rich and diverse painting practice, from her early 1990s target paintings based on operatic heroines, to the expansive, gestural canvases overlaid with neon glass-tubing that brought attention to her practice in the 2010s. Mary Weatherford: Canyon—Daisy—Eden presents a survey of Weatherford's career, drawing from several distinct bodies of work made between 1989 and 2017. As constant experiments with colour, scale, and materials, these works as a whole reveal the continuity of Weatherford's interest in human experience, both personal and historical. Featuring 120 full-colour plates and expansive installation views, this volume – published by Gagosian in association with the Frances Young TangTeaching Museum and Art Gallery at Skidmore College – documents an exhibition presented at the Tang and at SITE Santa Fe.

Author Biography

Bill Arning is an independent curator and gallerist based in Houston, Texas.

Elissa Auther is Deputy Director of Curatorial Affairs and the William and Mildred Ladson ChiefCurator at the Museum of Arts and Design.

Ian Berry is Dayton Director of the Frances Young Tang Teaching Museum and Art Gallery and Professor of Liberal Arts at Skidmore College.

Arnold Kemp is an artist, curator, poet, and the Dean of Graduate Studies at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.

Rebecca Morris is a painter based in Los Angeles and Professor of Painting at Pasadena City College.

Dale Peck is an author and critic.

Margaret Weatherford (1966–2012) was a Los Angeles–based writer and editor.

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