Cover: Chuck Close, Big Self-Portrait, 1967-1968 (detail). Collection Walker Art Center, Minneapolis; Art Center Acquisition Fund, 1969. Š Chuck Close. Photo courtesy Pace Gallery
Contents About Artifex Press About Our Catalogues
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AVAILABLE Chuck Close: Paintings, 1967-Present Jim Dine: Sculpture, 1983-Present Tim Hawkinson
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COMING SOON [2017] Sol LeWitt Wall Drawings Agnes Martin: Paintings Lucas Samaras: Boxes James Siena
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EXHIBITION CATALOGUE Loris Gréaud: The Unplayed Notes Museum p. 16 FORTHCOMING Carl Andre: Sculpture Tara Donovan Loris Gréaud John Hoyland: Paintings Robert Irwin Lee Ufan Thomas Nozkowski Niki de Saint Phalle, Vol. II Bosco Sodi Frank Stella: Polish Villages Richard Tuttle About Our Subscriptions Photography Credits
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About Artifex Press Artifex Press is a publisher of digital catalogues raisonnés. We have developed a proprietary, patented software platform and a dedicated research and publishing program in order to produce, edit, and distribute these seminal publications. A catalogue raisonné is the definitive, comprehensive, and annotated compilation of all the known works of an artist. Traditionally produced in book form, catalogues raisonnés have often posed a dilemma for scholars. Because the information in a catalogue raisonné is constantly in flux, printed catalogues raisonnés cannot achieve both completeness and accuracy. Artifex Press was conceived to resolve this problem. We offer a solution that is more accessible, more flexible, more time- and cost-efficient, and above all, more accurate and up-to-date than the traditional printed counterpart. Our approach combines the rigors of art-historical research with the flexibility of digital publishing. As a byproduct of each publication, we are creating digital archives for all the artists with whom we work. Artifex Press launched in 2012 with catalogues raisonnés of Chuck Close and Jim Dine. In 2014, we published our third catalogue, for Tim Hawkinson. We are currently working with some 18 artists, estates, and foundations, including Carl Andre, Robert Irwin, Sol LeWitt, Agnes Martin, Niki de Saint Phalle, and Frank Stella. Artifex Press is taking steps to ensure the longevity of its catalogues. We regularly back up our databases, allow for immediate exports, frequently introduce new technologies to our software, and prioritize working with third-party archives on issues of long-term data preservation. Our ultimate goal is to leverage our expertise in software development and catalogue raisonné publishing to preserve the legacy and intellectual property of participating artists and estates.
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About Our Catalogues
“A catalogue raisonné is not just a compendium of dry details but can in fact tell stories,” says Carina Evangelista, Editor of the Chuck Close Catalogue Raisonné, in a recent article published in Art Libraries Journal (vol. 40, no. 2). Our digital catalogues raisonnés allow for an entirely new reader experience–one that is interactive with many different ways to navigate each artist’s oeuvre. Each catalogue has unique content, specific to the artist, but certain features are consistent throughout all of our publications.
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Chuck Close: Paintings, 1967-Present Edited by Carina Evangelista
The Chuck Close catalogue raisonné is the definitive list of paintings by Chuck Close, and is updated regularly to include his most recent works. Monumental in scale and exhaustive in detail, the catalogue is the most comprehensive and interactive publication about the artist to date. It documents the artist’s process, biography, and the myriad approaches he has innovated in rendering the human face. Forthcoming volumes will supplement the existing catalogue with complete records of the artist’s drawings and photo maquettes, plus a career-spanning selection of prints. Each artwork record includes complete provenance, exhibition, and literature histories, excerpts from relevant published texts, and numerous illustrations including progress and exhibition photographs. Close’s only film, the 1970 Slow Pan for Bob, can be viewed in its entirety. The catalogue includes nearly 1,200 images, more than 100 quotations from the artist, and extensive exhibition and literature histories documenting some 1,200 solo and group shows and 2,500 publications. The growing multimedia archive includes 70 video and audio files to date. Editor Carina Evangelista has enriched the catalogue with original scholarship, including three essays, one of which describes the artist’s landmark 1969 lawsuit, which contributed to freedom of expression through the visual arts.
Carina Evangelista is Editor of the Chuck Close Catalogue Raisonné. Her research, curatorial, and publishing work straddles the United States and the Philippines. From 1994 to 2000, she worked in the education and curatorial departments at the Museum of Modern Art, New York, where she helped organize a number of exhibitions, including the traveling retrospective for Chuck Close, organized by Robert Storr in 1998. As curator at the Delaware Center for the Contemporary Arts in 2008-2009, Evangelista organized numerous exhibitions. A regular writer on Philippine contemporary art, she is contributing author to a number of publications, including Bastards of Misrepresentation (2010), retrospective exhibition catalogues for Roberto Chabet (2011) and Constancio Bernardo (2014), and Chabet’s monograph (2015). She wrote the libretto for the rock musical, Manhid (The Benumbed), staged by Ballet Philippines in 2015.
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Jim Dine: Sculpture, 1983-Present Edited by Sara K. Davidson
Jim Dine: Sculpture is the definitive publication of three-dimensional works created by the artist between 1983 and the present, the period during which he has worked extensively with Walla Walla Foundry in Washington. The catalogue raisonné details the artist’s entire output of freestanding sculpture from these years—more than 300 original works. It also lists comprehensive information for individual casts within editions, of which there are approximately 900 in total. Organized by chronological and thematic sections including Dine’s signature motifs like hearts, Venuses, and Pinocchios, the catalogue raisonné explores the artist’s three-dimensional work more thoroughly than any other publication to date. The publication details more than 260 solo exhibitions and 600 bibliographic entries and includes more than 1,000 images, notably allowing readers to click through photography to see sculptures in the round. In a series of conversations with Editor Sara K. Davidson in spring 2013, Jim Dine spoke at length about his body of work. Artifex Press produced 33 original videos from this dialogue, which are accessible exclusively in this catalogue raisonné.
Sara K. Davidson is the Assistant Editor of Artifex Press and Editor of the Jim Dine Catalogue Raisonné. She has been extensively researching Dine’s sculptural practice since 2010. She contributed writing to the catalogue Peripheral Visions: Italian Photography in Context (Charta: 2012). She has previously held positions as the Cataloguer of the Evening Sales of Contemporary Art at Phillips de Pury & Company, and as Director of Marvelli Gallery in New York.
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Tim Hawkinson
Edited by Hannah Barton The Tim Hawkinson catalogue raisonné contains detailed records for all of the artist’s works from 1986 to the present, with select meaningful student works dating back as far as 1979, encompassing his entire boundary-breaking career thus far. Thousands of color images illustrate Hawkinson’s more than 530 artworks to date, and his written descriptions augment the reader’s understanding of key artworks. The catalogue is organized into chapters that highlight the artist’s unusual use of everyday materials, which range from latex to eggshell to found art objects that he transforms into creations of his own. The catalogue contains more than 100 whimsical self-portraits and 31 clocks made from milk cartons, toothpaste tubes, and other commonplace objects. Photography of individual artworks is supplemented with installation views, in-progress images, audio files, and videos showing kinetic works in motion. Comprehensive exhibition and literature histories document 150 solo and group exhibitions and 300 bibliographic entries. A living catalogue raisonné, the publication is updated as Hawkinson completes new works, and research is ongoing on projects such as his commission for the Transbay Transit Center in San Francisco, which is slated to open in late 2017. This catalogue raisonné is the most up-to-date resource on the artist’s career.
Hannah Barton is a Research Associate at Artifex Press and Editor of the Tim Hawkinson Catalogue Raisonné. She graduated with a dual Master’s in Art History and Library Science from Pratt Institute in 2013, specializing in Art Librarianship as well as Modern and Contemporary Art. She has been actively researching and collaborating with Tim Hawkinson on the creation and upkeep of his catalogue since 2013. Barton has previously held positions in the libraries of the Frick Collection, the Museum of Modern Art, and the Whitney Museum of American Art.
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Sol LeWitt Wall Drawings
Edited by Lindsay Aveilhé Director of Research: Christopher Vacchio The Sol LeWitt Wall Drawings Catalogue Raisonné will be the definitive list of LeWitt’s most celebrated body of work and will include several newly discovered wall drawings as well as previously unpublished installation histories, photography, and multimedia. The catalogue features complete caption information for LeWitt’s approximately 1,350 wall drawings, as well as current collection information, complete installation histories, and selected bibliographies. Nearly every first installation of each wall drawing is illustrated with an archival photograph and additional images illustrate subsequent installations whenever possible—approximately 6,000 images in total. Select entries feature rarely-seen installation videos, and in one case, an audio file of LeWitt delivering installation instructions via telephone for the exhibition Art By Telephone at the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago in 1969. Detailed notes by the editorial team highlight the evolution of many wall drawings and call out important distinctions from one installation to the next. The catalogue includes images of the wall drawing diagrams, schematics that indicate how a work is to be installed, and these images may be viewed on a single page alongside photography of the installations themselves. Lindsay Aveilhé is Editor of the Sol LeWitt Wall Drawings Catalogue Raisonné. A New York-based independent curator, Aveilhé’s recent projects include the exhibitions Sol LeWitt and Lucy McKenzie at the Artist’s Institute (2013) and Another Place at 205 Hudson Street Gallery, Hunter College (2014). She was previously assistant curator at Issue Project Room and a researcher for Oxford University Press and Fairchild Books. Christopher Vacchio, Director of Research, recently served as Research Fellow at the Aspen Art Museum and contributed to the catalogue for the museum’s 2016 exhibition Alan Shields: Protracted Simplicity (1966-1985). He has also held positions at the Hood Museum of Art, Judd Foundation, and as Curatorial Fellow at Art in General. [12]
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Agnes Martin: Paintings
Edited by Tiffany Bell Research Associate: Marley Lewis The entirety of Agnes Martin’s creative output—from her biomorphic abstractions in the 1950s to her iconic grid and stripe works up until her final work in 2004— will be published for the first time in a comprehensive overview of her career. This catalogue raisonné will provide an unprecedented look at Martin’s career. The first volume includes a complete list of her paintings and is to be followed by a second volume of original works on paper. The catalogue includes more than 2,000 images spanning the artist’s multi-decade career. Details include excerpts from published texts, records of her more than 1,150 solo and group exhibitions, and approximately 2,000 bibliographic entries. The artist’s works, which are famously difficult to photograph, can be viewed in great detail through our zoom feature. Additional multimedia highlights include never-before-published audio recordings and video files, including a 12-minute video from the Agnes Martin retrospective at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum. Tiffany Bell is Editor of the Agnes Martin Catalogue Raisonné and a co-curator of the 2015-2017 traveling Martin retrospective that visited the Tate Modern in London; Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen in Düsseldorf; the Los Angeles County Museum of Art; and the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York. She was the director of the Dan Flavin Catalogue Raisonné project, which resulted in the publication of Dan Flavin: The Complete Lights, 1961-1996 (Dia; Yale University Press: 2004), and served as curator for several museum and gallery exhibitions of Flavin’s lights. Bell has taught in the art department at Pratt Institute and has worked for many years as a freelance curator and art critic with articles appearing in Art in America, Arts Magazine, and Artforum, among other publications. Marley Lewis, Research Associate, previously worked in the Department of Photography at the Museum of Modern Art and in the Post-War and Contemporary Art department at Christie’s in New York. [13]
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Lucas Samaras: Boxes
Edited by Hannah Barton Consulting Editor: Vanessa Wildenstein The catalogue raisonné of Lucas Samaras’s boxes will explore the artist’s iconic series of mixed media works. Samaras began creating boxes in the early 1960s to explore the boundary between outer appearance and inner psyche. His boxes often delve into the subject of the self, allowing viewers access into the artist’s mind through personal and found objects or manipulated selfportraits, which are sometimes guarded by pins, razor blades, or broken glass. In addition, many of these works are distortions of the form of the box itself, with playful multi-colored appendages or constructions made entirely of chicken wire. “We live in boxes, see and eat with boxes, travel in boxes, and even our days and nights are boxes… I found myself making boxes. And I thought that box was as important a form as the rest of the art forms or categories. The professional scribblers were not willing to consider it as mainstream art. I stubbornly persisted in waiting for new verbal criteria to be formulated,” wrote Samaras in the catalogue for his 1972-73 show at the Whitney Museum of American Art. The catalogue is being compiled by Hannah Barton, who previously edited Artifex Press’s Tim Hawkinson Catalogue Raisonné. Barton is building upon work done by Vanessa Wildenstein, who inaugurated this catalogue in 2004 and is serving as Consulting Editor.
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James Siena
Edited by Ariela Alberts The James Siena catalogue raisonné will include the complete paintings, sculpture, and gouache works by the artist. Containing more than 400 artwork records, detailed with approximately 900 images, 400 publications, and 275 solo and group exhibition records, this will be the most complete publication on Siena’s work to date. The catalogue will include recently unearthed audio and video content, as well as hundreds of never before published images. James Siena’s voice is found throughout the catalogue in excerpts of interviews and, notably, in comments that he has written specifically for this catalogue. Intended as a living, growing record of the artist’s work, the catalogue will be regularly updated as Siena completes new work, and to document new exhibitions and publications.
Ariela Alberts is the Media/Research Associate and Artist Liaison at Artifex Press and Editor of the James Siena Catalogue Raisonné. She has been actively researching Siena’s body of work and collaborating directly with his studio on this project since 2014. Prior to working for Artifex Press, Alberts contributed research to Shannon Jackson’s “Life Politics/Life Aesthetics: Environmental Performance in red, black & GREEN: a blues” for Performance and the Politics of Space: Theatre and Topology (Routledge: 2013) and to Darcy Grimaldo Grigsby’s book-in-progress, Creole Looking: Portraying France’s Foreign Relations in the Nineteenth Century. She received a B.A. in the History of Art from the University of California, Berkeley, in 2013.
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Exhibition Catalogue
Loris Gréaud: The Unplayed Notes Museum Loris Gréaud: The Unplayed Notes Museum is the first-ever digital exhibition catalogue produced by Artifex Press, created for the exhibition of the same title at the Dallas Contemporary in Texas from January 18 to March 21, 2015. The catalogue includes extensively detailed exhibition plans with 3D renderings, models, and gallery plans, created prior to the opening of the show, plus installation photography of the site-specific works in the Dallas Contemporary galleries. The catalogue includes a narrative exhibition story written by the artist and videos to enhance the catalogue experience of Gréaud’s uniquely immersive vision. This publication was produced in preparation for the forthcoming release of the complete catalogue raisonné of Loris Gréaud’s entire body of work.
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Exhibition Catalogue
Forthcoming Titles
Carl Andre: Sculpture
Tara Donovan
Loris GrĂŠaud
John Hoyland: Paintings
Robert Irwin
Lee Ufan
Thomas Nozkowski
Niki de Saint Phalle, Vol. II
Bosco Sodi
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Frank Stella: Polish Villages
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Photography Credits Cover: Chuck Close, Big Self-Portrait, 1967-1968 (detail). © Chuck Close. Photo courtesy Pace Gallery p. 7: Chuck Close, Phil, 1969 (studio view). © Chuck Close. Photo by Frank James, courtesy Chuck Close Studio p. 8: Jim Dine with The Crommelynck Gate with Tools, 1983 (in-progress). © 2016 Jim Dine/Artist Rights Society (ARS), New York. Photo by Nancy Dine, courtesy the artist p. 9: Jim Dine, The Field of the Cloth of Gold, 19871988, AP 1. © 2016 Jim Dine/Artist Rights Society (ARS), New York. Photo by Ellen Labenski, courtesy Pace Gallery; Jim Dine, Silver, 1989, Edition 1. © 2016 Jim Dine/Artist Rights Society (ARS), New York. Photo by Bill Jacobson, courtesy Pace Gallery; Jim Dine, Bouquet, 1987-1988, AP 1. © 2016 Jim Dine/Artist Rights Society (ARS), New York. Photo by Ellen Labenski, courtesy Pace Gallery; Jim Dine, The Columbia River, 1988, Edition 1. © 2016 Jim Dine/Artist Rights Society (ARS), New York. Photo by Bill Jacobson, courtesy Pace Gallery; Jim Dine, Venus in the Chair, 1991. © 2016 Jim Dine/ Artist Rights Society (ARS), New York. Photo by Bill Jacobson, courtesy Pace Gallery; Jim Dine, The Lady Rises Up, 1995, Edition 1. © 2016 Jim Dine/Artist Rights Society (ARS), New York. Photo courtesy Pace Gallery; Jim Dine, Silver Venus on a Rock, 1990, Edition 1. © 2016 Jim Dine/Artist Rights Society (ARS), New York. Photo by Bill Jacobson, courtesy Pace Gallery; Jim Dine, Venusberg, 1988, Edition 1. © 2016 Jim Dine/Artist Rights Society (ARS), New York. Photo courtesy Pace Gallery; Jim Dine, Trembling for Color, 1990, Edition 3. © 2016 Jim Dine/Artist Rights Society (ARS), New York. Photo courtesy Pace Gallery p. 10: Tim Hawkinson, Tagalong, 2013. © 2016 Tim Hawkinson. Photo by Joshua White, courtesy Pace Gallery p. 12: Sol LeWitt, Wall Drawing #391 Two-part drawing. The two walls are each divided horizontally and vertically into four equal parts. First wall: 12-inch (30 cm) bands of lines in four directions, one direction in each part, drawn in India ink; Second wall: Same, but with four colors drawn in India ink and color ink washes, 1983 (installed at Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art, North Adams, 2008). Collection
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CAPC musée d’art contemporain, Bordeaux, France. © 2016 Estate of Sol LeWitt/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York. Photo by Kevin Kennefick, courtesy MASS MoCA; © 2016 Estate of Sol LeWitt / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York. Photo by Tony Kemplen p. 13: Agnes Martin, Untitled, 1960. © 2016 Agnes Martin /Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York. Photo by G.R. Christmas, courtesy Pace Gallery p. 14: Lucas Samaras, Box #12, 1963 (multiple views). © Lucas Samaras. Photos by Kerry Ryan McFate, courtesy Pace Gallery; © Lucas Samaras. Photo by Ellen Labenski, courtesy Pace Gallery p. 15: James Siena working on Contents May Differ, 2014. © James Siena. Photo by Ali Walker, courtesy Walla Walla Foundry; © James Siena. Photo courtesy Pace Gallery p. 16: Loris Gréaud, 3D Rendering of Untitled (Trees) and Spores, 2012-2014. © Loris Gréaud, Gréaudstudio. Image courtesy Gréaudstudio p. 17: © Carl Andre/Licensed by VAGA, New York, NY; © Tara Donovan. Photo courtesy Pace Gallery; © The John Hoyland Estate. Photo by Prudence Cuming Associates; © 2015 Robert Irwin/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York. Photo © Philipp Scholz Rittermann; © 2016 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York/ADAGP, Paris. Photo by G. R. Christmas, courtesy Pace Gallery; © Niki Charitable Art Foundation, All rights reserved. Photo: © Robert Doisneau/GammaRapho/Getty Images; © Bosco Sodi. Photo courtesy Pace Gallery; © 2015 Frank Stella / Artist’s Rights Society (ARS), New York. Photo by Bill Orcutt; © Richard Tuttle. Photo courtesy Pace Gallery Back cover: Sol LeWitt, Wall Drawing #991 A 12inch (30 cm) pencil grid is drawn. In each square of the grid, an arc from any corner, an arc from any side, a straight diagonal line from corner to corner, a straight line from top to bottom, and a not straight line from side to side are drawn. Choose any of these for each square, 2001 (detail). © Estate of Sol LeWitt/ Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York. Photo © Darbu Photography Studio, courtesy Pace Gallery
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