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Gael Stack
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American Art - GeneralIndividual Artists
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ISBN13: 9780292728547
Publisher: University of Texas Press
Published: Oct 1 2011
Pages: 208
Weight: 3.85
Height: 1.00 Width: 10.30 Depth: 11.70
Language: English
An artist whose work evokes both memory and the gaps, sinkholes, and other chasms found in our experiences, Gael Stack is one of the most accomplished American painters working today. Her large canvases and smaller drawings use fragments of words and images, often layered over one another like a palimpsest, to create a visual language that explores the past's implacable hold on the present, with what is unknown and unspoken occasionally poking through. Serendipitous elements of graciousness and optimism also distinguish her recent work.
Gael Stack is the first retrospective monograph on the artist's career, which has spanned four decades. It features a catalog of some one hundred works reproduced in full-color, full-page plates. Accompanying the images are essays by Raphael Rubinstein and Alison de Lima Greene, who discuss Stack's work in the context of world art. Rubinstein likens her paintings to Freud's mystic writing-pad, a surface layer that can be endlessly written upon, erased, and refilled, while the underlying tablet retains traces of all that has been written--an apt metaphor for the workings of perception and memory. Greene also reflects on the theme of memory in Stack's art, particularly the ways in which memory can evolve into forgetfulness and cognizance can become ignorance. Lists of selected exhibitions and public collections in which her work has been featured and a bibliography complete this authoritative survey of Stack's career.
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