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Matthew Marks Gallery/Garth Greenan GalleryBOOK FORMAT
Clth, 9 x 10.5 in. / 176 pgs / 107 color / 5 bw. PUBLISHING STATUS
Pub Date 9/8/2020
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| | | MATTHEW MARKS GALLERY/GARTH GREENAN GALLERYGladys Nilsson: Honk! Fifty Years of PaintingText by Marcia Tucker. Interview by Alison M. Gingeras.
 A riotous tribute to the singular path of Hairy Who pioneer Gladys NilssonCovering five decades and featuring 100 full-color plates, this beautiful volume is Chicago painter Gladys Nilsson’s (born 1940) most comprehensive monograph to date. Though Nilsson is better known for the watercolors she began exhibiting in the mid-1960s as an original member of the Hairy Who, she has dedicated much of her career to painting in acrylic.
This monograph begins with her 1960s paintings on panel and Plexiglas, then considers her 1970s paintings on canvas, including the seven-foot-high Dipped Dick: Adam and Eve after Cranach, whose title characters are surrounded by a menagerie of cavorting plants and animals. The book finishes with her vivid recent paintings, which are jam-packed with characters. As Nilsson describes her approach, “I would draw a big figure, but that figure always needed another figure, and then those two figures needed a third to interact with. And then, before I knew it, the whole place would be teeming.”
Featured image is reproduced from 'Gladys Nilsson: Honk! Fifty Years of Painting.' |
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| | FROM THE ARTBOOK BLOG CORY REYNOLDS | DATE 3/2/2021 Featured spreads are from Gladys Nilsson: Honk! Fifty Years of Painting, a staff-favorite tribute to the singular path of the Hairy Who pioneer. In a published interview, Alison M. Gingeras asks, "Speaking of history, and what I supposed is now being heralded as a 'new' art history, I want to ask you a number of questions related to gender and feminism. When I was in the contemporary galleries at the Art Institute yesterday, I read a wall label that characterized a work as 'gendered.' Forgive me for going right in at the deep end, but how would you feel about someone describing your work as gendered?" Nilsson's reply: "I don’t even know what gendered means! I will tell you an early experience. I guess it was the first Hairy Who show, in 1966, which I had some little watercolors in. A reviewer was describing the work: 'Jim Nutt has this,' 'Art Green has that,' 'Suellen Rocca has this.' I was the last one mentioned: 'and Gladys Nilsson, the most feminine of the group.' That knocked me for a loop. I had never made a judgment like that. It never even occurred to me to say, 'obviously done by some man' or 'oh, that’s a lady’s work.'" continue to blog | |  | Garth Greenan GalleryISBN: 9780989890250
USD $40.00 | CAD $54 UK £ 35Pub Date: 2/23/2016
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