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Mark Grotjahn

Museum Exhibition Catalogues, Monographs, Artist's Projects, Curatorial Writings and Essays


 

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Mark Grotjahn: Skulls

KARMA BOOKS, NEW YORK
Text by Alison M. Gingeras.

A painterly meditation on corporality and mentality, infused with Post-Impressionist influences

Hbk, 9.25 x 11.25 in. / 104 pgs / 47 color. | 1/28/2025 | Awaiting stock
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Mark Grotjahn: 50 Kitchens

MARK GROTJAHN STUDIO
Text by Michael Govan.

Inspired by a sketch for his home renovation, Grotjahn creates a prismatic cycle of drawings reminiscent of Op art

Hbk, 9.25 x 13.25 in. / 168 pgs / 56 color. | 12/10/2024 | In stock
$55.00


Mark Grotjahn: 50 Kitchens

MARK GROTJAHN STUDIO

A compact accordion book offering a prismatic tour through one of Mark Grotjahn’s quintessential series

Clth, 3.5 x 6 in. / 68 pgs / 55 color. | 10/31/2023 | In stock
$25.00


Mark Grotjahn: Sign Exchange

KARMA, NEW YORK
Text by Mark Grotjahn.

Pbk, 5.25 x 8 in. / 64 pgs / 60 color. | 1/24/2017 | In stock
$20.00


  

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Mark Grotjahn

ASPEN ART PRESS
Foreword by Heidi Zuckerman Jacobson. Text by Barry Schwabsky, Heidi Zuckerman Jacobson.

Hbk, 8.25 x 11.25 in. / 128 pgs / illustrated throughout. | 1/31/2013 | Not available
$55.00


Mark Grotjahn: SkullsMark Grotjahn: Skulls

2016–2023

Published by Karma Books, New York.
Text by Alison M. Gingeras.

In 2016, American painter Mark Grotjahn (born 1968) began a series of intimately scaled, thickly impastoed skulls. Made with brushes rather than his historically favored palette knife, these paintings affirm the influence of Post-Impressionists on the artist. After 15 years of Face Paintings and more than 100 Mask Sculptures, Grotjahn has stripped back the disguise and the skin and arrived at the 22 bones that structure the human visage. By introducing a symbol of life’s inevitable end into his visual vocabulary, Grotjahn sets his sights on his own corporeality. As a result, the Skulls are his most intimate paintings to date.
This catalog presents the entirety of his series, alongside a singular essay by Alison M. Gingeras in which she posits that the skull is the origin of portraiture, charting the motif’s emergence throughout art history.



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Karma Books, New York

BOOK FORMAT
Hardcover, 9.25 x 11.25 in. / 104 pgs / 47 color.

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Catalog: FALL 2024 p. 114   

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STATUS: Forthcoming | 1/28/2025

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Mark Grotjahn: 50 KitchensMark Grotjahn: 50 Kitchens

Published by Mark Grotjahn Studio.
Text by Michael Govan.

Each of the 55 drawings in this series by Mark Grotjahn (born 1968) are done in the artist’s signature “butterfly” style: alternating, radiating bands of colored pencil on paper. 50 Kitchens is published as a companion to the small accordion-bound catalog of the same name.



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Mark Grotjahn Studio

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Hardcover, 9.25 x 13.25 in. / 168 pgs / 56 color.

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Catalog: MID WINTER 2024 p. 32   

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Mark Grotjahn: 50 KitchensMark Grotjahn: 50 Kitchens

Published by Mark Grotjahn Studio.

In this publication, Mark Grotjahn’s (born 1968) collectively titled 50 Kitchens drawings are presented in an accordion-folded, pocket-size catalog. 50 Kitchens documents a group of drawings, created over the span of five years, all in the same size and format to comprise a singular work of art. Shown at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art in May 2018 under the same title, each of the drawings is done in Grotjahn’s signature “butterfly” style, composed of a unique combination of alternating, radiating bands of color, executed in color pencil on paper. When fully unfurled, the accordion format of the publication allows for all 55 drawings to be seen simultaneously and in the order in which they were exhibited.



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Mark Grotjahn Studio

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Clth, 3.5 x 6 in. / 68 pgs / 55 color.

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Catalog: SPRING 2024 p. 21   

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Mark Grotjahn: Sign ExchangeMark Grotjahn: Sign Exchange

1993–98

Published by Karma, New York.
Text by Mark Grotjahn.

In the early 1990s, Mark Grotjahn (born 1968) was living in San Francisco, and weary of the figurative painting he and his colleagues were doing. He found inspiration at Lloyds, a bar across the street from his studio, in their handmade signs advertising hot dogs and drink specials. Grotjahn started painting copies of the bar’s signs. Sensing that the difference between his copies and the originals was the audience, Grotjahn “figured in order to get my sign to be as good as their signs, I needed to get my sign in their store.”

Thus began Grotjahn’s series of Sign Exchanges, where Grotjahn would paint copies of the signs of liquor stores, hole-in-the-wall restaurants and bodegas, and exchange his signs for the readymades on display. Mark Grotjahn: Sign Exchange explores this early series of works, displaying the signs the painter received in exchange for his paintings.

PUBLISHER
Karma, New York

BOOK FORMAT
Paperback, 5.25 x 8 in. / 64 pgs / 60 color.

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Catalog: SPRING 2017 p. 105   

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Mark Grotjahn: Nine FacesMark Grotjahn: Nine Faces

Published by Anton Kern Gallery, New York.
Text by Carroll Dunham.

Los Angeles-based artist Mark Grotjahn (born 1968) is well known for using the human face as a starting point for his intense, abstract paintings. This publication exhibits his large-scale series Nine Faces, in which he uses a palette-knife technique to apply thick slashes of complex color.

PUBLISHER
Anton Kern Gallery, New York

BOOK FORMAT
Hardcover, 12.25 x 15.25 in. / 48 pgs / 27 color.

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Catalog: FALL 2015 p. 177   

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ISBN 9780983362210 FLAT40
List Price: $90.00 CAD $120.00 GBP £80.00

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Mark Grotjahn: Butterfly PaintingsMark Grotjahn: Butterfly Paintings

Published by Blum & Poe.
Text by Douglas Fogle.

Mark Grotjahn's (born 1968) ongoing Butterfly series--one of several investigations into the natural world in Grotjahn's oeuvre--focuses on perspectival techniques used since the Renaissance, such as dual and multiple vanishing points, to create the illusion of depth on a two-dimensional surface. Though at first the Butterfly paintings may appear entirely formal and graphic (alluding to modernist painting from Russian Constructivism to Op art), the raylike "butterfly wings" are often layered over under-paintings, giving them texture and tonal depth. This volume, published to accompany the first exhibition of Grotjahn's butterfly paintings at Blum & Poe in New York, not only collects these arresting compositions, but also delves into the artistic contexts involved, in an essay by Douglas Fogle that discusses the history of the Butterfly works since their conception in the early 2000s.

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Blum & Poe

BOOK FORMAT
Clth, 7 x 9.5 in. / 48 pgs / 20 color.

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Catalog: FALL 2014 p. 129   

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Mark GrotjahnMark Grotjahn

Published by Aspen Art Press.
Foreword by Heidi Zuckerman Jacobson. Text by Barry Schwabsky, Heidi Zuckerman Jacobson.

The paintings and drawings of Los Angeles artist Mark Grotjahn (born 1968) collide abstract and figurative elements into spider-webbed splinters that skew traditional perspective and dazzle the eye. This fully illustrated catalogue constitutes the first survey of his work from the late 1990s to the present and features essays by the art critic Barry Schwabsky and Aspen Art Museum Director Heidi Zuckerman Jacobson. The catalogue chronicles Grotjahn’s series of Butterfly paintings and drawings, in which he combines varying schemes of one-point perspective and a systematic investigation of color to mesmerizing effect; his penetrating flower and face paintings; and a recent series of “mask” sculptures that extend Grotjahn’s idiosyncratic investment in process and ritual in painting into three dimensions.

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Aspen Art Press

BOOK FORMAT
Hardcover, 8.25 x 11.25 in. / 128 pgs / illustrated throughout.

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Catalog: SPRING 2012 p. 79   

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