2023 / ISBN 978-0300273212
Published by Yale University Press
This publication offers a definitive look at the artistic practice of Remedios Varo (1908–1963) following her emigration from Spain to Mexico City in 1941. Her work from 1955 to 1963 made a lasting contribution to modern art and the legacy of Surrealism. In Remedios Varo: Science Fictions, fresh historical and material findings establish the integral relationship between Varo’s layered interests—in alchemy, architecture, magic, mysticism, philosophy, and science—and her beguiling technical approach to art making. Essays detail specific works’ complex stories and spectacular surfaces. An illustrated taxonomy of Varo’s artistic techniques, including automatic mark making as well as careful manipulation of materials and media, offers new insights into the artist’s craft. An illustrated inventory of a major portion of Varo’s library—published here for the first time—reveals the artist’s engagement with a wide range of subjects. Stunning new photography of many of her artworks are presented within a dynamic geometric design inspired by the artist’s work. Situating Varo as a woman working in midcentury Mexico City and living among a tight-knit community of local and émigré artists, poets, and thinkers, the catalogue illuminates the complex worldview that shaped her search for individual and collective transcendence.
Distributed for the Art Institute of Chicago, in partnership with the Museo de Arte Moderno, Mexico City
2023 / ISBN 9781606068588
Published by J. Paul Getty Museum
María Magdalena Campos-Pons (b. 1959) makes powerful work that holds and beholds the stories of historically silenced peoples and urges societal change. Her journey as an artist, teacher, and activist has taken her from Cuba through the United States, and her autobiographical compositions honor her Nigerian and Chinese ancestors while also facing the future. With an artistic practice that crosses boundaries, intertwines media—from photography to sculpture, film to performance—and references traditions and beliefs ranging from feminism to Santería, Campos-Pons’s work is deeply layered and complex.
This volume, the first critical look at the artist’s oeuvre in nearly two decades, surveys the concerns, materials, and places invoked throughout her forty-year career. Thoughtful essays explore her vibrant, arresting artwork, which confronts issues of agency and the construction of race and belonging and challenges us to reckon with these issues in our own lives.
2023 / ISBN 978-1-912165-51-3
Published by Black Dog Press
What Comes to My Lips is the first monograph on the artist Ambreen Butt.
Trained in the thousand-year tradition of Indo-Persian miniature painting and contemporary Western art and theory, Butt’s studio practice circumvents history, tradition and contemporaneity creating a multifaceted project that explores civil liberties and rights, mutual responsibilities and complex geopolitical forces.
Illuminated with images of the artist’s paintings, collaged works on paper and large-scale installations from the past three decades, this in-depth book features essays by curator/writer Sara Raza and artist/critic Quddus Mirza. Raza examines Butt’s practice through the thematic lens of the sciences of Islam’s Golden Age (7th–14th century), proposing a bridge that connects art, history and cosmology. In his essay, Mirza places the conventions of the artist’s work in relation to longer historical narratives and traditional gendered roles across the spectrums of time and locality.
An intimate archive of Butt’s technically rich, aesthetically delightful work, What Comes to My Lips invites the reader to enter the symbolic landscape of Butt’s oeuvre and discover the hidden, unseen and unrecorded aspects that shimmer beneath the surface of even the most fraught realities.
2021 / ISBN: 978-0-578-89544-4
Published by Daniel Sharp
Queer Power: A Time Traveling Coloring Book is a 152-page black and white workbook that celebrates the queer and transgender histories of downtown Manhattan; an aesthetic and pedagogical document of the research and queer, intersectional histories of New York City.
2021 / ISBN 978-0-9795141-6-6
Published by Gallery Wendi Norris
This 124-page book presents an account of Mukherjee’s work over the last decade. The themes and concerns that pulse with vibrant urgency throughout her work—from colonial legacies to migratory journeys, from environmental catastrophes to utopian possibilities, from the extraction of resources to the preservation of memory and the fulfillment of human potential—are on full display in all their depth and brightness. The effect, as Wendi Norris writes in her introduction, is like reading a love letter from the artist to a globally shared (and very uncertain) future.
2021 / ISBN: 978-0-9795141-5-9
Published by Gallery Wendi Norris
Alice Rahon is the first monograph on the painter-poet in English. This 128-page book is illustrated with highlights of her artwork from 1939 through the 1970s and includes an introduction by Wendi Norris and new research and essays by scholars Tere Arcq, Daniel Garza Usabiaga, and Maggie Borowitz, exploring her artistic techniques and unique place in art history.
Published by Gallery Wendi Norris.
A 96-page catalogue documenting the Gallery Wendi Norris Offsite exhibition, Leonora Carrington: The Story of the Last Egg in New York City from May 23–June 19, 2019, including materials from a two-day symposium on Carrington's life's work.
2018 / ISBN: 978-84-8026-575-1
Published by Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía
200 page catalog coinciding with the retrospective Dorothea Tanning: Behind the Door, Another Invisible Door traveling from Museo Nacional Centro de Arte, Reina Sofía, Madrid, Spain to Tate Modern, London, United Kingdom. The publication includes essays by Alyce Mahon, the exhibition curator, Ann Coxon, and Idoia Murga Castro and texts by Dorothea Tanning.
2015 / Published by the ASU Art Museum
188 page catalog including essays by Carlos Amorales, visual artist, Gordon Knox, director of the Arizona State University Art Museum, and Julio Cesar Morales, curator and artist.
2015 / ISBN: 978-0-9795141-4-2
Published by Gallery Wendi Norris
Science in Surrealism is a 70-page, hardbound catalog featuring an essay by Gavin Parkinson, Senior Lecturer of European Modernism at The Courtauld Institute of Art in London. Parkinson is also the author of Surrealism, art and modern science (Yale University Press 2008).
Science in Surrealism is the accompanying catalog to the eponymous exhibition at Gallery Wendi Norris from May 16 – August 1, 2015. The exhibition is the first devoted to Surrealist artists who were interested in investigating the scientific advances of the first half of the twentieth century, especially those related to quantum physics and the Theory of Relativity.
2014 / ISBN: 9780615899190
Published by Gallery Wendi Norris
A 60-page catalogue is available, with an essay by Amy Winter, former Director of the Godwin-Ternbach Museum at Queens College and author of Wolfgang Paalen: Artist and Theorist of the Avant-Garde. Winter makes critical observations, the first ever published in English, as to Paalen’s direct and indirect influence on the New York School of artists, including Jackson Pollock, Robert Motherwell, Barnett Newman, and William Baziotes, among others.
2013 / ISBN: 97806157206652000
Published by Gallery Wendi Norris
An 80-page exhibition catalogue is available which includes an introduction by Wendi Norris and an essay by Dr. Catriona McAra. Dr. Catriona McAra completed her doctoral thesis on the art and literature of Dorothea Tanning in History of Art at the University of Glasgow (Scotland), and is currently Assistant Director of Heritage Collections and Curation, University of St Andrews.
2012 / ISBN: 9780984644735
Published by Gallery Wendi Norris
A 60-page catalogue is available with an introduction by Wendi Norris and Raman Frey and an essay by Terri Geis, curator of academic programs at the Pomona College Museum of Art. Terri previously served as a researcher at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, where she worked on the exhibition In Wonderland: The Surrealist Adventures of Women Artists in Mexico and the United States (2012).
2009 / ISBN: 9780982393246
Published by Gallery Wendi Norris
52 page catalog with essay by Amy Lyford. Amy Lyford is Associate Professor of Art History at Occidental College in Los Angeles. Her first book, “Surrealist Masculinities: Gender Anxiety and the Aesthetics of Post World War I Reconstruction in France,” was published by the University of California Press in 2007. She is currently completing a second book entitled “Negotiating Labor, Race, and Nation: Isamu Noguchi’s Modernism, 1930 – 1950,” also with The University of California Press.
2008 / ISBN: 978-0-9795141-2-8
Published by Gallery Wendi Norris
60 page catalog with essay by Ara Merjian, Stanford scholar who is currently teaching at Harvard and NYU and literary interpretation by Gabriel Weisz-Carrington, Leonora’s son.
2024 / ISBN: 9781789147971
Published by Reaktion Books
Beautifully illustrated with images of Dorothea Tanning’s artwork and more, the first—and definitive—study of this important artist’s life and creative output.
Dorothea Tanning (1910–2012) has for decades been known primarily as a Surrealist, but Exquisite Dreams shows how the work of this passionate, dynamic, and voraciously curious artist is impossible to categorize. Tanning’s lesser-known but equally powerful sculptures, abstract paintings, and films are explored here, and her writings, biography, and art are examined in the contexts of twentieth-century developments in advertising, fashion, popular culture, and art in New York and Paris.
Using new archival sources and analyses of Tanning’s work in a variety of media, Amy Lyford broadens our understanding of the artist and illuminates her stunning diversity and achievement. This richly illustrated book is an important contribution to the history of women artists, gender, and sexuality studies, as well as the history of Surrealism.