2 options
Christina Ramberg : a retrospective / edited by Thea Liberty Nichols and Mark Pascale ; with contributions by Anna Katz, Judith Russi Kirshner, Riva Lehrer, Thea Liberty Nichols, Mark Pascale, Ricky Swallow, and Lorri Gunn Wirsum.
Fine Arts Library N6537.R2473 A4 2024
Available
LIBRA N6537.R2473 A4 2024
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Ramberg, Christina--Exhibitions.
- Ramberg, Christina.
- Ramberg, Christina--Catalogs.
- Mixed media.
- Chicago Imagists (Group of artists)--Exhibitions.
- Chicago Imagists (Group of artists).
- Women artists--20th century--Exhibitions.
- Women artists.
- Art--Illinois--Chicago--Exhibitions.
- Art.
- Women in art--Exhibitions.
- Women in art.
- Painting.
- Scrapbooks.
- Photography.
- Drawing.
- Diaries.
- Quilts.
- Textile fabrics.
- Posters.
- Fashion.
- Hair.
- Dolls.
- scrapbooks.
- diaries.
- cloth.
- posters.
- dolls (figurines).
- Genre:
- Exhibition catalogs.
- exhibition catalogs.
- Physical Description:
- 253 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), facsimilies, portraits ; 29 cm
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Distribution:
- New Haven, CT : Distributed by Yale University Press
- Place of Publication:
- Chicago, IL : Art Institute of Chicago, [2024]
- Summary:
- "While best known for her stylized paintings of fragmented female bodies, throughout her brief yet focused career, she vacillated between the depiction of various figural elements--hair, hands, torsos, and garments--while also creating equally rich, abstracted forms that emphasize structure and surface. This retrospective presents approximately 100 works from public and private collections, with several key pieces drawn from the Art Institute's collection. From intimate early paintings focused on the pattern and form of women's hairstyles and garments, to mature work featuring cropped female torsos in lingerie that contains and restrains, the exhibition presents her most iconic imagery while grappling with all phases and elements of Ramberg's continually evolving career. During the mid- to late 1970s, Ramberg pushed her boundary-blurring paintings into a new mode that straddled figuration and abstraction while still questioning idealized body types and gender presentation. These paintings are joined in the exhibition by the artist's experimental quilts of the late 1980s, when her pioneering obsession with handicraft, garment construction, and domestic textiles led her to abandon painting and focus fully on quilt making. The show additionally includes her final body of work as she returned once again to painting, making dark geometric abstractions that still reveal traces of her lifelong fascination, the human torso. The exhibition also recognizes that, in addition to her devotion to drawing, painting, printmaking, and quilting, Ramberg was a note-taker, slide-maker, collector, and diarist. Sketchbooks, 35mm slides, and dolls from Ramberg's informal archive of ephemera offer a fuller understanding of the artist's practice and how she digested an enormous breadth of source material to create her edgy yet empathetic body of work, or as she once put it, '[made] from my obsessions and ideas the strongest, most coherent visual statement possible.' " - exhibition website, viewed 5/3/2024.
- Contents:
- Artist, mentor, mother, friend / Mark Pascale
- Parallel manipulations : Christina Ramberg's art and archives / Thea Liberty Nichols
- Christina Ramberg's diary : 1969-1980 / Judith Russi Kirshner
- Building blocks : Christina Ramberg's quilts / Anna Katz
- Body parting / Riva Lehrer
- Forms on collecting / Ricky Swallow
- Remembering Chris / Lorri Gunn Wirsum
- Works in the exhibition.
- Notes:
- Published on the occasion of an exhibition with the same name held at the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, April 20-August 11, 2024; The Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, California, October 6, 2024-January 5, 2025; and Philadelphia Museum of Art, February 8-June 1, 2025.
- Includes bibliographical references and index (pages 249-252).
- ISBN:
- 0300275749
- 9780300275742
- OCLC:
- 1405844063
The Penn Libraries is committed to describing library materials using current, accurate, and responsible language. If you discover outdated or inaccurate language, please fill out this feedback form to report it and suggest alternative language.