Lubaina Himid : make do and mend / edited by Karen Kelly, Alex Klein, Julie Le, and Barbara Schroeder.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Contemporary Austin (Museum), host institution.

FLAG Art Foundation, host institution.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Himid, Lubaina, 1954---Exhibitions.

Himid, Lubaina.

Himid, Lubaina, 1954- Strategy paintings--Exhibitions.

Himid, Lubaina, 1954- Aunties--Exhibitions.

Physical Description:

171 pages : color illustrations ; 25 cm

Place of Publication:

Austin, Texas : The Contemporary Austin ; New York : The FLAG Art Foundation ; Brooklyn, New York : Dancing Foxes Press, 2025.

Summary:

"Best known for her paintings that excavate the legacy of colonialism and expand the possibilities of Black representation, Lubaina Himid (b. 1954) played a pivotal role in the British Black Arts Movement in the 1980s and became the first Black woman to win the Turner Prize in 2017. Published on the occasion of Himid's most recent solo exhibition for The Contemporary Austin's 2024 Suzanne Deal Booth / FLAG Art Foundation Prize, Make Do and Mend provides readers with a rare behind-the-scenes look into Himid's process for two new bodies of work: a suite of ten Strategy Paintings depicting Black men and women seated around tables invested in problem-solving the dynamics of power, and 64 sculptural plank paintings, entitled Aunties, that formally evoke East African funerary objects and postminimalism, as they pay tribute to the relationships between women"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Shapeshift / Jonathan Rider

Recipe for the Strategy paintings / Lubaina Himid

The Strategy paintings / Alex Klein

The tables turned : fragments of a play in three acts / Dorothy Price

Recipe for the Aunties / Lubaina Himid

Aunties / Julie Le

Bless the Aunties / Zoé Whitley

Would your meetings be different if they were held at an art museum?

September 6-12, 2024 : observing the Aunties / Caroline Cassidy.

Notes:

Published on occasion of the exhibition of the same name held at The Contemporary Austin, March 1-July 21, 2024, and The FLAG Art Foundation, New York, September 13, 2024-February 8, 2025.

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

9781954947160

195494716X

OCLC:

1482360432