Tom Slaughter (Blue Cover).

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Lowry, Glenn.

Contributor:

Grant, David.

Fabo, Andy.

Baitz, Jon.

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource (275 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Lanham : Artist Book Foundation, The, 2019.

Summary:

The Artist Book Foundation is pleased to announce the publication of Tom Slaughter, an extensive monograph of the artist's enormous body of work that celebrates his enduring optimism, personal and artistic honesty, and charming brashness in a landscape of pure joy. Glenn Lowry, director of the Museum of Modern Art, reveals Slaughter as a treasured friend whose artistry was fuelled by endless curiosity about life's simple pleasures, a man who made his innumerable friends and acquaintances part of his personal community. Slaughter's lifelong friend, actor and writer David Marshall Grant, remembers the artist's delight when, in a high school art class, he was introduced to the mysteries of negative space and the enigmatic power it brings to an artwork. Artist, art critic, and independent curator Andy Fabo describes his friend's vibrant art as all about pleasure. Even in the most turbulent of times, he took a celebratory approach to his art, offering his viewers a sensual and visual delight. For Jon Robin Baitz, playwright and screenwriter, the 'sweetness' of Slaughter's images was insistent, a compulsive scrutinizing of the visual world of small domesticities. Marthe Jocelyn, the artist's former wife and a children's book author and illustrator, reflects on the couple's acclaimed collaboration on a series of books for the very youngest readers. Jim Kempner, gallery owner, recalls Slaughter as a man of charm and enormous artistic talent who always managed to retain a childlike innocence. Artist George Negroponte remembers Slaughter as focusing on the life around him, especially his daughters, in a unique mixture of everyday images, abstracted yet conveying popular culture. And in an interview both informative and poignant, Slaughters' friends, artists Stephen Hannock, Jean-Paul Russell, Robert Harms, Ray Charles White, and Scott Kilgour pay tribute to a dear friend whose prolific career, though cut short, was remarkable for a visual language that makes his art accessible to everyone.

Contents:

Intro

Contents

Foreword, by Glenn Lowry

Introducing Tom Slaughter, by Hannah and Nell Jocelyn

The Negative Space, by David Marshall Grant

1980-1990

The Object Maker, by George Negroponte

1990-1998

Every Summer, by Marthe Jocelyn

1998-2006

Objects

Look, And Really See, by Anne Pasternak

2006-2014

Unmistakably His, Interview with Stephen Hannock, Jean-Paul Russell, Robert Harms, Ray Charles White, and Scott Kilgour

List Of Plates

Chronology

Selected Publications: Children'S Books, Artists' Books, Print Series, Catalogues, Books and Magazines

Selected Solo Exhibitions

Selected Group Exhibitions

Selected Public &amp

Private Collections

Photography Credits

Acknowledgments

Table of Contents.

Notes:

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

979-89-87228-18-0

OCLC:

1544999235