Published with Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago. This volume will be the first monograph on the work of Chicago-based artist William J. O'Brien (born 1975), produced to accompany his first large-scale, solo exhibition opening at the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago in January 2014. The show demonstrates the broad range of O'Brien's work--from sculpture and ceramics to drawing, textiles and painting--and his guiding interest in physicality and the handmade. The catalogue expands the dominant narratives around his ...
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Published with Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago. This volume will be the first monograph on the work of Chicago-based artist William J. O'Brien (born 1975), produced to accompany his first large-scale, solo exhibition opening at the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago in January 2014. The show demonstrates the broad range of O'Brien's work--from sculpture and ceramics to drawing, textiles and painting--and his guiding interest in physicality and the handmade. The catalogue expands the dominant narratives around his practice, which generally focus on his ceramics, to more accurately reflect his diverse, prolific practice as a whole. Exhibition curator Naomi Beckwith and contributing author and curator Trevor Smith contextualize the artist's work in light of recent modes in contemporary art history--l'informe, the handmade and semiotic play. Critic Jason Foumberg contributes a creative text inspired by the artist's working process. Together, the contributing essays make a strong contextual case for O'Brien's work that counters canonical themes of media-specificity and traditional art materials, producing a catalogue as expansive as the breadth of O'Brien's practice itself.
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First edition. Softcover. 104 pages. Exhibition catalog for a show that ran January 25 through May 18, 2014. Features text contributions by Naomi Beckwith, Trevor Smith, and Jason Foumberg. Includes numerous color illustrations, biographical information, a selected bibliography, and a checklist. A fine copy in wrappers. Signed by O'Brien on the title page and with a laid in letter from a Museum of Contemporary Art executive presenting this catalog to a couple of prominent Chicago art collectors. Uncommon signed.
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