Sept–October 2007 - Preview

Exhibition Catalogues of InterestREMBRANDT AND THE GOLDEN AGE OF DUTCH ART: TREASURES FROM THERIJKSMUSEUM, AMSTERDAM was published for the travelling exhibition on view atthe Portland Art Museum until September 16, 2007. Edited by Penelope Hunter-Stiebel, curator of European Art at the Portland Art Museum, the text explores 17thcentury Dutch artists and their world. Dutch scholar Rudd Priem provides insight intolife during the "Golden Age" with colour photographs of objects, prints, and paintingsby Rembrandt and his contemporaries.Hardcover, 142 pages, $29 USD, Portland Art Museum store, (Distributed by Universityof Washington Press, www.washington.edu/uwpress)WIM BLOM: PAINTINGS 2004-2007 is a slim square paperback featuringtwelve colour plates of paintings by the South African-born and BC-based artist.The glowing images illustrate the precision of Blom’s elegant work in both oilon canvas and the demanding egg tempera on gesso panel. The exquisite smallplates provide glimpses of carefully composed still lifes, architectural detailsand furniture that are like windows on a precious half-hidden world.Softcover, 16 pages, $10 CDN. Available from Ian Tan Gallery, Vancouver, 604-738-1077,email: info@iantangallery.comGEORGIA O’KEEFE: NATURE AND ABSTRACTION is a massive catalogueaccompanying the exhibition at the Vancouver Art Gallery October 6-January 13,jointly organized by the Irish Museum of Modern Art and the Vancouver ArtGallery. The book contains full-page colour images of O’Keefe’s signature erotic,closely-cropped flowers and plant forms, and eerie minimalist desert landscapes.They are accompanied by several essays on her work, a chronology, selectedbibliography and photos of O’Keefe taken by Alfred Stieglitz and Todd Webb.Softcover, 192 pages, $39.99 CDN. Order from the Vancouver Art Gallery Store, VancouverBC, 604-662-4706.MARIANNA SCHMIDT was published in conjunction with three exhibits of the lateVancouver artist’s work during 2007 at SFU Teck Gallery, Burnaby Art Gallery andthe Evergreen Cultural Centre. Densely packed with dozens of colour reproductionsof her fervent mixed media works, acrylic paintings, lithographs, silkscreens,drawings and etchings, it includes several of the carnaval photographs thatinspired animation from the early 1970s to the mid-90s, as well as moving tributes,stories and commentaries about the eccentric artist’s life and times.Softcover, 80 pages, $20 CDN. Available from Evergreen Cultural Centre, Coquitlam BC,email: info@evergreenculturalcentre.caTHE 8TH NORTHWEST BIENNIAL exhibition catolog includes examples ofwork by all 41 Washington and Oregon artists that were chosen to participatein the exhibit at the Tacoma Art Museum earlier this year. Curator, Rock Hushkatouches on the significance of these artists within the region as well as theirnational accomplishments, his curatorial perspective identifies considerablethemes in the Biennial. Color images by prominent Northwest artists includeVictoria Haven, Jay Backstrand, Judy Cook, Michael Spafford, Denzil Hurley,Marie Watt, Sherrie Wolf, and others.Soft Cover, 107 pages, $22 US, Available at Tacoma Art Museum Store or online at amazon.com(http://www.amazon.com/8th-Northwest-Biennial-Rock-Huska/dp/B000P9HP72/re)PLEASE NOTE: Prices may be subject to additional charges for postage, handling and taxes.www.preview-art.com PREVIEW 81