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Wrappers. Condition: Very Good. Palm Springs Art Museum, Published 2017. Wraps with French flaps, 55 pp.; 25 cm; illustrated throughout with color photographs of artworks and exhibition installations. In Very Good condition. White pictorial wraps with French flaps; mild shelf-wear to covers. Binding tight. Otherwise unmarked.Exhibition catalogue accompanying Pat Lasch: Journeys of the Heart at Palm Springs Art Museum, Palm Desert (March 25 to October 15, 2017), the artist's first major solo survey. Lasch (b. 1944, New York City) emerged from the downtown New York art scene of the 1970s and was an early member of the A.I.R. Gallery feminist collective; her practice grew out of an apprenticeship in her father's bakery. Surveys more than four decades of work organized around themes of family, ritual, mourning, and the feminine: the small acrylic-and-wood pastry sculptures encrusted with baroque pearls and glass beads for which she is best known, alongside wall-hung hearts, the Bardo Black Cake series, stitched-canvas prayer cloths, piped-paint dresses, and recent acrylic-paint wedding and christening gowns. Foreword by Elizabeth Armstrong (JoAnn McGrath Executive Director); essay "Ceci n'est pas un gateau" by Martica Sawin; lead essay "Journeys of the Heart" by curator Mara Gladstone. Includes exhibition checklist and artist biography.Contents: Foreword by Elizabeth Armstrong; Acknowledgments; Ceci n'est pas un gateau by Martica Sawin; Journeys of the Heart by Mara Gladstone; Exhibition Checklist; Artist Biography.