Gaylen Gerber

GERBER, Gaylen and Jan Avgikos

ISBN 10: 0941548317 / ISBN 13: 9780941548311

Published by The Renaissance Society at the University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, 1995

First edition. Softcover. 32 pages. Exhibition catalog for a show that ran January 20 through February 29, 1992. Features acknowledgements by Susanne Ghez and text by Gerber and Jan Avgikos. Includes color and black and white illustrations, list of previous exhibitions, and a bibliography. A clean very near fine copy in wrappers. Seller Inventory # 198672

Synopsis:

The exhibition of Gerber's work at The Renaissance Society in 1992 marked the culmination of a ten-year period in which Gerber persistently painted the same opaque, monochromatic still-life over and over, in a bold artistic assertion that seeing is not believing but simply perceiving. This catalog is the first monograph publication of Gerber's work, and documents the artist's installations of these paintings at various international exhibitions, including Documenta 9 in 1992, and Robbin Lockett Gallery in Chicago in 1988. At the Society's exhibition, Gerber hung a single row of his paintings abutted end to end on a wall crossing the entire gallery space. Jan Avgiko's catalog essay, written in close tandem with Gerber, is a brilliant investigation of the role perceptual aesthetic theories play in the modernist and postmodernist monochrome.

Bibliographic Details

Title: Gaylen Gerber
Publisher: The Renaissance Society at the University of Chicago, Chicago, IL
Publication Date: 1995
Binding: Soft cover
Edition: 1st Edition