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Modalities of memory and surveillance intertwine in the work of an acclaimed Maine painterA tennis ball, warped by the speed of impact, is captured right before it lands on the painted boundary of the court, its oblong shape conveyed through negative space--a window into the black ground with which Maine-based American artist Reggie Burrows Hodges (born 1965) treats his canvases. This is movement as observed by a hawkeye, a painterly strategy ...

A diaristic glimpse of a zeitgeist on the brink, from the influential New York curator and writerWidely recognized for his bold, dissenting and prolific criticism and curation, Bob Nickas has been a fixture of the New York City art scene for nearly 40 years, having organized more than 120 exhibitions since 1984. He has left an indelible impression on the artistic milieu as the founding editor of index magazine, a regular contributor to Artforu...

With painstaking technique, painterly sensitivity to color and a biting sense of humor, Ryan's sculpture suggests art's capacity to both evoke and arrest the passage of timeTaking the form of vintage decorative crafts that have been blown up to an imposing scale, New York-based artist Kathleen Ryan's (born 1984) Bad Fruit series employs material irony and art historical tropes to play with expectation and desire. Ryan fashions decaying fruit f...

The first thorough overview of a long-neglected Abstract ExpressionistWith decadent colors, loose brushstrokes and heavy-handed impasto, the paintings of the Iranian American artist Manoucher Yektai (1921-2019) fuse Eastern and Western traditions, synthesizing a unique blend of abstraction and figuration that owes as much to Franz Kline as it does to Cézanne and the poetry of Rumi.Influenced by his early life in Iran and his visits to Paris, a...

On the face and the self in Mark Flood's early workThis book investigates a crucial period for the Houston-based artist Mark Flood (born 1957), from 1987 to 1992, during which he was still making and exhibiting work using his birth name, John Peters. Artist and editor Adam Marnie explores Flood's motif of the face and his use of personae, aliases and surrogates.

Lozano's thoughts, notes and musings for 1970The ninth in Karma's 11-volume edition of Lee Lozano's (1930-99) Private Book project, this volume spans April to September 1970, the summer that preceded Lozano's solo exhibition at the Whitney, where she showed her Wave Paintings. (Following this major show, Lozano ceased to paint altogether and increasingly turned her attention to text-based works.) Among the thoughts, manifestos and personal con...

Between art, engineering and architecture: recent works by Robert GrosvenorThis monograph on Robert Grosvenor (born 1937)--known for his large-scale architectural sculptures--accompanies his third solo exhibition at Karma and concurrent exhibition at Galerie Max Hetzler, presenting recent works of sculpture alongside an essay by renowned curator and critic Bob Nickas.

Collecting Mark Flood's irreverent reinventions of the protest signHouston-based artist Mark Flood's (born 1957) 1992 protest signs were first deployed outside the Republican National Convention of that year. With cardboard, foam core upcycled from the Menil Collection and vintage stencils gifted by a relative of Jackson Pollock, Flood's signs display ironic slogans beside silkscreened images of Reagan, Bush and Schwarzenegger.

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The latest colorful, intimately gestural abstractions from Marley Freeman This volume commemorates New York-based painter Marley Freeman's (born 1981) 2019 solo exhibition of her abstractions at Karma with an essay by Lauren O'Neill-Butler, who writes that Freeman's "works offer an alternative, an option to opt-out of signifying monolithically.

Alex Da Corte's foam wall pieces celebrate the zest and color of cartoon aesthetics Published for Alex Da Corte's (born 1981) 2019 solo exhibition with Karma Gallery, this volume features the eponymous short story by Eugenia Collier, as well as two newly commissioned texts by writer Tausif Noor and animator and historian John Canemaker.

Drawings of ash trays and cups from a modern chronicler of the everydayThis book from New York-based artist Dike Blair (b. 1952) showcases his drawings from the past two years. Exploring the same imagery as his oil paintings and gouaches--ash trays, cups, mugs--allowed Blair to make his drawings "more effortless and free.

From art book to artist's book: painterly interventions in an El Greco monograph by Marley FreemanHere, New York-based painter Marley Freeman (born 1981) transforms the spreads of a reference book on El Greco into abstract paintings that cover text and image alike, and leaving half the book with only small traces of interventions.

A handsome suite of expressionistic, semi-abstract works on paperThe latest book from New York-based painter Walter Price (born 1989) brings together 34 recent works on paper that employ the same iconic imagery, intimate scale and dreamlike compositions of both abstraction and figuration that are found in his paintings.

This book collects a series of new portraits by the critically acclaimed New York-based painter Bernhardt that depict D'Angelo, whom she met while traveling in Peru. The two began sending photos back and forth through WhatsApp of their daily lives.

This book presents a selection of the earliest paintings by Robert Duran (1938-2005), which were born of a period in which the then-young artist concurrently experimented in minimalist sculpture. Closely examining Duran's practice within these years, it show show the forms and structures of his sculptures loosely illustrate the paintings surfaces.

Kokuyo Business Paper is the latest of Michael Williams' (born 1978) artist's books published by Karma. This newest book focuses on drawings on top of photocopies and employs the gatefold as a primary characteristic of the book. Each fold has the potential to hide and reveal another image, forcing the viewer to look and open each fold.

The latest in Karma's acclaimed series of overviews, this 424-page clothbound volume is the first comprehensive survey of New York-based minimalist painter Paul Mogensen (born 1941). Born in Los Angeles, Mogensen arrived in New York in 1966 already associated with such peers as David Novros and (through Novros) Brice Marden. His first solo exhibition at the Bykert Gallery came the following year. Since that time, Mogensen has created often col...

This book collects images that New York-based artist Anne Collier (born 1970) originally presented as a slideshow of 80 35mm slides depicting found images of female subjects in the act of taking self-portraits. Dating from the 1970s to the early 2000s, these relics of the analog age were collected by Collier, each image discarded by its original owner but finding its way back to relevance in Collier's work. The slideshow consists of amateur sn...

This is the fourth volume in Karma's 11-volume facsimile printing of Lee Lozano's Private Book project. It is primarily a calendar of Lozano's personal, artistic and chemical interactions in 1969-70. A prolific writer and documenter of both her art and her relationships, the public and private, the painter Lee Lozano (1930-99) kept a series of personal journals from 1968 to 1970 while living in New York's SoHo neighborhood. In 1972 she rigorou...