Bøger af McArthur Binion

A riveting conversation between the two artists, touching on seminal influences, experiences and practicesThis thought-provoking publication presents a fecund dialogue between Chicago-based painter McArthur Binion (born 1946) and New York-based photographer Jules Allen (born 1947), two American artists taking different approaches to rendering the Black experience. To illustrate their interactions, Binion contributes a new series of paintings and Allen contributes his most recent images as well as a collection of archival black-and-white photographs. In a sinuous, stimulating conversation, the long-term friends discuss their musical influences, education and shared experiences developing their skills as artists in New York. Buoyed by mutual admiration, the two artists trade insights on one another's practice. In one striking example, Binion remarks that Allen endeavors to "take themes of the culture that were universal and personalize it, so it came from someplace specific to someplace general." The introduction penned by interdisciplinary scholar and writer Thulani Davis provides a zoomed-out jumping-off point before the reader is catapulted deep into the two artists' subjectivities.

"This book focuses on the works that comprise McArthur Binion's DNA series, produced between 2013 and 2020 and united by their underlying imagery and the language of the grid. Binion has indicated that the series, more than 250 paintings and prints, is now, as of summer 2020, complete. While narratives surrounding aspects of the artist's practice and life have become well-trod in the existing bibliography regarding his work, this volume seeks to dig more deeply, more precisely, into a single body of production as a means to both hone and open the ways we might understand and see Binion's work. Taken as a whole, this publication reveals the visual complexity of the series and the boarder field of meaning it suggests"--Page 7.