Bøger af Thomas Nozkowski

Filled with diminutive patterns of shapes and colors, Nozkowski's small-scale paintings reflect the artist's own brilliant and changing worldThomas Nozkowski (1944-2019) developed a singular approach to painting that rejected established aesthetic conventions. Most notably, he spurned the oversized canvases favored by the Abstract Expressionists and Minimalists and instead painted on 16-by-20-inch boards purchased from a local art store. Everything in the World centers on a formative period of the artist's career during which he set out specific aesthetic terms for his practice. The 1970s and 1980s saw major changes in Nozkowski's personal life, including the birth of his son and the purchase of his first property in New York's Hudson Valley--a place that would become an enduring inspiration for his work. Zeroing in on these two decades, this publication presents the artist's signature, intimately scaled compositions alongside three painted wood sculptures and several large-scale painting that have not been publicly exhibited in decades.

Thomas Nozkowski's final adventures in intimate abstractionWith a new text by Marc Mayer, this exhibition catalog honors the life and work of New York-based painter Thomas Nozkowski (1944-2019), featuring the artist's final works. The 15 paintings featured here continue Nozkowski's use of rich color and his abstract visual language that related to personal memories or experiences of the world. Mayer recounts his own personal experiences with the work and details Nozkowski's approach to pictorial abstraction, one that involved the nuances of feeling rather than confident identification to achieve his oeuvre, or what the writer calls "a record of creative thought." The catalog also includes remembrances of the artist written by Peter Schjeldahl, Catherine Murphy, Jennifer Gross, Joseph Masheck, Robert Storr, Karen Wilkin, and Martin Puryear. An illustrated chronology of Nozkowski's life and career includes personal photographs and drawings.