Dean Byington, Rick Moody, Griff Williams
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Gallery 16 Editions is proud to announce the publication of our newest book, Dean Byington. As the first monograph of his work, it details the arc and
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span of Byington's prolific career. The book features an original short story and poem by the acclaimed author and essayist Rick Moody with additional writing by Griff Williams, owner of Gallery 16. The book is published in conjunction with the artist s solo show Dean Byington: Buildings Without Shadows at the American University's Museum at the Katzen Arts Center in Washington, DC. Curated by Museum Director Jack Rasmussen, the exhibition includes fifteen paintings and three works on paper created between 2002 and 2015. It is the first presentation of the Byington s work in Washington, DC. Carter Foster, Curator of Drawings at the Whitney Museum of American Art, has likened Byington s involvement with surface and production to an earlier generation of California-based artists: One also thinks of the finish-fetish work of John McCracken or the ceramist/sculptor Ken Price, both obsessive in their use of surface density to create optically captivating art... Byingtons method has parallels to theirs in that the final product is a summation of many layers of production. Flexi-bound with vellum jacket; 155 pages, 90 pages in color, 4 double-page vellum inserts.
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