Archive Hatje Cantz Verlag | Figuring Colorkathy Butterly, Felix Gonzalez-Torres, Roy Mcmakin, Sue Williams

Color Is A Daily Experience, From The Colors We Wear, To The Cars We Drive, To The Food We Eat, To The Flags We Fly. We Use Colors To Describe Our Emotions: We Feel Green With Envy, Red With Anger, Or On A Sad Day, Blue. This Publication Examines The Work Of Four Artists Who Employ Color And Form To Represent A Metaphorical Body: In Roy Mcmakin’S Wood Sculpture A Chair Is At Once A Body And An Implication Of An Absent Body. Kathy Butterly’S Evocative Use Of Glaze Transforms Her Ceramic Sculptures Into Miniature Bodies. In Felix Gonzalez-Torres’S Sculptures, Piles Of Wrapped Candy And Plastic-Bead Curtains Are Experienced Through A Literal Touch, Privileging A Sensory Experience. Sue Williams’ Riotously Colorful Paintings Explore An Abstracted Body Represented Entirely Through Color. The Publication Combines Images By The Four Artists With Poems By Twenty-Two Contemporary Poets Who Further Explore Color Through Rhythm, Meter And Rhyme.



Exhibition Schedule: Institute Of Contemporary Art, Boston, February 17–May 20, 2012