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Anne Kahane: Sculpture, Prints, and Drawings,

1953 – 1976 (1981)
Acknowledgements by David G. Taylor.

34 pages, illustrated

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The Art Collection of McMaster University (1987)

Texts by Kim G. Ness

330 pages, illustrated

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

This object, that object: To Reveal the Hidden Meaning of Things (1994)

20th century sculpture from McMaster's permanent collection

26 pages, illustrated

 

 

 

York Wilson: The Geometric Works 1966-71 (1994)

Introduction by Kim G. Ness

4 pages, illustrated

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Danica Jojich: Marble Pillows (1996)
Catalogue for exhibition, February 25 - April 7, 1996. Montreal-based artist Danica Jojich subverts tradition artistic and social norms and investigates issues related to gender and loss through installations that are interactive. ISBN 0920603076

 

The Levy Legacy (1996)

The Herman H.Levy donation and

Levy Bequest Purchase Programme catalogue
Texts by Kim G. Ness, Niamh O'Laoghaire and Jennifer Watson

150 pages, illustrated

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

North of America (1997)

Douglas Clark exhibition catalogue

Acknowledgements by Kim Ness and Douglas Clark

26 pages, illustrated

 

 

 

 

 

 

2000 Lux(2000)

Catalogue by Kim Ness and Colin Wiginton

14 pages, illustrated

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Unbury My Heart: An Exhibition of the Art of Shelley Niro (2001)

Introduction by Kim Ness

Essay by Gerald McMaster

Poem by Daniel David Moses

24 pages, illustrated

 

 

 

 

 

Sanctified/Soul Art (2001)

Exhibition by Jan Wade

Essay and Interview by Andrew T. Hunter

48 pages, illustrated

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

1911 : An Exhibition by c. Wells (2002)

Introduction by Kim Ness

Essays by Andrew Hunter and Mark Cheetham

Text piece by C. Wells

35 pages, illustrated

 

 

 

 

 

 

Open Hours (2002)

Germaine Koh exhibition catalogue

Introduction by Kim Ness Essays by Steve Reinke

and Rosemary Heather

32 pages, illustrated

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The Faculty Exhibit 2003 (2003)

An exhibition of the art of Faculty from the School of the Arts, McMaster University. Forward by Christine Butterfield

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The Prints Of William Hogarth (2004)

Essay in English and French by Alexandria Pierce.

20 pages, illustrated

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Re:cycle (2004)

Site-responsive installations on McMaster University campus by Adrian Blackwell, James Carl, Bryce Kanbara, Germaine Koh, PED.

16 pages, illustrated

 

 

 

 

 

Flotilla (2004)

Erika James exhibition brochure

Essay by Richard Butler 4 pages, illustrated

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

My Mother Tongue (2004)

Myung Sook Lee exhibition catalgoue

Essay by Rivka Birkan

6 pages, illustrated

 

 

 

 

 

 

Yechel Gagnon: Palimpsest (2004)

Yechel Gagnon exhibition catalogue

Essays in English and French by Alexandria Pierce, Stéphane Aquin and Bernard Chassé

64 pages, illustrated

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

LANDeSCAPES: Simon Frank and Reinhard Reitzenstein (2005)

With essays by Alexandria Pierce and Anne Beauchemin

32 pages, illustrated

 

 

 

 

 

The Togo Salmon Centenary Exhibition: The Classical World and Its Influence (2005) Curated by Dr. Howard Jones

Preface by Alexander G. McKay

40 pages, illustrated

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Sharon Switzer: Falling from Grace, Scenes 1 through 6 (2007)

Foreword by Carol Podedworny

Texts by Carla Garnet (curator), Steve Reinke and Linda Steer

31 pages, illustrated

 

 

 

Arnaud Maggs, Nomenclature (2007)

In association with The Robert McLaughlin Gallery in Oshawa and Gallery One One One in Winnipeg.

Texts by David Aurandt, Linda Jansma and Martha Langford

86 pages, illustrated

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Robert Houle: Troubling Abstraction (2007) Carol Podedworny, Mark A. Cheetham, Gerald McMaster & W. Jackson Rushing III

Robert Houle has been a visionary artist since the beginning of his career. "Native artists," he wrote in 1982, "are committed to involvement in the polemics of modern art. Meaning derives from living in the twentieth century, where painting ranges from realism to abstraction and sculpture varies from shamanism to assemblage." Employing the traditions of modernist painting, particularly as practiced by Jackson Pollock and Barnett Newman, Houle has tenaciously insisted on reciprocity among the aesthetic and cultural specificities with which he engages. After years of breathtaking solo exhibitions, he returns here to his first stylistic impulse: abstraction and the parfleche figure. This important publication, with three essays and an artist's statement, documents a unique and vital side to Houle's innovative artistic practice. Mark A. Cheetham is Chair of the Department of Art at the University of Toronto.

McMaster Museum of Art in association with The Robert McLaughlin Gallery in Oshawa and Gallery One One One in Winnipeg. 105 pp 36 ill. (24 col.) 7 x 5 in softcover 978-0-9783585-2-5

 

Wilfredo Prieto: Mute (2007)

Ingrid Mayrhofer et al

Only recently exhibiting outside of his native Cuba, the young artist's site-specific installations are gathering interest around the world. Prieto responds to the contrasts and contradictions of place which, in the case of Hamilton Ontario, meant highlighting the city's great industrial past with its current state of abandon. 'Mute' reproduces a fully functional 70s discotheque with no sound. With an interview with the artist. 28 pp col. ill. 10 x 7 in 978-1-894088-74-9

 

 

 

Stephen Foster & James Gillespie: Re-Meditations (2007)

Carol Podedworny, Janet Jones & Anna Hudson. Using media spectacle to comment on itself, Stephen Foster, a Haida Metis from British Columbia, and James Gillespie, of European descent and living in Toronto, each confronts how a dominant European culture has marginalized and silenced the "other". Their provocative photo-media images prompt us to question our everyday responses to issues of race, region and class and help open up dialogue on post-colonial issues. Published in collaboration with the Kelowna Art Gallery and the Art Gallery of Sudbury. 40 pp col. ill. 10 x 8 in softcover 978-1-894088-76-3

 

 

Listening Awry (2007)

Jim Drobnick

Catalogue of a group exhibition of sound artists from around the world: Kimsooja (New York City), Christian Marclay (New York City), Santiago Sierra (Mexico) and Su-Mei Tse (Luxembourg). 30 pp col. ill. 978-9783585-0-1 Sharon Switzer: Falling from Grace (2007) Carla Garnet et al Switzer's work in digital video stems from years of working in new media and her familiarity with her medium allows for a fluidity of practice that has been likened to that of a painter. In these new works, text, animation and video footage are combined to create short looping sequences which relate moments in time characterized by both the artist's dry humour and a sense of pathos. 36 pp col. ill. 7 x 9.5 in 978-1-894088-72-5

 

The First Tourist (2008)
Selections of Inuit art from McMaster’s Collection
Guest Curated by Nancy Campbell. September 6, 2007 - January 5, 2008.
ISBN 978097835832

 

Synesthesia: Art and the Mind (2008)

Greta Berman, Carol Steen, Daphne Maurer & Patricia Albers

Four essayists explore the impact of synesthesia, or the involuntary joining of the senses, on the work of artists who are, or who are suspected to have been, synesthestic. They include David Hockney, Joan Mitchell, Tom Thomson, and Vincent van Gogh. Carol Steen is a New York-based synesthestic artist. Greta Berman is professor of Art History at the The Juilliard School. Daphne Maurer is professor at the Department of Psychology, Neuroscience & Behavior at McMaster University.) 62 pp 12 col. ill. 10,5 x 8.5 in softcover 978-0-9783585-8-7

 

 

Reciprocal (2008)

Carol Podedworny & Sally Mckay. Works by University faculty and alumni, all practicing artists, have been selected by a jury of Canadian artists who studied at the University. Presentations on participating artists are accompanied by a study of the jury process. 40 pp col. ill. 10 x 7.5 in softcover 978-0-9783585-7-0

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

John Abrams: Cinema Vernis (2008) Edited by R.M. Vaughan
A review of Abrams' film inspired paintings with short essays by acclaimed Canadian filmmakers Sky Gilbert, John Greyson, Jeremy Podeswa and Christina Zeidler. Abrams takes Beineix's Betty Blue, Goddard's Breathless and Wertmuller's Swept Away, from the language of film to the language of painting. 48 pp col. ill. 8 x 8.5 in softcover 978-0-9783585-4-9

 

 

 

Richard Fung: Landscapes (2009)

Monika Kin Gagnon

Publication devoted to a new video installation by the Toronto-based video artist and cultural critic. In merging the etchings of J.M.W. Turner with video of Canadian landscape bearing the same geographical names as their British counterparts, Fung reveals the subtle ways in which land is culturally misappropriated. In her essay, Gagnon refers to the superimposition of contemporary moving images upon older fixed ones as temporal collages. As a Canadian of Chinese ancestry born in Trinidad, Fung conveys his understanding of the misrepresentation of place as conveyed by popular film and media. McMaster Museum of Art (01/2009) 48 pp col. ill. 8 x 10.5 in softcover 978-0-9783585-9-4

 

Matthew Varey: Building on History (2009)

Gary Michael Dault

Varey's pre-apocalyptic paintings of dark, hermetic towers against a meteor-streaked sky are discussed by one of the country's most eminent art critics. 20 pp col. ill. (two fold-outs) 10 x 7.5 in softcover 978-1-926632-02-5

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Allyson Mitchell: Ladies Sasquatch (2009)

Carla Garnet, Allyson Mitchell, Josephine Mills & Ann Cvetkovich
Allyson Mitchell creates installations that are epic figures, each one a monumental symbol of female brains, brawn and sexuality. Standing upright at over 10 feet tall, the sculptural works embody feminist theory and are painstakingly crafted creations of fun fur, taxidermy glass eyes and various fake bear parts. Since 1997, the Toronto-based artist has been melding feminism and pop culture to play with ideas about autobiography and the body, largely through the use of reclaimed textile and abandoned craft. Also an active curator, Mitchell is responsible for the exhibition When Women Rule the World: Judy Chicago in Thread. McMaster Museum of Art (03/2009) 56 pp col. ill. 10 x 8 in softcover 978-1-926632-01-8

 

 

Light Echo (2009)

Publication of a collaborative installation by artist Dianne Bos and astronomer Doug Welch, intended to recreate a 17th century supernovae. Foreword by Carol Podedworny. Essays by Dianne Bos and Doug Welch.

McMaster Museum of Art (05/2010) 12 pp

 

 

 

 

 

 

A Field Guide to Observing Art (2009)

Publication of an exhibition guest curated by Dianne Bos, highlighting links between science and art in works from McMaster’s collection. Foreword by Carol Podedworny. Essay by Dianne Bos.

McMaster Museum of Art (05/2010) 16 pp, illustrated

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Leonard Baskin: Works in the Collection of the McMaster Museum of Art (2009)

Carol Podedworny
This presentation of lithographs and etchings highlights the visionary career of the American artist (1922-2000). A sculptor, printmaker, draughtsman and book designer, Baskin founded The Gehenna Press for which many of these prints were produced. This publication honours the Press by duplicating its characteristic saddle-stiched binding. The works of Leonard Baskin are found in the collections of the Metropolitan Museum, the Museum of Modern Art, The National Gallery, the Vatican Museum and the British Museum. McMaster Museum of Art (06/2009) 56 pp 18 col. ill. 11.5 x 8.5 softcover 978-1-926632-03-2

 

 

Fierce: Women’s Hot-Blooded Film/Video (2010)

Edited by Janice Hladki. Essays by Lisa Steele, Jeremy Todd, Julia Bryan-Wilson, Richard Fung & Patricia R. Zimmermann
Publication of a group exhibition addressing how Canadian-based women artists contribute to contemporary moving image culture, particularly in terms of producing the thinking image. Essays by leading artists and critics provide a rich account of video art and experimental film in the Canadian context and the impact of Canadian-based work within transnational spheres. Participating artists: Maureen Bradley, Dana Claxton, Allyson Mitchell and b. h. Yael. McMaster Museum of Art (01/2010) 56 pp 32 col. ill. 10 x 8 in softcover 978-1-926632-04-9

 

 

Katherine MacDonald (2010)

Publication of a solo exhibition of painting and portraiture by Hamilton artist and teacher Katherine MacDonald.

Foreword by Ihor Holubizky. Essay by Tobi Bruce.

McMaster Museum of Art (05/2010) 16 pp 16 col ill.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Shelagh Keeley (2010)

Peggy Gale & Christopher Dewdney

 

Shelagh Keeley came to prominence in the 1980s and has a significant early body of work that is housed in numerous Canadian institutions and, given Keeley’s 22-year residence in New York City, in most major American institutions. From very early on Keeley’s drawings challenged the established art world with investigations into Africa, AIDS, health and the body. More recent work includes bookworks that serve as an archive of the artist’s visual vocabulary during nearly three decades of practice. They record themes that have pervaded her practice: diversity, history, representation and that which is political and social. This monograph is the first critical assessment of Keeley's thirty-year career. Robert McLaughlin Gallery / McMaster Museum of Art (01/2010) 92 pp 28 col. ill. 10 x 7.5 softcover 978-1-926589-03-9

 

 

The Blind Architect Meets Rembrandt (2010)

On-Line publication of a site-responsive installation at the Museum by São Paulo-based artist/theoretical architect Alexander Pilis. The exhibition presented Pilis’s 2004 video-work with works from the Museum’s European historical, modern, and contemporary collection. Essays by Ihor Holubizky and Alexander Pilis.

McMaster Museum of Art (2010) 50 pp, illustrated

 

 

 

Husar Handbook (2010)

Editor/author: Dawn Owen; essays by Gerta Moray, Carol Podedworny, Stuart Reid, Dawn Own and Meeka Walsh. Published in conjunction with the Natalka Husar: Burden of Innocence exhibition Co-produced by the McMaster Museum of Art, Macdonald Stewart Art Centre, MacKenzie Art Gallery and Tom Thomson Art Gallery. Macdonald Stewart Art Centre (2010) 82 pp, illustrated ISBN: 978-0-920810-87-3

 

Steve Higgins (2011)
Catalogue for exhibition, ALL THINGS CONSIDERED THOUGHTS ABOUT CITIES AND HISTORY, WAR AND PEACE, which focused on Higgins' urban fiction; process printwork and his 2006-2009 Urban sculptures of utopias past and present. ISBN 0920089712

 

Levy Series: Part IV
125 & 45: an interrogative spirit (2012)
Celebrating McMaster University’s 125th and the Museum’s 45th anniversaries in 2012, this exhibition tracks the history and landmark moments of both through art works from the collection. This is the fourth addition to the Levy Folio of exhibition-based essays presenting varied curatorial perspectives on the Herman H. Levy Collection and Levy Bequest Collection at the McMaster Museum of Art. Essay by Ihor Holubizky. 8 pp, ISBN 978-1-926632-06-3

 

 

 

Greg Staats: Condolence
The exhibition brings together several works by Greg Staats (Toronto-based, b. Ohsweken, Ontario) that reference language loss, acquisition and resurgence through photographic series, video works, and personal archival materials. Essays by Richard W. Hill Sr., Charlotte Jones, Carol Podedworny. 46 pp, ISBN: 978-0-929025-68-1

 

 

Rising to the Occasion: The Long 18th Century
The legacies of the 18th century—enlightenment, empiricism, revolution and innovation are explored through an exhibition including major works by both 18th century artists Houdon, Gainsborough, Romney, Verelst and Taillasson; and senior contemporary Canadian artists Rebecca Belmore, Angela Grauerholz, Tony Scherman, John Massey, and Jiri Ladocha. Introduction by Carol Podedworny and essays by Mark A. Cheetham, Ihor Holubizky, and Angela Sheng. 44 pp, colour images ISBN 978-1-926632-05-6

 

 

Gary Spearin: iNifiNiTi
iNifiNiTi was presented at Museum London, 24 September 2011—18 March 2012. The accompanying catalogue is a partnership between Museum London and the McMaster Museum of Art. Introduction by Cassandra Getty, essay by David Liss, and insert poster-essay by Gary Spearin and Ihor Holubizky. 32 pp, ISBN 978-1-897215-36-4

 

 

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