• Maysha Mohamedi yesterday I was a tiny tube of toothpaste. The book is spiral bound and has a green cover with white, black, red, and blue details.
  • The book is open to two pages. An image of the artists painting is on the right page and a description of the work is on the left page.
  • The book is open to two pages. The background is green and has the artists notes all over both pages.
  • The book is open to two pages. There is a photo of toy soldiers, macaroni and cheese, and a ham that the artist has written over. It looks like the artists notebook.
  • Maysha Mohamedi yesterday I was a tiny tube of toothpaste. The book is spiral bound and has a green cover with white, black, red, and blue details.
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Maysha Mohamedi: yesterday I was a tiny tube of toothpaste

$35.00
$35.00

Published on the occasion of her first solo show at Pace in Tokyo, this facsimile edition of Mohamedi’s studio notebook spotlights never-before-exhibited paintings produced in 2023 and 2024 and the patchwork of clippings from cookbooks and magazines that influenced their palettes. For these works, Mohamedi drew inspiration from her personal diary chronicling her brief time working in Japan two decades ago. In creating her new paintings—half of which are named for people and places that she encountered and wrote about in her journal during that trip—the artist reentered and reactivated the psychic space of her 20s, weaving together coincidences and serendipitous situations from her formative experience abroad and the present circumstances of her life. With a new text by Brian Dillon, this volume offers an up-close look at Mohamedi’s singular process. 

Publication details

Contributor: Brian Dillon
Publisher: Pace Publishing
Publication date: 2024
Softcover
72 pages: 30 color images
11.5 x 9.5 inches
9781948701761
Maysha Mohamedi yesterday I was a tiny tube of toothpaste. The book is spiral bound and has a green cover with white, black, red, and blue details.
The book is open to two pages. An image of the artists painting is on the right page and a description of the work is on the left page.
The book is open to two pages. The background is green and has the artists notes all over both pages.
The book is open to two pages. There is a photo of toy soldiers, macaroni and cheese, and a ham that the artist has written over. It looks like the artists notebook.
Maysha Mohamedi yesterday I was a tiny tube of toothpaste. The book is spiral bound and has a green cover with white, black, red, and blue details.

Maysha Mohamedi

Vibrant and playful, Mohamedi’s innovative practice points toward a new mode of atmospheric abstraction that registers certain conditions specific to Los Angeles—and American life as a whole—in the early 21st century.

Learn more about the artist