• Blackness in Abstraction. The book is laying flat and has a black cloth cover with black font.
  • The book is open to two pages. The left page has an essay about Wangechi Mutu and the right page has an image of her drawing.
  • The book is open to two pages. Each page has an image of an artwork by the artist Pope.L.
  • The book is open to two pages with an image of a black and white work by Adam Pendleton on the right page. The left page has a close up image of the same work.
  • Blackness in Abstraction. The book is on a white background and has a black cloth cover and black font.
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Blackness in Abstraction

$45.00
$45.00

Produced for Pace’s 2016 group exhibition Blackness in Abstraction, this publication explores Blackness as a powerful, evocative, and animating force in abstract art from the 1940s to the present day.

With an essay by curator Adrienne Edwards, the book reproduces in full color the work of 29 essential intergenerational artists including Robert Irwin, Pope L., Sol LeWitt, Glenn Ligon, Lorraine O’Grady, Adam Pendleton, Carrie Mae Weems, Jack Whitten, and Fred Wilson, among others.

Publication details

Contributor: Adrienne Edwards
Publisher: Pace Publishing
Publication date: 2016
Softcover
209 pages: 59 color images
11 ½ x 8 ¼ inches
ISBN: 9781935410850
Blackness in Abstraction. The book is laying flat and has a black cloth cover with black font.
The book is open to two pages. The left page has an essay about Wangechi Mutu and the right page has an image of her drawing.
The book is open to two pages. Each page has an image of an artwork by the artist Pope.L.
The book is open to two pages with an image of a black and white work by Adam Pendleton on the right page. The left page has a close up image of the same work.
Blackness in Abstraction. The book is on a white background and has a black cloth cover and black font.

About the exhibition

Blackness in Abstraction considers the use of black as a method, mode and material in works by twenty-nine artists who have explored the expressive and symbolic possibilities of black as a color. Featuring works—over a third of which are newly created—by an international and intergenerational group of artists, the exhibition explores blackness as a highly evocative and animating force in various approaches to abstract art. The exhibition looks at the role of the color black across a range of practices, spanning Geometric Abstraction, Minimalism and Conceptualism to its use in the present.

Learn more about the exhibition