Deborah Remington

Carroll Dunham author Margaret Mathews-Berenson author

Format:Hardback

Publisher:Rizzoli International Publications

Publishing:4th Mar '25

£50.00

This title is due to be published on 4th March, and will be despatched as soon as possible.

Deborah Remington cover

This first comprehensive monograph on Deborah Remington (1930 2010) examines her extraordinary career through paintings, drawings, and archival documents. An enthusiastic participant in the Bay Area s Beat scene in the early 1950s and a graduate of the prestigious and innovative California School of Fine Arts (later San Francisco Art Institute), where teachers included David Park, Mark Rothko, and Clyfford Still, Remington made her way to New York in 1965, where she joined Bykert Gallery and sold a large-scale painting to the Whitney Museum of American Art in 1968. Luminous and saturated, her hard-edged abstractions of the 1960s and 70s are well known; yet the more gestural expressionist work from the last twenty-five years of her life is not as familiar to art world audiences. She is an artist prime for rediscovery. This ambitious and revelatory book includes essays by the artist Carroll Dunham, prominent scholars, and an illuminating interview with Paul Schimmel. Remington s own writings and correspondence reveal her inner thoughts, enhancing our understanding of the art world during her time.

"Bortolami is presenting the second solo exhibition by Deborah Remington (b. 1930, d. 2010) at the gallery. Mirrors features works from three distinct junctures in Remington’s career, from some of the artist’s most iconic compositions to rare and never before exhibited paintings. The exhibition coincides with the release of the artist’s first monograph, published by Rizzoli Electa.

Remington achieved notoriety in the early 1960s for an inscrutable approach to hard edge abstraction, painting an iconography of irregular, organic shapes rendered with startling precision. Her heraldic imagery, both biomorphic and mechanistic at once, encircled luminous, mirror-like surfaces painted with gradients of black, white and gray. She painted the irregular perimeter of each shape with brilliant bands of orange, blue or green, as if the metallic surfaces within were a conduit for the bold, electric lines which surrounded them."  — ARTDAILY.COM

ISBN: 9780847834143

Dimensions: unknown

Weight: unknown

256 pages