Beauty Reigns: A Baroque Sensibility in Recent Painting

Beauty Reigns: A Baroque Sensibility in Recent Painting assembles the work of 13 emerging and mid-career abstract painters--Jose Alvarez, Kamrooz Aram, Charles Burwell, Annette Davidek, Fausto Fernandez, Nancy Lorenz, Ryan McGinness, Beatriz Milhazes, Jiha Moon, Paul Henry Ramirez, Rex Ray, Rosalyn Schwartz and Susan Chrysler White--whose art is characterized by high-key color, obsessive layering of surface imagery, repeated patterns, stylized motifs and a tension between melancholy and the sublime. It builds directly on Barilleaux's award-winning exhibition and book New Image Sculpture , which examined how contemporary artists transform widely available, often non-art materials into fanciful replications of the ordinary. Beauty Reigns identifies a recent trend towards exoticism, exuberance and optimism.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0615864511
• ISBN13: 9780615864518
• Release Date: June 2014
• Publisher: Marion Koogler McNay Art Museum
• Length: 144 Pages
• Weight: 2.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 8.6" x 11.9"