{"product_id":"mike-henderson-before-the-fire-1965-1985-9780520388055","title":"Mike Henderson: Before the Fire, 1965-1985","description":"\u003cb\u003eThe first major exhibition and catalog dedicated to the work of groundbreaking painter and filmmaker Mike Henderson.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Mike Henderson (b. 1944) is a painter, filmmaker, and professor emeritus at University of California, Davis. Published to accompany his first museum retrospective, this catalog surveys Henderson's paintings and films from 1965 to 1985, which are rooted as much in Francisco Goya's horror of humanity as in Sun Ra's hope for a new Black future. In the work of that time, Henderson depicted scenes of racial violence, heteromasculinity, and abject social conditions with force and unflinching directness. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e In 1985, a studio fire damaged much of Henderson's output from the previous two decades, obscuring vital ideas about a time of tumult and change, often referred to as a world on fire. \u003ci\u003eMike Henderson: Before the Fire, 1965-1985\u003c\/i\u003e addresses Henderson's multifaceted art of that period, which examined and offered new ideas about Black life in the visual languages of protest, Afrofuturism, and surrealism. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Published in association with the Jan Shrem and Maria Manetti Shrem Museum of Art, University of California, Davis \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Exhibition dates: \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Jan Shrem and Maria Manetti Shrem Museum of Art \u003cbr\u003e January 29-June 25, 2023\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eMike Henderson \u003c\/b\u003eis a pioneering African American artist, filmmaker and musician, whose dynamic practice has spanned more than fifty years. Born and raised in Marshall, Missouri, he moved to the Bay Area to attend the San Francisco Art Institute in 1965. He has been the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship (1973) and two National Endowment for the Arts Artist Grants (1989, 1978), and he was recently awarded the 2019 Artadia San Francisco Award. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eSampada Aranke, \u003c\/b\u003e PhD, is Assistant Professor in the Department of Art History, Theory, and Criticism at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Her work has appeared in \u003ci\u003ee-flux, Artforum, Art Journal, ASAP\/J, \u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eOctober\u003c\/i\u003e and in catalogues for Sadie Barnette, Betye Saar, Rashid Johnson, Faith Ringgold, and many others. Her book, \u003ci\u003eDeath's Futurity: The Visual Life of Black Power\u003c\/i\u003e, will be published in February 2023. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eDan Nadel\u003c\/b\u003e is former Curator at Large of the Jan Shrem and Maria Manetti Shrem Museum of Art, University of California, Davis. He has mounted exhibitions including \u003ci\u003eWhat Nerve! Alternative Figures in American Art: 1960 to the Present\u003c\/i\u003e; \u003ci\u003eGertrude Abercrombie\u003c\/i\u003e; \u003ci\u003eKathy Butterly ColorForm;\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eChicago Comics, 1960s to Now. \u003c\/i\u003eNadel is the author and editor of several books, including \u003ci\u003ePeter Saul: Professional Artist Correspondence, 1945-1976\u003c\/i\u003e; \u003ci\u003eThe\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eCollected Hairy Who Publications 1966-1969\u003c\/i\u003e; and \u003ci\u003eIt's Life As I See It: Black Cartoonists in Chicago, 1940-1980.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"University of California Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50390837887250,"sku":"9780520388055","price":38.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_d82134a3-5c37-4c9a-b08a-aae8325b8f2a.jpg?v=1728957432","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/mike-henderson-before-the-fire-1965-1985-9780520388055","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}