{"product_id":"rick-lowe-9781951449452","title":"Rick Lowe","description":"\u003cb\u003eCopublished with Gagosian, this is\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cb\u003ethe first book devoted to the work of a major contemporary artist, with a focus on his painting.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Houston-based artist Rick Lowe is widely known for his pioneering contributions to the development of \"social practice art,\" work that landed him a MacArthur fellowship in 2014. What few people realize is that he was originally trained as a landscape painter. In recent years, Lowe has increasingly turned back to painting, producing complex multi-panel and quasi-abstract images that are deeply rooted in thirty years of work creating \"social sculptures,\" recalling the urban fabric of cities around the world that have formed the backdrop of many of his community-based art projects. This book, which brilliantly reproduces Lowe's paintings, is the first dedicated to the work of this important American artist, focusing on his painterly practice and its origins in his work in the public sphere.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eDieter Roelstraete\u003c\/b\u003e is the curator at the Neubauer Collegium for Culture and Society. \u003cb\u003eAntwaun Sargent\u003c\/b\u003e is a director and curator at Gagosian. His writing has appeared in \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe New Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eThe New York Review of Books\u003c\/i\u003e, among other publications, and he has contributed essays to museum and gallery catalogues. Sargent has co-organized exhibitions including \u003ci\u003eSocial Works \u003c\/i\u003eat Gagosian in New York (2021) and \u003ci\u003eThe Way We Live Now\u003c\/i\u003e at the Aperture Foundation in New York (2018). His first book, \u003ci\u003eThe New Black Vanguard: Photography between Art and Fashion\u003c\/i\u003e, was released by Aperture in 2019.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Neubauer Collegium","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50630230049042,"sku":"9781951449452","price":98.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_b7ff4911-ca5f-422f-97f2-4dafe9c70c39.jpg?v=1732746911","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/rick-lowe-9781951449452","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}