Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art (Ridgefield, Conn.)

Encompassing the subjects of sexuality and erotica, The Aldrich Contemporary Museum presents this catalogue from the "Contemporary Erotic Drawing" exhibition, featuring more than 35 artists. In describing the immediacy and intimacy of drawing, Joseph Beuys once stated, "Drawing is thinking," and indeed, for many artists, drawing is a highly personal and revealing process in which raw ideas are expressed, allowing spontaneous imagery or thoughts to emerge. And so, to examine the subject of eroticism and human sexuality, it seems appropriate to examine these 100 drawings. Many of the images seem to work against images in the media, and so define what is erotic and titallating in their own terms. This 204-page catalogue includes drawings in varyious media by artists such as Ida Applebroog, Cecily Brown, Leon Golub, Tracy Nakayama, Mark Dean Veca and Su-en Wong; features two essays by Sue Taylor and Wayne Koestenbaum; and biographical information on the artists.

Contemporary Erotic Drawing

Contemporary Reflections

Yale University. School of Architecture

Mónica Ramírez-Montagut

Jessica Hough

Mills College. Art Museum

Explores the ways in which contemporary artists incorporate images of modern buildings in their work as a means to explore the utopian potential of architecture and to provide an antidote to the cynicism of our time.

Contemporary Art and Modern Architecture

Revisiting the Glass House

Janine Antoni

On the occasion of her receipt of the "Larry Aldrich Foundation Award," Janine Antoni presents a new series of work focusing on the cow as subject and its metaphorical relationship to the mother. This book accompanies her exhibition of this series at The Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, the first U.S. venue for this work. The new works are illustrated along with a group of related earlier pieces, and the three texts that run throughout the book are a Bahaman folk tale, the litany of Virgin Mary, and a prodigious list of products that are made from cattle by-products. Also included is a handmade silkscreen using the same milk paint used on the gallery walls during her exhibition.

Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art (Ridgefield, Conn.)

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