Amy Pleasant
The Messenger's Mouth Was Heavy
Publication
*Published 2019 by Frank and Institute 193
*248 pages
*9 x 11.5 in (286 x 292 mm)
*Interior: Two paper types, 3-color offset
*Cover: Paperbound, 2-color offset, and screenprint
*Binding: Sewn
*Editors: Amy Pleasant and Michael Aberman
*Essays: Katie Geha and Daniel Fuller
*Design: Frank
*Printer: die Keure, Belgium
*ISBN: 978-1-7328482
Amy Pleasant's first monograph, The Messenger's Mouth Was Heavy, out in December from Institute 193 and Frank, includes more than 200 pages of the artist's paintings, drawings, and ceramic works. The numerous work reproductions in the book showcase Pleasant's iterative but deeply human process, where she subtly explores the fragmented human form, most often rendered in monochrome. Contributed essays from Katie Geha and Daniel Fuller speak on her work's relation to gesture and language, the graphic underpinnings of Civil Rights movements in the South, and the empathetic possibility of recognizing faces in inanimate objects, a phenomenon known as pareidolia.
Published on the occasion of Amy Pleasant: Someone Before You, on view November 9–December 20, 2019 at Institute 193 in Lexington, KY.
Amy Pleasant
The Messenger's Mouth Was Heavy
Publication
*Published 2019 by Frank and Institute 193
*248 pages
*9 x 11.5 in (286 x 292 mm)
*Interior: Two paper types, 3-color offset
*Cover: Paperbound, 2-color offset, and screenprint
*Binding: Sewn
*Editors: Amy Pleasant and Michael Aberman
*Essays: Katie Geha and Daniel Fuller
*Design: Frank
*Printer: die Keure, Belgium
*ISBN: 978-1-7328482
Amy Pleasant's first monograph, The Messenger's Mouth Was Heavy, out in December from Institute 193 and Frank, includes more than 200 pages of the artist's paintings, drawings, and ceramic works. The numerous work reproductions in the book showcase Pleasant's iterative but deeply human process, where she subtly explores the fragmented human form, most often rendered in monochrome. Contributed essays from Katie Geha and Daniel Fuller speak on her work's relation to gesture and language, the graphic underpinnings of Civil Rights movements in the South, and the empathetic possibility of recognizing faces in inanimate objects, a phenomenon known as pareidolia.
Published on the occasion of Amy Pleasant: Someone Before You, on view November 9–December 20, 2019 at Institute 193 in Lexington, KY.