Creative Lives & Careers: Book Launch
Sat, Dec 17, 11am-12pm
Our new book, The Art Life: On Creativity and Career is a collection of solicited and selected texts that address the philosophical and practical issues that affect art-making and the marketplace. It brings together visual artists, curators, dealers, writers, musicians, architects, actors, and educators, who speak to their internal motivations, influences and processes, and to their external engagements with community, audience, career and success. Many of the contributors have taken part in exhibitions and programs at ACAC from 2007 to the present, and others have been included to represent provocative historical and contemporary viewpoints by a range of influential figures. The texts are taken from lectures, interviews, published statements, websites and email exchanges, and are joined by images of artists in the midst of creating or installing, as well as completed art works. The analytic and inspirational entries address the fact that a life in the arts can be simultaneously rewarding, frustrating, doubt-filled, joyful and uncertain. And yet, thousands of artists persist every day, motivated by a private insistency and the promise of satisfaction and recognition. Each is attempting to combine their creative life with a thriving career, and this publication provides various “words of wisdom” which can serve to inspire, challenge and reassure them. As painter Franz Kline said, “The real thing about creating is to have the capacity to be embarrassed.” The composite nature of The Art Life posits that each creative individual must find the necessary information and materials to best establish their unique voice. The book is as much found as written, a heady mix of opinions and questions that can be used in classrooms and studios by artists of all ages.
Contributors include Nubar Alexanian, Regine Basha, Daniel Bozhkov, Matt Bryans, Luis Camnitzer, Brad Cloepfil, Jennifer Coates, David Diao, Craig Drennen, Daniel Duford, Nicole Eisenman, Harrell Fletcher, Matthew Higgs, Stuart Horodner, Mike Howard, David Humphrey, Jennie C. Jones, Nina Katchadourian, Wayne Koestenbaum, Anya Liftig, Judy Linn, François Morelli, Michael David Murphy, Eileen Myles, Karyn Olivier, Fahamu Pecou, William Pope.L, Padgett Powell, Nancy Princenthal, Paul Ramírez Jonas, Michael Rooks, Amanda Ross-Ho, Tad Savinar, Stephen Schofield, Mira Schor, Paul Shambroom, Lisa Sigal, Susan Silton, Joe Sola, Tony Tasset, Nato Thompson, Jack Whitten.
Many thanks to the Emily Hall Tremaine Foundation for their generous support of this publication.
200 pages with over 30 color images, $25. Distributed by D.A.P./Distributed Art Publishers, NY.
Plus, Saturday is a Westside Arts District art walk day, so take a walk on the Westside and visit the many excellent neighborhood galleries, 12-5pm.
