Marla Price

A decade of bold artistic evolution This volume, fourth in a planned series of six, presents Sean Scully's paintings in the first decade of the twenty- first century. Working in studios in New York, Barcelona and Bavaria, he produced over 400 paintings in this period, continuing his major series of Wall of Light paintings, begun in 1997, and adding new, acclaimed series such as Cut Grounds and Robes. Major touring exhibitions of his work were presented by the Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, Dusseldorf, in 2001 and the Miro Foundation, Barcelona, in 2007. Early in the decade, Scully was made an Honorary Fellow of the London Institute of Arts and Letters, and a member of Aosdána in Ireland. In 2003, he received honorary doctorates of fine art from the Massachusetts College of Art, Boston, and the National University of Ireland, Dublin.

Artists from Nam June Paik to Arthur Jafa show how modern digital technologies have shaped the art and themes of our time Surveying some 50 years of groundbreaking art related to digital technology and the screen, I’ll Be Your Mirror examines how technologies such as home computers, smartphones and TV have affected art and life over the past five decades. It traces a trajectory stretching back to the late 1960s, a watershed moment in the rise of the screen in the home. Today, accelerated by the pandemic, our daily life is mediated through screens for work, entertainment and sociality. Artists include: Lillian Schwartz, Nam June Paik, Lynn Hershman Leeson, Andy Warhol, Gretchen Bender, Eva and Franco Mattes, Jacqueline Humphries, Cory Arcangel, Petra Cortright, Elias Sime, Rafael Lozano-Hemmer, Trevor Paglen, Hito Steyerl, Liss LaFleur, Kristin Lucas, Rick Silva, Wickerham & Lomax, Avery Singer, American Artist, Simon Denny, Skawennati, Jacolby Satterwhite, Carson Lynn, Ed Atkins, Arthur Jafa, Cao Fei and Frances Stark.

Born in 1885 to a working-class family in Connecticut, Milton Avery left school at 16 to work in a factory. Intending to study lettering but soon transferring to painting, he attended evening school for fifteen years before moving to New York in the 1920s to pursue a career as a painter. Although he never identified with a particular movement, Avery was a sociable member of the New York art scene. He became a figure of considerable influence for a younger generation of American artists, including Mark Rothko, Adolph Gottlieb and Barnett Newman. His talent was praised by Rothko, who said of his work ‘the poetry penetrated every pore of the canvas to the last touch of the brush’. Edith Devaney introduces Avery and his work, while Erin Monroe looks at Avery’s early years in Hartford, and Marla Price examines Matisse’s influence upon his art. A conversation with the artist’s daughter March Avery Cavanaugh and an illustrated chronology by Isabella Boorman complete the book.