Blackness in Abstraction Books Joel Shapiro: Sculpture and Works

Joel Shapiro: Sculpture and Works on Paper 1969–2019 is the first book in more than twenty years to survey the artist’s entire working career

Monk creates starkly divisional compositions carrying irregular intensities of detail

which draw inspiration from the likes of Matisse and Picasso

” “blue” and “black” paintings

in both English and Italian

Blackness in Abstraction Books Joel Shapiro: Sculpture and WorksProduced for Paces 2016 group exhibition Blackness in Abstraction, this publication explores Blackness as a powerful, evocative, and animating force in abstract art from the 1940s to the present day. With an essay by curator Adrienne Edwards, the book reproduces in full color the work of 29 essential intergenerational artists including Robert Irwin, Pope L., Sol LeWitt, Glenn Ligon, Lorraine OGrady, Adam Pendleton, Carrie Mae Weems, Jack Whitten, and