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William J. O'Brien Museum Of Contemporary Art Chicago 2013 ISBN
9781938922169 Acqn 22605 Pb 20x26cm 104pp 90ills 85col 25 This
volume will be the first monograph on the work of Chicago-based
artist William J. OBrien (born 1975), produced to accompany his
first large-scale, solo exhibition opening at the Museum of
Contemporary Art Chicago in January 2014. The show demonstrates the
broad range of OBriens work--from sculpture and ceramics to
drawing, textiles and painting--and his guiding interest in
physicality and the handmade. The catalogue expands the dominant
narratives around his practice, which generally focus on his
ceramics, to more accurately reflect his diverse, prolific practice
as a whole. Exhibition curator Naomi Beckwith and contributing
author and curator Trevor Smith contextualize the artists work in
light of recent modes in contemporary art history--linforme, the
handmade and semiotic play. Critic Jason Foumberg contributes a
creative text inspired by the artists working process. Together,
the contributing essays make a strong contextual case for OBriens
work that counters canonical themes of media-specificity and
traditional art materials, producing a catalogue as expansive as
the breadth of OBriens practice itself.
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Pissaro Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza 2013 ISBN 9788415113423 Acqn
23296 Hb 23x28cm 208pp 166ills 138col 46.50 Humble and colossal, as
his friend Czanne described him, Camille Pissarro is at once the
most important and the least familiar of the leading Impressionist
painters. As a mentor to that group, which he helped to convene,
Pissarro was responsible for drafting the statutes of the artists
cooperative that launched the famous Impressionist exhibitions,
which were the first to take art outside the academic confines of
Paris salon exhibitions; he was also the only painter to
participate in all eight of those landmark shows, from 1874 to
1886, and was the first painter to develop and sustain the plein
air practice for which the Impressionists are famed. This volume
presents Pissarro as one of the great pioneers of modern art,
appraising his career through five thematic and chronological
chapters that offer a tour of his preferred landscapes and cities:
"On the Road to Impressionism," "Louveciennes-London-Louveciennes
186972," "Pontoise Revisited 187282," "Eragny Landscapes 18841903"
and "City Views." It includes essays by some of the most renowned
Pissarro scholars: Richard R. Brettell, who writes on the artists
involvement with anarchism; Joachim Pissarro (one of the authors of
the Pissarro catalogue raisonn) on Monet and Pissarros relationship
in the 1890s; and Guillermo Solana on the motif of the road in
Pissarro.
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Multiple Occupancy - Eleanor Antin's "Selves" Miriam and Ira D.
Wallach Art Gallery 2014 ISBN 9781884919305 Acqn 23334 Pb 20x24cm
128pp 71ills 35col 17.95 From 1972 to 1991, Eleanor Antin (born
1935) created multiple personae of different genders, races,
professions, historical contexts and geographic locations. The
artist called this motley group--which includes a deposed king, an
exiled film director, ambitious ballerinas and hard-working
nurses--her "selves." The selves manifestations were as diverse as
their stories: some were embodied by Antin and captured in
photographs and on video; others had paper doll surrogates; at
times their existence was known only through the drawings, texts
and films they had ostensibly left behind. As she explored the
fleeting nature of the self, Antin used fiction, fantasy and
theatricality to examine the ways that history takes shape,
scrutinizing the role that visual representation plays in that
process. Multiple Occupancy: Eleanor Antins "Selves" is the first
project to focus exclusively on this critical body of work.
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Paul Laffoley - Premonitions Of The Bauharoque Henry Art Gallery
2013 ISBN 9780935558524 Acqn 23348 Pb 22x28cm 304pp 271ills 13col
32.50 For more than 40 years, the art of Paul Laffoley (born 1940)
has synthesized a broad swath of disciplines--from art history,
architecture and classical literature to science fiction and
natural and occult sciences--offering alternative ways to
understand and rethink the world that surrounds us. Laffoley
combines diagrams, symbols and texts to create densely layered
paintings that take anywhere from one to three years to paint. This
sustained and intense focus on both image and content has produced
a unique and complex body of work that combines theory and
encrypted knowledge with visionary representation. Paul Laffoley:
Premonitions of the Bauharoque reproduces in facsimile a series of
handwritten journal entries that span Laffoleys career, alongside
colour reproductions of the artists earliest mature work from 1965.
These journal entries, which precede and form the basis of his
paintings, explicate Laffoleys rich cosmology.
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Bruce Kurland - Illusion And The Little World Avocet Editions
2014 ISBN 9781938922428 Acqn 23359 Hb 23x23cm 184pp 90col ills
39.50 Bruce Kurland was an American still-life painter working from
the early 1960s until his death in 2013. Born in New York in 1938,
Kurland was initially influenced by earlier European practitioners
of the still-life genre such as Fabritius, Chardin and Morandi,
whose quiet reveries he inflected with a contemporary vision of
mortality derived from the visceral imagery of Francis Bacon.
Today, his work can be seen as part of a singular strain of
twentieth-century North American painting that includes artists
such as Walter Murch and Gregory Gillespie. Kurland infused his
paintings with powerful attention to, and a tangible affection for,
nature "red in tooth and claw," conjuring "a little world with
which I could do anything I wanted, without losing the illusion."
This handsome volume, with its cloth binding and tip-on cover,
includes essays by poet Lisa Jarnot, gallerist Victoria Munroe and
Chief Curator at the Phillips Collection in Washington, DC, Eliza
Rathbone.
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Richard Aldrich Bortolami Gallery 2013 ISBN 9781467570435 Acqn
23362 Pb 23x28cm 96pp 88col ills 25 Brooklyn-based artist Richard
Aldrich (born 1975) is best known for his seductive yet challenging
paintings that often push the boundaries of the picture plane. His
multimedia works are typically created in oil and wax, also
incorporating elements such as pencil, collage, charcoal and metal.
This new catalogue, published by Bortolami Gallery, is part
traditional monograph and part artists book. It features a
selection of 88 abstract, multimedia works made between 2003 and
2013, and as such is the most comprehensive survey of Aldrichs work
to date. The plates have been laid out to wrap around from one page
to the next, across the books French folds, so that, literally and
figuratively, each painting is viewed with a part of the next
painting in mind. This unusual design feature creates elegant and
sometimes jarring juxtapositions that are entirely unique to the
book itself.
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David Salle - Ghost Paintings The Arts Club of Chicago 2013 ISBN
9781891925382 Acqn 23365 Pb 23x26cm 64pp 27ills 12col 17.95 In the
1980s, American artist David Salle (born 1952) played a crucial
role in the formulation of postmodernism in art, helping to
re-establish painting as a dominant force. Often thought to use
only found imagery, Salle actually derived much of his early work
from live movement events that he staged specifically for the
paintings. For his 1992 series Ghost Paintings, Salle took
photographs of his long time model Beverly Eaby, creating graceful,
improvised movements with a bed sheet, then printing the images on
linen and painting over them with horizontal fields of intense
colour. This new volume, with full-colour spreads of the 16
never-before-seen Ghost Paintings, reveals Salles practice of
incorporating photography and performance art into his paintings.
It includes the black-and-white photographs the artist took for
this series, as well as documentation of other performances.
Includes an interview with Hal Foster.
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Yayoi Kusama - Obsesion Infinita Fondation Eduardo F Constantini
2013 ISBN 9789871271504 Acqn 23366 Pb 24x27cm 232pp 158ills 45col
39.50 Obsesin Infinita accompanies the first Latin American
retrospective of Yayoi Kusama (born 1929), a massive survey of more
than 100 works created between 1950 and 2013. It includes her
abstract paintings of the 1950s, made just prior to her move to New
York in 1957; the "soft sculptures" that followed her move, and her
friendships with Donald Judd, Andy Warhol, Claes Oldenburg and
Joseph Cornell; and the famous happenings of the late 60s. It was
in these years that Kusama became known as "the Polka Dot
Princess," for her obsessive use of polka dots in installations and
performances. In 1973 she returned to Japan, and in 1977 settled
voluntarily in a psychiatric clinic where she has continued to make
performances and installations. Alongside color reproductions, this
volume includes archival photographs of Kusama performances and
portraits of the artist from the many periods of her career.
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Pigeons On The Grass Alas - Contemporary Curators Talk About The
Field Pew Center for Arts 2014 ISBN 9780988710900 Acqn 23387 Pb
12x18cm 122pp 23col ills 10.95 This book is a unique convening of
experts--unique because the "convening" only takes place within its
pages. A roster of curators, affectionately dubbed "pigeons," were
invited to respond to an evolving list of questions, what the
editors called a "pigeonnaire," about their approach to their work.
This pigeonnaire probed such topics as influences, daily practice,
artistcurator relationships and the curators responsibility to
society. Over the course of a year, the pigeons dropped by with
their answers, and the editors then strung together the questions
and answers in a continuous narrative that reads something like the
transcript of a large meeting, providing a portrait of common
ground and fissures in the field of curating now. The contributing
curators are Glenn Adamson, Anne Barlow, Carlos Basualdo, Mark
Beasley, Shana Berger, Dan Byers, Joseph del Pesco, Sean Dockray
& Fiona Whitton, Christopher Eamon, Mai Abu El Dahab, Peter
Eleey, Nicholas Frank, Eric Fredericksen, Daniel Fuller, Lance
Fung, Cesar Garcia, Rita Gonzalez, Jennifer Gross, Andrea Grover,
Pablo Helguera, Jens Hoffmann, Stuart Horodner, Hou Hanru, Ruba
Katrib, Lisa Melandri, Helen Molesworth, Jessica Morgan, Aram
Moshayedi, Valerie Cassel Oliver, Jenifer Papararo, Daniela Perez,
Ralph Rugoff, Ingrid Schaffner, Paul Schimmel, Sarah Robayo
Sheridan, Elizabeth Smith, Robert Storr, Astria Suparak, Claire
Tancons, Nato Thompson, Gilbert Vicario and Namita Gupta Wiggers.
Pigeons on the Grass Alas includes a bookmark with the Gertrude
Stein poem after which the book is titled.
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Invalid Format - An Anthology Of Triple Canopy Triple Canopy
2014 ISBN 9780984734634 Acqn 23388 Pb 13x23cm 304pp 100ills 14.50
Invalid Format is an archive of the widespread activities of Triple
Canopy, the New Yorkbased magazine and publisher. The book
translates into print work that originally appeared in other forms.
The third volume of Invalid Format includes artist projects and
literary work published online in the third and fourth years of
Triple Canopys existence, as well as documentation of public
programs. In form and content, the book explores how works produced
for the screen and live settings might be transposed to the codex
in a way that recalls former contexts while also fully inhabiting
the page. It includes contributions by Michael Almereyda, Kurt
Beals, Mel Bochner, Daniel Bozhkov, Paul Chan, Joshua Cohen, Jordan
Crandall, Simon Critchley, Moyra Davey, Roe Ethridge, Ellie Ga,
Daniel Gordon, Vivian Gornick, David Graeber, Group Theory, Joseph
McElroy, Tom McCarthy, Matt Mullican, Ken Okiishi, Eve Sussman,
Lynne Tillman and McKenzie Wark, among others.
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Will Munro - History, Glamour, Magic Art Gallery York University
2014 ISBN 9780921972679 Acqn 23392 Pb 24x28cm 176pp 392col ills 38
Will Munro (19752010) was a multimedia visual artist, DJ and
community builder based in Toronto. History, Glamour, Magic fully
documents his activities as an artist with emphasis on his punk DIY
sculpture and installation from 1998 to the end of his life.
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Julian Hoeber Blum & Poe 2014 ISBN 9780966350364 Acqn 23393
Hb 22x26cm 112pp 71ills 70col 38 Published on the occasion of his
2013 exhibition at Blum & Poe, this is the first monograph on
Los Angelesbased multimedia artist Julian Hoeber (born 1974).
Filtering the aesthetics of Minimalism, Op art and the Light and
Space movement through a pop-cultural lens, Hoebers paintings and
sculptures seek irrationality within rational systems, toying with
space and perception, and examining how consciousness is affected
under varying physical circumstances. As evidenced in his
paintings, sculpture and installations, Hoeber displaces
distinctions between high and low, conceptual and formal, and art
and craft. Beautifully illustrated with 70 images of current and
past works, this volume includes a checklist of the exhibition, and
a complete bibliography, extensively documenting Hoebers past and
current work. The book also includes new essays by Douglas Fogle
and Jonathan Lethem written especially for this volume.
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Karl Wirsum Derek Eller Gallery 2013 ISBN 9781939799142 Acqn
23404 Pb 19x28cm 64pp 39ills 38col 19 American artist Karl Wirsum
(born 1939) was a member of the legendary Chicago artist community
The Hairy Who (whose other members included Art Green, Gladys
Nilsson, Jim Nutt and Suellen Rocca). Best known as a painter, he
has also worked in printmaking, sculpture, digital art and
marionettes. Pristine, cartoonish, flatly graphic and brightly
chromatic, his paintings portray solitary, hallucinatory, often
somewhat demonic characters, depicted against spare backdrops. This
catalogue commemorates Wirsums fall 2013 exhibition at Derek Eller
gallery in New York. It presents 25 new paintings and drawings
accompanied by questions to the artist (and his answers) from an
all-star roster of curators and artists, including Gary Panter,
Carter E. Foster, Chris Ware, KAWS, Erik Parker, Jeff Koons, Mark
Pascale, Robert Storr, Robert Cozzolino and Peter Saul.
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Richard Prince - White Paintings Skarstedt Fine Art 2014 ISBN
9780988930001 Acqn 23405 Pb 22x31cm 56pp 28ills 27col 29 Celebrated
for his appropriation of advertising images and photographs during
the early 1970s, Richard Prince (born 1949) began in the 1980s to
explore the relationship between image and language, pairing jokes
from books and magazines with referential and non-referential
imagery. In the 1990s, his Joke paintings transformed from rigidly
composed works into free-floating combinations of jokes and
stripped-down layered imagery. The White Paintings are raw and
energetic in comparison to his earlier work. Here, handwritten and
printed jokes mingle with gestural marks, silk-screened imagery and
graphic fragments, all strewn across a white-pigmented backdrop.
Princes hand is present in these works, with their painterly white
texture, spirited whorls and handwritten elements. In this series,
he uses appropriation in a new way, as he pays homage to great
American abstract painters such as Cy Twombly and Robert
Rauschenberg. This volume reproduces a selection from this
series.
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Helmut Federle - The Ferner Paintings Peter Blum Edition 2014
ISBN 9780615860428 Acqn 23407 Hb 19x26cm 112pp 35ills 23col 47.95
This publication details the most recent series by Swiss painter
Helmut Federle (born 1944), titled The Ferner Paintings, each
depicting dark circles. The circles are not painted but stained,
the result of carefully applied vegetable oil.
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Lisa Oppenheim - Works 20032013 Sternberg Press 2014 ISBN
9783956790409 Acqn 23594 Pb 24x33cm 160pp 92col ills 24.95 Edited
by Florence Derieux, Krist Gruijthuijsen, Bettina Steinbrgge Texts
by Karen Archey, Angie Keefer, Lisa Oppenheim, Christian Rattemeyer
Over the past decade, artist Lisa Oppenheim has steadily developed
a unique body of work exploring the usage of (historical) imagery.
Balanced between appropriation and reconstruction, her work relies
on substitutions applied to photographic and filmic records through
which the historical and the present are transmitted and
constituted through a language of today. One could define her work
as an archaeology of time and visual culture. By exposing, or even
re-exposing, archival material, Oppenheim bridges the past and the
present by introducing new meaning to these historical images,
often resulting in film and photographic projects.
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Melissa Gordon - Material Evidence Sternberg Press 2014 ISBN
9783956790331 Acqn 23595 Pb 22x28cm 64pp 41ills 13col 15.95
Contributions by Mina Loy, Marina Vishmidt; interview by Marie-Anne
McQuay Material Evidence expands on the formal concerns and
critical debates developed through Melissa Gordons exhibition of
the same name, following a joint residency with Spike Island and
Spike Island Print Studio in Bristol, in the summer of 2013.
Gordons work as a painter and printmaker follows the relationship
between representation and abstraction; she often enlarges details
to reveal hidden structures, zooming in until textual or pictorial
information is reduced to dots and lines. The publication navigates
through four concurrently exhibited and ongoing series (Structures
for Viewing, Blow Up Modernists, The Daily News RIP, and Material
Evidence) installed at Spike Island. This monograph contains a
reprint of the early modernist play Collision by Mina Loy, a source
that contextualizes Gordons concern with spatial arrangements and
pictorial staging. An essay by Marina Vishmidt reflects on the
legacies of modernism and the particular politics of abstraction
found within Gordons practice, and the conversation between Spike
Islands curator Marie-Anne McQuay and Gordon investigates how each
new body of work stages a reconfiguration of histories, surfaces,
and iconographies.
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Antony Gormley - According To A Given Mean Xavier Hufkens 2014
ISBN 9789491245060 Acqn 22918 Pb 21x26cm 104pp 41ills 32col 30
Mathematics reveal the hidden patterns that help us to understand
the world around us. To what extent are these principles which are
based on logic, data, measurements and observations and are thus
foreign to the human body capable of evoking emotional responses?
Mathematician and philosopher Jean Paul Van Bendegem addresses this
question in his essay on Antony Gormleys exhibition according to a
given mean. Henry Moores daughter, Mary Moore, discusses geometry
with Gormley and analyses its importance as a starting point for an
investigation of space, place and reflexive architecture.
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Anne Truitt Threshold Matthew Marks 2014 ISBN 9781880146705 Acqn
23353 Hb 24x29cm 144pp 70ills 65col 32 Threshold is an in-depth
look at a pivotal decade in the career of Anne Truitt (19212004):
the 1970s. An authoritative essay by acclaimed art historian Anne
M. Wagner delivers new insights into the artist and her work, while
extensive excerpts from the artists writings--including some
previously unpublished--open a new window on Truitts creative
process and its preoccupation with perceptual experiences that
hover along an invisible edge--a threshold, as Truitt often called
it, or "the point at which the abstract nature of events becomes
perceptible." In the 1970s this idea was an ongoing preoccupation,
which she repeatedly attempted to define. The plates section
includes generous illustrations of works from the period, including
drawings, paintings and the sculptures for which she has been
heralded as a key figure in post-war American art.
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Gary Hume - The Wonky Wheel Matthew Marks 2014 ISBN
9781880146712 Acqn 23367 Hb 22x28cm 112pp 57ills 54col 25 In Gary
Hume: The Wonky Wheel, the renowned British artist updates the
genre of history painting for the twenty-first century. With the 18
paintings and three sculptures gathered in this volume--all new and
never before published--Hume unveils colourful abstractions rooted
in contemporary conflict and the fragility of human life. If these
most recent works are, as Hume himself stresses, a form of history
painting--representations of a series of "pregnant moments"
connected to one of the great historical dramas of our time--Hume
short-circuits this notion by rendering their historical scenes all
but invisible, thus apparently declaring his disinterest in any
narrative whatsoever. Nonetheless, these moments form the building
blocks of the work. Historys forward progress is constant, Humes
art proposes, but it is always wonky.
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Natacha Nisic Echo Actes Sud 2014 ISBN 9782330023799 Acqn 23399
Pb 18x24cm 204pp 154ills 130col 28.95 This first monograph of the
work of French artist Natacha Nisic (born 1967) chronicles several
video installations produced since 1995. The piece f, for
Fukushima, created for the exhibition, observes Fukushimas
landscapes, villages and inhabitants who suffered the effects of
the tsunami and the nuclear reactor disaster.
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Y Z Kami Paintings Gagosian Gallery (NY) 2014 ISBN 9781935263951
Acqn 23500 Hb 24x33cm 164pp 80col ills 63.50 Kamis portraits of
introspective subjects, often with eyes closed as though in
meditation, project a broad and inviting spiritual presence. With
his own photographs of family, friends and strangers as source
material, he uses faces as vessels to convey an almost sacred and
universal atmosphere of reflection. The matte surfaces of the
canvases resemble fresco, while the closely cropped, centered
compositions evoke El Faym portraits of ancient Egypt. Beginning
with a primary paint layer in warm terra cotta, Kami renders these
figures in a uniform sfumato that evokes a light tremor, imparting
to the paintings a striking effect of movement. This sense of
vitality may stem from our own associations with photographed
subjects in motion, but it transcends the veracity of photographs.
Kami does not aim to create photorealistic portrayals; rather, he
seeks to make his subjects uncannily present in spirit.
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Ronald De Bloeme, Dan Van Golden, J C J Vanderheyden -
Juxtaposed, Simultaneous Lecturis 2013 ISBN 9789462260580 Acqn
23552 Pb 21x25cm 104pp 80col ills 21 Ronald de Bloeme (1971) , Daan
van Golden (1936) and JCJ Vanderheyden (1928-2012) are handling
related visual languages in which the perception of reality is
central, shown in a reduced, abstracted form. In the work of Van
Golden focus is on the the choice of the image and a meticulous
process of painting. In the works of Vanderheyden perception is
linked to a certain order within the painting. And Bloeme makes
reinterpretations of logos, advertisement and other expressions of
our consumer society. In this book, the work of the artists is
presented alongside each other in different ways, in which not only
remarkable affinities, but also the uniqueness of everyone's work
is visible. These properties form the common theme in the book that
can be read as a "visual essay" on the affinities and differences
between the oeuvres. Attention is drawn to the role of perception,
appropriating and edit existing images and the act of painting
itself.
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Isabel And Alfredo Aquilizan - In-Habit. Project Another Country
21st Century Museum Kanazawa 2014 ISBN 9784907490010 Acqn 23555 Hb
16x22cm 96pp 50col ills 18 Project Another Country, a project begun
in 2006 by Isabel and Alfredo Aquilizan after moving from the
Philippines to Brisbane, Australia, comprises a series of
installations made from cardboard boxes and dealing with the idea
of home/land. It implies being in the middle of two places, and
reflects upon the global phenomenon of migration and of living in
foreign lands, unsure what to call home. Published on the occasion
of an exhibition at the 21st Century Museum of Art, Kanazawa, this
book diligently documents all aspects of the project through
interviews, childrens workshops, sketches, numerous construction
and installation views, and an essay by curator Hiromi
Kurosawa.
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Tama-chan - Smiling Sushi Roll Little More 2014 ISBN
9784898153840 Acqn 23590 Pb 18x13cm 88pp 150col ills 13.95
Nowadays, sushi is a universally recognised aspect of Japanese
culture, and sushi rolls are often made for fun. Takayo Kiyota
(Tama-chan) goes a step further, crafting specialty rolls that
become artworks in themselves. Whether reproducing masterworks like
Vermeers Girl with a Pearl Earring or Munchs The Scream, making
cartoonish pictures, or actually creating a changing pictorial
narrative with each successive slice, her skill in structuring
sushi rolls from basic ingredients like rice, seaweed, cucumber,
pickles, peppers and cheese is simply astonishing. Kiyota also
conducts workshops promoting the importance of food culture and the
enjoyment of craft through the sushi roll.