Please join us for a lively discussion between Mary Rakow and Enrique Martinez Celaya, together with Howard Fox, about the new book Enrique Martínez Celaya. Working Methods/Métodos de trabajo.
Friday, July 19 at 6 p.m.
ARCANA @ The Historic Helms Bakery
8675 Washington Boulevard
Culver City, CA 90232
Tel: 310-458-1499
The event is free. We recommend that you arrive early for preferred seating.
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Enrique Martínez Celaya is an internationally renowned artist who works in a broad range of media. Enrique also writes about art, poetry and aesthetics, and is the founder of the publishing house Whale & Star. His current project, entitled The Pearl, opens at Site Santa Fe, New Mexico on July 13. The exhibition provides the visitor with an immersive environment including painting, sculpture, video, photography, waterwork, sound, and writing, as well as the artist’s first musical arrangement.
Howard N. Fox is Curator Emeritus of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles County Museum of Art and was previously curator at the Hirschhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden in Washington, D.C. Howard has curated and organised numerous solo and group exhibitions, including Made in California: Art, Image, and Identity 1990-2000 and Phantom Sightings: Art after the Chicago Movement. Focusing on issues of content and meaning in contemporary art, Fox has also published and lectured widely.
Mary Rakow is a novelist and writing teacher, who holds advanced degrees in Theology from Harvard University and Boston College. Her debut novel The Memory Room (Washington: Counterpoint Press, 2002) was short-listed for the PEN Award in Fiction, among other awards. Rakow is recipient of a Foundation Literary Lannan Fellowship and is co-authorof Martinez Celaya: Working Methods/Métodos de trabajo.
IMAGE: Enrique Martínez Celaya. Working Methods/Métodos de trabajo. (Barcelona: Ediciones Polígrafa), 2012. Text by Mary Rakow and Matthew Biro with a conversation between Leo A. Harrington, Mary Rakow and Enrique Martínez Celaya. 168 pages, 106 illustrations in color, Hardcover.