Michelle Stuart
Michelle Stuart
Logbook for Lost Horizons, 1984
Graphite, encaustic, rock marks, earth, paper, linen, hydrocal
12 x 11 x 3.5 inches (30.5 x 27.9 x 8.9 cm)
GL13110
Michelle Stuart
Paquet Book, 1984
Earth, encaustic, pigments, string, wax, fiber/rag
8.5 x 7.5 x 2 inches (21.6 x 19.1 x 5.1 cm)
GL13112
Michelle Stuart
Afriqya: Night Chant, 1983
Earth from site near Ait Ben Haddou, Morocco, paper, gypsum
11 x 10 x 3 inches (27.9 x 25.4 x 7.6 cm)
GL14516
Michelle Stuart
Nazca Lines Chart Book, 1981-82
Earth, graphite, laminated handmade paper
11.25 x 31 x 2.25 inches (28.6 x 78.7 x 5.7 cm)
GL13125
Michelle Stuart
Project for a Chart of the Earth Reflecting the Sky, 1983
Earth from Zagora, Moroco, plaster, handmade paper
17.5 x 21.5 x 2 inches (44.5 x 54.6 x 5.1 cm)
GL13126
Michelle Stuart
Adena, 1978
Earth from site, woven string, cloth, muslin-mounted rag paper
14 x 14 x 1 inches (35.6 x 35.6 x 2.5 cm)
GL14514
Michelle Stuart
Niagara River Rock Book, 1975
Earth from Niagara River, paper, cotton cloth
7 x 13 x 1 inches (17.8 x 33 x 2.5 cm)
GL14515
Michelle Stuart
Tapa, 1998
Seeds, beeswax, pigments and wood
12 x 12 inches (30.5 x 30.5 cm)
GL12758
Michelle Stuart
Flight of Time, 2016
Suite of eighty-eight archival inkjet photographs
Framed, each: 8.6 x 11.1 x .6 inches (21.9 x 28.3 x 1.4 cm) Overall: 71.5 x 126 inches (181.6 x 320 cm)
GL12684
Michelle Stuart
Eclipse II August 21, 2017, 2017-18
Suite of twenty-five archival inkjet photographs
Framed, each: 8.63 x 11.13 x .6 inches (21.9 x 28.3 x 1.4 cm) Overall: 44.5 x 57 inches (113 x 144.8 cm)
GL12702
Michelle Stuart
The Sea Was A Mirror, 2017
Archival inkjet photograph
13 x 19 inches (33 x 48.3 cm) Framed: 13.2 x 19.2 x .9 inches (33.4 x 48.7 x 2.2 cm)
GL12693
Michelle Stuart
Memory: Sailor's Fantasy, 2017
Archival inkjet photograph
13 x 19 inches (33 x 48.3 cm) Framed: 13.2 x 19.2 x .9 inches (33.4 x 48.7 x 2.2 cm)
GL12700
Galerie Lelong & Co., New York, is pleased to announce a solo presentation of sculptural book works by Michelle Stuart for Frieze Viewing Room in collaboration with Marc Selwyn Fine Art, Beverly Hills.
This presentation is part of Frieze New York’s curated program “Spotlight,” a showcase of solo exhibitions of work by pioneering figures of the 20th century and is curated by Laura Hoptman (Executive Director of the Drawing Center, New York).
This will mark the first presentation solely dedicated to Stuart’s book works, which have been an integral component of her practice and were often made from indigenous materials found at sites where she executed her unique Land Art-based works. The artist’s books had been included in Stuart’s major presentation at the 57th Venice Biennale (2017), Viva Arte Viva! curated by Christine Macel.
"[Stuart's] book-like objects...chart their own poetic lexicon—a 'language of marks,' to adopt the title of one such tome... the books present more of a 'mystery' to the viewer—most cannot be opened, and few contain actual language or information... They cannot be read; they must be read as forms." – Mira Dayal on Michelle Stuart's books, "Leaves of Grass," Artforum, February 2020
