Research Catalog

Details

Additional authors

1. Dickens, Lauren Schell
2. Batton, Susan Sayre
3. Sorkin, Jenni
4. Katrib, Ruba
5. Nguyen, Julien
6. San Jose Museum of Art, host institution
7. Charles and Emma Frye Art Museum, host institution
8. Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego, host institution

Description

1. 199 pages : illustrations (chiefly color); 25 cm

Summary

1. "As the first in-depth monograph on the artist, Kelly Akashi: Formations accompanies the major survey exhibition organized by the San José Museum of Art and traveling nationally. Much like the artist's own work, the catalogue cultivates relationships between objects and materials to investigate how they can actively convey their histories and potential for change. Spanning nearly ten years of her practice, the publication follows the artist from graduate school to more recent research into the inherited impact of Japanese Americans' incarceration during World War II. Akashi's works in glass, cast bronze, multipart installations, and photographic contact prints are given further context through scholarly essays by San José Museum of Art's senior curator Lauren Schell Dickens, curator Ruba Katrib, and art historian Dr. Jenni Sorkin, as well as a conversation between Akashi and painter Julien Nguyen. Dickens provides an overview of some of the themes in Akashi's work as they spiral through each other: studies of weeds, fossils, and rocks expand to consider time, ancestry and inheritance, botanical and geologic memory, and kinship between beings. Sorkin examines Akashi's practice within a larger context of skilled craft, what she terms "geoaesthetics," and vernacular culture in California. Katrib looks at the centrality of the artist's hands and body in her practice. Along with extensive plates and installation photography, the book features a new photography project by Akashi, a record of her scavenging for history in the site of her family's imprisonment in a WWII Japanese American incarceration camp." --

Alternative title

1. Formations

Subject

1. Akashi, Kelly, 1983- -- Exhibitions
2. 2000-2099
3. Japanese American artists -- Exhibitions
4. Conceptual art -- United States -- 21st century -- Exhibitions
5. Installations (Art) -- United States -- 21st century -- Exhibitions
6. Japanese American artists
7. Installations (Art)
8. Conceptual art
9. United States

Genre/Form

1. Exhibition catalogs.

Contents

1. Foreword / Susan Sayre Batton -- On being formed / Lauren Schell Dickens -- Unlimited form / Jenni Sorkin -- Doubles and their shadows / Ruba Katrib -- Scavenging for history / Kelly Akashi -- New ground / Julien Nguyen & Kelly Akashi.

Call number

1. JQE 24-256

Note

1. Colophon states that Eugenia Bell is the editor.
2. "Published on the occasion of the exhibition Kelly Akashi: Formations organized by the San José Museum of Art. San José Museum of Art, September 3, 2022-May 21, 2023, Frye Art Museum, Seattle, June 17-September 3, 2023, Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, September 21, 2023-February 18, 2024" -- Colophon.

Bibliography (note)

1. Includes bibliographical references.

Author

1. Akashi, Kelly, 1983- artist, writer of supplementary textual content.

Title

1. Kelly Akashi : formations / edited by Lauren Schell Dickens ; with contributions by Kelly Akashi, Ruba Katrib, Julien Nguyen, Jenni Sorkin.

Publisher

1. Los Angeles, CA : Inventory Press ; San José, California : San José Museum of Art, [2023]

Distributor

1. New York, NY : Distributed by Artbook/D.A.P.

Copyright date

1. ©2023

Type of content

1. text
2. still image

Type of medium

1. unmediated

Type of carrier

1. volume

Bibliography

1. Includes bibliographical references.

Chronological term

1. 2000-2099

Added author

1. Dickens, Lauren Schell, editor, writer of supplementary textual content.
2. Batton, Susan Sayre, writer of foreword.
3. Sorkin, Jenni, writer of supplementary textual content.
4. Katrib, Ruba, writer of supplementary textual content.
5. Nguyen, Julien, writer of supplementary textual content.
6. San Jose Museum of Art, host institution.
7. Charles and Emma Frye Art Museum, host institution.
8. Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego, host institution.

LCCN

1. 2022945822

ISBN

1. 9781941753552 (hardcover)
2. 1941753558 (hardcover)

Research call number

1. JQE 24-256