{"title":"Mel Katz","description":null,"products":[{"product_id":"constructures-new-perimetrics-abstract-painting-nohra-haime-1985","title":"Constructures: New Perimetrics in Abstract Painting, Nohra Haime Gallery, New York, 1985","description":"\u003cp\u003eExhibition catalogue, curated by Peter Frank, published by Nohra Haime Gallery, New York, 1985. Staple-bound, offset-printed; 40 pages; 21.5 × 28 cm. Exhibition dates: 6 February–2 March 1985.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eArtists: Frances Barth, Srule Brachman, Rodney Carswell, Richard Dunlap, Barry Goldberg, Allan Graham, Otis Jones, Mel Katz, Charles Magistro, Jim Nickel, Tim Rietenbach, Gregg Renfrow, Elke Solomon, Ted Stamm and Naomi Waksberg.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCondition:\u003c\/strong\u003e good vintage condition; general toning, rubbing and handling marks to wrappers, with shallow creasing, edge wear and a softened upper-right corner. Small pale rectangular mark to the front cover. Binding intact.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eConstructures proposed a temporary category for abstraction moving beyond the conventional rectangular support. Edge, perimeter, thickness and silhouette become active parts of the work, placing painting close to relief, construction and sculpture.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSeveral distinct positions meet within that heading. Ted Stamm, included shortly after his death in 1984, extended serial abstraction into shaped supports, street actions and site-specific activity. Allan Graham moved between painting, language, printed matter and alternative identity, resisting a fixed medium or signature. Otis Jones pursued materially exact painting-objects whose modest supports and physical thickness refused both representation and spectacle.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe catalogue records these practices before they separated into their later histories. Constructures was not an established movement but an attempt to name a shared pressure at the boundary of painting.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe cover carries no reproduction. The exhibition enters circulation first as title and proposition: fifteen artists placed briefly beneath one institutional term.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSecurely packed; tracked UK and international shipping available.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Nohra Haime Gallery","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53726448419154,"sku":"BARTH-NOHRAHAIME-CAT-1985","price":65.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0991\/5636\/1554\/files\/Barth_Frances._Katz_Mel._Constructures_New_Perimetrics_in_Abstract_Painting._1985.jpg?v=1781246742"}],"url":"https:\/\/thenewrare.com\/collections\/mel-katz.oembed","provider":"The New Rare","version":"1.0","type":"link"}