Edwards, Adrienne — Blackness in Abstraction

New York, Pace Gallery, 2016. Softcover. Black wraps with white images and lettering. Textured paper dust wrapper with black lettering. 209 pp. with color and bw images throughout. Catalogue from the exhibition of June 24 to August 19, 2016. Blackness in Abstraction was an exhibition curated by Adrienne Edwards tracing the persistent presence of the color black in art, with a particular emphasis on monochromes, from the 1940s to today. Featuring works by an international and intergenerational group of artists, the exhibition explores blackness as a highly evocative and animating force in various approaches to abstract art. Artists included Terry Adkins, Rasheed Araeen, Kevin Beasley, Sergio Camargo, Jonathas de Andrade, Koji Enokura, Ellen Gallagher, Robert Irwin, Rashid Johnson, Sol LeWitt, Glenn Ligon, Laura Lima, Turiya Magadlela, Steve McQueen, Ulrike Müller, Oscar Murillo, Wangechi Mutu, Louise Nevelson, Lorraine O'Grady, Adam Pendleton, Pope.L, Robert Rauschenberg, Ad Reinhardt, Fred Sandback, Sui Jianguo, Jack Tworkov, Carrie Mae Weems, Jack Whitten, and Fred Wilson. VG (few scuffs to dj) .