Umolu, Yesomi — Harold Mendez: The Years Now

Chicago, Illinois, University Of Chicago Press / Logan Center, 2020. Softcover. grey wraps w/ blind-stamped illustration; thick, plastic jacket w/ white illustration. 123 pgs w/ primarily color illustrations throughout. Wonderfully designed edition. "In January of 2020, Logan Center Exhibitions presented a suite of newly commissioned works across photography, sculpture, and sound by visual artist Harold Mendez. Building on his process-based approach, Mendez uses Pre-Columbian ritual and memorial artifacts as a point of departure, evoking their function as both signifiers for and extensions of the human body. Transforming his material through a sequence of processes that include various imaging techniques such as digital scanning and three-dimensional printing, the artist's project speaks to the poetic connection between material matter, site, and memory. The accompanying publication for the exhibition-the first substantial monograph dedicated to his work-will be developed in close collaboration with the artist. Published by Logan Center Exhibitions, the publication features a foreword by director and curator Yesomi Umolu; a major contextualizing essay by scholar and curator Candice Hopkins; an interview with the artist; and a text by poet J. Michael Martinez. The resulting 124-page monograph will also include installation images from the exhibition at Logan Center Gallery"--Publisher. VG (scuffs, scratches to plastic jacket; fine rub to tail. light wear to wrap edges & corners) .