Synopses & Reviews
This collection, spanning two decades of artistic activity, features selections of writings tracing the intellectual influences and development of one of the more formidable and productive minds in the contemporary art world. The writings of Enrique Martand#237;nez Celaya comprise public lectures; essays; interviews; correspondence with artists, critics, and scholars; artist statements; blog posts; and journal entries.and#160;This selection of writings includes the six public lectures Martand#237;nez Celaya delivered during his three-year appointment as the second Visiting Presidential Professor at the University of Nebraska. Marked by an encyclopedic curiosity and considerable knowledge about the world, these lectures explore the nature of photography and painting, the role of the artist as prophet, the relationship of art to the university and the museum, as well as reflections on his own work.and#160;Enrique Martand#237;nez Celaya: Collected Writings and Interviews, 1990and#8211;2010 features seventy-nine photographs from Martand#237;nez Celayaand#8217;s collection;and#160;an introduction by Klaus Ottmann, who teaches art history at the School of Visual Arts in New York and is the Robert Lehman Curator for The Parrish Art Museum in Southampton, New York; andand#160;a foreword by James B. Milliken, president of the University of Nebraska.
Review
"Martinez Celaya's writings and interviews need to be closely considered. I've readand#160;the book over the last couple of weeks and can't stop thinking about the issues and ideas he raises."and#8212;L. Kent Wolgamott, Lincoln Journal Star
Synopsis
Distributed by the University of Nebraska Press for Whale and Star PressNomad, Enrique Martand#237;nez Celayaand#8217;s exhibition at the Miami Art Museum, consists of five large-scale paintings commissioned by the museum. This companion volume combines images of the finished paintings with Martand#237;nez Celayaand#8217;s notes, sketches, and photographs of the work in process to reveal the evolution and concept behind this body of work. An accompanying essay by Peter Boswell, senior curator of the Miami Art Museum, reflects on previous work by Martand#237;nez Celaya in relation to this new project cycle. The book also includes the artistand#8217;s exhibition history and a bibliography.
Synopsis
In On Art and Mindfulness, world-renowned artist and celebrated teacher Enrique Martínez Celaya shares his views and advice on the art-making process, the development of a practice, the management of obstacles, and the day-to-day choices we must make in order to remain creative and honest. Drawn from the actual sold-out workshops that Martínez Celaya taught over nine years at the venerable Anderson Ranch Arts Center in Snowmass, Colorado, these concise teachings are relevant not only to artists but to anyone wishing to live a mindful, productive life.
About the Author
Born in Cuba in 1964, Enrique Martand#237;nez Celaya majored in applied physics at Cornell University and pursued a PhD in quantum electronics at the University of California, Berkeley, where he was supported by a fellowship from the Brookhaven National Laboratory. He attended the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture in Maine and received his MFA from the University of California, Santa Barbara. He was an associate professor at Pomona College and the Claremont Graduate University (1994and#8211;2003) and was Visiting Presidential Professor at the University of Nebraska (2007and#8211;10).
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His work is in the permanent collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, the Museum der Bildenden Kand#252;nste Leipzig and others. His awards include the Anderson Ranch National Artist Award, the California Community Foundation Fellowship, J. Paul Getty Trust Fund for the Visual Arts, the Los Angeles County Museum of Artand#8217;s Art Here and Now Award and the Hirsch Grant. In 1998 he founded Whale and Star, a publishing house whose books are distributed internationally. He is the author of numerous books, including Martand#237;nez Celaya: Early Work, Nomad, and The Blog: Bad Time for Poetry.