<p>Published in conjunction with the first full career survey of Los Angeles artist Lun<strong>na Menoh, which was mounted by Track 16 Gallery in 2006, Lun</strong>na Menoh: 1988-2006 was created in collaboration with award winning designer Stuart Smith. Including an essay by exhibition curator Kristine McKenna, the catalogue features full color images from all Menoh’s art-making practices, which include painting, sculpture, performance art, and video. Central to the book are Menoh’s subversive one-of-a-kind sculptural garments. In the Surrealist tradition, these wearable artworks are at turns witty, diabolical, and unabashedly beautiful. The Magical Story Teller Dress, for instance, is a mechanized gown with a full skirt that incorporates several picture frames; as the wearer weaves her tale, paintings in the picture frames shift to illustrate the story. Men’s Wardrobe is a clothing rack of men’s wear that’s been stripped down to nothing but the seams, and Which Room Do You Want to Get Into? is a bright yellow jumper inset with fantasy boxes evocative of work by Joseph Cornell. Also included are several pieces from Menoh’s Dirty Shirt Collar, project, which includes a line of clothing fashioned entirely from dirty shirt collars, and a series of painted portraits of her favorite dirty collars.</p>
<p>32 pages, Softcover, 8 1/2×5 1/2 inches, 2006</p>
<p><a href="http://www.track16.com/exhibitions/lun-na_menoh/index.html">Exhibition Link</a></p>2007-08-03T14:29:45-07:001346501861Books2007-08-03T14:29:45-07:00Lun*na Menoh: 1988-2006 [Pinspot #16]2007-08-14T17:49:20-07:00Smart Art Press
Published in conjunction with the first full career survey of Los Angeles artist Lun*na Menoh, which was mounted by Track 16 Gallery in 2006, Lun*na Menoh: 1988-2006 was created in collaboration with award winning designer Stuart Smith. Including an essay by exhibition curator Kristine McKenna, the catalogue features full color images from all Menoh’s art-making practices, which include painting, sculpture, performance art, and video. Central to the book are Menoh’s subversive one-of-a-kind sculptural garments. In the Surrealist tradition, these wearable artworks are at turns witty, diabolical, and unabashedly beautiful. The Magical Story Teller Dress, for instance, is a mechanized gown with a full skirt that incorporates several picture frames; as the wearer weaves her tale, paintings in the picture frames shift to illustrate the story. Men’s Wardrobe is a clothing rack of men’s wear that’s been stripped down to nothing but the seams, and Which Room Do You Want to Get Into? is a bright yellow jumper inset with fantasy boxes evocative of work by Joseph Cornell. Also included are several pieces from Menoh’s Dirty Shirt Collar, project, which includes a line of clothing fashioned entirely from dirty shirt collars, and a series of painted portraits of her favorite dirty collars.
32 pages, Softcover, 8 1/2 x 5 1/2 inches, 2006
"Exhibition Link":http://www.track16.com/exhibitions/lun-na_menoh/index.html
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