Contemporary Art

Alexander Girard’s Imagined Worlds examines a modern design luminary whose collection of  global folk art and vernacular forms informed his expansive design practice. The book focuses on the Museum of International Folk Art, its displays and archival collections, and Girard’s Santa Fe years, as a locus for the designer-collector’s wide-ranging practices.  

A book as artistic creation: The artist Ulla von Brandenburg (b. 1974) creates multimedia works in a unique mixture of theatrical settings, object art, and performance. Boundaries between reality and illusion, interior and exterior are blurred in her art as they are in this colour-saturated volume, which springs entirely from her own artistic vision.

A richly illustrated exploration of the impact of W.E.B. Du Bois on Black artists working today, documenting the landmark 2025 printmaking project “Printing Black America.”  

Future Ruins explores the cutting-edge vision of Chris Dorland in his debut monograph, the definitive introduction to the acclaimed artist’s dystopian digital aesthetic: a fusion of digital media and painting, exploring themes of technological decay and post-capitalist aesthetics.

Artistic presentation made marvellous: a baguette as a balloon, a square with a jetpack, and voyeuristic potatoes. These are just some examples of Francisco Sierra’s photorealistic oil paintings. He rearranges everyday life, transforming objects into enigmatic and ambiguous worlds, showing the power that figurative painting continues to have today.

Two generations of esoteric exploration and material transmutation: The first examination of Beth Ames Swartz and Julianne Swartz’s intergenerational investigation of ethereal systems and the transcendent potential of art, highlighting the alignments within the artistic practices of mother and daughter.

The comprehensive monograph on Juergen Staack (b. 1978): What is a (photographic) image, and what can it do? For more than twenty years, the artist has been exploring the intersections of photography, conceptual art, performance and language. Through numerous illustrations and texts, this volume traces how Staack’s artistic practice expands the concepts, interpretations and terminology of photography. » further information