{"product_id":"at-home-alice-neel-in-the-queer-world","title":"At Home: Alice Neel in the Queer World","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAlice Neel's unstinting, visionary engagement with the lives of those around her resulted in an inclusive oeuvre. This aspect of queer representation in her work is explored for the first time in this new catalogue.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eCurated by Hilton Als and organized in collaboration with the Estate of Alice Neel, \u003ci\u003eAt Home: Alice Neel in the Queer World\u003c\/i\u003e highlights the artist's vibrant involvement with the human condition. Within a lifetime of work, Neel painted many people from many walks of life--this catalogue is the first to focus on queer communities, those who were part of their circle, as well as allies and others with whom the artist was in broader conversation--together forming a collective portrait that both embodies and complicates an understanding of the queer world of Neel's moment and the artist's place within it.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis collection of paintings includes rarely seen works depicting individuals including Frank O'Hara, Allen Ginsberg, and Adrienne Rich, as well as writers, artists, friends, and advocates. As Als notes, this book includes \"not just portraits of gay people but those of theorists, activists, politicians, and so on who would qualify as queer by virtue of their different take in their given field and thus the world. So doing, they reflect Alice's own interest in and commitment to difference.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe catalogue accompanies Neel's first significant exhibition in Los Angeles, at David Zwirner in 2024. Edited and with a text by Als, the volume includes newly commissioned contributions by Alex Fialho, Evan Garza, and Wayne Koestenbaum.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Alice Neel, Hilton Als (Author), Alex Fialho (Author)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 06\/04\/2024\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e David Zwirner Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781644231302\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 144\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 2.20lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 10.71h x 8.74w x 0.87d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAlice Neel \u003c\/b\u003ewas born in 1900 in Merion Square, Pennsylvania, and died in 1984 in New York. With a practice spanning from the 1920s to the 1980s, Neel is widely regarded as one of the foremost American painters of the twentieth century. Based in New York, Neel selected her sitters from among her family members, friends, neighbors, and a variety of New Yorkers, and her eccentric portraits are thus a portrayal of, and dialogue with, the city in which she lived. Although she showed sporadically early in her career, from the 1960s onward her work was exhibited widely in the United States. In 1974, she had her first retrospective at the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHilton Als is a writer with focus in theater criticism. He became a staff writer at \u003ci\u003eThe New Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e in 1994, a theater critic in 2002, and chief theater critic in 2013. His book \u003ci\u003eWhite Girls\u003c\/i\u003e (2013) discusses various narratives around race, identity, gender, and sexuality, and was nominated for a National Book Critics Circle Award in Criticism.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAlex Fialho (he\/they) is an art historian, curator, and PhD candidate in Yale University's Combined PhD program in the History of Art and African American Studies. Fialho's writing has been published in exhibition catalogs for the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Studio Museum in Harlem, Socrates Sculpture Park, and the Andy Warhol Museum, among others.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eEvan Garza is a curator, scholar, and a Curatorial Exchange Initiative Fellow at MASS MoCA in North Adams, Massachusetts. Their writing on the work of global contemporary artists has been published in several books and monographs and by IMMA, The Drawing Center, \u003ci\u003eFlash Art\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eART PAPERS\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eHyperallergic\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eArtforum\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWayne Koestenbaum--poet, critic, fiction-writer, artist, and filmmaker--has published over twenty books, including \u003ci\u003eThe Queen's Throat\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eCamp Marmalade\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eHumiliation\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eHotel Theory\u003c\/i\u003e. He is a distinguished professor of English, French, and Comparative Literature at the CUNY Graduate Center.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Ingram","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42130875842634,"sku":"9781644231302","price":55.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0011\/8990\/4435\/files\/at-home-alice-neel-in-the-queer-world-9781644231302.jpg?v=1749024603","url":"https:\/\/trnk-nyc.mom\/products\/at-home-alice-neel-in-the-queer-world","provider":"TRNK","version":"1.0","type":"link"}