Amy Pleasant's first monograph, The Messenger's Mouth Was Heavy, includes more than 200 pages of the artist's paintings, drawings, and ceramic works. The numerous work reproductions in the book showcase Pleasant's iterative but deeply human process, where she subtly explores the fragmented human form, most often rendered in monochrome. Contributed essays from Katie Geha and Daniel Fuller speak on her work's relation to gesture and language, the graphic underpinnings of Civil Rights movements in the South, and the empathetic possibility of recognizing faces in inanimate objects, a phenomenon known as pareidolia.
The publication is released in tandem with Pleasant's exhibition at our Lexington space, entitled Someone Before You.
Amy Pleasant: The Messenger's Mouth Was Heavy
Softcover, 9 x 11.5 inches / 248 pages
Pub Date: 2019
Publisher: Institute 193 and Frank
Contributed Essays from Katie Geha and Daniel Fuller
Concept and editing by Amy Pleasant and Michael Aberman
Design by Michael Aberman
Proof/Copyediting by Paul Michael Brown
ISBN: 978-1-7328482
Printed in Belgium by die Keure
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