Wardrobe Test: Book Signing with Suzanne Bocanegra and Annie-B Parson
BOOK SIGNING WITH SUZANNE BOCANEGRA AND ANNIE-B PARSON
5:00P SUNDAY, NOV 24
Please join us for a book signing with Suzanne Bocanegra and Annie-B Parson in celebration of their new respective publications: SUZANNE BOCANEGRA: POORLY WATCHED GIRLS and DRAWING THE SURFACE OF DANCE: A BIOGRAPHY IN CHARTS.
SUZANNE BOCANEGRA: POORLY WATCHED GIRLS
Publisher: MW Editions and Fabric Workshop and Museum, Philadelphia
Format: Hardcover / 6.25 x 9.5 inches / 96 pages / 60 color
ISBN: 9780998701851
Published on occasion of Bocanegra’s 2018 solo exhibition at the Fabric Workshop and Museum in Philadelphia, Suzanne Bocanegra: Poorly Watched Girls includes a foreword by Susan L. Talbott, Executive Director of the Fabric Workshop and Museum, and an interview with the artist by art critic and art historian Hal Foster. Bocanegra’s three large-scale works: Valley (2018); Lemonade, Roses, Satchel (2017); and Dialogue of the Carmelites (2018), which are currently on view in her solo exhibition Wardrobe Test at Art Cake, are illustrated throughout the catalogue.
ABOUT SUZANNE BOCANEGRA
Born in Houston, Texas, Suzanne Bocanegra received her B.F.A. from University of Texas, Austin, and her M.F.A. from San Francisco Art Institute. Since the late 1980s, Bocanegra’s work has been the subject of major solo exhibitions and featured in international group exhibitions. She has been a recipient of notable awards and fellowships, including a Smithsonian Artist Research Fellowship (2013), a New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship (2005; 2001; 1993; and 1989); Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant (2003; 1990; 1988); Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation Grant; Joan Mitchell Foundation Grant (both 2001); Prix de Rome (1990); among others. She is currently working on a performance commissioned by The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York and UCLA titled Honor. Bocanegra lives and works in New York.
DRAWING THE SURFACE OF DANCE: A BIOGRAPHY IN CHARTS
BY ANNIE-B PARSON
Publisher: Wesleyan University Press, Middletown, Connecticut
Format: Paperback / 9.75 x 7.5 inches / 176 pages
ISBN-13: 9780819579065
Soloing on the page, choreographer Annie-B Parson rethinks choreography as dance on paper. Parson draws her dances into new graphic structures calling attention to the visual facts of the materiality of each dance work she has made. These drawings serve as both maps of her pieces in the aftermath of performance, and a consideration of the elements of dance itself. Within the duality of form and content, this book explores the meanings that form itself holds, and Parson’s visual maps of choreographic ideas inspire new thinking around the shared elements underneath all art making.
ABOUT ANNIE-B PARSON
Annie-B Parson is a choreographer and artistic director of Big Dance Theater. Parson has also made choreography for rock shows, marching bands, symphonies, movies, museums, objects, augmented reality, and people: David Byrne, David Bowie, St. Vincent, Mikhail Baryshnikov, Wendy Whelan, Laurie Anderson, Nico Muhly, Jonathan Demme, and the Martha Graham Dance Co. Her most recent choreographic and staging work can be seen in David Byrne’s American Utopia.
She has been awarded the Doris Duke Performing Artist Award (2014), an Olivier Award nomination in choreography (2015), Foundation for Contemporary Arts Grants to Artists Award (2014), USA Artists Grant in theater (2012), Guggenheim Fellowship in Choreography (2007), two BESSIE awards (2010, 2002), and three NYFA Choreography Fellowships (2013, 2006 and 2000). Big Dance Theater received an OBIE (2000) and the first Jacob’s Pillow Dance Award (2007).
Parson has been an instructor of choreography at New York University’s Experimental Theater Wing since 1993. She was featured in BOMB magazine, and has written articles for Ballet Review, Movement Research Journal, and drawing for The Brooklyn Rail.