About the Event

Join us for a special book-signing event, featuring three unique publications, with artists Merryn Omotayo Alaka, Kristin Bauer, and Ann Morton; editor and writer Deborah Sussman; and curators Jennifer McCabe, Keshia Turley, and Lauren R. O’Connell.

About the Books

Language in Times of Miscommunication is a conceptual exhibition catalog that investigates the slippery relationship between opinion, fact, and fiction within the construct of our collective reality through the work of 18 contemporary artists, interwoven as visual commentary within an extensive essay by Lauren R. O’Connell. Designed by the bi-coastal, LGBTQ+, and minority-owned studio Polymode, the catalog is considered a twofold object—publication and artwork—that conveys notions of intentional and unintentional miscommunication through poetic research and speculative design.

In Our Time: Selections from the Singer Collection is an exhibition catalog that features paintings and works on paper by 27 contemporary artists living and working in cities such as London, Beijing, New York, New Haven, Los Angeles, Accra, and Nairobi and selected from the collection of Iris and Adam Singer. The cover features two versions of a commissioned print by the artist Merryn Omotayo Alaka. Contextualizing this global exhibition are essays by Jennifer McCabe, Natasha Becker, Camille Bacon, Alejo Benedetti, Derek Fodjour, Richard Powell, Kellie Romany, Raél Jero Salley, Keshia Turley, Emily Wilkerson, and Allison Young.

Kristin Bauer: This Is Like That 2017–2020 is a conceptually designed book as art object that archives the artist’s work from 2017 to 2020, including essays and dialogue from collaborating curators and writers exploring historic and contemporary influences and references connecting the artwork to the zeitgeist. It incorporates silk-screened acetate pages and book jacket, with referential ephemera spanning print, silent film, marketing and propaganda, capturing the materiality, form and function of visual discourse in the artist’s work. Text contributions are by Ginger Shulick Porcella, Deborah H. Sussman and Rachel Zebro, plus an artist-curator dialogue with Lauren R. O’Connell.  The book is designed by Alexander Kohnke, together with the artist, and distributed by Hirmer Publishers. Limited inserts and prints produced in residency with The Space Program SF will be available at this event.

All books will be available for purchase in the [email protected] Presented in conjunction with Language in Times of Miscommunication at Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art, March 4–August 27, 2023.