Kapwani Kiwanga: Structural Adjustments (2018)

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Edited by Yesomi Umolu and Gaëtane Verna
Foreward by Bill Michel and Gaëtane Verna; writing by Samia Henni and Yesomi Umolu; interview with Kapwani Kiwanga and Carolin Köchling

Kapwani Kiwanga is a Canadian-born, Paris-based artist who creates installations, performances, and video art that bring together her training in anthropology and comparative religion, while also drawing on her interest in history, memory, and mythology. Kiwanga deliberately mixes truth and fiction in her work, confusing the two in order to create fantastical narratives that are nonetheless rooted in rigorous research. This book presents works by Kiwanga investigating disciplinary architectures that were presented at the Logan Center Gallery at the University of Chicago and the Power Plant Contemporary Art Gallery in Toronto. Opening with a compelling array of installation images, research documents, and film stills from a newly commissioned video, the book also includes a curatorial essay surveying Kiwanga’s work to date, an essay that offers an unfinished cartography of the genealogy of disciplinary spaces, and an interview with Kiwanga that covers her research interests and methodology.

ISBN 978-0-692-96318-0
80 pages, soft cover
70 color plates, 30 halftones
15 x 20 cm

$32.00

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Earthlings (2017)

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Roger Aksadjuak, Shuvinai Ashoona, Pierre Aupilardjuk, Shary Boyle, Jessie Kenalogak, John Kurok and Leo Napayok
With texts by Shary Boyle, Heather Igloliorte, Naomi Potter and Shauna Thompson

Published by Esker Foundation in collaboration with Doris McCarthy Gallery,
Galerie de l’UQAM and Nanaimo Art Gallery.

Published on the occasion of the exhibition Earthlings, curated by Shary Boyle in collaboration with Shauna Thompson,
and presented at Esker Foundation, Calgary, January 21 – May 7, 2017.

Earthlings touring dates:

Doris McCarthy Gallery, Toronto: November 1, 2017 – January 27, 2018.
Galerie de l’UQAM, Montreal: March 11 – April 14, 2018.
Nanaimo Art Gallery: August 2 – October 6, 2018.

ISBN: 978-0-9811951-9-3
Publication in Inuktitut, French and English
Texts by Shary Boyle, Heather Igloliorte, Naomi Potter, and Shauna Thompson
Design by Mark Timmings
144 pages, soft cover
Over eighty colour illustrations
28 x 28 centimeters

$45.00

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HEREIN LIE THE SLEEP SICK (2017)

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Text by Pranav Behari
Photography by Jason de Haan, Miruna Dragan, Clint Roenisch, Peter Cox, and Toni Hafkenscheid

Featuring poetry by Pranav Behari, HEREIN LIE THE SLEEP SICK is Jason de Haan’s artist book designed to accompany his ambitious mid-career retrospective at Esker Foundation, Oh for eyes! At night we dream of eyes!

ISBN 978-0-9811951-8-6
64 pages, soft cover
colour and black and white
27.5 x 19.5 cm
Edition of 500

$20.00

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Deadhead: Cedric, Nathan and Jim Bomford (2015)

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Edited by Lorna Brown
Texts by Barbara Cole, Jen Weih, and Kimberly Phillips; photographs by Cedric Bomford, Nathan Bomford, Barbara Cole, Maegan Hill-Carroll, Michael Love, Philip Nee Nee, David Peters, Bob Ross, Rachel Topham, and Karen Zalamea
Co-published by Burrard Arts Foundation and Other Sights for Artists’ Projects

The Deadhead publication presents a rich visual narrative of an ambitious sculptural project by the Bomfords that leads the reader through phases of early research, studio production, installation, life on the water, and final deconstruction. Mounted to a barge and towed to different locations during the summer of 2014, this large-scale installation acted as a curious marine outpost asserting a presence that both troubled and delighted. In amongst paddleboats, pleasure craft, passenger ferries, cruise ships, freighters, and barges stacked high with global commodities, Deadhead introduced art as valuable cargo within a constantly changing flotilla of economic exchange. As a platform from which cultural activities unfolded, Deadhead hosted a lively program of events including weekly open houses, film screenings, workshops, choir performances, and a series of improvisational sunset performances.

Other Sights gratefully acknowledges the support of Burrard Arts Foundation, the Canada Council for the Arts, City of Vancouver, and private donors for this publication.

ISBN 978-0-9866819-3-6
112 pages, soft cover
Colour images
26.7 x 24 cm

$40.00

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Etienne Zack: The Sun Torn from the Sky (2016)

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Edited by Naomi Potter
Forward by Naomi Potter; essays by Travis Diehl, Carole Anne Klonarides, and Keith Wallace; interview with Naomi Potter and Etienne Zack

Published on the occasion of the exhibition Etienne Zack: Those Lacking Imagination Take Refuge In Reality, presented at the Esker Foundation from 28 May to 28 August 2016, this colour-illustrated catalogue presents an overview of recent painting and collage works by Etienne Zack.

ISBN 978-0-9811951-7-9
64 pages, soft cover
Colour images
21.5 x 27.8 cm

$40.00

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Wafaa Bilal: 168:01 (2016)

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Edited by Srimoyee Mitra
Foreward by Catherine Mastin, PhD; essays by Srimoyee Mitra, Ian Alden Russell, Gregory Sholette

Jointly published by the Art Gallery of Windsor and Esker Foundation, this colour-illustrated catalogue presents an overview of the practice of Wafaa Bilal as well as his new project, 168:01.

ISBN 978-0-919837-90-4
52 pages, soft cover
Colour images
25.5 x 21 cm

$15.00

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Jack Bush: In Studio (2016)

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Edited by Naomi Potter
Foreward by Naomi Potter, essay and catalogue entries by Sarah Stanners, Ph.D.

Published on the occasion of Esker Foundation’s exhibition, Jack Bush: In Studio, this colour-illustrated catalogue presents a tightly curated preview of Sarah Stanners’ forthcoming publication, Jack Bush: A Catalogue Raisonné. Featuring the history and trajectory of 20 Jack Bush masterworks, Jack Bush: In Studio offers new and unique insight into the life, work, and career of this celebrated Canadian colour field painter.

ISBN 978-0-9811951-6-2
96 pages, hard cover
Colour images
29.5 x 25 cm

$40.00

 

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Limited Edition Artist Tote: Ron Terada (2015)

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This limited edition tote bag designed by artist Ron Terada is the inaugural artist tote commissioned by Esker Foundation. This cream canvas bag features black silkscreen printing on both sides: the front shows the artist’s design, With friends nothing is easy, and the back shows the name Esker Foundation.

Dimensions (W x H x D): 43 x 40 x 10 cm
Handles: 33 cm long
100% cotton, made in Canada
Edition of 500

$10.00

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Wonder and Resonance: Fiction/Non-fiction (2015)

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Edited by Naomi Potter and Shauna Thompson
Featuring work by Raymond Boisjoly, Wally Dion, Brenda Draney, Dean Drever, Jeff Funnell, Jeffrey Gibson, Alex Janvier, Jonathan Jones, Glenn Ligon, Duane Linklater, Kent Monkman, Jude Norris, Krista Belle Stewart

Published on reflection of the exhibition Fiction/Non-fiction (2013), this full-colour catalogue features texts by Brenda Draney and Andrea Williamson, along with transcriptions of a public conversation between Raymond Boisjoly and Duane Linklater; a panel discussion featuring Brenda Draney, Jeff Funnell, Jude Norris, and Krista Belle Stewart; and an interview with Wayne Baerwaldt, Quyen Hoang, and Glenn Ligon.

ISBN 978-0-9811951-5-5
98 pages, soft cover
Colour images
34 x 21.5 cm

$40.00

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Terms of Engagement: Averns, feldman-kiss, Stimson (2014)

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Cynthia Girard: Unicorns and Dictators / Beth Stuart: Doubting Thomas (2014)

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Edited by Naomi Potter and Shauna Thompson
Writing by Jon Davies, Cynthia Girard, Dominic Hardy, Naomi Potter, Beth Stuart, and Shauna Thompson

A double catalogue published on the occasion of Cynthia Girard’s Unicorns and Dictators and Beth Stuart’s Doubting Thomas exhibitions. Each book in this boxed set includes a curatorial essay, an essay by a guest writer, and a text written by the artist. These catalogues delve into the political, mystical, somatic, fantastical histories, influences, and underpinnings of each exhibition and feature an array of beautiful photographs.

ISBN 978-0-9811951-4-8
Boxed set of 2 books, 118 pages, soft cover
Colour and black & white photographs
19.5 x 26 cm

$40.00

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Janet Werner: Another perfect day (2013)

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Edited by Meeka Walsh
Writing by Anne Carson, John Kissick, David Balzer, interview with Janet Werner by Robert Enright

Co-published by Esker Foundation, Doris McCarthy Gallery, and Kenderdine Art Gallery | College Art Galleries, Janet Werner: Another perfect day is a gorgeously illustrated look into Werner’s uncanny fictional portraits of women, whose painterly aesthetics and bodily distortions deftly articulate the pressures and artifice of the constructed feminine image and the awkwardness and anxieties of self-presentation.

Text in English and French.

ISBN 978-0-88880-587-4
96 pages, hard cover
2 B&W, 50 colour images
22.5 x 28.5 cm

$30.00

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Splendid Isolation (2013)

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Images by Olga Chagaoutdinova, Miruna Dragan, Orest Semchishen and George Webber

A compendium publication to the photo-based exhibition Splendid Isolation. Resisting any introductions or other didactic material, this book contains 145 photographs from Olga Chagaoutdinova, Miruna Dragan, Orest Semchishen and George Webber. This wild mix of images intuitively mixes time, place, culture, language, artist, and image – an excellent addition to anyone’s image library.

ISBN 978-0-9811951-3-1
148 pages, soft cover
Colour and black & white photographs
20 x 20 cm

$25.00

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Landon Mackenzie: Nervous Centre (2012)

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Essay by Glen Lowry, interview with Landon Mackenzie by Naomi Potter

This fully illustrated monograph surveys Mackenzie’s paintings from 1993 to the present, including images of her rarely seen works on paper. An insightful essay by Glen Lowry provides an impressive historical look at the artist’s career and practice, and an interview with the artist makes this publication one of the most comprehensive overviews of her work to date.

ISBN 978-0-9811951-2-4
87 pages, hard cover
6 B&W, 40 colour images
31 x 23 cm

$60.00

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The New Alberta Contemporaries (2012)

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Essay by Caterina Pizanias, PhD

The New Alberta Contemporaries exhibition presented a snapshot of a cultural moment in the province of Alberta, showcasing recent graduates from all its institutions. The works in this exhibition offer explorations of landscape, gender, sexuality, the body, memory, and ecology – themes discussed at length in an essay by Dr. Caterina Pizanias. The catalogue also includes biographical details and an index of all 44 participating artists.

ISBN 978-0-9880263-0-8
71 pages, soft cover
25 colour images
26.5 x 26.5 cm

$20.00

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