Arrangements by Marie Cosindas
Essay by Lisa Hostetler
4to. unpaginated. colour illustrations. paperback (near fine - rear lower corner creased & lower margin of the last 16 pages, slight bump to top edge of rear cover). New York: Bruce Silverstein Gallery, 2014.
Exhibition catalogue.
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Almost fifty years after her first museum exhibition, Bruce Silverstein Gallery is honored to present Arrangements by Marie Cosindas, featuring thirty-five of the artist’s photographs from the 1960s-80s. In addition to images that have never been exhibited, this show includes works from the historic Museum of Modern Art exhibition of her color photographs in 1966. Arrangements is Cosindas' term for her richly layered assemblages created primarily in her Boston studio, and in later years, around the world, from found or borrowed objects—fabrics, flowers, figurines, jewelry, perfume bottles, tarot cards and other such treasures which came to define her signature style. Often pyramidal in structure, the artist's baroque compositions are filled with an old world style of excess delightfully bordering on kitsch. Cosindas prefers the term Arrangement to “still life” for this body of work, as she wishes to highlight the very active role she played in the construction of these images as well as the intense engagement required from the viewer in order to absorb their varied textures, patterns, colors and minute details. For Cosindas, the resulting image and viewing experience is anything but still. This catalogue, featuring an essay by Lisa Hostetler, has been published in conjunction with Bruce Silverstein Gallery's exhibition Arrangements by Marie Cosindas, on view January 9th through March 8th, 2014.