Lubaina Himid: Make Do and Mend accompanies the artist’s solo exhibitions at The Contemporary Austin, Texas (March 1 – July 21 2024) and The FLAG Art Foundation, New York (September 13 2024 – February 8 2025). Himid is the 2024 recipient of the Suzanne Deal Booth / FLAG Art Foundation Prize.
The publication provides readers with a rare behind-the-scenes look into Himid’s process for two new bodies of work – her series of 10 Strategy Paintings depicting Black men and women seated around tables featuring different arrangements of organic, mechanical and everyday objects; and 64 paintings on wooden planks titled The Aunties, which build upon Himid’s previous plank works, whose forms evoke funerary objects from East Africa.
It features contributions by Lubaina Himid, Dorothy Price (Professor of Modern and Contemporary Art and Critical Race Art History, The Courtauld), Zoe Whitley (Director, Chisenhale Gallery), Alex Klein (Head Curator and Director of Curatorial Affairs, The Contemporary Austin), Julie Le (Assistant Curator, The Contemporary Austin), Jonathan Rider (Director, The FLAG Art Foundation), and Caroline Cassidy (Director of Exhibitions, The FLAG Art Foundation).
Lubaina Himid
Make, Do and Mend
Publisher: Dancing Foxes Press, The Contemporary Austin, and The FLAG Art Foundation, 2025
Text: Lubaina Himid, Dorothy Price, Zoé Whitley, Alex Klein, Julie Le, Jonathan Rider, and Caroline Cassidy
24 x 19.4 x 1.8 cm, 176 pages, softcover
ISBN: 9781954947160
£30
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