Trey Beahm-Exhibition_Catalogues

With such a vast amount of catalogues to choose from, I found it hard to land on just a couple, but the first exhibiton catalogue that I chose was titled, "Constellation," showcasing Ingrid Calame. This book honestly stuck out to me for how overly abstract it was compared to all those around it. It is only about a foot tall, and maybe ten inches wide, but yet it bares no front title or any words at all other than just a name on the spine, but instead it just what seems to be a splatter of paint all around. As I began flipping through the first few pages, I continued to only see more abstract line and color images, until eventually a title page was reached. Then I began to learn who Ingrid Calame was, because all the proceeding images and works of art displayed, started to have words next to them discribing who she was and how these works of art came to be. This catalogue showed her work for what it was, being very large pieces which either found themselves in galleries or in a lot of cases, out in ambient environments. She frames her work, or Constellations, around what lies beneath them, because they are mostly all done or at least the originals were all done with tracing paper laid on asphalt and then using this surface as a stencil for where her lines will go.

The second Exhibition Catalogue I found was titled, "Girls," and shows the work of Lichtenstein. The book is a perfect square, with again no front cover title or any words at all other than on the spine, and the front image is a stylized graphic comic book illustration of a woman. As I opened the book, I noticed another common theme from the first one, hardly any words. In fact, the only text within this book is just a conversation between the artist and abother man that showed a little bit of insight into his work. Other than that conversation, it's all just image after image of all of his works, which each are all of women like the title references. Each image of the woman are just like the cover, being in that they seem to belong to a comic book of some sort, with their pixeled stylistic design. I liked this book as well for the fact that it stood out amongst the others, in that it really did just focus on showcasing the abstract work of the artist, rather than fill it's pages with information about them.