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The first publication of the paintings by the American contemporary artist The book is the first publication of the contemporary American artist’s paintings. It represents a compendium of the multiple modes of painting the artist utilises, following the numerous paths and approaches he has utilised over the course of the many years of his studio practice – always with his very recognizable voice and distinct style. The works depicted in this catalogue are concentrated in the 21st century, though Stillman has been painting privately since the 1980’s. This represents the first publication of any of his paintings, which he did not even agree to show publicly until 2023. Abbott Stillman attended MIT’s School of Architecture and Planning and after graduating from MIT he built an award-winning and highly respected career. He started painting in the 1980s, never intending to show his work beyond family and friends. The artist had a successful career in real estate development and all the while maintained a studio practice that, over the course of these many years, has produced a remarkable depth and breadth of work. If there is a through line to his collected paintings it consists of some combination of ambiguity, exuberance, balance, and harmony all in service to his central, and optimistic, beliefs about the human condition. His paintings are compositions of rich color, often in abstracted grounds and spaces that evoke deep emotional responses.

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Barry Schwabsky is an American art critic, art historian and poet. He has taught at the School of Visual Arts, Pratt Institute, New York University, Yale University, and Goldsmiths College, among others. He is art critic for The Nation and co-editor of international reviews for Artforum; his essays have appeared in many other publications, including Flash Art, Contemporary, Artforum, London Review of Books and Art in America. Kathy Battista is a writer, curator, and teacher. She is author of several books and publishes regularly in academic journals and artist catalogues. Battista founded a MA program in Contemporary Art for Sotheby’s Institute of Art NY and has taught in England, the US, Italy, Saudi Arabia, Mexico, and China. Daniel S. Palmer is chief curator at the SCAD Museum of Art in Savannah, Georgia. Previously he has held curatorial posts at Public Art Fund, the Jewish Museum, and the Whitney Museum of American Art. He earned a Ph.D. from the CUNY Graduate Center and a B.A. from Rutgers University.

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