Mel Chin: Rematch - Tapa dura

Published in conjunction with an exhibition by the same name at the New Orleans Museum of Modern Art, Mel Chin: Rematch spans the multimedia artist's 40-year career. In addition to full-page photographs, Remach includes essays from writers including Andrei Codrescu, Eleanor Heartney, and Patricia C. Phillips, who explore a variaety of thems in Chin's work, including social activism, surrealims, and identity politics.--Lauren Bedosky "Public Art Review "

The oeuvre of Mel Chin (* 1952 in Houston) encompasses a wide variety of media including sculpture, video, drawing, painting, land art, and performance art. Eschewing a trademark style, the common thread through Chin’s practice is his conceptual rigor, thoughtful historicism, and concern for social justice. His land-based works such as Revival Field from the early 1990s and Operation Paydirt (2008-ongoing), garnered significant international press for presenting the science of soil remediation as an art form. Challenging the traditional concept of a retrospective as a linear presentation of a single individual’s work over time, the publication celebrates the artist’s practice of constant evolution, re-examination, and collaboration. The catalogue will also include an extensive illustrated chronology of his career. Exhibition: New Orleans Museum of Art, February 21–May 25, 2014 | And further venues