Darrel Ellis

Name: Darrel Ellis
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SKU: 9788857246871
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Regeneration

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Darrel Ellis (1958-1992), a Bronx-born artist, created a diverse body of work blending painting, printmaking, photography, and drawing. His innovative practice involved projecting negatives taken by his late father onto sculpted surfaces, manipulating and re-photographing them to explore memory and disillusionment. Ellis transformed contemporary art practices into unique and heartfelt new forms before his premature death from AIDS-related causes. Darrel Ellis: Regeneration is the first comprehensive scholarly survey of his work, featuring essays by curators and contributors including Makeda Djata Best and Allen Frame.
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Darrel Ellis: Regeneration will appeal to readers interested in contemporary art, photography, and the history of art practices, especially those fascinated by themes of memory, appropriation, and the intersection of personal and cultural histories.

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During his short career, Bronx-born Darrel Ellis (1958-1992) created a multifaceted and expansive body of work merging painting, printmaking, photography, and drawing before his premature death due to AIDS-related causes. Ellis's greatest achievement happened in his early twenties, when he was given a group of negatives shot by his father, a postal worker and studio photographer who died in police custody shortly before Ellis was born.

The younger Ellis's unique studio practice involved projecting these photographic negatives onto a sculpted surface, masking out areas, and re-photographing them, generating a stream of surrogates that capture the fleeting effects of memory and the experience of disillusion. Ellis's technical and theoretical experimentation transformed contemporary serial and appropriation practices into something unrecognizably new, beautiful and compellingly heartfelt.

Darrel Ellis: Regeneration offers the first comprehensive, scholarly survey of Ellis's practice and includes essays by the curators with added contributions by Makeda Djata Best, Allen Frame, Scott Homolka, Linda Owen and Kyle Croft.

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Critics praise this lovingly conceived survey, noting its role in permanently preserving Ellis's legacy. Holland Cotter of The New York Times highlights the careful curation keeping Ellis's work visible, while Miss Rosen from AnOther appreciates the poignant transformation of his father's photographs. Max Pearl from Aperture reflects on the long-overdue rediscovery and rewriting of art history through Ellis’s work.

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9788857246871

Publisher: Skira

Format: Hardback

Date Published: 26 January 2023

Country: Italy

Imprint: Skira

Illustration: 200 Illustrations

Contributors:

Edited by Antonio Sergio Bessa
Edited by Leslie Cozzi

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Width: 225.0mm

Height: 260.0mm

Weight: 1070g

Pages: 224

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Arts & Culture Non-Fiction

About the Author

Antonio Sergio Bessa is chief curator emeritus at the Bronx Museum of the Arts. A scholar of concrete poetry, Bessa has organized several critically acclaimed exhibitions on themes related to text-based art, and has published essays on concrete poetry.

Leslie Cozzi is is the Associate Curator of Prints, Drawings & Photographs at The Baltimore Museum of Art, where she is responsible for the museum's post-1900 collection of works on paper.