Photography: Jeffrey Sturges and John Berens
Hardcover with dust jacket
Spine resembles a catalogue raisonné of R. H. Quaytman’s paintings produced since 2001, the year the artist began conceiving and organizing her output in what she calls “Chapters.” Conceived and written by Quaytman herself, this more than 400-page volume presents a full decade of work, from The Sun, Chapter 1 to Spine, Chapter 20, the latest series which revisits motifs elaborated in the preceding nineteen chapters. A text articulating the artist’s systematic pictorial practice, executed on Golden Section wood panels, is printed on the book’s unfolding dust jacket.