{"product_id":"theaster-gates-phaidon-contemporary-artists-series-9780714868806","title":"Theaster Gates (Phaidon Contemporary Artists Series)","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe first monograph of Chicago-based Theaster Gates  one of the most exciting and highly regarded contemporary artists at work today Theaster Gates has developed an expanded artistic practice that includes space development  object making  performance and critical engagement with many publics. Gates transforms spaces  institutions  traditions  and perceptions. Gatess training as an urban planner and sculptor  and subsequent time spent studying clay  has given him keen awareness of the poetics of production and systems of organizing. Playing with these poetic and systematic interests  Gates has assembled gospel choirs  formed temporary unions  and used systems of mass production as a way of underscoring the need that industry has for the body. Gates refers to his working method as critique through collaboration and his projects often stretch the form of what we usually understand visual art to be. His focus is also on the availability of information and the cross-fertilization of ideas. His multi-faceted exhibitions investigate themes of race and history through sculpture  installation  performance and two-dimensional works  furthering the artists interest in a critique of social practice  shared economies and the question of objects in relation to political and cultural thought. Gates recent exhibition and performance venues include the Seattle Art Museum  Art Basel Miami Beach  Milwaukee Art Museum  Contemporary Arts Museum Houston  and the Whitney Biennial in New York. Gates was a participating artist in Documenta 13 in Kassel (2012) with his total-living installation 12 Ballads for Huguenot House. Other notable solo exhibitions include An Epitaph for Civil Rights at the Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art (2011) and My Labor Is My Protest  at White Cube Bermondsey  London (2012). Parallel to his artist career  Gates is also Director of Arts and Public Life Initiative at the University of Chicago and a board member of the citys South Side Community Center. Recently commissioned as the 2012 Armory Show Artist and a Loeb Fellow at Harvard Graduate School of Design in 2011  Gates has received awards and grants from Creative Capital  the Joyce Foundation  Graham Foundation  and the Bemis Center for Contemporary Art.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45666338275381,"sku":"ByrdShop_0714868809","price":94.88,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780714868806.jpg?v=1782428754","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/theaster-gates-phaidon-contemporary-artists-series-9780714868806","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}