Long-form readings of the institutions, materials and public settings of Issam Bader’s practice. Each essay connects to the archive’s documentary records and identifies its sources.
Building an Art Movement: The Work beyond the Studio
How exhibiting, organizing and publishing become part of an artistic contribution.
Gallery 79: A Gallery and Its Public
A permanent space, an educational ambition and the interruption of closure.
Ceramics and Everyday Life
Looking at clay, colour, line and the physical encounter with a work.
Public Art and the Life of a Place
Murals, civic settings and the documentary life of an architectural work.