Lure.

"Lure" is an artist’s book by Allyson Clay with four texts accompanied by four black and white plans for paintings.  The texts give detailed and technical instructions on how to construct conventional hard-edged abstract paintings. The instructions, however, are interspersed with words and passages of a narrative and subjective quality. The seriousness of making the abstract paintings is undercut by the textual intervention; however, the intervening text is also serious since it is assertive, emotional, and elevates the subjectivity of the artist in contrast to an ossified tradition of painting.&nbsp

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Double Double : Deirdre Logue

"For over 20 years, Deirdre Logue has been making intimate self-portraits and performances for the camera that explore excesses of emotion, queer subjectivities and the experience (at times painful) of living within a resilient but imperfect body. Taken as a whole, there has been little deviation from the mean – Logue alone with a camera either performing small, repeated, often strenuous gestures or brief confessionals spoken directly to the viewer. Logue’s newest body of work Double Double, debuting at Gallery 44 for the 30th anniversary of the Images Festival, continues this serial exploration of the artist in front of the camera, examining embodied ways knowing and feelings as both a productive and debilitating force within the body." -- Publisher's website