YAMAOKA, Carrie; LARSEN, Nick (ed.)
re: Carrie Yamaoka

Re fracting
Re configuring
Re visiting
Re garding

Carrie Yamaoka’s visually arresting, ground-breaking works reveal how materiality, temporality, and form connect, calling the viewer’s attention to the topography of surfaces, the tactility of the barely visible, and the chain of planned and chance incidents that determine the outcome of an art object. This volume also strongly features her latest focus: a return to earlier works, taking them apart to create newly transformed, re-configured pieces. In Yamaoka’s words: “The liminal, the scarred, and the ephemeral are all laid bare.”

re: Carrie Yamaoka is designed and printed with a formal nod to the visual phenomena at play when encountering the artist’s work in personn — the ways in which reflection, refraction, distortion, and the surrounding environment (including the viewer) become part of the compositional field. This in-depth study of the artist’s oeuvre is accompanied by texts from artists and scholars Jill H. Casid, Claire Grace, Josiah McElheny, and Jo-ey Tang, with a correspondence between Yamaoka and the art historian and critic Elisabeth Lebovici. [publishers’ note]

Carrie Yamaoka (b. 1957) is an interdisciplinary American visual artist of Japanese descent; she was a founding member of the art collective fierce pussy.

Published by Radius Books, 2026
Design by David Chickey, Inga Hendrickson, and Nick Larsen
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