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  • Published: 29 October 2024
  • ISBN: 9780262048729
  • Imprint: MIT Press
  • Format: Hardback
  • Pages: 320
  • RRP: $140.00

Sanya Kantarovsky

Selected Works 2010-2024




An arresting and visually rich monograph of the work of contemporary artist Sanya Kantarovsky.

An arresting and visually rich monograph of the work of contemporary artist Sanya Kantarovsky.

Forlorn and spiritually bankrupt, tender or abject—the subjects in the figurative paintings of Sanya Kantarovsky (b. 1982) convey an uneasy, dark humor. They seem trapped in a precarious inner monologue, or under the spell of mundane lived experience. Sanya Kantarovsky: Selected Works 2010-2024 is published with the support of Aspen Art Museum, following Kantarovsky's exhibition A Solid House (2022). It includes more than 140 full-color image plates and spans the artist's oeuvre, focusing on his most recent output since his previous monograph No Joke (2014).

The publication also includes a conversation between Kantarovsky and art historian Isabelle Graw, as well as essays by the psychoanalyst and writer Jamieson Webster and art historian George Baker.

  • Published: 29 October 2024
  • ISBN: 9780262048729
  • Imprint: MIT Press
  • Format: Hardback
  • Pages: 320
  • RRP: $140.00

Praise for Sanya Kantarovsky

“Kantarovsky’s breakthrough moment came in 2014, with his New York debut at the Casey Kaplan gallery. In the three years since he graduated from UCLA, he’d had a few gallery shows on the West Coast and in Europe, but his work had become “boring” to him. The eighteen paintings at Kaplan marked a change of course into bold primary colors, larger scale, and narratives involving more than one person.”
--https://www.vogue.com/article/sanya-kantarovsky-luhring-augustine