"Gregory Green builds homemade book and suitcase bombs, Leon Golub paints monumentally trenchant street scenes, Richard Misrach shoots color photographs of Playboy magazines used for target practice, and Sue Williams sculpts a heartbreakingly abused woman in fetal position. The Culture of Violence presents a broad, multicultural, interdisciplinary approach to the subject of violence as manifested in the media, in the lives of children an ..."
"This striking, oversized book, designed to evoke encyclopedias, is a highly creative amalgam of collage with a political bent and poetry. From 2011 to 2012, American artist Mel Chin (b. 1951) extracted all of the images from a twenty-five-volume set of Funk & Wagnall s "Universal Standard Encyclopedia" (ca. 195356) and began visually re-editing. Thousands of images rendered by photomechanical reproduction that served a populist, mid-cen ..."
"Published to accompany the first major exhibition of Houston sculptor Jim Love's work in over 20 years, "Jim Love: From Now On" surveys this prolific artist's oeuvre in essays by exhibition curator Lynn M. Herbert; graphic designer and art historian, Don Quaintance; artist, Mel Chin; and novelist, Paula Webb; as well as commentary, reprinted from an earlier publication, by the late patron and curator, Dominique de Menil. Love first gain ..."
9-11 / 9-11 a tale of two cities / a tragedy of two times by MelChin 28 Pages, Published 2008 ISBN-13: 978-0-615-18631-3, ISBN: 0-615-18631-9
"Do Not Ask Me was a critical selection of key works exhibited in a one person exhibition in 2006 at the Station Museum of Contemporary Art. This monograph expands the scope of the exhibition to present a complex, original aesthetic and an extraordinary range of issues that intersect human experience, including intellectual and scientific investigation, dreams, wars, and political and social concerns."
Primetime Contemporary Art(Facsimile) Art by the GALA Committee as Seen on Melrose Place by Chin, Mel Paperback, 40 Pages, Published 2023 by Primary Information ISBN-13: 978-1-73779-797-5, ISBN: 1-73779-797-6
"Eschewing a trademark style, the common thread through Mel Chin’s practice is his conceptual rigor, thoughtful historicism and concern for social justice. His land-based works such as "Revival Field" from the early 1990s and "Operation Paydirt" (2008–ongoing) garnered significant international press for presenting the science of soil remediation as an art form. Challenging the traditional concept of a retrospective as a linear presentat ..."
"For teenagers, puberty is a difficult and troubling time. In the midst of physical and mental changes, they face new challenges and increased expectations. They also struggle to find their own identities. Sometimes, they emerge unscathed; other times, they become wounded and broken. More teens are falling victim to severe depression, eating disorders and self-mutilation in attempts to cope with their emotional pain. But how can we know ..."