Published on the occasion of the exhibition Shell at Del Vaz Projects with works by Heidi Bucher, Olivia Erlanger & Nicola L., this publication contextualizes the practices of these three artists within a combined framework of the Feminist Art Movement of the 60’s and 70’s and architectural theory by Gaston Bachelard, Maurice Merleau-Ponty and Juhani Pallasmaa.
The publication, which is designed by Benjamin Schwartz, printed by Bolger Printing, edited by Jennifer Piejko and published by Del Vaz Projects, contains an expanded essay by Philomena Epps as well as three essays by Jay Ezra Nayssan on each of the participating artists.
Included in the publication is an Images & References section with works by Lucy Orta, Barbara Sanchez-Kayne, Lygia Pape, Eva Hesse, Martha Araujo, Lygia Clark, 69, Claude Cahun, Salvador Dali, Teresinha Soares, Alison Saar, Louise Bourgeois, Marisol, Gaetano Pesce, Alina Szapocznikow, Rachel Whiteread, Ana Mendieta, Sula Bermudez-Silverman, Niki de Saint Phalle, Laurie Simmons, Dora Maar, Robert Gober, Dorothea Tanning, Stephen Prina, Kaari Upson, Rebecca Horn, Bri Williams, Robert Overby, Georgia O'Keefe, Birgit Jurgenssen, Robin Schiff, Cindy Sherman, Valie Export, Martha Rosler, Sandro Botticeli, Hieronymous Bosch, and Claude Lalanne.
