Rizzoli, Fachbücher, Carrie Moyer (Englisch, Lauren Siegel O'Neill-Butler, 2021)

Carrie Moyer&rsquo s first major monograph expansively represents the influential abstract painter&rsquo s work and queer agitprop. Carrie Moyer consciously centers her painting as a practice about painting, with history as a subtext. Known for her incursions into Color Field painting, Moyer also traces her influences to iconic female artists of the twentieth century, such as Georgia O&rsquo Keeffe, and surrounding questions of taste, once quipping of her paintings that &ldquo [Helen] Frankenthaler and [Fernand] Lé ger met in a dark corner and had Elizabeth Murray.&rdquo Moyer&rsquo s complex work merges abstract aesthetics and legible imagery: vividly colored and textured forms are embedded with a range of historical, stylistic, and physical references to Surrealism, Modernism, 1960s and &rsquo 70s counterculture graphics, and &rsquo 70s feminist art. Moyer often works on the floor, pouring, rolling, stippling, mopping the paint, and embellishing with glitter. An exploration of acrylic&rsquo s unique properties is a driving force in her work. Beginning as an intern at HERESIES, the pioneering feminist art magazine, Moyer has also engaged in critical practices beyond the studio. This monograph enriches a deep dive into Moyer&rsquo s painting practice, in particular her work of the past decade, with a portfolio of the artist&rsquo s agitprop from the 1990s, including Dyke Action Machine! (DAM!), one of the first lesbian public art projects.