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Harvey B. Gantt Center

Year

2023

Location

Charlotte, NC

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Reginald Sylvester II
Painter's Refuge: A Way of Life

Painter's Refuge: A Way of Life showcases works from Reginald Sylvester II's first museum show at the Harvey B. Gantt Center in Sylvester's hometown of Charlotte, North Carolina. The publication includes installation views from the exhibition alongside artist interviews with Marshall N. Price and Franklin Sirmans, and an essay by Rachel Waldrop. The deconstructed volume—part artists book, part catalogue, displaying a Swiss binding and a cut-out cover that reveals silver interior pages—mimics the cut canvases and exposed frames in Sylvester's most recent body of paintings.

Press: HypeArt

Collections: RISD Fleet Library, Tisch Library Tufts University, Baylor University Library

Published by Pacific and the Harvey B. Gantt Center, Hardcover, Swiss bound, 9 × 11 inches, 148 pages, Edition of 800

Interior of a book imposed on a white background. The left page is white with the book's title, page number and artist, printed in small black letters on the outside edge. The right page features a red, abstract painting by the artist Reginald Sylvester II.
Interior of a book imposed on a white background. The left and right pages feature a centerfold of the painter Reginald Sylvester II's red abstract painting.
Detail of an open book resting on a red background. The white page features an interview printed in two columns of black text.
Interior of a book imposed on a white background. The left page is white with the book's title, page number and artist, printed in small black letters on the outside edge. The right page features an orange, yellow, brown and white abstract painting by Reginald Sylvester II.
Interior of a book imposed on a white background. The left page is white with the book's title, page number and artist, printed in small black letters on the outside edge. The right page features the detail of an orange, yellow, brown and white abstract painting by Reginald Sylvester II.
Still photo of book being flipped through.
Book interior that features a centerfold of three red paintings hung on a white wall. The floor in front of the wall is made of wood planks.
Open book with two side-by-side pages. Six black and white images of paintings by Reginald Sylvester II are on the left page. The right page has a grid of four similar images.

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