North Dakota Museum of Art

North Dakota Museum of Art Publications

• The Disappeared/Los Desaparecidos: North Dakota Museum of Art and Charta, Milan, 2006. Author: Laurel Reuter with preface by Lawrence Weschler. 112 pages,88 illustrations/82 in color, paperback, English and Spanish. Based upon the internationally touring exhibition which brings together the work of twenty-five living artists from South America who, over the course of the last thirty years, have made art about Los Desaparecidos or the disappeared. These artists have lived through the horrors of the military dictatorships that rocked their countries in the latter years of the twentieth century. Some worked in the resistance; some had parents or siblings who were disappeared; others were forced into exile. The youngest were born into the aftermath of those dictatorships. And still others live in countries maimed by endless civil war. • Juan Manuel Echavarrîa: Mouth of Ash/Bocas de Ceniza, North Dakota Museum of Art and Charta, Milan, 2005. Edited by Laurel Reuter with essays by Reuter, María Victoria Uribe, Ana Tiscornia and Thomas Girst. 176 pages, 94 illustrations with 69 in color. English and Spanish. Published upon the occasion of this Colombian's artist first solo museum exhibition in the United States. Through his photo- and video-based work the artist explores the violence in his own country. • Mary Lucier: North Dakota Museum of Art, 2004, essay by Karen Wilkin, preface by Laurel Reuter, 48 pages / 45 color illustrations. Published in conjunction with the unveiling of Lucier's five-channel video installation, The Plains of Sweet Regret is part of the Museum's larger Emptying Out of the Plains project wherein artists have been commissioned to create work about the depopulation of the Northern Plains and the subsequent impact. • increase: Ann Hamilton/Michael Mercil: was published in conjunction with an exhibition organized by the North Dakota Museum of Art. Essay by Rob Silberman, preface by Laurel Reuter. 48 pages. Over a period of years Hamilton and Mercil visited the North Dakota Museum of Art and based their two-person exhibition upon the space of the Museum. They jointly created a new video installation, my love (grows stronger), based in calligraphy for the show. • Marjorie Schlossman: Abstract Narratives, North Dakota Museum of Art, 2004, 46 pages, paperback. Essay by Laurel Reuter plus excerpts from the artist's journals. Catalog accompanied artist's solo exhibition, summer 2004. • Will Maclean: Cardinal Points, North Dakota Museum of Art, 2001, 80 pages, paperback. Written by Laurel Reuter in collaboration with this important contemporary Scottish artist. The artist's Cardinal Points are Sea Reliquaries, Emigration, Artic Exploration, and Whaling and Fishing. In the print suite A Night of Islands Maclean welds poems in both English and Gaelic to his own images. • Under the Whelming Tide: The 1997 Flood of the Red River of the North, North Dakota Museum of Art, 1998, 172 pages, paperback. Edited by Eric Hylden and Laurel Reuter. The book tells the story of the 1997 flood of the Red river of the North from the South Dakota border to Winnipeg, Canada, with photos taken by over fifty North American amateur photographers, international photojournalists such as Mary Ellen Mark, artists, and staff newspaper and magazine photographers form across the continent. • Voices from the Flood, North Dakota Museum of Art, 1999, 176 pages, paperback. Based upon the Museum's Oral History Project and edited by Eliot Glassheim. Over 100 people were interviewed in the weeks following the city's evacuation. Thus, the story of the flood's impact is told in the voices and rhythms of the people themselves. Out of print. • Uncommon Heroes: The Grand Forks Flood Fight, North Dakota Museum of Art, 2001, 194 pages, paperback. Written by Dr. Kimberly Porter, associate professor of history at the University of North Dakota and historian of disasters and a specialist in oral history, results from 800 hours of interviews with over 250 citizens, employees, and elected and appointed officials of Grand Forks. Uncommon Heroes tells the story of the Herculean effort to save this river community from the forces of nature. It is a story of heroism and heartbreak, tragedy and triumph, determination and devastation. • Behind the Scenes: Leadership in a Natural Disaster, North Dakota Museum of Art, 2002, 192 pages, paperback. It is edited by Eliot Glassheim. The inside story of fighting the flood, as told by federal, state and local officials who were behind the scenes as decisions were being made. The book is based upon the North Dakota Museum of Art's Oral History Project that was implemented immediately after the flood. • In Quest of the Spirit: A retrospective Look at the Work of Father Jerome Tupa, North Dakota Museum of Art, 1996, 112 pages. Edited with essay by Laurel Reuter. • Georgie Papageorge, North Dakota Museum of Art, 1995, 108 pages, paperback. Edited with essay by Laurel Reuter in conjunction with this South African artist's first museum exhibition. • Autobiography, North Dakota Museum of Art, 1995, 44 pages, paperback. Published in conjunction with exhibition by Canadian artists Stephen Andrews, Kal Asmundson, and Caroline Dukes. Edited with essay by Laurel Reuter. • Judyland: The Art of Judy Onofrio, North Dakota Museum of Art, 1993, 66 pages, paperback. Edited with essay by Laurel Reuter. • Peter Dean, North Dakota Museum of Art, 1989, 68 pages, paperback. Essay by Carter Ratcliff.

Other publications by Museum Director and Chief Curator Laurel Reuter include

• Whole Cloth, Monacelli Press, 1998, with co-author Mildred Constantine. Out of Print. • "A Life in its Own Times," the closing chapter in the book Mortality Immortality? The Legacy of 20th Century Art, edited by Miguel Angel Corzo, published by The Getty Conservation Institute, 1999. • "Stories From a New World" was published as a principle essay in the book Contemporary International Basketmaking by The Whitworth Art Gallery, the British Crafts Council and Merrell Holberton, London, 1999. • Un Canto de Armonía (A Song of Harmony), essay for catalog for exhibition by painter Mario Peréz, was published by the Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Buenos Aires, April 2000. Reprinted in Painted Worlds: Argentina, Latin American Museum, Long Beach, 2001. • I Just Play For Fun: A Judy Onofrio Fantasy • "Ana Fabry: Flying Buckets and Morality Plays," Painted Worlds: Argentina, Latin American Museum, Long Beach, 2001. • Paula Santiago: Septum, Iturralda Gallery, Los Angles, 2002. • Japanese Textiles, Vol. II, Telos Art Publishing, London, 2003. • Machiko Agano: In Concert with the Wind, Portfolio Series, Telos Art Publishing, 2003. • Virginia Davis, Portfolio Series, Telos Art Publishing, 2003. • "Walter Piehl, Jr.: A Singular Journey," The Walter Piehl, Jr. Retrospective, Plains Art Museum, 2003. Essay by Laurel Reuter • "Encounters with Kaneko," Jun Kaneko, Rochester Art Center, 2004.