Edited by Aimé Iglesias Lukin and Karen Marta, Feliciano Centurión: Abrigo is a fully illustrated pocket book released to accompany the same-titled exhibition at Americas Society. Centurión created textile works engaging with folk art and queer aesthetics in 1990s South America. Through the embroidery and painting of vernacular objects such as blankets and aprons, Centurión rendered poetic readings of his youth in Paraguay, his love experiences in the metropolis, and his spiritual reflections before his untimely death due to AIDS-related illness. Read the full pocket book.

Learn more about the exhibition Feliciano Centurión: Abrigo at Americas Society.

Table of contents:

• Foreword by Susan Segal
• Abrigo by Gabriel Pérez-Barreiro
• South American Jungle Tales by Aimé Iglesias Lukin
• Exhibition Checklist
• Exhibition History
• Bibliography

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Price: $5. To purchase this catalogue, please contact: artgallery@as-coa.org

Edited by Karen Marta and Gabriela Rangel, Alice Miceli: Projeto Chernobyl is a fully illustrated pocket book released to accompany the same-titled exhibition at Americas Society (October 9, 2019-January 25, 2020), including an interview between co-curators Gabriela Rangel and Diana Flatto and the artist.

The publication is the first to present the artist's research and series of thirty radiographs produced in the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone. The artist developed a method of image making to document the enduring effects of the Soviet nuclear plant explosion of April 26, 1986. Though gamma radiation continues to be present and to cause health problems and deaths in the area, it is invisible to the naked eye and to traditional methods of photography that have been used to document the region’s ruins.

Learn more about the exhibition Alice Miceli: Projeto Chernobyl at Americas Society.

Table of Contents:

• Foreword by Susan Segal
• "A Conversation with Alice Miceli" by Gabriela Rangel and Diana Flatto
• Exhibition Checklist
• Selected Bibliography

Price: $5. To purchase this catalogue, please contact: artgallery@as-coa.org

Edited by Karen Marta and Gabriela Rangel, Victoria Cabezas and Priscilla Monge: Give Me What You Ask For is a fully illustrated pocket book released to accompany the same-titled exhibition at Americas Society (February 13-May 4, 2019), including essays by Miguel A. López, Antonella Pelizzari, and Coco Fusco.

The publication is the first to bring together the work of Victoria Cabezas (b. 1950) and Priscilla Monge (b. 1968), two Costa Rican artists from different generations. It explores how the two artists have challenged conventional art disciplines, including painting and sculpture, by drawing on their own lived experiences. Monge and Cabezas both use experimental artistic strategies to advocate for women and to critique established patriarchal structures.

Learn more about the exhibition Victoria Cabezas and Priscilla Monge: Give Me What You Ask For at Americas Society.

Table of Contents:

• Foreword by Susan Segal
• "Victoria Cabezas and Priscilla Monge: Our Bodies Our Selves" by Miguel A. López
• "Victoria Cabezas: Slipping on the Banana Peel of Life" by Antonella Pelizzari
• Works
• Biography and Selected Bibliography
• "Priscilla Monge: Personal Stories and Political Undercurrents" by Coco Fusco
• Works
• Biography and Selected Bibliography

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Edited by Karen Marta and Gabriela Rangel and illustrated by Lydia Cabrera, Lydia Cabrera: between the sum and the parts is a fully illustrated publication dedicated to the Cuban thinker.

Ever the trickster, Lydia Cabrera blurred the lines between historian and storyteller, reality and fiction. Finding their initial audience in the avant-garde milieu of interwar Paris, Cabrera's stories influenced by Afro-Cuban myths and folktales continue to delight and inspire generations of artists, writers, and scholars. When the rise of fascism forced Cabrera's return to her native Cuba, she devoted her life to the preservation of Afro-Cuban cultures, work that culminated in her scholarly masterpiece, El Monte, in which the voices and rituals of the dead animate Cuba's wilderness. The first English volume dedicated to her life and work, this publication introduces her substantial legacy to a new audience.

Table of Contents:

• "Time Fights the Sun and the Moon Consoles the Earth" by Lydia Cabrera
• "Caribbean Anthropoetics" by Christopher Winks
• "Her Phantom Cuba" by Gabriela Rangel
• "Arerbac Arerbac" by Hans Ulrich Obrist
• "On Becoming the Archive" by Martin A. Tsang
• "Memories of Alexandra Exter" by Lydia Cabrera
• "Art Beyond Art" by Asad Raza
• "Arere Marekén" by Lydia Cabrera and Alexandra Exter
• Selected Bibliography
• Contributors
• Afterword by Susan Segal and Dr. Julio Frenk
• Acknowledgments

Price: $25. To purchase this catalogue, please contact: artgallery@as-coa.org

Edited by Karen Marta and Gabriela Rangel, Lydia Cabrera and Édouard Glissant: Trembling Thinking is a fully illustrated pocket book released to accompany the same-titled exhibition at the Americas Society (October 9, 2018–January 12, 2019).

The publication focuses on the ideas developed by the prominent Caribbean thinkers Lydia Cabrera (Havana, 1899–Miami, 1991) and Èdouard Glissant (Sainte-Marie, Martinique, 1928–Paris, 2011) and an archipelago of modern and contemporary artists whose works respond to their notions of identity. Artists include: Etel Adnan, Kader Attia, Tania Bruguera, Manthia Diawara, Mestre Didi, Melvin Edwards, Simone Fattal, Sylvie Glissant, Koo Jeong A, Wifredo Lam, Marc Latamie, Roberto Matta, Julie Mehretu, Philippe Parreno, Amelia Peláez, Asad Raza, Anri Sala, Antonio Seguí, Diamond Stingily, Elena Tejada-Herrera, Jack Whitten, and Pedro Zylbersztajn.

Table of Contents:

• Foreword by Susan Segal and Dr. Julio Frenk
• Trembling Thinking, or Ethnography of the Unknowable by Hans Ulrich Obrist, Gabriela Rangel, and Asad Raza
• Exhibition Checklist by Diana Flatto
• Archival Documents
• Biographies and Selected Bibliographies
• Credits
• Acknowledgments

Learn more about the exhibition Lydia Cabrera and Édouard Glissant: Trembling Thinking at Americas Society.

Price: $5. To purchase this catalogue, please contact: artgallery@as-coa.org

Edited by Karen Marta and Gabriela Rangel, José Leonilson: Empty Man is a fully illustrated publication released to accompany the solo exhibition of José Leonilson at the Americas Society (September 27, 2017–February 3, 2018).

José Leonilson came of age as an artist during the 80s generation in Brazil. What he shared with this diverse artistic milieu was the so-called "joy of painting," rediscovered in the years following the end of Brazil's dictatorship. What separated him from his contemporaries was his personal way of working and his distinct aesthetic centered on raw emotional feelings, introspective musings, and private affairs. Focusing on Leonilson's production as a mature artist, the catalogue will feature approximately fifty paintings, drawings, and intimate embroideries made between the mid-1980s until 1993, when the artist died of AIDS. This short yet prolific period showcases the artist's fully developed language, connecting Leonilson's oeuvre with contemporary art practices, Brazilian vernacular traditions, and global issues prompted by the AIDS crisis.

Table of Contents:

• Foreword by Susan Segal
• Empty Man: Autobiography of an Artist as a Young Man by Cecilia Brunson, Gabriela Rangel, and Susanna V. Temkin
• Plates
• Leonilson: Parangolé-Poem by Luis Pérez Oramas
• Artist’s Notebook
• Frequent Traveler Program: Leonilson, the Professional Tourist by Yuji Kawasima
• Travel Album
• Running Stitch, Outrunning Time by Jenni Sorkin
• Ideal Vogue
• Unpublished Text and Translation
• Selected Exhibition History
• Selected Bibliography
• Contributors
• Credits
• Acknowledgments 

Learn more about the exhibition José Leonilson: Empty Man in Americas Society and watch a video.

You can purchase the catalogue here.

Edited by Karen Marta, Gabriela Rangel, and Lucía Sanromán, Erick Meyenberg: The wheel bears no resemblance to a leg is a fully illustrated publication released to accompany the solo exhibition of Mexican artist Erick Meyenberg (b. 1980) at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts in San Francisco (October 14, 2016–February 19, 2017) and at Americas Society in New York (May 4–July 29, 2017).

Erick Meyenberg works at the intersection of drawing, collage, video, data analysis, and sound. La rueda no se parece a una pierna (The wheel bears no resemblance to a leg, 2016) is the end result of a long collaboration with members of the high school marching band Banda de Guerra Lobos at the Colegio Hispano Americano in Mexico City. Meyenberg and the teenagers—together with curators, guest musicians, composers, choreographers, costume designers, and a video production team—cocreated the choreography and concomitant performances that took the band through some of Mexico City’s most emblematic and politically marked sites: the Plaza de las Tres Culturas in Tlatelolco, where a massacre of protesting university students took place in 1968; the Monument to the Revolution, commemorating the Mexican Revolution of 1910; and the shopping center Centro Comercial Forum Buenavista, symbolizing Mexico’s embeddedness in transnational post-industrial capitalism.

Lavishly illustrated, and with essays and an interview with the artist, the book provides an in-depth introduction to the work of one of Mexico’s major emerging contemporary artists.

Table of contents:

• Foreword by Deborah Cullinan, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, and Susan L. Segal, Americas Society
• "When One No Longer Is" by Osvaldo Sánchez
• "Surrealist, not Surrealist" by Gabriela Rangel
• "On Transmuted Times" — A conversation between Erick Meyenberg and Lucía Sanromán
• Artist’s Biography
• Contributors
• Credits
• Acknowledgements

Learn more about the exhibition Erick Meyenberg: The wheel bears no resemblance to a leg and watch a video with the artist and curator. 

You can purchase the catalogue here.