JASON RHOADES: FOUR ROADS, with contributions by Ingrid Schaffner, Martha Buskirk, Chris Kraus and Paul Schimmel

Prestel, 2015, First edition, 200 pp., 8 1/4" X 11 1/4", Hardcover

Fine

Examines the remarkable legacy of Jason Rhoades's complex body of work. The Los Angeles-based sculptor Jason Rhoades was widely celebrated for sprawling, ambitious, and daring installations, editions, and events prior to his untimely death in 2006. This volume, accompanying the first US survey of his works, centers on four highly sensory, large-scale pieces that incorporate neon, radio, smoke rings, and even a model train into large environments that engulf the viewer. The book also features illustrations of each major work dating from 1991 to 2006, accompanied by explanatory texts that illuminate Rhoades's materials and methods as both highly accessible and artistically complex.