Book Launch and Conversation with Tacita Dean and George Baker

Courtesy of Marian Goodman Gallery

Marian Goodman Gallery Los Angeles and MACK are delighted to present an artist talk to commemorate the launch of Tacita Dean’s latest book, Base Matter and Uncommon Solvent: Drawings, Prints, Collages, and Objects 1988–2024. Tacita Dean will be in conversation with George Baker, Professor and Chair, Department of Art History at UCLA.

Base Matter and Uncommon Solvent is a comprehensive survey of drawings, prints, collages, and objects that are directly drawn, marked, or altered by Dean. The chosen works differentiate from those made using mechanical reproduction, such as photographs, purely image-based etching and screenprints, and her 16mm and 35mm films. Co-edited and designed in collaboration with her longtime friend Martyn Ridgewell, this new book coincides with Tacita Dean: Blind Folly, the first major U.S. exhibition dedicated to her drawings, on view at The Menil Collection, Houston, from 11 October 2024 to 19 April 2025.

The event will be held at 1112 Seward Street, Los Angeles 90038, on Saturday, the 22nd February, at 3 pm. This event is free and open to the public, though advanced registration is encouraged as capacity is limited. Registration for the event can be found here. For more information about the event, please visit the Marian Goodman Gallery’s site. The gallery can be found on Instagram and Artsy, too.