Ann Mandelbaum

This is the fourth monograph of the American artist Ann Mandelbaum. It offers both analogue black and white work from 19902000 and also digital colour images from 2007present. None of the 100 examples have been exhibited or published before. The richness of the volume lies in the 35 year process delineated. It reveals a continual obsession with the organic worldwoven within abstraction and sensationand processed originally through the depths of the darkroom and subsequently on the digital screen. The varied imagery spans the history of the medium, including the photogram and multiple printing. Throughout, surreal techniques employ sculpture, collage, and the language of drawing. Regardless of medium, Mandelbaum consistently reinvents and rediscovers a language of surprise.