Table of Contents

• Introduction: Making Pictures, by Michelle White
• A Conversation with Sue Graze: November, 2011
• The Plates
• "Road," by Philipp Meyer
• List of Plates
• Biography and Awards
• Exhibitions
• Selected Museum Collections
• Bibliography and Filmography
• Acknowledgments

Promotional Information

With lavish illustrations and an original short story by Philipp Meyer, this is the first major career retrospective of photographer and filmmaker Nic Nicosia, whose fabricated images evoke the sense of something askew or threatening within "normal" life

About the Author

Nic Nicosia’s work has been exhibited in several biennials, including the Whitney Biennials of 1983 and 2000 and Documenta IX in 1992, and collected by many major museums internationally, including the Museum of Modern Art, the Whitney Museum of American Art, and the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York City; the Los Angeles County Museum of Art; the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth; the Dallas Museum of Art; the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; and the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago. He was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2010.

Michelle White is Associate Curator at the Menil Collection. She is a frequent contributor to Art Papers and served for three years as the regional editor of the quarterly journal Art Lies.

Philipp Meyer is the acclaimed author of the novels American Rust and The Son.

Sue Graze is Director Emeritus of Arthouse at the Jones Center.

Reviews

"Nic Nicosia is a breezy ride across the country of Nicosia's photography that maps his artistic brain. You never stop for long, but you are certain to delight in the joyride, even with the pratfalls and mishaps along the way." - Judy Natal, Photo-Eye blog