Leo Amino:
The Visible and the Invisible

Sunday Sep 15th 3pm:
Please join us at Artbook @ MoMA PS1 Bookstore to celebrate 'Leo Amino: The Visible and Invisible'  (Radius Books, 2024) with MoMA’s Thomas (T.) Jean Lax in conversation with writers, scholars, and curators on the occasion of the release of the first monograph dedicated to Japanese American artist Leo Amino. Featured speakers include Genji Amino, Aruna D’Souza, Che Gossett, Eunsong Kim, Anni Pullagura and Lumi Tan.

The event will be followed by a Q&A and book signing.

Leo Amino: The Visible and the Invisible introduces a vital revision into both the canon of 20th century avant-garde sculpture and the history of Asian American art. The volume is published in association with the first significant museum exhibition dedicated to the artist’s work since 1985, Leo Amino: Work with Material at the Black Mountain College Museum + Arts Center, and shares a title with the artist’s first solo exhibition in New York since 1973, held at David Zwirner Gallery in 2020. Edited and written by the artist's grandchild, poet and curator Genji Amino, the book includes additional texts by a selection of writers, poets and scholars including Aruna D'Souza, Wayne Koestenbaum, Lucy Lippard, Susette Min, Neferti Tadiar, Mary Whitten, Ronaldo Wilson and Karen Yamashita. Richly illustrated with images from the BMC Museum and Zwirner exhibitions, the volume includes an extended chronology featuring never before seen archival images and ephemera from across the artist’s career.

Radius Books (January 16, 2024)
Hardcover ‏ |‎ 307 pages
9.76 x 1.26 x 12.2 inches