Sanya Kantarovsky

An arresting and visually rich monograph of the work of contemporary artist Sanya Kantarovsky.

Forlorn and spiritually bankrupt, tender or abject--the subjects in the figurative paintings of Sanya Kantarovsky (b. 1982) convey an uneasy, dark humor. They seem trapped in a precarious inner monologue, or under the spell of mundane lived experience. A Solid House, developed in conjunction with Kantarovsky's exhibition A Solid House at the Aspen Art Museum, includes more than 200 full-color image plates and spans the artist's oeuvre, focusing on his most recent output following his previous monograph, No Joke (2014). The publication also includes a conversation between Kantarovsky and art historian Isabelle Graw, as well as essays by the psychoanalyst and writer Jamieson Webster and art historian George Baker.