Thomas Houseago

This new monograph on British-born, Los Angeles-based artist Thomas Houseago (born 1972) is published in conjunction with an exhibition at Hauser & Wirth's New York gallery. With a focus on recent developments in Houseago's work, the publication features his recent paintings and photographs of the artist at work in his studio, as well as reproductions of Houseago's distinctive figurative sculptures ( The New York Times recently compared one of his figures to "a cinematic monster emerging from a junkyard where some extraterrestrial energy brought it to life"). The highlight of the Hauser & Wirth show, a new three-dimensional installation of the artist's relief panels called "Moun Room," is reproduced in this volume for the first time. The publication also includes new texts by Jeremy Strick and Helen Molesworth as well as a recent interview conducted by Paul Schimmel.