 | This article has multiple issues. Please help improve it or discuss these issues on the talk page . (Learn how and when to remove these template messages)
|
| Founded | 1995 |
|---|---|
| Founders | Karsten Schubert and Thomas Dane |
| Country of origin | United Kingdom |
| Headquarters location | London, UK |
| Distribution | Cornerhouse and RAM |
| Publication types | Books |
| Official website | ridinghouse |
Ridinghouse was founded in 1995 as a British book publisher specialising in art. [1] [ non-primary source needed ]
Ridinghouse was established by Karsten Schubert (with Charles Asprey and Thomas Dane) as a stand-alone publisher [2] alongside its founders' gallery activities. The company publishes art writing and criticism, art history, and individual artists' work and specific projects. [3] Since 2005, the company's list has grown and now produces 14 to 16 publications annually. [4] [ non-primary source needed ]
Ridinghouse has published books in association with Whitechapel Gallery, Arnolfini, Thames & Hudson, Galerie Max Hetzler, Art Monthly, Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Haus der Kunst, Leeds Art Gallery, Kettle's Yard, The Photographers' Gallery, Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris and the J. Paul Getty Museum.
Notable published artists include Bridget Riley, John Stezaker, Richard Deacon, Glenn Ligon, Mel Bochner, Gillian Wearing, Anya Gallaccio, Fred Wilson, Michael Landy and Alison Wilding. Selected writers include Dave Hickey, Michael Bracewell, Brian Dillon, Briony Fer, Mark Godfrey, David Campany, Dawn Adès and Penelope Curtis. [5] [ non-primary source needed ]
Ridinghouse’s publications are distributed by Cornerhouse in the UK and Europe, and by RAM Publications + Distribution, Inc. in North America.
Michael Landy is one of the Young British Artists (YBAs). He is best known for the performance piece installation Break Down (2001), in which he destroyed all his possessions, and for the Art Bin project (2010) at the South London Gallery. On 29 May 2008, Landy was elected a member of the Royal Academy of Arts in London.
Carl Andre was an American minimalist artist recognized for his ordered linear and grid format sculptures. His sculptures range from large public artworks, to large interior works exhibited on the floor, to small intimate works.
Bridget Louise Riley is an English painter known for her op art paintings. She lives and works in London, Cornwall and the Vaucluse in France.
Anya Gallaccio is a British artist, who creates site-specific, minimalist installations and often works with organic matter.
Dan Flavin was an American minimalist artist famous for creating sculptural objects and installations from commercially available fluorescent light fixtures.
Tess Jaray is a British painter and printmaker. She taught at The Slade School of Fine Art, UCL from 1968 until 1999. Over the last twenty years Jaray has completed a succession of major public art projects. She was made an Honorary Fellow of RIBA in 1995 and a Royal Academician in 2010. Tess Jaray is represented by Karsten Schubert, London.
Cornerhouse was a centre for cinema and the contemporary visual arts, located next to Oxford Road Station on Oxford Street, Manchester, England, which was active from 1985–2015. It had three floors of art galleries, three cinemas, a bookshop, a bar and a café bar. Cornerhouse was operated by Greater Manchester Arts Centre Ltd, a registered charity.
Karsten Schubert was a German art dealer and publisher working in London.
Jon Thompson was an artist, curator and academic known for his involvement in the development of the YBA artist generation.
Robert Ryman was an American painter identified with the movements of monochrome painting, minimalism, and conceptual art. He was best known for abstract, white-on-white paintings. He lived and worked in New York City.
Fiona Rae is a Hong Kong-born British artist. She is one of the Young British Artists (YBAs) who rose to prominence in the 1990s. Throughout her career, she has been known for having a portfolio of work that includes elements of energy, and complexity. Her work is known for aiming at expanding the modern traditions of painting.
Liam Gillick is a British artist who lives and works in New York City. Gillick deploys multiple forms to make visible the aesthetics of the constructed world and examine the ideological control systems that have emerged along with globalization and neoliberalism. He utilizes materials that resemble everyday built environments, transforming them into minimalist abstractions that deliver commentaries on social constructs, while also exploring notions of modernism.
Glenn Brown is a British contemporary artist known for the use of appropriation in his paintings. Starting with reproductions from other artists' works, Glenn Brown transforms the appropriated image by changing its colour, position, orientation, height and width relationship, mood and/or size. Despite these changes, he has occasionally been accused of plagiarism.
Zarina Bhimji is a Ugandan Indian photographer, based in London. She was nominated for the Turner Prize in 2007, exhibited at Documenta 11 in 2002, and is represented in the public collections of Tate, the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago and Moderna Museet in Stockholm.
Rose English is a British artist working in performance, installation, theatre, dance and film. She has been writing, directing and performing her own work for over thirty five years in venues as various as Tate Britain; Royal Court Theatre; Queen Elizabeth Hall; the Adelaide Festival; and Lincoln Center, New York. Her productions feature a diversity of co-performers including musicians, dancers, circus performers, magicians and horses.
Alison Mary Wilding OBE, RA is an English artist noted for her multimedia abstract sculptures. Wilding's work has been displayed in galleries internationally.
Robert Holyhead is a British abstract artist. He studied painting at Manchester School of Art and completed his MA at Chelsea School of Art in 1997.
Radius Books is a non-profit art book publishing company, with a focus on photography, fine art and monographs, located in Santa Fe, New Mexico. Co-publishing partners include David Zwirner Gallery, Harvard Peabody Museum Press, Temple University Press, Art Institute of Chicago, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, The Contemporary Austin, and Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego.
Ann-Marie James is a contemporary artist living and working in London.
Jill Lloyd is a writer and curator specializing in twentieth-century art, with particular expertise for German and Austrian art. She has organised many critically acclaimed exhibitions for leading museums and has published widely, including her book German Expressionism, Primitivism and Modernity, which was awarded the first National Art Book Prize.
