24 pages with a 4 page insert, fully-illustrated
Softcover
ISBN: ISBN: 978-1-951416-05-8
Published by The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum
Published on the occasion of the exhibition Milano Chow: Prima Facie, January 16 to May 15, 2022
Interview between Milano Chow and Amy Smith-Stewart
Design: Gretchen Kraus
Production Manager: Caitlin Monachino
Copy Editor: Mary Cason
Printer: GHP Media, West Haven, CT
Prima Facie, Milano Chow’s first solo institutional exhibition will debut more than a dozen new works on paper spanning two and three dimensions. Handsome, entrancing, and ghostly, Chow’s exquisite monochromatic collages are rendered in graphite, ink, and photo transfer, casting modish women in self-possessed cameos staged in gilded architectural interiors that feel cloistered and deserted. Influenced by Surrealism, fashion photography, shop window design, and Hollywood film noir from Chow’s native Los Angeles, her ornamented mise-en-scènes are frozen in time and loaded with disquieting effects.
