Matthew Kangas Books
Jim Leedy: Artist Across Boundaries
"The book traces Leedy's progress from his student days in Virginia and New York City, where he met and got to know major artists like Willem de Kooning and Franz Kline, through his controversial s...
Read MoreBertil Vallien: Somna Vakna
"Swedish glass sculptor Bertil Vallien's most recent body of work, Somna Vakna (2000-) (Sleeping/Waking), is the current culmination of a 30-year career that has remarkably close ties to American a...
Read MoreRobert Willson: Image Maker
By Robert Wilson, Matthew Kangas
"Robert Willson (1912-2000) was one of the most complex and contradictory American artists of the past century. Among the first American sculptors to use solid glass in a small factory setting, he...
Read MoreWilliam Ingham: Configuration of Forces
By William Ingham, Matthew Kangas
"The art of William Ingham demonstrates how the modernist tradition, specifically Abstract Expressionism, has flourished in the Pacific Northwest alongside styles purportedly attuned to spiritual m...
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