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Art AIDS America / Art AIDS America Chicago Boxed Set

By Jonathan David Katz, Rock Hushka, and Staci Boris

This slipcased boxed set contains the two volumes: Art AIDS America, published in 2015 to coincide with the original exhibit at the Tacoma Art Museum, and the new book Art AIDS America Chicago. Art AIDS...

Lewis and Clark Territory

Contemporary Artists Revisit Place, Race, and Memory

By Rock Hushka and Thomas Red Owl Haukaas

The Lewis and Clark expedition holds an unrivaled position in the American imagination. Over the course of two hundred years, the expedition has become one of the primary symbols of American identity: rugged individuals conquering...

Art AIDS America

By Jonathan David Katz and Rock Hushka

Art AIDS America is the first comprehensive overview and reconsideration of 30 years of art made in response to the AIDS epidemic in the United States. This book foregrounds the role of HIV/AIDS in shifting...

Metaphor into Form

The Rebecca and Jack Benaroya Collection

By Stefano Catalani, Aruna D'Souza, Rock Hushka, and Tina Oldknow

This book celebrates the generous promised gift of over three hundred works from the collection of Rebecca and Jack Benaroya to the Tacoma Art Museum. Rebecca and Jack built their collection over the course of...

Sun, Shadows, Stone

The Photography of Terry Toedtemeier

By Julia Dolan, Rock Hushka, Toby Jurovics, Jennifer Kabat, Andrew Meigs, Sandra S. Phillips, and Prudence Roberts

Photographer and curator Terry Toedtemeier (1947–2008) began his career in the 1970s with extensive photographic experiments to capture his close circle of friends and colleagues. Largely self-taught, he began to attract wider critical attention with...

Julie Speidel

The Center Holds

By Matthew Kangas. Foreword by Rock Hushka

In this richly-illustrated monograph, the art of Julie Speidel is seen as one of myth and materiality, encompassing the creation more than four decades of numerous objects that inhabit a variety of locales and fulfill...

Zhi Lin

In Search of the Lost History of Chinese Migrants and the Transcontinental Railroads

By Rock Hushka, Shelley Fisher Fishkin, and Shawn Wong

In this pointed and resonant project, internationally acclaimed artist Zhi Lin refocuses on the forgotten Chinese laborers in America from an iconic moment in US history. In the nineteenth century, thousands of men migrated from...

Where Sky Meets Earth

The Luminous Landscapes of Victoria Adams

By Rock Hushka

Northwest landscape painter Victoria Adams is equally committed to the landscape tradition and the creation of exquisite scenes that address the contemporary desire for the sublime. Adams depicts idealized landscapes that evoke virgin terrain, untouched...

A Punch of Color

Fifty Years of Painting by Camille Patha

By Rock Hushka and Alison Maurer

Throughout her six-decade career, Camille Patha’s painting has oscillated between the figurative and the abstract. Patha began painting gestural abstraction in the 1960s then deliberately explored various painting styles, including hard-edged abstraction and surrealist-infused photorealism...