Issue link: http://papercitymagazine.uberflip.com/i/880229
"THE IMAGERY IN HAUNT IS BOTH BEAUTIFUL AND HORRIFIC." — Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth senior curator Andrea Karnes 75 beneath a precariously swaying bridge (guests with heart conditions are warned away). Watch for Keasler in the spotlight at the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, where senior curator Andrea Karnes culls images from Haunt for an exhibition coinciding with the book's launch (through November 26). The curator labels Keasler's two-years-in-the- making series as "both beautiful and horrific," noting that it "magnifies the strangeness of the existence of such places, where fantasies are manifested." For O'Neil's volume, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston's modern and contemporary curator, Alison de Lima Greene, contributes an essay that considers the 2004 Whitney Biennial talent's drawing-obsessed work. She describes the former MFAH Core Fellow's finely observed graphite landscapes populated with minute people as "a battle of man against man," with spatial devises that owe more to "Chinese scroll paintings" than conventional Western mark-making. The volumes were printed near Shanghai, where Gibb traveled to undertake meticulous press checks. Haunt has the potential to be a breakout for fright fans, while O'Neil's aesthetic will appeal to those with an Edward Gorey sensibility. With a name taken from the moniker of government officials who ruled ancient Athens, Archon promulgates its founder's philosophy: "My most significant contributions to the conversation of contemporary art has always been in the form of publications. Books are probably the most democratic way that people can get art in their hands and that is also at the core of what we are trying to accomplish." Stay tuned for special Archon boxed sets, aimed at adding collectible multiples to the equation. Info/orders archonprojects.com. Clockwise from top: Misty Keasler's Zeus, Netherworld, Atlanta, GA, 2016. Robyn O'Neil's The Ruin, 2007. Robyn O'Neil: 20 Years of Drawings cover: Everything that stands will be at odds with its neighbor, and every- thing that falls will perish without grace (detail), 2003. Misty Keasler: Haunt cover: Black Thorne Manor, Terror on the Fox, Green Bay, WI, 2016. Misty Keasler's The Corbie, Netherworld, Atlanta, GA, 2016. CLOCKWISE FROM TOP LEFT: COURTESY THE ARTIST AND THE PUBLIC TRUST; COURTESY AND COLLECTION WHITNEY MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART, NYC; COURTESY AND COLLECTION BLANTON MUSEUM OF ART, THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN; COURTESY THE ARTIST AND THE PUBLIC TRUST; COURTESY THE ARTIST AND THE PUBLIC TRUST.