My American Dream [SIGNED - 2015 1ST EDITION & 1ST PRINTING - NICE COPY] de Mayerson, Keith - 2015

2015. First Edition, First Printing. Paperback. Near fine. SIGNED COPY - Marlborough Chelsea, 2015. Softcover in pictorial wrappers. First Editon, First Printing (stated). 559 pages featuring Mayerson's full cosmology of My American Dream (over 133 painitings) including copious notes by Mayerson himself. Text in English. SIGNED by Mayerson on the first blank page with an additional "artist prooof" notation underneath his signature. BOOK CONDITION: Near Fine; a solid, tight, clean copy showing rubbing to covers, small bump to foo of spine, shallow triangular crease to rear panel (noticable upon close inspection). Looks nice is a new, clear, mylar cover. SIGNED In "My American Dream," Keith Mayerson reflects on America at a critical moment in our history. Presenting more than 140 paintings from a series begun soon after September 11, 2001, the exhibition—the artist’s first solo museum show—brings together images of famous figures, iconic events, inspiring landscapes, and personal experiences in a vibrant cosmology. Peppered with portraits of the artist’s family, including his husband Andrew, this non-linear narrative envisions the moments that characterize, for Mayerson, what makes America great. The precise story, however, remains opaque. The hermetic, idiosyncratic nature of Mayerson’s subject matter and paint-handling suggest affinities with artists outside the mainstream, such as Louis Eilshemius or Bob Thompson. Even his most photorealistic paintings—a series of Manhattan vistas and hallucinatory Southern California landscapes under roiling skies—testify to the animistic intensity driving this show.