Tacita Dean | Book Launch and Conversation

Marian Goodman Gallery Los Angeles and MACK are delighted to present an artist talk to commemorate the launch of Tacita Dean’s latest book, Base Matter and Uncommon Solvent: Drawings, Prints, Collages, and Objects 1988–2024. Tacita Dean will be in conversation with George Baker, Professor and Chair, Department of Art History at UCLA.

Base Matter and Uncommon Solvent is a comprehensive survey of drawings, prints, collages, and objects that are directly drawn, marked, or altered by Tacita Dean. The chosen works differentiate from those made using mechanical reproduction, such as photographs, purely image-based etching and screenprints, and her 16mm and 35mm films. Co-edited and designed in collaboration with her longtime friend Martyn Ridgewell, this new book coincides with Tacita Dean: Blind Folly, the first major U.S. exhibition dedicated to her drawings, on view at The Menil Collection, Houston, from 11 October 2024 to 19 April 2025.