Beverly Penn: Foregrounding is the first comprehensive examination of the artist’s expansive 30-year career. In a mission to call attention to botanical systems, Beverly Penn uses cast bronze to foreground the fundamental role of plants to human life and to our existence. Richly illustrated are Penn’s main bodies of work to date, which are preceded by brief insights into her individual series. The monograph includes Penn’s ongoing projects Weeds: Plexus, Weeds: Chimera, and Weeds: Fractured Landscapes, followed by the series Timelines, Taxonomy, Hybrids, and Arcadia. Included with the plates are scholarly essays featuring curator Suzanne Ramljak and art historian Kathryn Blair Moore, and a conversational interview between Penn and botanist Tanisha M. Williams.

Hardcover, 11 x 9 in. / 224 pgs / 160 color. ISBN: 978-0-9960914-9-7.

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