Even When Fall Is Here

(Paperback, Bilingual edition)

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An intertextual, fictionalized narrative weaves together several years of Mexican artist Erick Meyenberg's observations, research, video recordings, and paintings based on logbooks kept by gardener Chris Shea. Meyenberg's conversations with Shea about his ephemeral landscape infer Shea's terminal cancer diagnosis, which propels the deep emotional intelligence of this bilingual book as it reflects on time, loss, and change. Inspired by Shea's delicate language for color, Meyenberg's project becomes a memorial to Shea's own artistry and irreplaceability. Eloisa Haudenschild, Director of inSite, commissioned Meyenberg's project with Shea for haudenschildGarage in La Jolla, California, and enlisted curator Ruth Estevez, the text's author.

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In the rich interplay of the many sources Estvez pulls together, questions are generated that dont have easy answers. The reader cannot escape the heavy weight of historical representations of gardens, and the significance given to them by observers and toilers alike. .... How do we live more fully in the seasons, the uncertainty, and the revealing ... A beautiful book.

"Life and Death in a Garden" by Chris Hoff, OC Art Blog

Even When Fall Is Here offers an excellent case study for my contemporary art class, as it exemplifies the collaborative nature of art, writing, and design. It is a gorgeous volume that speaks to studio and art history majors alike, and to my campus' students especially, many of whom are Spanish speakers of Mexican descent.

Joanna Roche, Professor of Art History, California State University, Fullerton

Author Bio

Ruth Estvez is a curator and writer based in Mexico City and Boston. She is senior curator-at-large at The Rose Art Museum in Boston and co-curator of the 34th So Paolo Biennial. She is the 2019 co-curator of Idiorhythmias, an annual program of performance, music, poetry, and text at the Barcelona Museum of Contemporary Art (MACBA). Estvez was director and curator at the Gallery at Roy and Edna Disney/CalArts Theater (REDCAT) in Los Angeles from 2012 to 2018 and chief curator at the Carrillo Gil Art Museum in Mexico City from 2007 to 2012. In 2010, Estvez founded LIGA-Space for Architecture, a nonprofit platform focused on experimentation in architecture, urbanism, and public art.