Marfa/Crash
32 Pages
26 x 38 cm
Color Offset
First Edition 2009
ISBN 978-3-905714-66-1
Issue #7 of THE international with Rita Ackermann. Featuring drawings, collages, photographs and new paintings created during her stay in Texas; the dry air, drawings of girls, crashed cars, and the story of a cowboy.
Rita Ackermann is a Hungarian-American artist. Her work includes paintings, drawings, T-shirts, a line of underwear, and skateboard design. Her paintings in the early and mid 1990s featured nymphetish girls. Ackermann trained at the University of Fine Arts Budapest from 1989 until 1992. Ackermann moved to New York City to study at the The New York Studio School of Drawing, Painting and Sculpture. Ackermann has been featured in numerous museum and gallery exhibitions in the United States, Japan and Europe. In 2008 she participated in the Whitney Biennial and in 2014 had a solo exhibition at Art Basel Unlimited.