In celebration of the publication of Yield: The Journal of an Artist by Anne Truitt, Matthew Marks is pleased to announce a reading of selections from the book.

Readers include the novelist Rachel Kushner, who wrote the foreword to Yield, artists Leidy Churchman, Aria Dean, Jamian Juliano-Villani, and Jeanette Mundt, and curator Alexis Lowry.

In Yield, Truitt’s unflinching honesty is on display as she contemplates her place in the world and comes to terms with the intellectual, practical, and spiritual issues that an artist faces when reconciling her art with her life. Recently published by Yale University Press, Yield comprises journals the artist kept from the winter of 2001 to the spring of 2002, two years before her death.

“In its stripped-down intimacy, Yield shows Truitt at her most eloquent in demonstrating, as her sculptures do, that all revelation in art is self-revelation.”
—The Wall Street Journal

“Truitt wrote as she sculpted, returning to the past again and again to find fresh truths. Where her art’s eloquent allusion ended, her journals seemed to begin, offering a model of discipline and open-ended inquiry.”
—The New Yorker

“Anne Truitt’s Yield has a tone that is rich and spare, considered and sensuous, inward-looking and utterly vibrant and vivid, fully alive in the world, inspiring for the reader.”
—Colm Tóibín