Michael Tice

Donald Tarantino was an artist and printmaker active in New York City's East Village art scene of the 1980s. He died of AIDS-related illness in 1988. Architecture and Mortality is the only published overview of his work.

With more than 80 reproductions of his work, Retrospective is the first published overview of Michael Tice's career. The book spans over five decades from the 1970's to the present day. Tice's early works are rooted in a sort of domestic surrealism that evolves into a more complex exploration of male sexuality and gender roles. Many of his images can be seen as a critique of the "American dream." His enduring interests in the domestic space, childhood innocence, and cultural nostalgia combined with his masterful use of color and texture brings to light an American past that, perhaps, only existed within the surreal landscape of the viewer's mind to begin with.