The Book: A Contemporary View

Delaware Center for Contemporary Arts

Dec 22, 2010 - Apr 17, 2011

Carole Bieber and Marc Ham Gallery
This was my commission for the show, the pop-up measures 13x38x4.5".

My photos before Photoshopping them
Than making a digital mock up
This exhibition addresses the themes of the book as object, subject, and concept. Stretching the definition of book, the show includes artist-made books, deconstructed books, and book installations. J. Susan Isaacs, PhD., Curator of Special Projects, has organized this exhibition to take into account all of these approaches.

Participating artists include Blanka Amezkua (manipulated Mexican adult comic book), Melissa Jay Craig (wall installation of book forms), Colette Fu (pop-up books), Jody Alexander (book installation), Buzz Spector (artist-made book), Brian Dettmer (altered book), Doug Beube (altered book), and Ulla Einstein (the deconstructed “book”). The exhibition will present, through the work of 47 nationally-known artists, various conceptual and formal approaches related to the idea of the “book.”

There will be a symposium on the theme of the exhibition with presentations by artists Buzz Spector, Brian Dettmer, Doug Beube, Melissa Jay Craig, and the Chief of the Rare Book and Special Collections Division, Library of Congress, Mark Dimunation on Friday evening, March 25th and Saturday, March 26th at the DCCA. The exhibition will later travel to Towson University in Maryland where it will be on display in the Center for the Arts Gallery from September 8—November 5, 2011.