2023
BACK TO FRONT: ARTISTS’ BOOKS BY WOMEN, 112TH ANNUAL EXHIBITION October 22, 2023 - March 24, 2024
The Maier Museum of Art at Randolph College, Lynchburg, VA
SAD PURPLE AND MAUVE: A HISTORY OF DYE MAKING September 14, 2023 – January 15, 2024
Eberly Family Special Collections Library, Penn State University, University Park, Pennsylvania.
FACES & PLACES Oct 6, 2023 – Feb 4, 2024
Bainbridge Island Museum of Art, Bainbridge Island, Washington.
ALPHABETS ALIVE! July 19, 2023 – January 21, 2024
Weston Library, University of Oxford, UK Free admission
IN THE LIBRARY: POETRY AND BOOK ARTS July 10 – September 29, 2023
National Gallery of Art, East Building, Ground Level - Library, Washington, DC
Every Book a Mirror: Book Artists Engage with the 21st Century January 7 - July 12, 2023
UNC Library, North Carolina Collection Gallery.Wilson Special Collections Library, Chapel Hill, NC
2022
A Few Words Worn around the Edges, Pressed into Something Soft: Ten West Coast Women Printers August 5, 2022 – March 5, 2023
Robert B. Haas Family Arts Library, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut
July 10 – September 29, 2023
East Building, Ground Level - Library
Weekdays from 11:00 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.
Since we first put pen to paper—or stylus to clay tablet—text and image have coexisted. But at the end of the 19th century, their relationship became the focus of books published for collectors and booklovers. Come explore poetry, works of art, and fine printing in a range of artists’ and fine press books. These works from the National Gallery of Art Library demonstrate how artists, writers, typographers, printers, papermakers, and bookbinders meld the visual and the verbal to create books that engage all of the reader’s senses. In this type of bookwork, poetry is ideal: its forms spur typographers and binders to push the limits of design, and its language inspires the same kind of reflection in a reader as visual art prompts in a viewer. Poems may be illustrated by an artist or written in response to a work of art. With modern poetry’s brief and evocative language, visual elements find space to thrive, yielding a symbiotic relationship between text and image that is more difficult with blocks of prose.
2022
Many exhibit at Craft Contemporary, Los Angeles, California thru September 11
Many features twelve Los Angeles-based artists who utilize multiples in their artistic practices. The artists create two- and three-dimensional works using a variety of materials and processes including printing, casting, repetition, and accumulation. Their works exemplify the unique power of multiples to record and disseminate information, amplify narratives, and investigate various modes of labor and production.
Exhibition Artists: Zeina Baltagi, Tia Blassingame, Sula Bermúdez-Silverman, John Birtle, Joel Freeman, Pamela Smith Hudson, Saj Issa, Gelare Khoshgozaran, Álvaro D. Márquez, Narsiso Martinez, Stephanie Mercado, Aryana Minai.
This exhibition is supported in part by the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors through the Los Angeles County Department of Arts and Culture and the City of Los Angeles, Department of Cultural Affairs.
Black Artist Books Pop-Up Exhibit, De Caso room of the Art Library, University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa
Thursday, February 17, 2022 1:00pm to 4:00pm
In conjunction with the Art Library's Black artists display, come check out book works by Black artists from Special Collections and Archives! Featuring pieces by Clarissa Sligh, Tia Blassingame, Toni Morrison and Kara Walker, this hands on pop-up exhibit will be held in the De Caso room of the Art Library (head to the right upon entering the library) from 1pm - 4pm on Thursday, February 17th.
Event is free and open to everyone!