Books Arts
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Books Arts
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52 Transactions
52 Transactions was produced in conjunction with Kathy Slade’s performance “52 Weeks of Transactions at the Lending Library” curated by Lorna Brown as part of Group Search: Art in the Library. It is a catalog of receipts that represent the books…
The Missing Pieces
“An incantatory catalog of cultural artifacts either lost to time or never realized.”
Lonely Books
“For almost a decade now I’ve been walking around my neighborhood finding books people put out on the sidewalk. At first I was looking for books I wanted, but eventually started getting interested in the phenomena of the lone book, lying solo on the…
Ed Ruscha’s Nine Swimming Pools
A spread from Nine Swimming Pools and a Broken Glass (1968) by Ed Ruscha
Atlas of Punctuation
“Atlas of Punctuation displays the distribution of all end-of-sentence punctuation found in fourteen books. The punctuation for each book is consolidated onto a single sheet, representing in one plane the coordinates of all the verbal boundaries of…
Every Building on the Sunset Strip
“In the 1960s, Ed Ruscha more or less reinvented the artist’s book. By turning away from the craftsmanship and luxury status that typified the livre d’artiste in favor of the artistic idea or concept, expressed simply through photographs and text,…
Tom Burtonwood
“The subject matter for this book is derived from 3D scans made of sculptures and reliefs, found at The Art Institute of Chicago and The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. The scans were all produced using a regular DSLR camera and a software…
Angela Lorenz “Balzaculator”
“This is an analog, proto-computer to determine which characters created by Honoré de Balzac (1799-1850) appear in which stories or novels of The Human Comedy. In 1833, after Balzac had already started writing this collection of 90+ novels and…
John Risseeuw
Viable Contexts: John Risseeuw—Politics & Printmaking features the work of artist John L. Risseeuw. Risseeuw’s work—letterpress, hand papermaking (books and broadsides)—often touches on political and social themes, including political corruption,…