"Artists' Books Through Time: Volume I" Exhibitions

Cavin-Morris Gallery

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The historic narrative in this introductory exhibition has been removed in favor of an eclectic sampling of hand-made books, which cover a wide area of Time and Place.  There are inner themes both deliberate and accidental to connect, for example, the 15th and16th Century Tibetan, Sino-Tibetan, and Mongolian books that resonate with the Yi tribal Chinese magical scrolls on leather, which link to more contemporary forms of the Tibetan inspired works by Lidia Syroka, or young Tibetan artist, Gade.

The exhibition also features book pages from Mongolia, Tibet and India, Japanese Shima-cho, Japanese erotic shunga, works by Art Brut artists like Zdenek Kosek’s weather maps, Melvin Edward Nelson’s space dust drawings, New York mediums Helen Butler Wells and Norma Oliver, collages by Jerry Wagner, and Native American ledger drawings.  Contemporary works by Vichai Chinalai, Howard Smith, Tim Wehrle and actual books fired in a kiln by conceptual artist Yohei Nishimura will also be on display.

[Image: "Mongolia" Bone Setting Manuscript,8 double sided pages, 19th Century Pigment, ink on paper, 4.25 x 14 in.]

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from June 11, 2009 to August 14, 2009

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