Rick Myers "Books and prints + Obstructed drawings" Exhibition

Printed Matter, Inc.

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The show features a wide selection of artists’ books along with his notes & workings, and a newly created video piece. The occasion also marks the launch of a new deluxe portfolio by Myers.

Myers’ focus, as an artist working in the medium of books, returns to themes of process and remainder. Using a set of elemental tools, he creates a sort of amplification in the convergence of information, subject, material & thought. His publications act as the site of various performances or ‘studio actions’ during which inks and residues are prepared and then impressed at the strike of a hammer or under the force of an industrial steel press. He leaves bite marks through one publication. In another he exposes photographic paper to a monitor-image of Belgian physicist Joseph Plateau, the last photo of the scientist before he lost his eyesight following his optical sun experiments. For Myers what counts— residual marking and the traces of an after-image—indicates an object coming into creation as much as the finished work at hand.

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Schedule

from September 17, 2011 to October 08, 2011

Opening Reception on 2011-09-17 from 17:00 to 19:00

Artist(s)

Rick Myers

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