NYAB Event - “Cutting Edge: Contemporary Paper Art by Doug Beube, Danielle Durchslag, Irwin Susskind, and Thomas Witte” Exhibition

“Cutting Edge: Contemporary Paper Art by Doug Beube, Danielle Durchslag, Irwin Susskind, and Thomas Witte” Exhibition

Brooklyn Public Library (Central)

This event has ended.

A group exhibition that celebrates the renaissance of cut paper as an artistic medium, including artists who choose to draw with a knife, saw, or scissors as an integral part of their practice.

Doug Beube
My work explores the book itself, a seemingly antiquated technology that is still purposeful in a digital age. Although the codex, compared to computers, is undeniably limited in its capacity to store, perpetuate, generate and recreate information, I accept these boundaries. I began changing the book’s structure in 1979 by pushing the physical properties of the book: piercing, gouging and excavating it, as if it were a thrilling, previously undiscovered site in an archeological dig. Each piece explores the reciprocity between meaning and structure as comprehended subliminally through the senses.

Doug Beube is a mixed-media artist working in bookwork, collage, sculpture, and photography. Since 1993, he has been curator of a private collection, “The Allan Chasanoff Bookworks Collection: The Book Under Pressure,” in New York City. Doug teaches classes at Parsons The New School for Design in artists’ books, collage, mixed-media and photography, and workshops at Penland School of Crafts, Haystack Mountain School of Crafts and the Center for Book Arts. Beube exhibits extensively both nationally and internationally and his bookworks and photographs are in numerous private and public collections. His monograph, Doug Beube: Breaking the Codex: Bookworks, Collage and Mixed Media, was published in 2011. Photo credit: Chris Buck.

Website: www.dougbeube.com

Danielle Durchslag
I make large- and small-scale portraits that look like paintings when photographed, but are in fact constructed from hundreds of pieces of cut paper. My work uses layered paper to explore the subtle, powerful process of human emotional development. As in human psychology, each new layer is crafted and informed by the one beneath it, to create a seemingly complete whole.

Danielle Durchslag was born in Chicago, Illinois, and completed her master’s degree at New York University in 2011. She now lives and works in New York and has since been invited to participate in a number of artists residencies, including; the SÍM Residency in Reykjavik, Iceland, and closer to home, at Wave Hill in the Bronx. Danielle had a solo show at Yale University in 2011 and she has begun to exhibit works in a number of high-profile group shows across the United States.

[Image: Masked Vocabulary (altered dictionary, metal marble) © 2011 Doug Beube]

Media

• Drawing
• Other
• Sculpture

ADVERTISE ON NYAB