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The Center for Book Arts Presents Three New Exhibitions
The Center for Book Arts announces three new exhibitions as part of its ongoing visual arts program. Currently on view, Friday, September 28 to Saturday, December 8, 2007, in the Main Gallery is Production, Not Reproduction: Offset Printed Artist Books. Organized by Tony White, Head, Fine Arts Library, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN. Production, Not Reproduction, is a group exhibition of more than forty artists that charts the rise (mid-1950’s) and fall (late 1990’s) of offset printed artists’ books. This exhibition includes examples of offset printed artists’ books from conceptual artists such as Dieter Roth and Ed Ruscha; feminist artworks; works from not-for-profit presses including Visual Studies Workshop and Nexus Press; and works from the 1980’s that many consider to be the pinnacle of offset artists’ books production.An artist talk for Production, Not Reproduction will take place on Friday, November 2, at 6:30 pm, moderated by Tony White with Ig Publishers, Rebecca Michaels, and Philip Zimmermann, and Co-sponsored by the New York Chapter of the American Printing History Association.
The Center for Book Arts also presents two new exhibitions as part of its Featured Artist Project series, including Lynne Avadenka: Eindruck and Susan Joy Share: An Alaskan Decade, 2007 Sally R. Bishop Faculty Fellow, both opening on Friday, September 28 to Saturday, December 8, 2007. The Featured Artist Project series provides the opportunity for an individual artist or a collaboration/collective to display a small body of recent work or a site-specific installation. An artist talk for Susan Joy Share: An Alaskan Decade will take place on Friday, October 19 at 6:30 pm, and for Lynne Avadenka: Eindruck on November 16 at 6:30 pm.
The Center for Book Arts is located at 28 West 27th Street, on the 3rd floor, between 6th Avenue and Broadway. To get to the Center by train, take the N/R to 28th Street and Broadway, the F to 23rd Street and 6th Avenue, or the 1 or 9 to 28th Street and 7th Avenue. The Center is open Monday to Friday, 10am to 6pm and on Saturday 10am to 4pm. For further information please call the Center at (212) 481-0295 or visit www.centerforbookarts.org.
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Support for the Center’s Visual Arts Programs—Exhibitions, Featured Artist Projects, and the Artist-in-Residence Workspace Program—is provided by The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts. The Center’s Exhibition Program is supported, in part, by public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs. Additional funding for programs is provided, in part, by the NY State Council on the Arts, Charina Foundation, The Golden Rule Foundation, the Lenrow Fund, the Milton and Sally Avery Arts Foundation.