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bookart@artspace information about the exhibition

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artspace gallery @ plantzero / zero east fourth street / richmond, va. 23224 / 804-232-6464

bookart@artspace, An Invitational Curated Exhibition

susan benson, marc borzelleca, leslie brier, richard carlyon, gary garbett, mim golub, mark christopher harvey, jo anna hickman, mitzi humphrey, ivarykeith, rosemary jesionowski, patricia kessler, michelle lieb, megan mattax, scott mccarney, maureen mccarron, jeff nilan, g. alex norwood, mel odom, amie oliver, michael o'neal, keithley pierce, lynda ray, robin l. ryder, kris sanford, anne savedge, chuck scalin, kenny scharf, keith smith, jennifer stumpf, jake urbanski, susan vick, heather warstler, charlotte l. weber, claudia weisner-combecher, kathleen westkaemper, merenda woodward, hilary woznica, kim young, jill zevenbergen

Exhibition Dates: September 25 - November 1, 2009
Fourth Friday Reception: 7:00 - 10:00 PM, Friday, September 25, 2009
Opening Artists' Reception: 7:00 - 10:00 PM, Friday, October 2, 2009
Fourth Friday Reception: 7:00 - 10:00 PM, Friday, October 23, 2009
Closing Curator / Artist Talk: 4:00 PM, Sunday, November 1, 2009

Local artist Michael Pierce and VCU instructor and artist Ginna Cullen curated this exhibit that presents a broad array of bookart works, both one-of-a-kind and editioned. Some of the work will be exhibited on pedestals in the gallery and selected images of the work will be displayed on-line and in a printed catalog. In addition, the public can spend some time in a “Reading Room” created by Douglas D’Urso; there you can sit and handle some of these bookart works (when artists have granted such permission) and experience them in time and space.

Some highlights of the show include:

- A bookart work by Keith Smith, from Rochester, NY, who has been one of the gurus of bookart for over 40 years, influencing many book artists through both his personal work and his textbooks.

- A collaborative piece by Ivarykeith, made by Keith Smith and his friend Ivary, who lives in Korea.

- Several bookart works by Scott McCarney, another accomplished Rochester-based book artist, who experiments with print on demand editions.

- A recently published and signed book by Kenny Scharf, an artist working in Brooklyn, NY and Los Angeles, who was a key figure in the East Village art scene of the 1980s and created album covers for the B-52s during that time.

- Several late bookart works by Richard Carlyon (1930 - 2006), an Influential and highly regarded artist and teacher in Richmond. (Carlyon’s work will also be showcased in a concurrent retrospective at VCU’s Anderson Gallery, 1708 Gallery, The Visual Arts Center of Richmond, and Reynolds Gallery.)

If you have questions, contact:
Michael Pierce at mapierce2001@comcast.net or Ginna Cullen at mvcullen@vcu.edu

Participating artists: susan benson, marc borzelleca, leslie brier, richard carlyon, gary garbett, mim golub, mark christopher harvey, jo anna hickman, mitzi humphrey, ivarykeith, rosemary jesionowski, patricia kessler, michelle lieb, megan mattax, scott mccarney, maureen mccarron, jeff nilan, g. alex norwood, mel odom, amie oliver, michael o'neal, keithley pierce, lynda ray, robin l. ryder, kris sanford, anne savedge, chuck scalin, kenny scharf, keith smith, jennifer stumpf, jake urbanski, susan vick, heather warstler, charlotte l. weber, claudia weisner-lombecher, kathleen westkaemper, merenda woodward, hilary woznica, kim young, jill zevenbergen

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bookart@artspace playlist

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The Book Ad - Monty Python

The Book of Love - The Monotones

Every Day I Write the Book - Elvis Costello

The Book I Read - Talking Heads

The Book of Love - The Magnetic Fields

Book of Dreams - Suzanne Vega

Book of Rules - The Heptones

Little Black Book - Jimmy Dean

My Coloring Book - Brenda Lee

Little Red Book - Toni Basil

The Book - Cheryl Crow

I Could Write a Book - Doris Day

Book of Days - Enya

Green Book - Steely Dan

Book Song - Fairport Convention

Book of Dreams - Bruce Springsteen

My New Book - Greg Brown

The Book of Right-On - Joanna Newsom

I Read - Donna Murphy

The Book of My Life - Sting

Tateh’s Picture Book - Randy Newman

Book Return - Ed Harcourt

Carlyon, Richard (Richmond, VA) "Book 20," "Book 37," "Book 42," & "Book 43"

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Benson, Sarah (Temple, AZ) "Evolution for John Doe"

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Borzelleca, Marc (Staunton, VA) "Kiss Kiss," "LA Haiku," "Poser," "SexSonnet," & "You Are Vigorous"

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Brier, Leslie (Fredericksburg, VA) "ABCs of Ephemera - A Visual Lexicon of Personal Symbols"

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Garbett, Gary (Richmond, VA) "fireflies, moonbeams and faded mental polaroids" & "thirty frames per second"

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Harvey, Mark Christopher (Los Angeles, CA) "Fluxion" http://fluxion.net/

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Golub, Mim (Richmond, VA) "A PARIS"

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Hickman, JoAnna (Richmond, VA) "Remove Before Washing or Wearing"

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Humphrey, Mitzi (Richmond, VA) "Ten Tantra with Cactus Flower"

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IVARYKEITH (Rochester, NY and Korea) "Tub on Tuesday"

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Jesionowski, Rosemary (Richmond, VA) "Greetings from Bloomington, Indiana," "My Most Valuable Things on September 21st" & "Where I've Been..."

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Kessler, Patricia Powell (Silver Spring, MD)"Flag Book" & "Obi Book"

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Lieb, Michelle (Culpeper, VA) "Fruit Salad"

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Mattax, Megan (Richmond, VA) "Process Journal"

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McCarney, Scott (Rochester, NY) "Saints & Sinners: Gay Pride and Straight Shame," "Photographs" & "SAFE"

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McCarron, Maureen (New York City, NY) "Totem"

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Nilan, Jeff (Delaware, OH) "Ground," "Forecaster," "Faith" & "Yield"

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Norwood, G. Alex (Winston-Salem, NC) ""Vol. 3 California Speech," "Vol. 6 Everston Effort" & "Vol. 7 Gray Court Mindfulness"

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Odom, Mel (New York City, NY) "Gene Marshall Girl Star"

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Oliver, Amie (Richmond, VA) "Made in China: The Dharma Diaries"

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O'Neal, Michael (Richmond, VA) "Little Black Block Book" & "The Lino Book"

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Pierce, Keithley (Richmond, VA) "Shame," "Summer," "This Can Be You," "Mona 2," "BAD GRRRLZ," "My Chaotic Lie," "Beach Book" & "Secret Emotions"

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Ray, Lynda (Richmond, VA) "Stack"

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Ryder, Robin L. (Richmond, VA) "Dear Diary"

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Sanford, Kris (Temple, AZ) "From Perfect Darkness," "Stolen" & "Divine and Human"

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Savedge, Anne (Richmond, VA) 'Ravia Eyes, the Eyes of a Belly Dancer"

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Scalin, Chuck (Richmond, VA) "TOME 1841"

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Scharf, Kenny (New York City, NY)

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Smith, Keith (Rochester, NY) "Redhead"

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Stumpf, Jennifer (Richmond, VA) "Tiny Egg"

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Urbanski, Jake (Richmond, VA) "Investigation of Palate" & "showdown"

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Vick, Susan J. (Quinton, VA) "therapy"

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Warstler, Heather (Reston, VA) "Tower of Love"

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Weber, Charlotte L. (Gilbert, AZ) "Stocking in Rhyme" & "Message Tree"

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Weisner-Combecher, Claudia (Richmond, VA) "Accordian BooK"

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Westkaemper, Kathleen (Richmond, VA) "Looking at Blackbirds," "On the Wires" & "Birds and Branches"

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Woodward, Merenda (Henrico,VA) "Time for Bed"

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Woznica, Hilary (Falls Church, VA) "The Story of State LInes"

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Young, Kim (Richmond, VA) "Presto"

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Zevenbergen, Jill (Richmond, VA) "Moments Ago I Lost It" & "This Way"

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artspace gallery @ plantzero / zero east fourth street / richmond, va. 23224 / 804-232-6464
"Soft" opening reception: 7:00 - 10:00 pm, September 25, 2009
Formal Opening Reception for the Artists: 7:00 - 10:00 pm, October 2, 2009
Exhibition dates: September 25, 2009 – November 1, 2009
As traditional books disappear from our lives, it seems more and more important to pay attention to the form. This exhibition focuses on the book as art and the many forms and approaches it can take. This is a curated invitational artist book exhibition at artspace in Richmond, Virginia. Artists Ginna Cullen and Michael Pierce have curated the show with a desire to show the range and scope of bookarts going on today. All types of artist books are represented in this exhibition – in many media, both unique or limited edition. Where possible we wanted this to be an interactive/hands-on exhibition, so visitors will be able to handle some of the books.
If you have questions, contact:
Michael Pierce at mapierce2001@comcast.net or Ginna Cullen at mvcullen@vcu.edu

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