BOOK LAUNCH FOR A Hundred Years of : LEX FLEX
BY RUTH LAXSON
AT PRINTED MATTER, INC.
ON SATURDAY, OCTOBER 25 FROM 5 - 7 PM
Printed Matter is very pleased to announce a book launch for A Hundred Years of : LEX FLEX by Atlanta artist, Ruth Laxson, to be held at Printed Matter on Saturday, October 25 from 5 - 7 PM. Printed Matter is located at 535 West 22nd Street between 10th and 11th avenue.
Hard bound, with a silver stamped cover, A Hundred Years of : LEX FLEX is offset printed on Mohawk Vellum. This handsome volume considers the language of the last century, and the ways in which it changed and modified itself to adapt to the kaleidoscopic and tumultuous events of the times. The book begins with the innocent and elegant period up to the 1930s and goes through the mid-century wars, the battles for civil and human rights, and the cults of personalities. Part Three subtitled "cyber self and Ether/Other" take on the digital age, in Laxson's inimitable style.
Ruth Laxson's earliest work - in sound poetry, sculpture, drawings and etchings - were deeply rooted in using language as a working material. Thus, in the early eighties, artists books became the natural repository of her ideas and dialectic about the contemporary human condition. In the tradition of Concrete Poetry and Visual Writing, Laxson considers the materiality of the written and typed word and its deployment on the page. Using a variety and mixture of typefaces, Laxson makes visual structures, one might even say drawings, out of words.
Critically acclaimed, Ruth Laxson's book works are in major museum, library and private collections in North American and England. Most of Laxson's books are produced in her own studio/press, Press 63+, with hand-set type, etching and screen printing. A Hundred Years of : LEX FLEX was published by Nexus Press of Atlanta, through an Artist Initiated Grant.
The Artist will be present to sign books and answer any questions about her work.
For further information, please call Max Schumann, Manager, at (212) 925-0325.
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Moira Steven, Head Librarian
Atlanta College of Art Library
1280 Peachtree Street NE
Atlanta, GA 30309
Phone: 404-733-5021/Fax: 404-733-5312
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"Hardening of the categories causes art disease." - W. Eugene Smith (1918-1978)
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