Broward County Libraries Division’s
The Dianne and Michael Bienes Special Collections and Rare
Book Library (
and
the
are please to announce that THOMAS BRIAN VIRGIN is the 2006 winner of the tenth annual
Florida Artists’ Book Prize:
Virgin, Thomas Brian
Right there / [Thomas Brian Virgin]
[
1 bookwork (in cotton carrying bag; 7 chapters – each
chapter contains: 1 print; 1 scan; 1 digital photo; 1 essay); 32 x 25 x 4 cm. (closed)
[“This book is a tour through time and space, bouncing
alternately through the artist’s head, Glen Arbor, and Glen Haven,
[signed and numbered in pencil], TBVirgin, 2006”
–
The $2,000 prize will be presented to Mr. Virgin at the
award ceremony and temporary exhibition opening that will be held in the galleries
of the
The judges for this year’s competition were: Ruth
& Marvin Sackner (Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry, Miami, FL);
Arthur Jaffe (Mata and Arthur Jaffe Collection of Books as Aesthetic Objects (Florida
Atlantic University, Boca Raton, FL); and Jean Trebbi (former Director, Florida
Center for the Book (Ft. Lauderdale, FL).
To view selected videos and each page of all of the artists’
books selected for the exhibition, please visit: http://digilab.browardlibrary.org
James (Jim) A. Findlay
The Dianne and Michael
Bienes Special Collections and Rare Book Library
954-357-8692 (office)
954-357-6762 (fax)
www.broward.org/library/bienes_about.htm
(A service of the
Broward
Current Exhibition:
CCC: Civilian Conservation Corps (1933-1943): The New
Deal's Depression-Era Ecological Movement
January 15-March 9, 2007
Please visit the virtual
exhibition at:
http://digilab.browardlibrary.org/ccc.html