The
University
of Hartford’s Joseloff Gallery at the Hartford Art School is proud
to present the exhibition Rare Beauty: Contemporary Visions in
Book
Arts, a group exhibition featuring the work of six
distinguished
printmakers and book artists, in the gallery from January 17 through
February
19, 2012.
Rare
Beauty will
showcase the
work of the 2011/2012 Georgette and Richard Koopman Distinguished Chairs in the
printmaking department at the Hartford Art School: Steven Daiber, Pati Scobey, and Barb Tetenbaum, as well as
three invited guest
artists: Julie Chen, Kathy Kuehn, and Wilber H.
Schilling.
The
exhibition
comprises a diverse sampling of handmade books in all forms,
demonstrating the
incredible scope of the craft. From traditional, recognizable book
forms to
interactive boxes, textwrapped jawbones, embroidered scrolls, and
installations; the books in this exhibition stretch all familiar boundaries of what
defines a
“book”.
The
title
of the exhibition, Rare
Beauty, was inspired by a quote from one of the artists
included in
the exhibition, Wilber H. Schilling, who said, “In this increasingly
digital
age, a carefully handmade,
inspiringly clever and tactile book is a rare beauty.”
In
addition
to the exhibition, there will be a panel discussion held on Thursday,
February 9, 2012 from
3:30-5:00pm in the Wilde Auditorium, directly followed by a public
reception in
the Joseloff gallery from
5-7pm.
The panel will include all six artists in the exhibition and will be
moderated
by Ruth Rogers, curator of
special collections at Wellesley College.
Rare
Beauty was
organized by
Lisa Gaumond, managing director of the Joseloff Gallery, with the help of the faculty of the
Hartford
Art School printmaking department: Jim Lee, Jenni Freidman, and John Willis.
A
full-color
catalog will be available for $25. Please contact the gallery for
more information.
To
read
more about Rare
Beauty,
and see examples of the work, please visit the exhibition page.
EVENTS:
Panel Discussion
§
February
9, 2012, 3:30-5pm, Wilde Auditorium featuring all six
artists in the exhibition, moderated by Ruth R. Rogers, Curator of
Special
Collections at Wellesley College
Public
Reception
§
February
9, 2012, 5-7pm, Joseloff Gallery
University of Hartford/Joseloff Gallery, 200 Bloomfield Avenue, West Hartford, Connecticut 06117
-- Steven C Daiber Red Trillium Press/ Aqui en la lucha www.redtrilliumpress.com 221 Pine St. #332, Florence, MA 01096 413-695-7990 Rare Beauty: Contemporary Visions in Book Arts http://www.joseloffgallery.org/on-view/ Making of Privacidad: www.bookarts.uwe.ac.uk/blue_notebook/1010/9391/tbn11.pdf Cuban Collaborations: http://www.philobiblon.com/bonefolder/vol7contents.htm Making El muro: http://theartblog.org/2009/11/talking-with-steven-daiber-about-art-cuba-and-el-muro/