Secrets and Lies: A Juried Exhibition of Contemporary Artist Books
March 20 – April 26, 2008
23 Sandy Gallery, Portland, Oregon
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THEME - A national juried show of hand-made artist books exploring our innermost secrets, lies, hopes, fears and wildest confessions. Real or fiction. Storytelling or confessing. Raw and revealing or coy and concealing. This show is open to a wide interpretation of the theme. Make us laugh, make us cry, maybe even make us squirm a little. Have fun. Play. Truth or fiction. Truth or dare. Come explore the magical world of artist books.
MEDIA - This exhibit is open to book arts related artworks created as either edition or one-of-a-kind. Artist books, sculptural books, book objects, altered books, zines or broadsides are encouraged. Any medium, any style.
JURORS - This exhibit will be juried by Gay Walker who is the Special Collections Librarian at Reed College Library in Portland, which houses a significant collection of artists books. From 1979 through 1990, she was Curator of the Arts of the Book Collection at Yale University, which included creating and mounting over half the exhibits and running the Bibliographical Press in the Library. A terrific book artist herself, Gay learned bookbinding from Jane Greenfield and took classes in printmaking, calligraphy, and graphic design. And by, Laura Russell, the owner of 23 Sandy Gallery.
PURCHASE PRIZE - One artwork chosen by the jurors will be awarded the purchase prize. That work will be purchased and donated to the artist book collection at Reed College.
DEADLINE - Submissions must be received at the gallery by February 21, 2008.
ENTRY FORMS
Click here to download a complete PDF Prospectus and Entry Form.
You can also request a printed Prospectus and Entry Form by sending your name and mailing address to 23sandygallery@gmail.com.
Secrets and Lies
23 Sandy Gallery
623 NE 23rd Avenue
Portland, OR 97232
Phone: 503-927-4409
Email: 23sandygallery@gmail.com
Web site: www.23sandy.com
Feel free to contact Laura if you have any questions.
titok (secret in Hungarian)
By Robbin Ami Silverberg et al.
New York: Dobbin Books, 1996-1998. Edition of 5.
12 x 12 x 12" closed. Consists of 27 4" blocks. Housed in a lidded collapsible box.
Twenty artists and writers plus one musician were asked via letter to send, inform, or instruct Silverberg about a secret. As the secretist, she used their responses to create titok—twenty-seven four-inch blocks that form a twelve-inch cube of three layers (nine cubes per layer). Some boxes are fully closed, some have peepholes, and some are open with boxes within. The exterior and interior faces are covered with over 200 images and texts produced by photography, photocopy, photo transfer and drawing. The imaging on the blocks functions like a maze through which the viewer proceeds, exploring the ideas and feelings suggested about secrets. Each block has a hidden material within that makes noise when rattled. Also included is a CD with a 27-part violin piece composed specifically for the viewing of titok.
Learn more about titok here or come visit Secrets and Lies at 23 Sandy Gallery to see this incredible work in person, March 20 - April 26, 2008.