REBOUND | Dissections and Excavations in Book Art

Curated by Karen Ann Myers

Gallery Walk-through with the artists
Thursday May 23, 5-6pm
Halsey galleries, Cato Center for the Arts, 161 Calhoun Street

Opening Receptions
Thursday May 23, 6-8pm
Halsey galleries, Cato Center for the Arts, 161 Calhoun Street
AND Rotunda, Addlestone Library, 205 Calhoun

After-party with Rebound Artists
Thursday May 23, 8-10pm
This party is for Post-Modernist Members and above
To learn more, contact Halsey Institute Membership Coordinator Emily Rigsby, EaRigsby@cofc.edu

Exhibition on View
May 23 – July 6, 2013

All events are free and open to the public

Increasingly, contemporary artists have been exploring the interplay among the function, structure, and format of books. Curated by Halsey Institute assistant director, Karen Ann Myers, Rebound: Dissections and Excavations in Book Art brings together the work of five mixed-media artists from around the world who, using books as a point of departure, sculpt, scrape, bend, and carve to create astonishing compositions. Doug Beube, Long-Bin Chen, Brian Dettmer, Guy Laramée, and Francesca Pastine transform various types of literature and/or printed books through sculptural intervention. Despite the individual and exclusive perspective of each artist, there are remarkable connections in the themes and ideas they respectively mourn and celebrate. The fascinating range of examples, as diverse as books themselves, offers eloquent proof that-despite or because of the advance of digital media for sources of information-the book’s legacy as a carrier of ideas and communication is being expanded today.

Rebound: Dissections and Excavations in Book Art is supported in part by an award from the National Endowment for the Arts. This project is sponsored by BiblioLabs and is a featured presentation of the Spoleto Festival USA.