Mollie Goldstrom: Works on Paper 2005-2008 at Gurari Collections
Exhibition open through October 31, 2008
91 Charles Street Boston, MA 02114
In her chosen mediums of intaglio and drawings, Mollie Goldstrom attempts to portray the “ambiguous space between opposing states of existence”. Referenced sources are popular folklore, personal myth, current events and environmental issues. Her work conveys a sense of whimsy while contending with allegorical, socio-political, and metaphysical challenges.
Revealed in such series as, Lumbering, or the Miscarriage of Use, Fail-Safe: Hunting and Gathering Spitzbergen, or the series, The Woods, they investigate ecological and global issues presenting universal concerns, which are subtly depicted at the most “local” or “everyman” level in her artwork. The artist reveals, through her intimate use of scale, stories of man’s relationship to nature. Our use and misuse of the environment are poignantly defined through this story-like manner in her art. This is the artist’s exception; to convey grave concerns with humble expression.
Louise Bourgeois: ECHO at Cheim & Read
547 West 25 Street
Exhibition up thought November 1, 2008
The exhibition features recent sculptures and gouaches by Louise Bourgeois. The show is accompanied by a full-color catalogue with writings by the artist.
Every Man’s Life is a Fairytale… at Larissa Goldston Gallery
530 West 25th Street, 3rd Floor
Exhibition up thought October 4, 2008
The exhibition features contemporary explorations of storytelling through printmaking. Offering a variety of personal, political, sexual, and literary narratives, the exhibition includes work by Louise Bourgeois, Enrique Chagoya, Amy Cutler, Peregrine Honig, David Levinthal, Jockum Nordström, David Rathman, and Kiki Smith.
The College Book Art Association supports and promotes academic book art education by fostering the development of its practice, teaching, scholarship, and criticism. As part of this mission, the CBAA is offering awards for two outstanding student books. The finalists’ entries will be judged and, as space permits, exhibited at the CBAA bi-annual conference, January 10–11, 2009 at the Center for the Book at the University of Iowa. Download application here.
The first biennial conference of the College Book Art Association seeks to bridge the worlds of book art, book history, cultural criticism, and curatorial work through appreciation of the book as an aesthetic sensorium. Scholarship, artistic practice, and the digital age have evoked for us the multimedia nature of the book experience. At a time when the book arts have never been more vital, ART, FACT, AND ARTIFACT builds from these energies and will offer presentations, papers, studio demonstrations, and exhibits from artists and scholars interested in the future, present, and past of the book as an expressive form. More information here.
