Gallery
Gallery
The Gallery at Columbia Book & Paper Center is located at 1104 S.
Wabash, 2nd. floor. Gallery hours are 10:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m., Monday
through Friday. The gallery is free and open to the public. We welcome
visits from school and community groups; please call the Center at
312-344-6630 to arrange a time for your class or group to view the exhibits.
CURRENT EXHIBITION:
5th INTERNATIONAL BOOK & PAPER ARTS
TRIENNIAL EXHIBITION
July 25 - September 12, 2008
CLOSING RECEPTION: Friday, September 12, 5:30–7:30PM
A catalog of the exhibition will be available for purchase during the Closing Reception.
Fifty-nine art works from the papermaking and artists’ book genre will be exhibited during the 5th International Book & Paper Arts Triennial. This juried exhibition features fine and letterpress printed and bound books, broadsides, artists’ books, book objects, sculptural paper, paper cuts, pulp painting and altered books that have been selected from an international base of the most recognized artists working in the medium today. Paper vessels that dangle from ceiling to floor; sculpture that is 2 inches tall; a book “written” in broken glass; another containing the mnemonic bird calls of Midwest songbirds; etchings of Paris gardens; a taxonomy of urban fowl (of the human kind); illustrated poems; corn stalks made of paper; a photo journey through a car wash‹all can be viewed and enjoyed. A catalog of the exhibition will be available for purchase during the closing reception on Friday, September 12.
Forty-four finalists:
Lyn Ashby, M.K. Augustine, Alice Austin, Fairley Barnes, Jana Brubaker, Rob Buchert, Elaine Chong, Margaret Couch Cogswell, Archie Granot, Karen Hanmer, Mary Hark, Mary Heebner, Judy Bergman Hochberg, Craig Jobson, David B. Johnson, Peggy Johnston, Wendy Kawabata, Ellen Knudson, Carole Kunstadt, Angela Liguori and Silvana Amato, Elaine Langerman, Claudia Lee, Marie Marcano, Kim Matthews, Daniel Mellis, Tim Mosely, Elizabeth Munger, Sabina U. Nies, Jan Owen, Anne Pelikan, Sumi Perera, Sandi Rigby, Regula Russelle, Scripps College Press: Kitty Maryatt, Shawn Sheehy, Richard Shipps, Areujana Sim, Tricia Smout, Diane M. Stemper, S.C. Thayer, Jennifer Vignone Laura Wait, Beata Wehr, Linney Wix.
Jurors: Robert McCamant, Pam Paulsrud, and Max Yela.
UPCOMING EXHIBITION:
JACK KEROUAC: ON THE ROAD
+
EXPERIMENTAL LITERATURE &
THE INTERSECTION WITH ARTISTS' BOOKS
October 3 - November 30, 2008
OPENING RECEPTION: Friday, October 3, 5:30 – 7:30PM
Gallery hours have been extended for the Jack Kerouac: On the Road exhibition
M - F, 12 - 7 SAT + SUN, 12 - 5
Jack Kerouac’s manuscript scroll of his iconic novel, On the Road (published in 1957), is the centerpiece of a college-wide initiative investigating the disparate group of poets, artists, filmmakers and musicians known as the Beat Generation. This first draft of On the Road was produced by Kerouac in a 20-day writing marathon between April 2 and April 22, 1951. The manuscript is a continuous scroll of semi-translucent paper, 120 feet long by 9 inches wide, created by Kerouac by pasting and taping together separate, 12-foot-long strips in order to feed the scroll through the typewriter without interruption. In honor of the fiftieth anniversary of the publication of On the Road, the exhibition offers visitors the rare opportunity to see the original draft, containing Kerouac’s own edits in pencil, and using the real names of those depicted in the published novel including Neal Cassady, Allen Ginsberg and William S. Burroughs.
EXPERIMENTAL LITERATURE & THE INTERSECTION WITH ARTISTS' BOOKS
In conjunction with Jack Kerouac: On the Road, this curated exhibition highlights the ongoing exploration of writers/artists in the area of experimental literature vis-a-vis artists’ books. Co-curated by Kyle Schlesinger and Craig Dworkin, the exhibition's point of departure is Kerouac's now iconic On the Road manuscript. The catalog for Experimental Literature and the Intersection with Artists’ Books will be produced as JAB24 (the Journal of Artists' Books #24). Rather than focusing specifically on the Beat culture and literature, the curators have chosen to allow contributors to elucidate and interpret the terms "experimental literature" and "artists' books" for themselves. Essays by Alastair Johnston, Susan Vanderborg, Tate Shaw and Chris Burnett will be included.
To celebrate the opening of the exhibit and special issue of the Journal of Artists' Books on "Intersections of Experimental Literature and Artists' Books," there will be readings by poets based in the greater Chicago area and whose works exemplify contemporary experimental poetic practice in the tradition fostered by the small press and artists' books. These readings are organized by Patrick Durgin and David Pavelich (please see their bios below).
Friday, October 3rd, 2008, 6:30 pm
Ed Roberson
Nathalie Stephens
Kerri Sonnenberg
Garin Cycholl
Ed Roberson is the author of a number of books, including City Eclogue (2006) and the National Poetry Series winner Atmosphere Conditions (1998). Born and raised in Pittsburgh, PA, Roberson has recently taught writing at Columbia College and the University of Chicago. Nathalie Stephens (Nathanaël) writes l'entre-genre in English and French. She is the author of more than a dozen books including The Sorrow And The Fast Of It (Nightboat, 2007), Paper City (Coach House, 2003), Je Nathanaël (l'Hexagone, 2003) and L'Injure (l'Hexagone, 2004). Immminent with Nightboat (2009) is an essay of correspondence entitled Absence Where As (Claude Cahun and the Unopened Book). In addition to translating herself, Stephens has translated Catherine Mavrikakis, Gail Scott, Bhanu Kapil and Édouard Glissant. Kerri Sonnenberg lives and writes in Chicago. She is the author of The Mudra, published by Litmus Press. Garin Cycholl's recent work has appeared with the Seneca Review, Exquisite Corpse, Free Verse, and PFS Post Avant, and is author of Blue Mound to 161, Nightbirds, and Rafetown Georgics. He teaches writing and literature at the University of Illinois at Chicago and is a visiting lecturer with the Committee on Creative Writing at the University of Chicago.
Friday, October 17th, 2008, 6:30 pm
Judith Goldman
Roberto Harrison
Simone Muench
Tim Yu
Judith Goldman is the author Deathstar/Ricochet (2006) and Vocoder (2001). With Leslie Scalapino, she edits the series of anthologies War and Peace. She teaches at the University of Chicago. Roberto Harrison's most recent books include Os (subpress, 2006), Counter Daemons (Litmus, 2006) and Elemental Song (Answer Tag Home Press, 2006). He edits Crayon with Andrew Levy and the Bronze Skull Press chapbook series. He lives in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, where he hosts the Enemy Rumor reading series. Simone Muench's last book Lampblack & Ash (2005) received the Kathryn A. Morton Prize for Poetry. She is an editor for Sharkforum, serves on the advisory board for Switchback Books, and was recently named one of New City's "Lit 50: Who Really Books in Chicago." Tim Yu is the author of Journey to the West, which won the 2006 Vincent Chin Memorial Chapbook Prize from Kundiman and appeared in Barrow Street. An assistant professor of English at the University of Toronto, his critical book, Race and the Avant-Garde: Experimental and Asian American Poetry since 1965, is forthcoming from Stanford University Press in 2009.
Patrick Durgin’s most recent publications include Imitation Poems (Atticus/Finch, 2007), contributions to Denver Quarterly and Gam, and a collaboration with poet-translator Jen Hofer entitled The Route (Atelos, 2008). In 2006 he edited Hannah Weiner’s Open House for Kenning Editions and in 2007 he co-curated, with Robert Archambeau, the “Chicago Marathon Reading” to coincide with the MLA. He teaches literature and writing at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and maintains www.da-crouton.com <http://www.da-crouton.com> .
David Pavelich is a special collections librarian and bibliographer for contemporary and modern poetry at the University of Chicago Library. He edits and publishes Answer Tag chapbooks and broadsides in limited editions http://www.answertaghomepress.com <http://www.answertaghomepress.com/> . His most recent poems and prose can be found in the anthologies A Sing Economy and The City Visible: Chicago Poetry for the New Century and the journals Antennae and Crayon.
Past 2008 Exhibits
CURRENT EXHIBITION:
5th INTERNATIONAL BOOK & PAPER ARTS
TRIENNIAL EXHIBITION
July 25 - September 12, 2008
CLOSING RECEPTION: Friday, September 12, 5:30–7:30PM
A catalog of the exhibition will be available for purchase during the Closing Reception.
Fifty-nine art works from the papermaking and artists’ book genre will be exhibited during the 5th International Book & Paper Arts Triennial. This juried exhibition features fine and letterpress printed and bound books, broadsides, artists’ books, book objects, sculptural paper, paper cuts, pulp painting and altered books that have been selected from an international base of the most recognized artists working in the medium today. Paper vessels that dangle from ceiling to floor; sculpture that is 2 inches tall; a book “written” in broken glass; another containing the mnemonic bird calls of Midwest songbirds; etchings of Paris gardens; a taxonomy of urban fowl (of the human kind); illustrated poems; corn stalks made of paper; a photo journey through a car wash‹all can be viewed and enjoyed. A catalog of the exhibition will be available for purchase during the closing reception on Friday, September 12.
Forty-four finalists:
Lyn Ashby, M.K. Augustine, Alice Austin, Fairley Barnes, Jana Brubaker, Rob Buchert, Elaine Chong, Margaret Couch Cogswell, Archie Granot, Karen Hanmer, Mary Hark, Mary Heebner, Judy Bergman Hochberg, Craig Jobson, David B. Johnson, Peggy Johnston, Wendy Kawabata, Ellen Knudson, Carole Kunstadt, Angela Liguori and Silvana Amato, Elaine Langerman, Claudia Lee, Marie Marcano, Kim Matthews, Daniel Mellis, Tim Mosely, Elizabeth Munger, Sabina U. Nies, Jan Owen, Anne Pelikan, Sumi Perera, Sandi Rigby, Regula Russelle, Scripps College Press: Kitty Maryatt, Shawn Sheehy, Richard Shipps, Areujana Sim, Tricia Smout, Diane M. Stemper, S.C. Thayer, Jennifer Vignone Laura Wait, Beata Wehr, Linney Wix.
Jurors: Robert McCamant, Pam Paulsrud, and Max Yela.
UPCOMING EXHIBITION:
JACK KEROUAC: ON THE ROAD
+
EXPERIMENTAL LITERATURE &
THE INTERSECTION WITH ARTISTS' BOOKS
October 3 - November 30, 2008
OPENING RECEPTION: Friday, October 3, 5:30 – 7:30PM
Gallery hours have been extended for the Jack Kerouac: On the Road exhibition
M - F, 12 - 7 SAT + SUN, 12 - 5
Jack Kerouac’s manuscript scroll of his iconic novel, On the Road (published in 1957), is the centerpiece of a college-wide initiative investigating the disparate group of poets, artists, filmmakers and musicians known as the Beat Generation. This first draft of On the Road was produced by Kerouac in a 20-day writing marathon between April 2 and April 22, 1951. The manuscript is a continuous scroll of semi-translucent paper, 120 feet long by 9 inches wide, created by Kerouac by pasting and taping together separate, 12-foot-long strips in order to feed the scroll through the typewriter without interruption. In honor of the fiftieth anniversary of the publication of On the Road, the exhibition offers visitors the rare opportunity to see the original draft, containing Kerouac’s own edits in pencil, and using the real names of those depicted in the published novel including Neal Cassady, Allen Ginsberg and William S. Burroughs.
EXPERIMENTAL LITERATURE & THE INTERSECTION WITH ARTISTS' BOOKS
In conjunction with Jack Kerouac: On the Road, this curated exhibition highlights the ongoing exploration of writers/artists in the area of experimental literature vis-a-vis artists’ books. Co-curated by Kyle Schlesinger and Craig Dworkin, the exhibition's point of departure is Kerouac's now iconic On the Road manuscript. The catalog for Experimental Literature and the Intersection with Artists’ Books will be produced as JAB24 (the Journal of Artists' Books #24). Rather than focusing specifically on the Beat culture and literature, the curators have chosen to allow contributors to elucidate and interpret the terms "experimental literature" and "artists' books" for themselves. Essays by Alastair Johnston, Susan Vanderborg, Tate Shaw and Chris Burnett will be included.
To celebrate the opening of the exhibit and special issue of the Journal of Artists' Books on "Intersections of Experimental Literature and Artists' Books," there will be readings by poets based in the greater Chicago area and whose works exemplify contemporary experimental poetic practice in the tradition fostered by the small press and artists' books. These readings are organized by Patrick Durgin and David Pavelich (please see their bios below).
Friday, October 3rd, 2008, 6:30 pm
Ed Roberson
Nathalie Stephens
Kerri Sonnenberg
Garin Cycholl
Ed Roberson is the author of a number of books, including City Eclogue (2006) and the National Poetry Series winner Atmosphere Conditions (1998). Born and raised in Pittsburgh, PA, Roberson has recently taught writing at Columbia College and the University of Chicago. Nathalie Stephens (Nathanaël) writes l'entre-genre in English and French. She is the author of more than a dozen books including The Sorrow And The Fast Of It (Nightboat, 2007), Paper City (Coach House, 2003), Je Nathanaël (l'Hexagone, 2003) and L'Injure (l'Hexagone, 2004). Immminent with Nightboat (2009) is an essay of correspondence entitled Absence Where As (Claude Cahun and the Unopened Book). In addition to translating herself, Stephens has translated Catherine Mavrikakis, Gail Scott, Bhanu Kapil and Édouard Glissant. Kerri Sonnenberg lives and writes in Chicago. She is the author of The Mudra, published by Litmus Press. Garin Cycholl's recent work has appeared with the Seneca Review, Exquisite Corpse, Free Verse, and PFS Post Avant, and is author of Blue Mound to 161, Nightbirds, and Rafetown Georgics. He teaches writing and literature at the University of Illinois at Chicago and is a visiting lecturer with the Committee on Creative Writing at the University of Chicago.
Friday, October 17th, 2008, 6:30 pm
Judith Goldman
Roberto Harrison
Simone Muench
Tim Yu
Judith Goldman is the author Deathstar/Ricochet (2006) and Vocoder (2001). With Leslie Scalapino, she edits the series of anthologies War and Peace. She teaches at the University of Chicago. Roberto Harrison's most recent books include Os (subpress, 2006), Counter Daemons (Litmus, 2006) and Elemental Song (Answer Tag Home Press, 2006). He edits Crayon with Andrew Levy and the Bronze Skull Press chapbook series. He lives in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, where he hosts the Enemy Rumor reading series. Simone Muench's last book Lampblack & Ash (2005) received the Kathryn A. Morton Prize for Poetry. She is an editor for Sharkforum, serves on the advisory board for Switchback Books, and was recently named one of New City's "Lit 50: Who Really Books in Chicago." Tim Yu is the author of Journey to the West, which won the 2006 Vincent Chin Memorial Chapbook Prize from Kundiman and appeared in Barrow Street. An assistant professor of English at the University of Toronto, his critical book, Race and the Avant-Garde: Experimental and Asian American Poetry since 1965, is forthcoming from Stanford University Press in 2009.
Patrick Durgin’s most recent publications include Imitation Poems (Atticus/Finch, 2007), contributions to Denver Quarterly and Gam, and a collaboration with poet-translator Jen Hofer entitled The Route (Atelos, 2008). In 2006 he edited Hannah Weiner’s Open House for Kenning Editions and in 2007 he co-curated, with Robert Archambeau, the “Chicago Marathon Reading” to coincide with the MLA. He teaches literature and writing at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and maintains www.da-crouton.com <http://www.da-crouton.com> .
David Pavelich is a special collections librarian and bibliographer for contemporary and modern poetry at the University of Chicago Library. He edits and publishes Answer Tag chapbooks and broadsides in limited editions http://www.answertaghomepress.com <http://www.answertaghomepress.com/> . His most recent poems and prose can be found in the anthologies A Sing Economy and The City Visible: Chicago Poetry for the New Century and the journals Antennae and Crayon.
Past 2008 Exhibits