(retro)(intro)spection: moving past into the forwardPrimary tabs

Written By David Owens-Hill

February 7, 2020–May 31, 2020

Jurors:
Alisa Golden (never mind the press / author, Making Handmade Books)
Lisa Beth Robinson (East Carolina University / Somnambulist Tango Press, Greenville, NC)
Steve Woodall (Achenbach Collections Specialist, Legion of Honor Museum, San Francisco)

Curators:
Maureen Forys and Jennie Hinchcliff

Artists are frequently inspired by the past and aim to make work which speaks to future audiences, subsequent generations. Tandem processes of introspective questioning and retrospective storytelling often come together in the artist book format—giving reader and creator the opportunity for personal reflection. Artists books tell us stories by using narrative, structure, materials.

(retro)(intro)spection explores the crossroads where artists books and artistic process intersect. When do our amorphous ideas become real, at what point? What is the role of introspection and one’s personal past when applied to artists books? In the act of looking back as well as in, artists are inspired by their body of work, regarding the path or discovering the throughline which brings them to the present.

This exhibition, juried by Alisa Golden (never mind the press / author, Making Handmade Books), Lisa Beth Robinson (East Carolina University / Somnambulist Tango Press, Greenville, NC), and Steve Woodall (Achenbach Collections Specialist, Legion of Honor Museum, San Francisco), showcases artists books which look backward, inward, outward, and forward in a variety of ways. Artists books tell us stories by using narrative, structure, materials. Each of these aspects help the artist to communicate a perspective, one that is singularly unique to themselves and the work. --Maureen Forys and Jennie Hinchcliff

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