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Smith
Artists Featured in Local Exhibition
Messenger
by Valerie Carrigan;
a folio of images and letterpress printed text. "The
birds presented in this book are messengers, urging us
to stop still and pay attention to that which strikes
the soul in a new and extraordinary way" -- Valerie
Carrigan |
The works of several
Smith students, former and current, are featured in an exhibition
of artists’ books selected by Martin Antonetti, curator
of rare books in the college's Mortimer Rare Book Room.
The Third Annual
Artists’ Books Exhibition at the Gallery at Zea Mays
Printmaking in nearby Florence, includes 20 works by 14 artists
based in New England.
“Humorous
or haunting, bursting with energy, each of the books in this
exhibition presents its own kind of ‘visual literature’
in which language and image are used and juxtaposed in a way
that extends and enhances the meaning of both,” says
Antonetti, juror for the exhibition. “These artists’
books are explorations of the domain of the book: a highly
charged meeting ground between literature, printmaking and
applied arts, where technical skill and the ability to develop
literary and visual content are combined in the same crucible.”
Smith artists
represented in the exhibit are Emily Orzech ’07, a studio
art major, and alums Louise Kohrman ’02 and O. Kline
’05.
Other featured
artists are Meredith Broberg, Valerie Carrigan, Liz Chalfin,
Nancy Diessner, Anita s. Hunt, Veronica Morgan, Amaryllis
Siniossoglou, Claudia Sperry, C. David Thomas, Alison Williams,
and Diane Kazar Worth.
The Artists’
Book Exhibition runs through Friday, January 13, 2006. The
Gallery at Zea Mays Printmaking is located at 221 Pine St.,
the Arts and Industry Building, third floor. For more information,
call 584-1783.
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