Three Exhibitions at CBPA Gallery Featured as Part of ColumbiaCrawl 2012

Druckworks: 40 Years of Books and Projects opens this Thursday in the main gallery, with a comprehensive retrospective of the books, graphic art, and visual projects of Johanna Drucker, who printed her first letterpress book in 1972 and has been active as an writer, typographic poet, and scholar-critic ever since. While widely known for her contributions to contemporary art theory and history, she is also a prolific creative artist, with more than four dozen artists’ books to her credit. Her writings have helped shape the field of artists’ books, visual poetics, and digital aesthetics in dialogue with the arts and critical issues.

The CBPA Spotlight Exhibition Series features Afterimage, a group exhibition focusing on contemporary artists of the generation after Imagism, and who have—in ways both visual and ideological—moved through and beyond it. Expanding upon the network of a small group of artists exhibiting in Afterimage at The DePaul Art Museum to include artistic duos or informal groups, the CBPA installation emphasizes the role of collaboration in contemporary art practice, including artist’s books, animations, prints, and drawings.

Lilli Carré, Like a Lantern (excerpt), 2012

In the west side of the Center for Book and Paper Arts, the Pulp, Ink, and Thread Galley space hosts Immesh/Maquette | tow&two together, a traveling exhibiton of work by Book Arts graduate students from Mills College, CA

ColumbiaCrawl and the CBPA galleries are free and open to the public, and will be hosting a reception as part of ColumbiaCrawl on September 6, from 5:00–8:00 p.m.