Artists tend to see any blank or unused space as an opportunity. In bookbinding, endpapers are necessary to connect the text block to the cover; in some cases, they are the only connection between the two. Artists have been embellishing the endpapers, or endsheets, of books since long before the advent of the printing press, using decorative marbling, small repeating patterns, or thematic illustrations. What happens to endpapers in a digital age? If there is no longer a practical reason to leave space before and after the story, does the artist’s opportunity disappear?
In Endpapers: Before the Beginning and After the End, artists are invited to respond creatively to the endpapers theme, whether they address the questions above, or find an entirely different approach. Recycling book covers and endpapers is encouraged, but artists need not feel limited in their interpretation of the theme.
The juried exhibition Endpapers: Before the Beginning and After the End will be seen by artists, curators, professors, and arts administrators attending the 2013 Inland Visual Studies Center Symposium. The exhibition will also travel to North Branch Projects in Chicago.
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DEADLINE: Friday, December 21, 2012
