Monday, September 01, 2008
The Page Curler hits Seattle : Cara Barer Exhibit at Wessel & Lieberman
Wessel & Lieberman Booksellers is pleased to announce an exhibition of the work of Cara Barer.
The event will highlight the dynamic photographs the Houston-based artist and showcase her sculptural approach to the book.
Shot on a black background, found books take on color and shape, elegantly transposed by the artist’s hands into recognizable forms. The dirtied, warped, and sometimes dyed leaves of text may become the wings of a butterfly, the gills of a mushroom, or the intricately symmetrical crystals of a newly formed snowflake.
Cara Barer studied Art and Photography at the Glassell School of Art at the Museum of Fine Arts in Houston, and at the Art Institute of Houston. Her work has appeared in shows from New York to California, and throughout the state of Texas. This will be the first exhibition of her photography in the Pacific Northwest.
View the online exhibition
Previously on Book Patrol:
The Page Curler
Elizabeth Wadell's piece at the Quarterly Conversation,
"The Book Art of Robert The, Cara Barer, and Jacqueline Rush Lee"
Cara Barer's website
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
3 comments:
"Wessel & Lieberman Booksellers is pleased to announce an exhibition of the work of Cara Barer."
i am sorry let me read that again...
"Wessel & Lieberman Booksellers is pleased to announce an exhibition of the work of Cara Barer."
WTF? a bookseller is promoting an exhibit of a sculptor who uses books as something OTHER THAN A BOOK?
I think i am gonna be sick.
I LOVE her work! I would much rather see an old book as a piece of art than in a dumpster! I read somewhere that her original piece was an old phonebook - very creative!
This is so cool!! I am amazed by the creativity books can create!!Part of me is in awe..another part of me hates to see books like this..but if I could afford it I would get one of these!!! Thanks for an interesting entry!
Post a Comment