Hand-Cut Newspaper by Skye Gilkerson
Show: Re:Purpose
Reception: Friday, July 6, 2012, 6-8pm
Exhibition Dates: June 25- August 11, 2012
Curator: Emilyann Craighead
Artists: Susan Brandt, Jim Doran, Anna Fine Foer, Sky Gilkerson, Diana Marta,
Alex Queral and Nikki Rosato
People say that the book is dead. Nooks are just far more convenient. Newspaper ink gets all over the fingers. Who needs a map when you can have SAT NAV? Perhaps people have seen one too many “Hoarder’s” episodes and their clutter is beginning to look ominous. For whatever reason, society is starting to throw away their tangible objects and is calling the time of the demise of paper. The good news is that there seems to be a trend of artists who are collecting the detritus. Now that these objects are starting to lose ground on their original purpose, artists are beginning to reuse these paper-based products and breathe new life into them. They see the beauty in the shape and texture of maps, books, newspapers, etc.
CCBC Catonsville Gallery
800 South Rolling Road,
Catonsville, MD 21228
www.ccbcmd.edu/adim/galleries
