UPCOMING EXHIBITION - opening soon!

Novel Constructions: Contemporary Artists Create Monumental Books

Long Beach Museum of Art

May 1 - August 16, 2009

Novel Constructions: Artists Create Monumental Books presents mixed media installations and sculptures by six artists inspired by the idea of "the book" which they expand and enlarge in multiple dimensions from six feet square to over 30 feet long. Selected by guest curator Jean Clad, works by Edith Abeyta, Beatriz Mejia-Krumbein, Mary Ellen Long, Carol Shaw Sutton, Genie Shenk, and Cheryl Sorg are installed at the Museum this summer from May 1 to August 16, 2009. Each artist is inspired by some aspect of "bookness" and the exhibition is unified by the oversized scale of their works, amplifying the traditional intimate scale of books to emphasize their meanings. Novel Constructions is full of encompassing environments that engage and hold visitors in ways that humans engage and hold books.

Click here:  BigBookPressRelease.pdf   for a press release about Novel Constructions