Book as Medium: Holding/Withholding Text
January 20 through March 5, 2010
Mary Porter Sesnon Art Gallery
University of California, Santa Cruz.
In the current climate approaches to the book often go beyond that of a traditional vessel for the word. In such books the medium evokes response from an audience that is no longer simply viewer or reader. Through thoughtful or tactile engagement, the book tackles questions about the essence of art: what is form? What is language? What can image evoke? What beauty surfaces? What agency arises?
For more information, please contact http://arts.ucsc.edu/sesnon
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Seduction of Duchamp: Bay Area Artists' Response
October 3 through November 8, 2009
SlaughterhouseSpace
280 Chiquita Road
Healdsburg, CA 95448
This exhibit, curated by Hanna Regev, investigates the influence and legacy of Marcel Duchamp on San Francisco Bay Area artists. Thirty-five artists delve into many of Duchamp's interests, preoccupations, styles and media. For information please visit www.slaughterhousespace.com or call 707-431-1514.
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Experiments in Navigation:
The Artwork of Charles Hobson
June 22 - September 16, 2009
University of Nevada - Reno
Matthewson Knowledge Center - Whittemore Gallery
Reno, Nevada
July 6, 2009
Events in connection with the Exhibition:
Hands On Display: 3 pm, Knowledge Center- Special Collections
Reception: 5 pm, Whittemore Gallery
Lecture: 6 pm, "Cultivating Artist's Books," Wells Fargo Auditiorium
This exhibition includes artist's books and works on paper that span the career of the artist and follows on the exhibitions of the same title at Stanford University in 2008. For more information, please visit www.knowledgecenter.unr.edu
Stanford University, Stanford, CA: Joint Exhibitions
April 30 - August 17, 2008, Green Library
April 30 - July 6, 2008, Cantor Center for Visual Arts
The exhibitions cover work from the career of the artist on the occasion of the acquisition by Stanford University of the archive of his work. Accompanied by a 64 page, full-color catalogue. For more information please visit www.museum.stanford.edu
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Group Exhibitions:
Your Documents Please
April 4 - 20, 2008
The Museum of Arts & Crafts, ITAMI, Japan
November, 2008
2B Gallery, Budapest, Hungary
January, 2009
Galeria Z, Bratislava, Slovakia
An exhibition based on artists responding to international identification documentation curated by Daniel Geroges and Rumiko Tsuda. For information, please contact ibid@maruda.us
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Banned and Recovered: Artists Respond to Censorship
August 15 - November 26, 2008
Opening Reception: Friday, August 15, 6-8pm
San Francisco Center for the Book, San Francisco and the African American Museum and Library, Oakland, CA
This exhibition presents work by visual artists in response to books that have been repressed, censored or banned. Fifty artists, including many well-known names, are participating with work which will raise awareness of censorship.
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BookWorks, 2008
July 1 through September 26, 2008
San Francisco Main Public Library, San Francisco, CA
The 14th in a series of biennial exhibitions sponsored by the Pacific Center for the Book Arts featuring work by more than 50 practitioners of the book arts. For more information visit www.pcba.info.
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Black & White [& Read]
October 28, 2007 - January 14, 2008
Cerritos Library, Los Angeles, CA
January 28 - March 16, 2008
University of Western England, Bristol, UK
April 4 - June 27, 2008
Minnesota Center for the Book, Minneapolis, MI
A traveling exhibition organized by the New York Center for the Book around artist's books which use only black and white. For more information, visit www.centerforbookarts.org
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One Person Exhibition:
Why I Love Books: The Artwork of Charles Hobson
October 2006 - February 2007
A retrospective exhibition of artist's book from 1986 to the present, is accompanied by a 54-page catalogue with an introduction by Barry Lopez. This exhibition, originated by the Bolinas Museum, has traveled to the University of Virginia, the University of Utah and the University of Washington.
Louisiana State University
Baton Rouge, LA
For information, call 225-388-6547
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Garden Installation:
Human Touch
On-going
Engraved granite slabs with images by Charles Hobson & words by various authors installed in garden pathways on December 1999.
Open to the public.
Palo Alto Medical Foundation
795 El Camino Real (near Embarcadero Road)
Palo Alto, CA
For information, call 650-321-4121
