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WORKS BY INNOVATIVE BOOK ARTIST ON DISPLAY AT OBERLIN COLLEGE THROUGH SEPTEMBER 28
AUGUST
12, 2002--Oberlin College's Mudd Library will host an exhibition by innovative
book artist Richard Minsky September 3 to 28. Minsky will also deliver
a brief gallery talk and a public lecture about his work on the afternoon
of Monday, September 9.
The exhibition, entitled
the "Bill of Rights," features a series of 10 provocative book
works that exemplify the first ten amendments to the U.S. Constitution
as art. For each amendment, Minsky has selected a text that conveys the
concept of the right that illustrates what may happen if the right is
violated, or that stimulates thinking about the right in a new way. The
work for the First Amendment, protecting freedom of speech, consists of
a burned copy of Salman Rusdie’s Satanic Verses that is placed
in a stained-glass reliquary. The Fifth Amendment, guaranteeing due process
of law for criminal defendants, is illustrated by Mitch Cullin’s
Branches, a novel in the form of an epic poem about a sinister
Texas sheriff who takes the law into his own hands; the book is bound
in khaki, with a sheriff’s badge attached, and the cover contains
bullet holes. The Sixth Amendment, guaranteeing a speedy and public trial,
is illustrated by a black glove, daubed with red paint, that is glued
to a copy of Jeffrey Toobin's best seller The Run of His Life: The
People v. O. J. Simpson.
Richard Minsky has
been active as a book artist since 1973. He is the founder of the Center
for the Book Arts in New York. His works have been exhibited and are held
by major American museums and book arts collections, including the Getty
Center, the Yale University Arts of the Book Collection, the National
Gallery, and the Metropolitan Museum of Art. The "Bill of Rights"
collection is featured on Richard Minsky's website.
Minsky’s exhibition and his visit to Oberlin are sponsored by the Friends of the Oberlin College Library and the Oberlin College Department of Art. His gallery talk will be held at 4:00 p.m. on September 9 on the main level of Mudd Center. His lecture will begin at 4:45 p.m. in Moffett Auditorium, also in Mudd Center. These events are free and open to the public.
Media Contact: Scott Wargo
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