Nice article about William Kentridge and The Magic Flute in the Times today. Inspiring use of mediums and this altered book thing keeps popping in to my awareness. What is that?
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First encounter which registered was on my flickr travels i met people who were drawing in books. My upbringing was such that we were loathe to turn down the corner of the page or break the spine of a book. I’ve still yet to find one I could draw in. I saw it recently at the Adam Baumgold Gallery in the brilliant exhibit Drawn to the Edge.
I had expected an exhibit of horror vacui but was intrigued to find that although that was the original title of the exhibit Mr. Baumgold had expanded on the theme to include works which played with the edge and others which used books and other surfaces as another edge. Julie Doucets work stands out not only for it’s edgy drawings but because the pages shown here were from her “My New York Diary” set in Washington Heights. I was pleased to see Tony Fitzpatrick represented an Mr. Baumgold graciously clued me in to his source of collage material. You may be familiar with Tonys work if you’ve ever seen a Steve Earle album cover.
