Furthering the Critical Dialogue:
Criticism in Relation to Artists' Books
Saturday 29 September, 2012
4 - 5:30pm, $0
PS1 Courtyard
22-25 Jackson Avenue, Long Island City
This session will focus on the state of criticism in relation to artists' books, an ongoing area of investigation from previous years. Exemplifying diverse approaches to the practice of criticism, participants will discuss and evaluate the same book by an artist, rather than speculate on the state of criticism per se. Participants include Gretchen E. Henderson, Nancy Princenthal, and Kyle Schlesinger. Organized and moderated by Tony White.
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Gretchen E. Henderson is a Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow at MIT who writes across genres and the arts to invigorate her critical and creative practices. Her books include The House Enters the Street (Starcherone Books, 2012), On Marvellous Things Heard (Green Lantern Press, 2011), and Galerie de Difformité (&NOW Books, 2011): a print book that is networked online and that invites readers to participate in its (de)formation across an array of media. Gretchen also has published a poetry chapbook, Wreckage: By Land & By Sea (Dancing Girl Press), and is working on Ugliness: A Cultural History (for Reaktion Books).
Nancy Princenthal is a New York-based critic and former Senior Editor of Art in America, for which she continues to write regularly. She has contributed to many other publications as well, among them Art News, Artforum, Parkett, the Village Voice, and the New York Times. Princenthal’s monograph on Hannah Wilke was published by Prestel in 2010; other artists on whom she has written monograph and catalogue essays include Doris Salcedo, Robert Mangold, Alfredo Jaar, Rona Pondick, and Petah Coyne. She is currently working on a book about Agnes Martin. For roughly a decade beginning in 1987, she published a regular column about artists’ books in The Print Collector’s Newsletter. She had worked at Printed Matter shortly after it was founded.
Kyle Schlesinger is a poet who writes and lectures on typography and artists’ books. His recent books of poetry include: Commonplace (Cuneiform, 2011); Bad Words to the Radio and Other Poems (Least Weasel, 2011); What You Will (NewLightsPress, 2011); Picture Day (Electio Editions, 2012); and Seeing Things (Chax Press, 2012). In 2010 he curated and authored a catalog entitled Poems & Pictures: A Renaissance in the Art of the Book that traveled from New York, to Houston, to Buffalo, to Chicago. He is proprietor of Cuneiform Press and co-director of the Graduate Program in Publishing at the University of Houston-Victoria.
Moderator: Tony White is Director of the Decker Library at the Maryland Institute College of Art in Baltimore. White has curated exhibitions on contemporary artist's books at Yale University, the Center for Book Arts in Manhattan, and at the Columbia College Center for Book and Paper Arts. He is a founding member and on the board of directors for the College Book Art Association (CBAA). He is also the Field Editor for Artist’s Books and Books for Artist’s for the College Art Association’s online reviews journal.
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Gretchen E. Henderson is a Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow at MIT who writes across genres and the arts to invigorate her critical and creative practices. Her books include The House Enters the Street (Starcherone Books, 2012), On Marvellous Things Heard (Green Lantern Press, 2011), and Galerie de Difformité (&NOW Books, 2011): a print book that is networked online and that invites readers to participate in its (de)formation across an array of media. Gretchen also has published a poetry chapbook, Wreckage: By Land & By Sea (Dancing Girl Press), and is working on Ugliness: A Cultural History (for Reaktion Books).
Nancy Princenthal is a New York-based critic and former Senior Editor of Art in America, for which she continues to write regularly. She has contributed to many other publications as well, among them Art News, Artforum, Parkett, the Village Voice, and the New York Times. Princenthal’s monograph on Hannah Wilke was published by Prestel in 2010; other artists on whom she has written monograph and catalogue essays include Doris Salcedo, Robert Mangold, Alfredo Jaar, Rona Pondick, and Petah Coyne. She is currently working on a book about Agnes Martin. For roughly a decade beginning in 1987, she published a regular column about artists’ books in The Print Collector’s Newsletter. She had worked at Printed Matter shortly after it was founded.
Kyle Schlesinger is a poet who writes and lectures on typography and artists’ books. His recent books of poetry include: Commonplace (Cuneiform, 2011); Bad Words to the Radio and Other Poems (Least Weasel, 2011); What You Will (NewLightsPress, 2011); Picture Day (Electio Editions, 2012); and Seeing Things (Chax Press, 2012). In 2010 he curated and authored a catalog entitled Poems & Pictures: A Renaissance in the Art of the Book that traveled from New York, to Houston, to Buffalo, to Chicago. He is proprietor of Cuneiform Press and co-director of the Graduate Program in Publishing at the University of Houston-Victoria.
Moderator: Tony White is Director of the Decker Library at the Maryland Institute College of Art in Baltimore. White has curated exhibitions on contemporary artist's books at Yale University, the Center for Book Arts in Manhattan, and at the Columbia College Center for Book and Paper Arts. He is a founding member and on the board of directors for the College Book Art Association (CBAA). He is also the Field Editor for Artist’s Books and Books for Artist’s for the College Art Association’s online reviews journal.