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Columbia College - Center for Book and Paper Arts, Chicago

Paper as Dialogue. This exhibition is about the discursive ways that artists approach paper as a medium, technology, and tool, and the utility of paper at the site of interdisciplinary contemporary arts and crafts.

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Curated by Jessica Cochran, with Elizabeth Isakson-Dado, Hannah King, and C.J. Mace

Hand papermaking is a process that begins with the raw material of pulp and ends in sculpture, mixed media, installation and beyond. So to us “handmadeness” points not to a certain aesthetic or visual trope, but to realms of possibility. As such, this exhibition is about the discursive ways that artists approach paper as a medium, technology, and tool, and the utility of paper at the site of interdisciplinary contemporary arts and crafts.

For the exhibition, we asked contemporary artists to create new work using abaca and cotton paper handmade to their specifications at the Center for Book and Paper Arts by graduate students. A second part of the exhibition features works created by artists in-residence at Dieu Donné, a New York-based non-profit artist workspace dedicated to the creation, promotion and preservation of contemporary art in the hand papermaking process.

The exhibition was organized as part of a curatorial studies independent study in the Interdisciplinary Arts Department, led by Melissa Potter, Acting Director, Book & Paper Program and Jessica Cochran, Curator of Exhibiitons.

Works from Dieu Donné by:
Jessica Stockholder
Glenn Ligon
Richard Tuttle
Chuck Close
Polly Apfelbaum
Sonya Blesofsky
Mel Bochner
Ian Cooper
William Kentridge
Matt Keegan
Beth Campbell
Nina Bovasso

Newly commissioned works by:
Dan Devening
Deborah Boardman
Ian Schneller
Annica Cuppetelli & Cristobal Mendoza
Matthew Shlian
Kate McQuillen
Niall McClelland
Anna Tsantir
Daniel Luedtke
Zoe Nelson
Julie Schenkelberg
Susan Goethel-Campbell

Image: Jessica Stockholder, A Violet Haze, Pigmented abaca, pulp painting, collage (Courtesy Dieu Donné, New York)

Press Contacts
Steve Kauffman: T 312 369 7383 skauffman@colum.edu
Erin Purdy: T 312 369 8695 epurdy@colum.edu

Group Effort: Hand Papermaking, Collaboration and Contemporary Art, June 15, 6:30 p.m.
Opening Reception: friday June 15, 4-7 p.m.

Columbia College Chicago Center for Book and Paper Arts
1104 S. Wabash Ave, 2nd Floor Chicago, IL 60605-1996

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Material Assumptions
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