"SHELF LIFE: selected work" includes photographs, drawings, collages, and bookworks created over the past ten years. A fully illustrated catalogue with writings by Buzz Spector, Garrett Stewart and, Dora Apel accompany the exhibition.
Buzz Spector is best-known as an artist for his work with books, but his studio practice also includes photography, collage, installation, and drawing. This introductory exhibit covers the past eleven years of Spector's work. The selection reveals the material diversity and intellectual coherence of an artist concerned with memory, perception, and desire. It is no coincidence that Spector is also a writer; he is constantly crafting a poetry of things.
Spector comes to St. Louis as the new Dean of the College and Graduate School of Art in the Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts at Washington University. While he is recognized for his teaching and service to the field, Spector has also had an influential career as a studio artist and critic. His work is in numerous museum and gallery collections in the U.S., Europe, and Asia, and his writing has been published in such magazines and journals as Artforum, Art on Paper, and WhiteWalls, the journal of language and art that Spector co-founded in 1978, while still a graduate student at the University of Chicago. Spector is the author of several books on art and artists, his new book "Active Voice: Essays on Artists' Books, Books as Art, and Art as Language" is to be published by Granary Books, New York, in 2010.
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My Fiction
Interior dye diffusion print (polaroid)
66 x 72 inches (overall size) - Edition of 2
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Chapman's Homer
Linen over yarn on cotton on museum board in wood frame
51-1/2 x 39 inches
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Upshaw's Auden
Interior dye diffusion prints (polaroid)
31 x 23 1/2 inches
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...a fragment
Handmade paper (abaca over yarn over cotton)
37 x 56 inches
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Fade to Blanc
Linen over yarn with black cotton on cotton- on museum board
24 x 18 inches
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Romance
Ink and watercolor on postcards on paper
16 x 10 inches (Image size)
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Gardens
ink and watercolor on postcards on paper
16 x 10 inches (Image size)
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Histories III
ink and watercolor on postcards on paper
22 x 16 inches (Image size)
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Histories I
ink and watercolor on postcards on paper
19 x 27 inches (Image size)
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Histories II
ink and watercolor on postcards on paper
19 x 27 inches (Image size)
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Big Red C
Interior dye diffusion prints (polaroid)
22 x 35 inches
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Poiesis
Interior dye diffusion prints (polaroid)
33 x 22 inches
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