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Artists: Seth Clark, Dana Ingham, Randie Snow, Brett Yasko

Curated by Sonja Sweterlitsch

In the spring of 2012, curator Sonja Sweterlitsch’s parents’ house was struck by lightning, reducing her father’s vast library of physics books, collected over a lifetime, to ash in moments. The devastation of this fire, coming at a time in our culture when digital books are outselling print books and bookstores are disappearing from our landscape, made Sweterlitsch reflect on the idea that books as we currently know them may soon become precious objects. While artists continue to create "artists' books" as art objects, using printed matter as an art material has also become a very vibrant trend. In BOOK, Sonja Sweterlitsch invites artists Seth Clark, Dana Ingham, Randie Snow and Brett Yasko to reflect on the material nature of books, and changes in the way we perceive and consume them.

Photo by Dana Ingham