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READING ROAD CURATORIAL PROGRAMS
ETERNAL PAPER
University of Maryland Global College Art Program Gallery, Adelphi, Md.
October 22, 2023- May 19, 2024
The Paper Academy, Gilleleje, Denmark
July 13- August 11, 2024
ETERNAL PAPER, curated by Helen C. Frederick, brings together 20 artists who have collaborated to create hand-formed art in and on paper. Their approaches range from representation to abstraction and address political, ecological, and social issues. These artists honor past traditions while inventing new concepts of materiality.
The artists, who bridge several decades, communicate their individual aesthetics and the cross pollination engendered in studios and projects where they have collaborated together. The show of 52 works features two-dimensional large-scale wall-hung work, sculptural artist books, and various smaller sized works.
In the age of the instant, disposable image, this exhibition asks: What do we hold close? What serves us? What is lasting?
The featured artists are Maria Barbosa, Elsabe Johnson Dixon, Nicole Donnelly, Cheryl Edwards, Susan Firestone, Helen Frederick, Claudia “Aziza” Gibson-Hunter, Alexis Granwell, Ellen Hill, Ken Polinskie, Tongji Philip Qian, Randi Reiss McCormack, Tara Sabharwal, Soledad Salame’, Preston Sampson, Gretchen Schermerhorn, Joyce J. Scott, Buzz Spector, Mary Ting, and Anne Visboell. A 60-page catalog accompanies the exhibition. INTERVIEWS between the artists can be seen on the University of Maryland Global College Art Program page.
Reading Road Studio, Pyramid Atlantic, and Reading Road Studio are featured in the new publication RADICAL PAPER, Art and Invention in Colored Pulp, authored by Lynn Sures and Michelle Samour, available from Oak Knoll Press. The 400 page book documents the history of pulp painting, major collaborative studios and over 73 artists working in pulp painting.
With appreciation to Nemesis Zambrano for her editing of the artist conversations for the ETERNAL PAPER exhibition and her assistance with the Reading Road website.