Artwork in the Nancy Toomey Fine Art Beauty in Lockdown Catalogue
BRIAN DETTMER, Encyclopedia of All Nations, 2019
Hardcover Book, Acrylic Varnish, 11.25 x 8.75 x 2.875 Inches
$9,000
In this series by New York based Brian Dettmer, single reference books become unbound from their spine and lay flat on the wall as a rectangular machine full of compressed data. The book’s framing begins to fall apart as fragments of text, diagrams, and illustrations melt together into a single organism. The book becomes a game board, a mechanical component, or a geometric landscape of bits and bites of data. Layers of pages and chunks of information have been removed, as if deleted or erased from a hard drive. We are left with both a shell and a vessel, a geometric landscape, a device or a tool that can work to hold ideas and help solve new problems… More »
Thoughts on Lockdown
Of course it is terrible but beyond that, I think about what should be happening, how we should confront this, how we could do this differently, how messed up our federal government is, but there is nothing new I could say and nothing to be gained by having an opinion on something we know so little about and have such little control over. We have to live with the uncertainty and that is an uncomfortable place to be in, but the only alternatives right now are delusion or destruction. All we can do is find comfort in family, friends and art–while we listen and wait.
“Hardcovers and Paperbacks” Exhibit at University of Mississippi Museum
Brian Dettmer’s exhibit Hardcovers and Paperbacks, both memorializes the written word and reincarnates it. With great reverence, he has transformed books into sculptural works providing them with a new voice that pays homage to their former lives. Exhibit is on view at both the University Museum and Rowan Oak. More »
Exhibition at Nancy Toomey Fine Art
Elegies – September 4 to October 12, 2019
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