The New York gallery BravinLee, which specializes in exhibiting works on paper, is launching a new artists' book program. Every two months the gallery will exhibit an artist's book project - either a sketch book, a limited edition project or a collaboration between an artist and a writer. This new program will attempt to highlight an artistic idiom that is essential yet under-represented within the conventional gallery system.
Unique from other media, the book form allows for endless variance while remaining tied to the rules of narrative, order and finitude. Adhering to, or working against these formal constraints, the artist's book reveals the hidden potential of this familiar and beloved form. The sketchbook is a place for experimentation and the formulation of concepts, often made for the sheer pleasure and immediacy of the act, possibly on the road or in the studio. Works that follow the sequential structure of a journal, an album, a scrapbook, or that deconstruct the notions of grammar and linearity call into question the validity of delineating between "art" and "literature," positing new possibilities and revealing novel territory.
The series will be inaugurated on 23 March with the first project - the sketch books of Charles Ritchie.
Charles Ritchie
23 March - 26 May
Bravin Lee
526 West 26th Street, Suite 211, New York, New York 10001
T: +1 212 462 4404
www.bravinlee.com
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