From blocks of ice to latex to chewing gum, Angela Lorenz has made limited-edition artist’s books out of an astounding array of materials. Equally staggering is the amount of knowledge she manages to incorporate into each of her intimate volumes. Merging a conceptual approach with exquisite craftsmanship, Lorenz’s works are far more than a simple union of word and image. Exceptionally witty, richly layered, and the result of painstaking research, her books serve as visual scaffolding on which and in which she places cultural and historical information.

Focusing on artist’s books that reference literature and are comprised of materials as unlikely as paper jeans and silk-screened ties, the exhibition will feature a number of the artist’s most innovative and thought-provoking books as well as process materials for these objects. This exhibition will also create a provocative dialogue with the other shows being presented at the Addison this fall, all of which variously deal with the idea of word and image.

This exhibition has been generously funded by the Winton Family Exhibition Fund and the Edward E. Elson Artist-in-Resident Fund.

Click here for link to Angela Lorenz's Oliver Wendell Holmes Collaborative Project site.

©Angela S. Lorenz
The Strength of Denham-Sir John Denham Jeans and Imitation Denhams.
Bologna, Italy 2004
Edition of 54 copies
accordian fold text laid in printed folded paper wrapper with cloth backing
3.5 x 4.2 x .3 in., 3.5 x 219 in. fully extended
Courtesy of the artist