On View: Saturday, April 22 – Saturday, June 17, 2023
Opening Reception: Saturday, April 22, 4:00-6:00 PM
Live Video Walkthrough: Friday, May 5, 12:00-12:45 PM

Erica Reed Lee, “Memories at a Distance”, 2021, Monotype Artist Book, 6 x 6 inches closed, 12 pages.

Houston, TX (April 5, 2023) — The Printing Museum is pleased to present Book Arts of Houston, an exhibition centered around the history of book arts in Houston and promoting its future.

Book Arts of Houston demonstrates book arts’ quiet legacy and enduring popularity amongst individual Houston artists despite little public attention given to the medium. Using “book arts” as an umbrella term to refer to a range of practices including bookbinding, artists’ books, and multiples, the exhibition provides a broad range of craft and conceptual work.

The exhibition offers a survey of artists and the medium by featuring an impressive 35 bookworks by 30 artists including Charis Ammon, Keliy Anderson-Staley, Missy Bosch, Penny Cerling, The Center for Imaginative Cartography & Research, Lauren Moya Ford, Ian Gerson, Jessica C. González, Trenton Doyle Hancock, Brandon Tho Harris, Hillerbrand + Magsamen, Gaby Hurtado-Ramos, Jonathan P. Jackson, Cathie Kayser, Suzanne Manns, Anna Mavromatis, Mystic Multiples, Michael Patrick O’Brien, Paratext, Janet Reynolds, Caroline Roberts, Adrienne Simmons, Lee Steiner, Roberto Tejada, Lynn Williams, and Geoffrey Winningham.

The exhibition will also feature Bayou Books from the Contemporary Arts Museum Houston and selected works from the Hirsch Library courtesy of the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston.

In conjunction with the exhibition, The Printing Museum will host several workshops led by exhibiting artists and publish a catalogue with writing by the curator.

Book Arts of Houston is organized by guest curator Erica Reed Lee. Lee is a Houston based artist and curator interested in navigating the technological present. In 2022, she curated the tactile and community driven exhibition Gathering What’s Tangible at Flatland Gallery.

SUPPORT 

Book Arts of Houston is funded, in part, by the City of Houston through Houston Arts Alliance.