Words on Paper, Words on Screen is an exhibition organized for VCU's James Branch Cabell Library by Stephen Vitiello from the department of Kinetic Imaging and Yuki Hibben, Collection Librarian for the Arts, VCU Libraries.
This show brings together a diverse collection of artworks, by current and former undergraduate and graduate students from across the School of the Arts, including Kinetic Imaging, Painting and Printmaking, Media Art and Text, Crafts and Material Studies, and Sculpture and Extended Media. Each of the works selected integrate text as a visual element. These paintings, sculptures, videos, and drawings will be hung on and around the columns that run throughout Cabell Library's first floor.
Presenting an exhibition of art and text is intended as a natural link to exhibiting in VCU's heavily used library. It is also meant to look at current trends in contemporary art as interpreted by some of the school's most promising young artists.
This show includes a group of drawings by Leah Beeferman, from her series Monitoring the architecture of science, which she describes as "a studious, imaginative investigation of space-bound and land-based far-traveling and distant-looking orbiting and non-orbiting structures." In addition, Ali Miharbi's digital variation on a score by Fluxus artist Eric Andersen Opus 46 is included. One of the most unusual pieces in the show is The Book, a book buried and left to decompose by former Sculpture student Nic DeSantis. Desantis writes, "The Book depicts a burial process where consciousness becomes dust, which portrays the beauty of decay, Alzheimer's, and rust, and asks, 'At what point does reading become writing?'"
This exhibition is sponsored by the VCU Friends of the Library and is part of an ongoing effort to showcase the talents of VCU's student, faculty and alumni artists and to foster partnerships between the VCU Libraries and other VCU departments. For additional information about the VCU Friends of the Library, visit us online.