a book about death
A Book About Death - Australia, October 18 - November 24, 2013,
Tweed River Art Gallery, Murwillumbah, New South Wales, Australia, curated by Heather Matthew and Julie Barratt
A BOOK ABOUT DEATH (ABAD) takes its inspiration from the late, underground American artist Ray Johnson (1927 - 1995). Ray Johnson’s unbound “book” of the same title was mailed to his New York Correspondence School “students” and included pages in his idiosyncratic style that were funny, sad and ironic “one-page essays” on death. With the A BOOK ABOUT DEATH project, artists were invited to plunge into subject in creating their own pages that score the dramatic final dance of death.
A BOOK ABOUT DEATH is an unbound, un-paginated book produced by artists worldwide. The original project was conceived by Matthew Rose who invited artists to contribute 500 identical postcards on any aspect of the theme of death. That show took place at the Emily Harvey Foundation Gallery in NYC in September 2009. The exhibition was a tremendous success, attracting hundreds of visitors to the Soho gallery. The project includes work from artists as famous as Yoko Ono as well as lesser known talents.
Since then, the ABAD project has taken on a remarkable life. The project has forged many new friendships among artists across the globe and continues to travel the world, appearing in museums and galleries across the US and in Brazil, Belgium, Croatia, Italy, Sarajevo, and the United Kingdom.
A set of cards is also in the permanent collection of the Museum of Modern Art in NYC, MoMA Wales and the Los Angeles County Museum of Art Research Library.
A Book About Death, NYC September 10-22, 2009, curated by Matthew Rose.
A Book About Death, Otis College of Art and Design, Los Angeles, CA, October 11-31, 2009, curated by Mara Thompson.
A Book About Death, Queens Museum of Art, November 1-15, 2009, curated by Louise Weinberg.
A Book About Death, Croatia, and Bosnia, April 2010, curated by Natasa Stanisic and Ivana Rezek.
Um Libro Sobre A Morte, MuBE, Brasil, February 6-28, 2010, curated by Angela Ferrara.
A Book About Death, Exit11, April 11-June 27 2010, Grand-Leez, Brussels, Belgium.
A Book About Death, San Diego State University, March 10-April 9, 2010, curated by Bibiana Padilla Maltos and Sheila Dollente.
A Book About Death, MoMA, Wales, April 27-May8, 2010, curated by Sonja Benskin Mesher.
A Book About Death, RNG Gallery, Omaha, July 21-August 28, curated by Louise Millmann & Rob Gilmer.
Ray Johnson and A Book About Death, SAL Art Gallery at the CW Post Campus of Long Island University in Brookville, NY, November 1-5, 2010, curated by LuAnn Palazzo and Joan Harrison.
A Book About Death: Life, Elizabeth Stone Harper Gallery, Harper Center for the Arts, Presbyterian College, Clinton, South Carolina 29325, February 10-25 2011, curated by Ann Stoddard.
A Book About Death - Australia, October 18 - November 24, 2013, Tweed River Art Gallery, Murwillumbah, New South Wales, Australia, curated by Heather Matthew and Julie Barratt
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A BOOK ABOUT DEATH is an unbound, un-paginated book produced by artists worldwide. The original project was conceived by Matthew Rose who invited artists to contribute 500 identical postcards on any aspect of the theme of death. That show took place at the Emily Harvey Foundation Gallery in NYC in September 2009. The exhibition was a tremendous success, attracting hundreds of visitors to the Soho gallery. The project includes work from artists as famous as Yoko Ono as well as lesser known talents.
Since then, the ABAD project has taken on a remarkable life. The project has forged many new friendships among artists across the globe and continues to travel the world, appearing in museums and galleries across the US and in Brazil, Belgium, Croatia, Italy, Sarajevo, and the United Kingdom.
A set of cards is also in the permanent collection of the Museum of Modern Art in NYC, MoMA Wales and the Los Angeles County Museum of Art Research Library.
A Book About Death, NYC September 10-22, 2009, curated by Matthew Rose.
A Book About Death, Otis College of Art and Design, Los Angeles, CA, October 11-31, 2009, curated by Mara Thompson.
A Book About Death, Queens Museum of Art, November 1-15, 2009, curated by Louise Weinberg.
A Book About Death, Croatia, and Bosnia, April 2010, curated by Natasa Stanisic and Ivana Rezek.
Um Libro Sobre A Morte, MuBE, Brasil, February 6-28, 2010, curated by Angela Ferrara.
A Book About Death, Exit11, April 11-June 27 2010, Grand-Leez, Brussels, Belgium.
A Book About Death, San Diego State University, March 10-April 9, 2010, curated by Bibiana Padilla Maltos and Sheila Dollente.
A Book About Death, MoMA, Wales, April 27-May8, 2010, curated by Sonja Benskin Mesher.
A Book About Death, RNG Gallery, Omaha, July 21-August 28, curated by Louise Millmann & Rob Gilmer.
Ray Johnson and A Book About Death, SAL Art Gallery at the CW Post Campus of Long Island University in Brookville, NY, November 1-5, 2010, curated by LuAnn Palazzo and Joan Harrison.
A Book About Death: Life, Elizabeth Stone Harper Gallery, Harper Center for the Arts, Presbyterian College, Clinton, South Carolina 29325, February 10-25 2011, curated by Ann Stoddard.
A Book About Death - Australia, October 18 - November 24, 2013, Tweed River Art Gallery, Murwillumbah, New South Wales, Australia, curated by Heather Matthew and Julie Barratt
http://abookaboutdeath.blogspot.com/
http://abookaboutdeatharchive.blogspot.com/