Exhibit: "Titles"
The University Gallery, in collaboration with Amherst Books, is sponsoring Titles, an itinerant exhibition that is designed to adapt and travel to bookstores in different cities. Area artists, designers and architects are invited to produce book works or related artworks that have a relation to the chosen title found under a category in the bookstore (e.g., literature, children's books, art, etc.) and are placed in a slot on the shelf according to alphabetical ordering. A list will be provided to the visitors to locate the works.
The first exhibition of Titles opened in June 2007 at Balfour Books in Toronto with 28 participating artists. Its second venue will be at Amherst Books, and it will then travel to Montreal later in this fall. This project reflects the "curatorial" interest of the WayUpWayDown collective to set in motion itinerant exhibition structures and maneuvers. It is the mandate of the collective to facilitate tenuous and fluid relations between exhibitions, artworks, and communities.
Titles is planned to coincide with BookMarks: A Celebration of the Art of the Book, a region-wide celebration of the book sponsored by Museums10 this coming fall.
Opening Reception: October 24 from 5:00 to 7:00 pm at the University Gallery.
This exhibition of artists' book works is organized by the Toronto-based WayUpWayDown collective and sponsored by the University Gallery and Amherst Books.
