Park Row Gallery News

A wide variety of handcrafted books will be on display at the Park Row Gallery from Monday, November 23, 2009 to Friday, January 8, 2010. This show of innovative book structures by artist Ed Hutchins allows visitors to see a familiar object, a book, re-imagined and re-created in exciting and unfamiliar ways. From more traditional forms to extravagant explosions of color, Book Dynamics! is sure to please the eyes and the mind.

Acclaimed book designer Ed Hutchins creates artist books that spring to life in delightful and unexpected ways. Combining eclectic materials and ingenious formats with unusual printing techniques and advanced paper engineering, his hand-made books blow apart the traditions of the bindery, while infusing traditional forms with new meaning. Hutchins' inventions and variations expand the boundaries of bookmaking in unimagined and not soon forgotten, directions.

Everyone is invited to attend the Artists’ reception on Saturday, December 12, from 4 to 6 p.m.

Book artist, Ed Hutchins, has taught, lectured, curate shows, directed book arts programs and created many auditioned books while traveling across the U.S.A., Canada, Mexico, Australia, and New Zealand. Since 1989 he has been the proprietor of Editions, a workshop for producing artist book multiples.

According to Jeff Risley, owner of Park Row Gallery, “Everyone loves books, but most people have never seen books like these. They have an intellectual component that requires more than looking, they must be held and manipulated to be appreciated. Ed Hutchins packs his books with curiosity, new ideas, and humor. In reading and handling them we experience the joy of discovery that produced them.”