Curator's Statement
Throughout recorded history books have been the containers which document and transmit human culture. It is no wonder that contemporary artists are taking their cultural production into book form, and as is the practice of art makers, pushing the concept of what defines a book beyond conventions and mainstream notions.
In a vein similar to literary texts, the contents of these works traverse the personal, the political, the spiritual, the physical, the sublime, the abject, the poetic, the playful, remembrance, and desire. These books reference the individual context of what is meaningful in the artists' lives.
The theme, Conceptually Bound, refers to the idea that the content of the book is in part expressed by the form the book takes.
Nanette Wylde
Exhibitions
Conceptually Bound 2
@ Coyote Gallery
Butte College, Oroville, California
September 19 - October 24, 2002
Participating Artists
Jody Alexander, CA
Alicia Bailey, CO
Mindy Belloff, NY
Julia Bradshaw, CA
Susan Brown, CA
Pam Cooper, NJ
Daniel Donnelly, CA
Elizabeth Duffy, NY
Jessica Edwards, CA
Cheryl Hahn, WA
Karen Hanmer, IL
Lyall Harris, CA
Suzanne Hatt & Pascaline Knight, Quebec, Canada
Susan Hensel, MI
Marisa Jahn, CA
Dorothy Simpson Krause, MA
Leah Libow, CA
Jone Small Manoogian,CA
Kent Manske, CA
Robin McCauley, CA
Mike Mosher, MI
Penny Nii, CA
Susan O'Malley, CA
Louise Pryor, CA
Joan Stuart Ross, WA
Judith Serebrin, CA
Joyce Cutler Shaw, CA
Weston Thomson, CA
Wayne Wade, CA
Peng-Peng Wang, CA
ZINES @ Conceptually Bound 2
Area i
Dulcey Antonucci
Banzai
Melissa Baird
before the mortgage
Christina Amini
broken umbrella
Tony Vadakan
the Capricorn Gypsies
Sandra Luck & Mary Godfrey
Cartoon Animal Channels
John Isaacson
fridays
The Gleaner
Sherylynne Carriveau
An Invitation
Anne Rita Taylor
Postmodern Anxst
Greg Beda
My Life as a Consumer
Arthur Huang
Northwest Passage
Western Oregon State College
Taproot
Peter Bray
The True Wheelvoices of art
David McCall Freeman
Conceptually Bound @
1078 Gallery
Chico, California
April 2001
Participating Artists
Jody Alexander
T.S. Anand
Julia Bradshaw
Joan Ingoldsby Brown
Deborah Bryan
Diane Cassidy
Ron Guzman
Judith Hoffman
Jovani
Susanne Kanatsiz
Vincent Koloski
Jone Small Manoogian
Kent Manske
Robin Kree McCauley
Ruth McGurk
MJ Orcutt
Coby Prins
Felicia Rice/Moving Parts Press
Sheri Rice
Sara Rosenbluth
Genie Shenk
Karen Sjoholm
Paula Streeter
Hee Jae Suh
Linda Welker
Pamela Zwehl-Burke
Reviews
"Chico News and Review"
April 19, 2001
"Artweek"
June 2001
"My House" © Susan Hensel
"Thorn Book" © Susan Brown
"Devils Food Daniel" © Mike Mosher
"Lose Weight Naturally " © Peng-Peng Wang
"Yen for Death " © Penny Nii
"Relationships" © Kent Manske
"To Do" © Karen Hanmer