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An iPhone with different renditions of Superwoman on the screen on top of a striped purple background.

Carla Gannis: the Selfie Drawings

Carla Gannis, 2016.
 
Published on the occasion of the exhibition "A subject self-defined" held at Transfer, Gallery, January 23 - March 12, 2016.                                                                                                                                                                                                            

A colorful book spread where the left page contains an illustrated image and the right is the artists' attempt to create it out of real objects.

New Color in the Times of Slow Coffee

Michelle Maguire, Kelsey McClellan & Kristin Texeira, 2021.
 
Published on the occasion of the exhibition "New Color in the Times of Slow Coffee" at Stephanie Chefas Gallery, Portland, Oregon, April 3 - 24, 2021.                                                                    

An assemblage of various items including a test tube filled with dirt, a photograph with a blue dot near the center, and loose pages in a clear, acrylic box.

B

Art of the Book class in the School of Art & Design at Pratt Institute, 2000.
 
Published on the occasion of the exhibition "Artist's [sic] books", part of the series Working in Brooklyn, held at the Brooklyn Museum of Art, February 3 - April 16, 2000.
 
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A collection of exhibition-related objects including 2 stones, 2 acorns, a photo strip, and other documents. All are laid out next to a cardboard box that says 'FLY' in large letters.

Fly

Yōko Ono, 1996.
 
Issued on the occasion of the exhibition "Yoko Ono, Fly", organized by the Anderson Gallery, School of the Arts, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, Virginia, October 18 - December 23, 1996.
 
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A book spread that features a single photograph from Eliasson's exhibit across both pages. The image is almost entirely black, with a single strip of line illuminating two viewers.

Contact

Olafur Eliasson, 2015.
 
Published on the occasion of the inaugural exhibition held December 17, 2014 - February 16, 2015 at the Fondation Louis Vuitton, Paris.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                

In the left half of the image is the artists' book and to the right is a piece of plastic the size of the book cover with triangular laser cut-outs.

The Open Book Project

Atzmon Molloy, 2014.
 
A portion of this book accompanies the exhibition: "Open Book: An International Survey of Experimental Books", April 5 - June 10, 2010.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        

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