Hand-Cut Newspaper by Skye Gilkerson

Show: Re:Purpose 

Reception: Friday, July 6, 2012, 6-8pm 

Exhibition Dates: June 25- August 11, 2012 

Curator: Emilyann Craighead 

Artists: Susan Brandt, Jim Doran, Anna Fine Foer, Sky Gilkerson, Diana Marta, 

Alex Queral and Nikki Rosato 

People say that the book is dead. Nooks are just far more convenient. Newspaper ink gets all over the fingers. Who needs a map when you can have SAT NAV? Perhaps people have seen one too many “Hoarder’s” episodes and their clutter is beginning to look ominous. For whatever reason, society is starting to throw away their tangible objects and is calling the time of the demise of paper. The good news is that there seems to be a trend of artists who are collecting the detritus. Now that these objects are starting to lose ground on their original purpose, artists are beginning to reuse these paper-based products and breathe new life into them. They see the beauty in the shape and texture of maps, books, newspapers, etc.

CCBC Catonsville Gallery 

800 South Rolling Road, 

Catonsville, MD 21228 

www.ccbcmd.edu/adim/galleries