Artist Robin Price to Display Books and Prints at Columbia College Chicago January 27, 2011

Counting on Chance: 25 Years of Artist’s Books by Robin Price, Publisher is an art exhibition that brings together 25 years of artist’s books, prints, broadsides and ephemera. Robin Price is a world-renowned experimental letterpress printer and book artist who is based in Connecticut.
The exhibition showcases Price's work from her beginnings as a feminist printer, through her fine-press work in traditional formats and her most recent art, which is intensely collaborative and incorporates chance. Price combines the highest levels of aesthetics, craftsmanship, and technique with risk-taking in her complex books.

Counting on Chance was curated by Suzy Taraba, head of Special Collections, Olin Library of Wesleyan University and adapted for the Center for Book and Paper Arts by Jessica Cochran, curator of exhibitions and programs.

WHEN:
Jan. 27–April 9
Opening reception: Jan. 27, 5–8 p.m.
Gallery hours: Monday–Saturday 10 a.m.–6 p.m.

RELATED PROGRAMMING:

•Instigating Accidents: a panel discussion on chance in art 6 p.m. on Feb. 17 at Center for Book and Paper Arts, 1104 S Wabash, 2nd Floor; featuring Meredith Malone (curator, Kemper Art Museum), Robin Price (artist), Judith Goldman (poet, University of Chicago) and Simon Anderson (professor, School of the Art Institute of Chicago).

•Performative poetry reading by Edwin Torres: at 6 p.m. on Feb. 24 at Studio Two, 618 S. Michigan; Reception to follow at the Center for Book and Paper Arts, 1104 S Wabash, 2nd Floor.

Official Website: http://www.colum.edu/bookandpaper