Coming Soon to the Library's Ferguson Gallery:
Book of Dreams:
PostCards Home
featuring
the art of Sanzi
Kermes
curated
by Geoff Delanoy
February
24 through April 4, 2014
Reception Thursday, Feb. 27, 5-7pm
Gallery Talk March 27, 12pm
Ferguson Gallery is
pleased to present the art of Baltimore artist, Sanzi Kermes. In this exhibit, Book of Dreams: PostCards Home, multimedia
artist Sanzi Kermes presents installation art, artist’s books, and prints, three
components that comprise her vast artistic practice.
PostCards Home is an installation in which the audience is invited to
mail a postcard back to the artist, which
then will be incorporated into a future edition of artists books. Completed books
and prints presented in this exhibition document and present artist and
audience interactions from the past decade.
Kermes’ Scrabble series explores the intersection of art and play by
documenting Scrabble games the artist has played visually and linguistically
through the printmaking process. An avid Scrabble player, Kermes started this
project after a conversation with Minimalist artist Brice Marden in 2000. She
says “Brice said he has a fixed set of parameters to guide his art practice –
and that he subsequently has the freedom to break those parameters. I began to think about that when I played
Scrabble: a game with a fixed set of parameters, 100 tiles; 225 squares. How
many variations from that beginning might occur?” This innovative series of
prints is a creative record incorporating many facets of the game. Each set of
prints is presented as an artist’s book.
Born in Pittsburgh, Kermes has
lived and worked in England, where she received her Masters in Contemporary
Fine Art Practice in 2008 from Leeds Metropolitan University. Her paintings
were collected extensively while in the UK.
Kermes returned to Baltimore in 2009 and has since focused her practice
on both painting and the making of artist books. She has exhibited widely in
the UK and in the US at venues including Pyramid Atlantic Book Arts Fair,
Waldorf School of Baltimore, Minas Gallery, and Maryland Art Place.
Ferguson Gallery is
open daily. Free admission. For hours and more information, visit www.lndl.org.
