Curator’s Statement for the Exhibit:
Bound Visions is an exhibition of artists’ books by nine contemporary women artists. Each explores the creative transformation and reinvention of the traditional book format. Artists’ books are works of art with rich mixtures of form and content. Embracing the three-dimensionality of sculpture, they deliver content through endless visual possibilities, sometimes in editions, but often as one-of-a-kind objects.
This exhibit was curated by exhibitor Dymph de Wild, faculty member at JMU School of Art, Design, and Art History. It includes other faculty there, and professional artists based in Charlottesville, Staunton, and Farmville. The participating artists are: Amy Arnold, Jennifer Billingsly, Kerri Cushman, Dymph de Wild, Lyall Harris, Lotta Helleberg, Dawn McCusker, Julia Merkel and Karin Tollefson.