Wednesday, February 15, 2023

Stephen Perkins, Mining the Archive: Subspace Works and Artists' Accordion Books, Watrous Gallery, Madison, Feb. 10 - April 9, 2023

Back: Sophie Smallhorn, A Book of Postcards, Circle Press, London, 1999, ed. 1000 
Front: Richard Long, A Walk Past Standing Stones, Coracle Press for Anthony d'Offay, 1980

the installation begins

I'm having a one-person show at this cool downtown Madison art gallery. One half of the show consists of 5 exhibits I've curated from my archive of artists' printed matter and presented in my home-based gallery Subspace, and here re-installed in the Watrous gallery, with two of them being shown for the first time. Similarly, the artists' accordions come from my archive of the same that have accrued from my blog on artists's accordions (accordion publications) For more about Subspace shows follow link at bottom of this post.

The other half of the gallery is taken up with an assortment of 39 artists' accordions, all of which I have reviewed in this blog. This exhibition was cancelled for a couple of years due to COVID, so I'm really happy to see it installed with an opening reception on Friday, Feb., 17, 6:30-8:00pm with a talk by me at 7:00pm. Thanks to the Watrous staff for such a smooth installation!


Girls, Girls, Girls: all woman showSubspace, Madison, 2017/2023

Anne Perkins: Needlepoints (2019-2022), premiering at the Watrous Gallery, 2023 [works created during COVID lockdown by my 97 year old mother]

examples of Anne Perkins' needlepoints

Bodyworks: artists working with the body, Subspace, 2018/2023

Ian Hamilton Finlay: Printworks from Wild Hawthorn Press, Subspace, 2020/2023

101 Artists' Postcardspremiering at the Watrous Gallery, 2023









Simon Cutts, pli selon pli, Coracle Press, Tipperary, Ireland, 2014, ed. 2

Top: Anish Kapoor, Sketchbook, Editions Dilecta, Paris, 2011
Bottom: Roy De Forest, A Journey To The Far Canine Range And the Unexplored Territory Beyond Terrier Pass, Bedford Arts, San Francisco, 1988



                                                                                         photo courtesy Watrous Gallery