vJane spoke about how part of the artist's practice is to 'become the beholder' of one's own work. This means In my simplistic terms, putting work up for others to see and preparing one's artist's statement. The artist's statement helps one separate from one's work in order to become the beholder. Or something like that :)
The publication is a catalogue of the exhibition. It represents each artist and includes a foreword or introduction from/by vJane. These are useful for the artist going forward making presentations or applying for grants and such. It makes sense to me as a portfolio piece. A convenient way to show someone what you participated in. The new online digital publishing has made this affordable.
In recent years, for this class, the group have produced a small format catalogue. Our group more or less agreed this was the route to go vs many artist statements in a binder like in the good old days.
We will be asked to prepare an artist's statement, an image representing our work as well as a series of partial images, fragments or images of work in progress (cannot remember vJane's exact words) to accompany the text/comments from others in the show.
Each artist will be represented by 4 pages (2 spreads).
One spread with Artist's Statement text page and image of work on facing page.
The 2nd spread will be the fragments of work images and the selected comments.
We will each provide comments on the others works, which vJane will choose from to accompany the reference work.
Shelley and Dean have offered to steer this publication. It will be published online via Blurb. And likely the content needs to be uploaded to Blurb at least 2 weeks before our show.
They will need some days to do the online formatting and preparation.
With that in mind, Shelley will prepare and circulate a list of due dates and requirements in order for us to get the content collected, so it can then be uploaded to the Blurb site, and books be available for purchase in time for our opening.
You can see samples of the last year by visiting Blurb.ca and searching Tony Vander Voet.
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