A Conversation among Artists
Who Have Turned to the Book

Tuesday, May 24, 2004, 4:00 p.m.

The Getty Center
Museum Lecture Hall
1200 Getty Center Drive
Los Angeles
http://www.getty.edu

Artists' books evolved throughout the twentieth century as an experimental
art form that uses innovative combinations of materials, image, text, and
shape. The Getty Research Institute's exhibition The Artist Turns to the
Book (May 24 September 11, 2005) focuses on artists' books made over the
past decade. Julie Chen, Ed Hamilton, Susan Elizabeth King, and Harry Reese,
four of the artists whose work is featured in the exhibition, will take part
in an informal conversation about recent artistic developments in this art
form. The panel of artists is moderated by Susan M. Allen, chief librarian
of the Research Library at the Getty Research Institute.

The artists' panel is presented by the Getty Research Institute in
conjunction with the exhibition and as the closing public program of the
four-day conference Artist' Books Conference Los Angeles, organized by the
Southern California Chapter of the Art Libraries Society of North America
(ARLIS/NA). The panel will be followed by a reception in the Research
Institute Lecture Hall. The Artist Turns to the Book will be on view in the
Research Institute Exhibition Gallery until 7:00 p.m.

Julie Chen is a leading artist and printer. She founded Flying Fish Press in
1987 and her works combine traditional letterpress with experimental
structures and modern typography, functioning as both books and sculptural
objects to be displayed.

Ed Hamilton, a Tamarind Master Printer who specializes in the art of the
lithograph, joined with Ed Ruscha in 1990 to create Hamilton Press. He sees
his art as a collaboration, from the technical processes and solving of
problems to the physical work, and the inspection and comparison of one
print to the next.

Susan Elizabeth King is a writer and an artist trained as a sculptor. She
began making books in the 1970s while participating in the experimental
Feminist Studio Workshop, the first independent school for women artists.
She has served as the studio director of the Women's Graphic Center at the
Women's Building in Los Angeles.

Harry Reese has taught since 1978 at the University of California, Santa
Barbara, where he began the Book Arts Program and served for four years as
chair of the department of art studio. Painter, printer, and artist, he
established Turkey Press in 1974 and Edition Reese in 1990.

Admission to this event is free, but reservations are required. Parking at
the Getty is $7.00 per car.
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