Unfolding Pages: Erwin Huebner’s Artists’ Books

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Erwin Huebner, "Accordion," 2017

mixed media, Collection of the Artist.

Special Collections Gallery

September 28 – November 10, 2017

Opening reception: September 28, 5:30 – 8:30 pm

Erwin Huebner is a cell-biologist and an artist who explores the interface between art and science, aesthetically and philosophically in photography, intaglio and related print media and in artist books from traditional bindings to sculptural books.

Since January 2017 Huebner has been artist in residence at the School of Art, and has been elaborating within his work on notions of what constitutes a book, exploring the capacity of inanimate objects to function as covers or enclosures for content on paper and other media. The forms his books take flow directly from their content. His fascination with microscopy and tiny books has resulted in miniature books, sometimes more traditionally bound and packaged. A less conventional book emerges from his musical studies as a child. A concertina, packed in its carrying case and with paper pages replacing the bellows, offers a glimpse into the music and lessons of a young accordion student. Working with cast glass, he has also created a book of molded glass panels lit with LED lights that reveal the subtle surfaces of the glass.

Erwin Huebner will be present at the opening of the exhibition September 28, and will talk about his work in the gallery on the afternoon of Thursday, October 19.