![Malini Gupta (Portland, OR), The Fortune Teller, 2015, digitally printed origami folded paper fortune teller with stab bound book, 4"h x 5"w x 5"h (closed), 5.375"h x 5.375"w (open), 5.25"h x 5.25"w (book); edition #1 of 10. Cynthia Sears Artist's Books Collection.](https://www.biartmuseum.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/Gupta_Malini_FortuneTeller_ArtistBook_9103-2560x1706.jpg)
Shapes of Things to Come
Past Exhibition
The future of the book is here. These works from the Cynthia Sears Artist’s Books Collection bend convention, break tradition, and steer a bold course for the future of artist’s books. This exhibition features more than forty local, national, and international artists working in diverse formats, materials, and themes, including:
Golnar Adili – She Feels Your Absence Deeply
Shana Agid – Call a Wrecking Ball to Make a Window
Islam Aly – Transpose
Elizabeth Banfield – Amendment
Alisa Banks and Diane Jacobs – Interwoven Alphabet
Alisa Banks – Inheritance
Mare Blocker
– The Ultimate Self-help
– Istoriato Maiolica :Cadmus & Harmonia
Leopoldo Bloom – How to Transition on Sixty-Three Cents a Day
Bookwalter, Denise; Fichter, Robert; Nettles, Bea – Cropwork Orange
Irene Chan
– Textile History Paper Doll Barbie
– Cavernous
Julie Chen
– Octopus
– The Accretion of Identity
Rita Collins – Friends
Steven Daiber – Socrates, Know Thyself
Natalie Draz – The City Within
Malini Gupta – The Fortune Teller
Lucia Harrison – Old Growth: Beneath the Forest Floor
Ed Hutchins – Cacophany
Susan E. King
–Women in Cars
– Queen of Wands
Emily Martin
– Slices
– Fly Away
Kyoko Matsunaga – The Skin Square, The Pupil Square: Dreams of
Scientists
Jeff Morin – Sacred Space
Lois Morrison – After Water Aerobics
Katherine Ng – Fortune Ate Me
Radha Pandey – Taxonomy of Shapes
Joanna Poehlman – Seed Catalogue Vol III
Benjamin D Rinehart – Revolving Gender
Laura Russell – Take Me, I’m Yours
Keri Miki-Lani Schroeder – Influxstructure: A Topography of Ghosts
Robin Ami Silverberg
– titok
– Living With Tassels and Trim
Jana Sim – Language Mobius
Daniel Smith – Mortal Salt
Linda Smith – Inside Chance
Tamar Stone – It’s Where I Am Now
Barb Tetenbaum – Diagram of Wind
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![Katherine Ng (Los Angeles, CA), Fortune Ate Me (detail), 1992, letterpress, collagraph, linocut on paper, 5"h x 7"w x 1.5"d; numbered edition. Cynthia Sears Artist's Books Collection.](https://www.biartmuseum.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/Ng_Katherine_Fortune-Ate-Me-1-1024x645.jpg)
![Malini Gupta (Portland, OR), The Fortune Teller, 2015, digitally printed origami folded paper fortune teller with stab bound book, 4"h x 5"w x 5"h (closed), 5.375"h x 5.375"w (open), 5.25"h x 5.25"w (book); edition #1 of 10. Cynthia Sears Artist's Books Collection.](https://www.biartmuseum.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/Gupta_Malini_FortuneTeller_ArtistBook_9103-1024x682.jpg)
![Katherine Ng (Los Angeles, CA), Fortune Ate Me (detail), 1992, letterpress, collagraph, linocut on paper, 5"h x 7"w x 1.5"d; numbered edition. Cynthia Sears Artist's Books Collection.](https://www.biartmuseum.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/Katherine-Ng-Fortune-Ate-Me-2-1024x626.jpg)
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