Closed July 3 – 7

The Gallery at Penn College is pleased the host Books Undone 2: the art of altered books. The first exhibition was held in 2018 and featured 58 works of art by artists from 19 states. This diverse exhibition of book forms will stretch the idea of the altered book. With books as a medium, artists may deconstruct, paint, stitch, photograph, bend, roll, collage, knit, digitally rework, gouge, or use other methods to create their works. Visitors can explore the many ways artists reimagine the book for our technological age.

Scott McCarney, Juror

Scott McCarney is an artist, designer, and educator living in Rochester, New York. He received formal design training at Virginia Commonwealth University in the 1970s, and earned an advanced degree in photography from the University at Buffalo/Visual Studies Workshop in the 1980s. His primary art practice has been in book form since 1980 and spans many media: from offset and digital printing to sculptural and site-specific installation. His works are widely distributed and can be found in the collections of The Museum of Modern Art, Victoria & Albert Museum, and Yale University Art Gallery, among others. His teaching and lecturing itinerary is varied: in person (New Zealand, Korea, Mexico, and South America) and online. He retired in 2020 after 16 years of teaching in the College of Art and Design at Rochester Institute of Technology.

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