FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE - June 3, 2008
Media Contact: Elizabeth Burke-Dain, 312-344-8695
(CHICAGO, IL) The exhibition Really Big Paper will run from June 7 – July 12 at the Center for Book and Paper Arts, 1104 S. Wabash Avenue. This free exhibition has an opening reception on Saturday, June 7 from 5:30 – 7:30pm. More information at 312.344.6630 or www.colum.edu/bookandpaper.
Papermaking artists Peter Sowiski and Jill Littlewood have decided that size matters. They make very large paper that can accommodate the theme they have both tackled in their work: death.
“I chose death as a topic because I wanted something big enough to be both mythic and encyclopedic,” says Jill Littlewooed. “It was a good choice. Death takes you everywhere.”
Peter Sowiski’s large scale art grew out of his experiments with pulp painting and his boyhood obsession with weaponry and military accoutrement. Sowiski decided to investigate scale with magnified images of war planes, bombers and what are known today as WMDs in his collection of works that will be shown in this exhibition.
POSTCARD ART COMPETITION EXHIBITION:
The Curk Teich collection at the Lake County (IL) Discovery Museum sponsors a biennial “design a postcard” competition. The winners of this competition get their art reproduced as a real post card and the honor of showing in this unique exhibition. The original postcard designs are available for purchase at the Center for Book & Paper Arts.
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