SEPTEMBER 2010
Defacements: A Collection of Altered Book Pages
OPENING: SEPTEMBER 10, 6-9 PM
Cusick’s show will be comprised of pages from old schoolbooks that have been altered through a process of scraping and sanding to isolate the illustrations and remove all but a few words of text. The page numbers are also left intact so that the works can be reassembled into a unique codex.
The artist says about his work, “Defacements are obsessively crafted amalgamations of word and image in the tradition of altered books and concrete poetry. The re-contextualization of image, word, and number creates a new storyline that is often in the spirit of a prankster student who has marked up a textbook with irreverent and provocative commentary.”