VIEW IN MY ROOM
United States
Installation, Digital on Paper
Size: 10 W x 15 H x 2 D in
This commissioned work is a mostly blank visitor's register for the Director's office of The Morgan Library & Museum, with the addition of several images interspersed throughout. I took all the photographs and printed them. The museum also reproduced some of the images as postcards. The cover is goatskin, with the title in 23K gold. A stainless steel grid coated in Titanium Nitride echoes the architectural. addition by Rienzo Piano, while the traditional raised cord binding reflects the building's history as Pierpont Morgan's private library. Rives heavyweight paper is used for the interior, 175 gsm, so all kinds of pens, pencils, and markers can be used. It's important that visiting artists can draw in it. It is sewn on double raised linen cords with Irish linen thread. The construction features laced-in boards and headbands of linen thread sewn over a core of alum-tawed pigskin laminated to goat vellum. The photos are printed on an Epson R1900 with 6-color archival pigment inks.
Installation:Digital on Paper
Original:One-of-a-kind Artwork
Size:10 W x 15 H x 2 D in
Frame:Not Framed
Ready to Hang:No
Delivery Time:Typically 5-7 business days for domestic shipments, 10-14 business days for international shipments.
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I've been making art and fabricating objects for six decades, using all sorts of materials and techniques, from a giant astrolabe commissioned to hang over a hotel bar to collaborating with other artists to construct installation works. Much of the art I am known for involves social commentary and working with materials that evoke the metaphor of the subject. I also create formal aesthetic works in color and spatial relationships, and produce decorative works. I am often commissioned to create bookbindings and books. These range from presentation copies for a best-selling author to prayer books for a monk, guest books for private homes, heads of government, museums, libraries, weddings, special events.... My unique and limited edition works are in more than a hundred museums and libraries in the USA and Europe, including the Victoria & Albert in London, the Metropolitan Museum in NYC, The National Gallery in Washington, the Getty Center in LA, Koninklijke Bibliotheek in Den Haag. In 2017 the Guild of Book Workers presented me with their Lifetime Achievement Award,and in 2018 I was honored as Laureate of the American Printing History Association. In 2010 Yale University mounted the exhibition Material Meets Metaphor: A Half Century of Book Art by Richard Minsky. A free PDF catalog is available for download from the Yale website http://www.library.yale.edu/arts/specialcollections/Material_Meets_Metaphor-Minsky2.pdf Yale Arts Library is home of the Richard Minsky Archive: https://web.library.yale.edu/arts/special-collections/interviews-with-richard-minsky and https://hdl.handle.net/10079/fa/arts.aob.0008
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