The Borowsky Gallery
401 South Broad Street
Philadelphia, PA
215 446-3001
www.gershmany.org
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The Gallery is free and open to the public, Sunday through Friday, 9 am - 5 pm.

Denise Carbone, Fragments, letterpress and debris	Carol Moore, A Woman of a Certain Age , offset lithography	Nancy Atakan, Art as Dialogue , limited edition artist book	Dottie Attie, Sometimes A Traveler - There Lived in Egypt, lithograph portfolio

In 2004, The First International Biennale for the Artist's Book , took place at the Bibliotheca Alexandrina, in Alexandrina, Egypt. The Biennale featured works by book artists from Greece, Sweden, Denmark, the Netherlands, Italy, the United States and Egypt. Each artist in the biennale donated a book to the Bibliotheca Alexandrina, adding to the library's extensive collection of books from around the world.

Honoring the Book , organized by artist and guest curator Suzanne Reese Horvitz and curator Miriam Seidel, presents the American section of the Biennale to include American artists Brad Adams, Nancy Atakan, Dottie Attie, Barton Benes, Douglas Beube, Denise Carbone, Maureen Cummins, Anne Sue Hirshorn, Suzanne Reese Horvitz, Lydia Hunn, Edward Hutchins, Sandra Lerner, Carol Moore, Claire Owen, Mary Phelan, Mostafa el Razzaz, Robert Roesch, Robbin Ami Silverberg, Patricia M. Smith, Merle Spandorfer, Susan Viguers, and Christopher Wilde. The current show has been expanded to include additional works by some of the participating artists, and the work of Egyptian artists Hussein Abdel Basset, Khaled Hafez , the Biennale's chief curator, and Ahmed Refaat .

Seidel writes "The form taken by the artists' books in the show range from a free-standing shaped book by Sandra Lerner, to a book bristling with brushes made of human hair by Robbin Ami Silverberg, to Dottie Attie's delicate lithographed images, presented as unbound leaves in a folder. Many artists use digital processes in their distinctive syntheses of image and text." Horvitz says, "Artists have found in the book structure an art medium that is flexible and interdisciplinary. Artists prefer the quiet intimacy of the book. ...Unlike the formal experience of art viewed on gallery walls, books create a feeling of participation."

To read more from the essay by Guest Curator, Suzanne Reese Horvitz, click here.