Multiple Discoveries Artists' Books by Shift-Lab
This piece is currently featured in MCBA’s Main Gallery as part of the exhibition “Shift-Lab: Ten Years of Collaboration”, and is featured in a special issue of The Fore Edge (March 2024), a quarterly newsletter from MCBA that highlights new artist’s books and zines for collections, universities, and libraries. If you are interested in receiving this newsletter, there is a sign up available here. Past featured pieces can be viewed here.
PLEASE NOTE: This piece is currently on show. If ordered, item will be shipped after June 1st.
“Multiple Discovery occurs when innovations are made independently and simultaneously in different locations. Shift-lab uses Multiple Discovery as a metaphor for our own remote collaborative practice. Working with a common horizon line and color, we each developed imagery for this artist book in separate studios. Printed sheets were then exchanged in batches of ten. Individually, we wrote and printed text gathered from a shared collection of source material that was collated and folded into a unique set of ten copies.” -Shift-lab
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Shift-lab is a collective of five artists who expand their studio practices to collaborate on artist books and multiples. Shift-lab is Katie Baldwin (Huntsville, AL); Denise Bookwalter (Tallahassee, FL); Sarah Bryant (Tuscaloosa, AL); Macy Chadwick (Petaluma, CA); and Tricia Treacy (Lebanon, NH). These women work from across the US to expand dialogue through exhibitions and projects investigating narrative, communication, and the book. Shift-lab continues to study the shift in contemporary perspectives relating to studio practice, collaboration, and both digital & analog experiences.
