Exhibition in Minneapolis: Book Pages Grown from Bacteria

Artist Eric Gjerde, Minneapolis, MN: My year-long Jerome Foundation fellowship grant is coming to an end, and there is a show at the Minnesota Center for Book Arts ( http://www.mnbookarts.org/fellowshipxiii/ ) on the evening of November 11th to show it off. It's a group show of the three local artists who were awarded the book arts grant; all very different types of projects.

My particular installation is a series of book pages that are grown from a special kind of bacteria - so they were actual living pages - which is a new papermaking process I have been working on for the last 7 years or so. Nothing like it has been done before so it is very interesting to see, or at least I like to think so!

I'm attaching several images I snapped in the press room the other day of some in-process work to whet your appetite (or scare you away - hard to say, really.) The show itself is up until February 19th so if you feel like checking it out later, it's up at MCBA until that time.

You can find out more information on the process and photos on my website, here:

http://www.ericgjerde.com/portfolio/specimens-jerome-foundation-fellowship/

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