My Book House

AN IMMERSIVE COLLAGE ENVIRONMENT by Meg Guttman

EXHIBITION :: January 5 through January 19, 20245

OPENING Reception :: Sunday, Jan 5 / 4:00 – 8:00 pm
CLOSING Reception :: Sunday, Jan 19 / 2:00 – 6:00 pm

In “My Book House” the artist MEG GUTTMAN will install a life-size physical manifestation & re-staging of the interior rooms of a doll house (sized) artwork she created years ago. Specifically, “My Book House” is three rooms (two bedrooms and a bathroom) that are modeled on collages and paper constructions that compose the interiors of the dollhouse piece. The original dollhouse will also be on display at the exhibition.

Each room has a focus; the bedrooms’ themes are Sex and Dreams and the bathroom is Water. Every surface (walls, ceiling, floor) is a collage drawn from vintage book illustrations and printed on fabric.

Mixing imagery from the worlds of Doll Houses and paper dolls with vintage illustrations from childrens’ books, in the collage traditions of the Da-Daist and Surrealist artists, Meg Guttman’s printed fabric installation will bring these collaged themes, dreams and stories to life-size environments you can walk through and interact with.

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Meg Gutman - Artist Profile:

Meg is a member of Chicago Alliance of Visual Artists [CAVA] since…. Greek Text Here to be replaced…e 1983. My early darkroom tools were a motor, long tubes, chemicals, paper, and complete darkness. This developed to current digital outputs and paper printed in commercial venues due to the fact that I no longer have access to big printing machines. By housing them in boxes, columns, temples, floors, triangles, and panels, adding edited audio recordings to enhance the sensory experience, an environment is created that I hope stays with the viewer, and reminds the viewer of birds and wildlife presence in their own backyard. 

All work is for sale. Contact Meg at:  ohthisoldthing@sbcglobal.net

Instagram: @MegGuttman

Website: The Visualist
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