Lending Library runs through July 2.
Lending Library is a group exhibition now showing in at Adobe Books Backroom Gallery in San Francisco through July 2. Curated by Dena Beard, Lending Library features tools, materials, and resources from artists Amy Franceschini, Colter Jacobsen, Kevin Killian, Tom Marioni, Emily Prince, Stephanie Syjuco, and Christine Wong Yap. The exhibition addresses issues of open-source sharing, appropriation and intellectual property.
From the Adobe Books website:
“We browse the bookshelves of the Lending Library as cross-sections of artists’ studios or as a medium for us to consider how we navigate and reclaim information in our own research practice. Experiencing the scribbled margins of a Xeroxed essay alongside modified found photographs changes their context, allowing for more dynamic images and learned connections to arise. Although the originals cannot be borrowed, scans of the artists’ materials will be available to takeaway and appropriate…Lending Library joins the landscape of open-source, browser-friendly experiences available in the Bay Area, expanding the idea of how an exhibition, or a library, can respond to a personal, anarchic search for knowledge.”
(Photo courtesy Keith Scharwath.)
