Librarian Holly A. Senn's latest exhibition, Scavenged, opened this week at the Kittredge Gallery on the University of Puget Sound campus. A public reception will be held on Wednesday, October 9 from 5-7pm.
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Known for her sculptures and installations created from discarded library books, Holly creates labor-intensive works that explore the life-cycle of ideas—how ideas are generated, dispersed, referenced, or forgotten. Holly says about her art, "I transform books—recognizable symbols of recorded and shared information—and their pages into new forms, using the iconic materials to consider the recursive nature of ideas. Because I look at permanence and impermanence, organisms and processes with visible regeneration cycles inspire my art.”
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| Blackbird |
Scavenged showcases a body of new work: forms inspired by specimens from the collection of some 1,300 bird nests at Puget Sound’s Slater Museum of Natural History. Holly says about her new work, “I am fascinated by how birds collect a variety of materials and bring them together to make nests. In Scavenged I explore how knowledge can be repurposed; I turn text into objects, objects into shelters, and shelters into text by using book pages to create nests. The scavenging and assembling processes of nest building are similar to what I do when I make ephemeral sculptures and installations.”
A public reception for the exhibition will be held on Wednesday, Oct. 9, from 5 to 7 p.m., in the gallery. This reception is free and open to the public; please come view the art and say hello to Holly.
If you cannot make the reception, view the exhibit in the gallery during regular hours:
Gallery Location: University of Puget Sound, Kittredge Hall, N. 15th St. at N. Lawrence St., Tacoma, WA
Regular Hours: 10 a.m.–5 p.m., Mon.–Fri.; noon–5 p.m., Saturday
Gallery Location: University of Puget Sound, Kittredge Hall, N. 15th St. at N. Lawrence St., Tacoma, WA
Regular Hours: 10 a.m.–5 p.m., Mon.–Fri.; noon–5 p.m., Saturday
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