DRUCKWORKS @ UMBC
Druckworks: 40 Years of Books and Projects by Johanna Drucker
Monday, September 16 – Monday, December 20
Druckworks: 40 Years of Books and Projects by Johanna Drucker
Albin O. Kuhn Library Gallery, UMBC
Talk: October 22, 6pm
Artist of the featured exhibition, Druckworks: 40 Years of Books and Projects by Johanna Drucker, discusses her work and her career over the course of 40 years.
Artist, writer, typographic poet and scholar-critic Johanna Drucker is widely known for her contributions to contemporary art theory and history, as well as her prolific output as a creative artist. Throughout her career she has helped shape the field of artists’ books, visual poetics, and digital aesthetics in dialogue with the arts and critical issues.
Her scholarly writing documents and critiques visual language: letterforms, typography, visual poetry, art and, lately, digital aesthetics. Drucker is internationally renowned for her book art, which touches on a variety of themes, especially “the exploration of the conventions of narrative prose and the devices by which it orders, sequences, and manipulates events according to its own logic” as well as “the use of experimental typography to expand the possibilities of prose beyond the linear format of traditional presentation.” Her work has been exhibited at universities, libraries, galleries, and museums throughout the world, including Museum of Arts and Design, Cooper-Hewitt Museum, National Museum of Women in the Arts, New York Public Library, Yale University, Columbia University, Harvard University, Art Institute of Chicago, University of the Arts (Philadelphia), and Parsons School of Design.
Drucker is currently the Martin and Bernard Breslauer Professor in the Department of Information Studies at the Graduate School of Education and Information Studies at UCLA.
A free reception will follow her talk.
The Projector 
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