This exhibition of artists’ accordion books reflects my personal and academic interest in the field of artists’ printed matter, especially artists’ periodicals. Fascinated by the accordion format, which occupies a place somewhere between the scroll, the book, and the print, I started a blog about these publications in 2010 in order to further explore this wonderful medium. This show presents a small selection of the fruits of my inquiry, with each work chosen to illustrate the many different ways in which artists have used the unique panoramic space of the accordion. Accordion books are wonderful hybrid works that exist in a space between different printed media, with their most pronounced characteristic being the folds that give them the ability to expand.
