Opening reception: April 21st, 2023 5 – 8 p.m. with an artist talk at 6. The exhibition will be open from April 21st until June 3rd.
Print + Project Like a Mushroom, by Buffalo-based filmmaker Anna Scime, features a 16mm film loop and two dimensional spore print film objects displayed in their pre-projection print form. Scime grows and harvests edible mushrooms to create 16mm sound films and related objects. Mushroom spores (their reproductive unit) are placed on film (a reproductive unit) to produce an audiovisual loop. Hundreds of individual mushroom spore prints make up each film, providing unique shapes and coloring. Prints range from intense Rorschachs made of melted black ink, to delicate white, brown, blue, gray, pink and yellow arrangements that shadow the shapes of the gills that they rain down from. As the projector loops the film, its images and sounds deteriorate.
Anna Scime is an internationally exhibited media artist, whose solo and group screenings and exhibitions include: Burchfield Penney Art Center (Buffalo); Berlin International Directors Lounge (Berlin),;Centro Cultural Borges (Buenos Aires); FLORA ars+natura (Bogotá); Kuala Lumpur Experimental Film, Video & Music Festival (Kuala Lumpur); PS1 MoMA (NYC); and more. Fugitive Color features works created by Tatiana Ryckman during a residency at Book Arts. For the last year, Ryckman has been foraging for natural pigments – in the wild, in the garden, and in the compost. For her residency with Book Arts, Ryckman has brought inks, dyes, and laked pigments out of their host flora and onto paper. The varied results of this experimentation are artifacts of process and material exploration, an experiment that continues as each work changes in relation to time and new environments. The name for this volatility in the face of light, humidity, and other environmental factors is fugitive.
