A Living Library = A. L. L.

State of Mind: New California Art, curated by Constance Lewallen & Karen Moss, part of the Getty's Pacific Standard Time (PST) exhibition, features early works by Bonnie Ora Sherk.  The exhibit is on view at the Bronx Museum of the Arts in Bronx, NY through September 8, 2013.  During the opening on June 23, the artist, seen below, gave a talk about her early art, including Sitting Still 1,  and how it presaged and informed her current work with the Islais Creek Watershed and A Living Library.

State of Mind was previously shown at the Orange County Museum of Art in Newport Beach, CA,  Berkeley Art Museum in Berkeley, CA, Belkin Art Gallery in Vancouver, BC,  and Site Santa Fe in Santa Fe, NM.  The exhibition will be in Bronx Museum of the Arts until early September, and then travel to the Smart Art Museum, Chicago, IL. 

Read Berkeley Art Museum/Pacific Film Archives Interview with Bonnie Ora Sherk on her work.   See reviews of exhibition in The New York Times, Art in America, and The Brooklyn Rail. Also read a Q & A with Curator, Karen Moss from Blouin Art Info.

Bonnie Ora Sherk's art installation on Crossroads Community (the farm), an early Life Frame and pioneering, urban agriculture project,  which she founded and directed beginning in 1974, was featured in "Hungry City"at Kunstraum Kreuzberg/Bethanien Museum in Berlin, Germany, curated by Anne Kersten.  The exhibition was August 31st - October 28th, 2012. The artist who was in Germany to help mount the show, also presented a featured, illustrated lecture,  From The Farm To A Living Library. View a Gallery of the exhibit featured on DW.

     

Another exhibit, "Green Acres: Artists Farming Fields, Greenhouses and Abandoned Lots", curated by Sue Spaid, featured another installation of The Farm,including the artist's original drawing of The Farm, seen below.  The exhibit was shown at the Cincinnati Contemporary Arts Center from September 22, 2012 - January 20, 2013, and will open in the American University's Museum in Washington, D.C., in September, 2013. Find out more about "Green Acres" here, and read an article about the exhibition.

A monograph in Frieze Magazine by Will Bradley of Bonnie Ora Sherk's work with Crossroads Community (The Farm) can be found here. 

A Living Library = A. L. L., Past and Present, by Bonnie Ora Sherk is featured in Dinter Fine Art's online Project Room during July and August, 2013. See the original inspiration and vision for A Living Library for Bryant Park in New York City, through drawings, plans, and photo-montages she created, 1981-83, (Past), and then see how these images were realized through the ongoing Branch Living Library & Think Parks now underway in San Francisco and NYC (Present).  View it here !