~BRIAN BELOTT/MoMA/BOOKS BOOKS BOOKS !!

we recently found out that MoMA – the MUSEUM of MODERN ART – has purchased for its collection – the 2005 BRIAN BELOTT installation, ‘BOOKS BOOKS BOOKS BOOKS BOOKS BOOKS and BOOKS’.

The installation, a collection of approx. 60 handpainted & collaged books of varying sizes, (some done in collaboration with artist/friends), arrayed on a large wooden table, was presented at CANADA, as part of a 3 PERSON SHOW – which opened on MARCH 11, 2005.

Here are few archival shots of the original exhibition . . . .

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from left: BRIAN BELOTT, JOE BRADLEY, & sitting in chair, LARRY CARLSON

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from left: LARRY CARLSON & BRIAN BELOTT with a look into the pages of the handpainted and collaged books of BRIAN BELOTT’S, ‘BOOKS BOOKS BOOKS BOOKS BOOKS BOOKS and BOOKS’

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the original card for the show, which ran from March 11 – April 10, 2005, at CANADA
PHOTOS: NANCY SMITH

see: more photos of the exhibit, plus the work of FRANKIE MARTIN & JOCELYN SHIPLEY, also presented that night.

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