Lu Zhang is a multi-disciplinary artist, researcher, and organizer who works in installation, sculpture, drawing, and text – often in response to a chosen site.
Lu Zhang is a multi-disciplinary artist, researcher, and organizer who works in installation, sculpture, drawing, and text – often in response to a chosen site.
The George Peabody Library
17 W. Mount Vernon Place
Baltimore, MD 21202
2015 / series of 6 books / materials include: linen, xylene monoprints, cyanotypes, digital archival prints, and found materials / each book measures 20" X 15"
Available upon request during the library’s open hours:
Tuesday to Thursday – 9 AM to 5 PM
Friday – 9 AM to 2 PM
Saturday – By Appointment
topo(log) typo(log) is a series of six books documenting my yearlong studio residency at the George Peabody Library. Emulating the Dewey Decimal system of relative location, each book embodies a level of the library: General Reference; Biography; History; Language, Literature, and Translation; Science and Art; Bibliography and Books about Books. Readers are invited to navigate through the pages as they would move through the cast-iron stacks and narrow passageways of the library’s interior.
Employing tasks common to a library of choosing, collecting, sorting, recording, transferring, scanning, and photocopying, I reinterpret the building’s contents to create an associative and accumulative narrative that is specific yet arbitrary, expansive yet fragmentary. Gathering imagery from a wide range of sources including 18th century encyclopedias, architectural protrusions, guided tours, insurance maps, office supplies, renovation remains, and an essay on clouds, I investigate the nature of work, the limitations of collective knowledge, and the poetics of place.
The six volumes have been acquired and cataloged by the George Peabody Library, becoming a part of the permanent collection.
topo(log) typo(log) is made possible in part by a Rubys Artist Project Grant from the Greater Baltimore Cultural Alliance, books bound by Almanac Industries.
Images of opening reception in Bmoreart
Review by Michael Anthony Farley in ArtFCity
Review by Terence Hannum in Bmoreart.com
Review by Maura Callahan in Baltimore City Paper
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