[New York, NY]

Jen Bervin's Dickinson Composites: “The wildest word we consign to language”
October 20, 2011, 6:00 pm
at Poets House

Emily Dickenson at Poets HouseTwo exhibitions open October 20 at Poets House: Jen Bervin's Dickinson Composites: “The wildest word we consign to language” An exhibition of poet and visual artist Jen Bervin's large-scale embroidered composites based on the variants marks in Emily Dickinson's fascicles will be on view for the first time in New York, along with new white-on-white works on Dickinson’s late fragments. Exhibitions on view October 20, 2011 through January 28th, 2012 Poet and visual artist Jen Bervin's work brings together text and textile in a practice that encompasses poetry, artist books, large-scale art works, and archival research. Her poetry/artist books include The Dickinson Composites (Granary Books 2010), The Silver Book (Ugly Duckling Presse chapbook 2010), The Desert (Granary Books 2008), A Non- Breaking Space (UDP 2005, web-only), The Red Box (2004), and Nets (UDP 2004). Bervin's work has been shown at The Walker Art Center and The Wright Exhibition Space, and is in many special collections including the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library at Yale University, The J. Paul Getty Museum, Stanford University, Bibliothèque Nationale de France, and the British Library. She has received fellowships in art and writing from The Josef and Anni Albers Foundation, The New York Foundation for the Arts, Centrum, The MacDowell Colony, Visual Studies Workshop, and The Camargo Foundation and is an editor-at-large for jubilat. Bervin will teach at Vermont College of Fine Arts and Harvard University in 2011. She lives and works in Brooklyn, New York. Emily Dickinson Manuscripts from the Donald & Patricia Oresman Collection A once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to see a rare selection of original manuscripts, letters, fragments, and books by the revered poet Emily Dickinson from the collection of Donald and Patricia Oresman of New York. The Oresman Collection is one of the larger holdings of privately owned Dickinson manuscripts; most of the manuscripts are on view for the first time to the public in this special exhibition curated by Jen Bervin. More info. here and here