[Brooklyn, NY]

Reception: Jen Bervin, Weaving
September 18, 2011, 4:00 pm
at Gridspace

Jen Bervin will be making a 5 foot by 5 foot, white on white weaving directly onto the GRIDSPACE fence. She’ll be out there most afternoons, starting September 1, until it’s finished (weather permitting, of course.) Come by — and bring snacks. There will be a reception on Sunday, September 18 from 4 to 6 pm The show runs September 1-October 12. http://gridspace.org/jen-bervin/ 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.