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Norman B. Colp
New York, NY

Norman B.  Colp organized
One Cubic Foot
 a traveling exhibit of twelve three-dimensional bookworks

Less is More
 limited edition and unique bookworks

Back and Forth
 small scale book art exhibits: folded book forms by Axel Heibel

Rolled Into One
 small scale book art exhibits: scrolled bookworks by Basia Irland

The Big Picture
 small scale book art exhibits: very small books by Susan Bresler (mixed media of ink, pencil, water & enamel paint resist, on paper)

Painted: Over Pages
 small scale book art exhibits: works by Jacqueline Freedman (all acrylic; on paper except where noted)

The Photographic Narrative
 small scale book art exhibits: books by Phyllis Bilick

The Open Book
 small scale book art exhibits: works of Bruce Bacon -- cast plaster, acrylic paint and some with wood or mixed media

Stories Your Mother Never Told You
 artists' books which feature a narrative line within a visual work

It's Academic
 small scale book art exhibits: works from Barbara's Nessim's class at Pratt Institute and Bruce Bacon's class at the School of Visual Arts

A DOZEN DAYS: Larger Than Life
 a series of small-scale book art exhibitions: oversized books

A DOZEN DAYS: Illustration & Text
 a series of small-scale book art exhibitions: the work of Claire Van Vliet

A DOZEN DAYS: Fresh Squeezed
 a series of small-scale book art exhibitions: hand made paper books from Floriday by Claire Jeanine Satin

A DOZEN DAYS: Expanded Stacks Compressed
 a series of small-scale book art exhibitions

A DOZEN DAYS: Folded and Folded and Folded and Folded
 a series of small-scale book art exhibitions

Entrapped
 the book as container

To be continued
 the sequential image in photographic books

The Book
 seven artists/different visions

Norman B.  Colp's work was exhibited in
This day in history . . .
 the 1995 annual Artist Members Exhibition
In Antiquity the Inscribed Names of Deposed Kings Were Destroyed and Thus They Were Forgotten; [Not a Bad Idea.]
(1990) Edition #2
Artists' Books from A to B
 contemporary artists' books for display in the HarperCollins lobby
Great American Anti-Novel, The
(1991) self-published; courtesy of Tony Zwicker
Center for Book Arts: The First Decade
 an exhibition at The New York Public Library
Crazy Hair
(1983) Published by Hand & Mind Books, 1983. Photo offset; accordion format.
To be continued
 the sequential image in photographic books
Drink
(1979) 10 color prints. A casebound book.
Book Makers
 Center for Book Arts first five years
Emerge
(1979) C prints
Submerge
(1979) C prints

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