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Star Black: The Collaged Accordion
January 20, 2010 - April 3, 2010

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Organized by Alexander Campos, Executive Director

Star Black is a poet and photographer who has created a series of large-scale accordion books that merge found texts, found photographs and ephemera (maps, hand-written letters, ledgers, etc.) to create surreal imagery. The exhibition is accompanied by individual collages and her own writings. Black says: "In many ways my collages are similar to poems but translated from visuals, taking symbols, textures and "found" words from else where and composing them within a page."

Star  Black
A Room of My Own
(2009) Hand-made accordion book consisting of 8 original collages with a 9th on the cover and one hand-written original poem entitled "Twilit" and "Posey"
Fleur Couple
(2009) Collage
Gala-bound
(2004) Collage
Greensward
(2009) Hand-made accordion book consisting of 8 original collages with a 9th on the cover and one hand-written original poem entitled "Rendezvous"
Lancet Window
(2009) Collage
Memorandum/Furs
(2009) Collage
Schirmer's Abstracted
(2006) Hand-made accordion book consisting of 7 original collages with a 8th on the cover and line drawings in the form of stanzas
Shell Woman
(2008) Collage
The Blue Door
(2007) Collage
Unbidden Fire
(2009) Hand-made accordion book consisting of 8 original collages with a 9th on the cover and one hand-written original poem entitled "The Dream of Tap Water"
Untitled
(2004) Collage

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