Flex Artist's Books by Christopher Selleck
These artist’s books are featured in the MCBA/Jerome Book Arts Residency XVII Exhibition, on display in MCBA’s Main Gallery from October 31st, 2024 to January 4th, 2025. They will ship January 10th, 2025, after the exhibition has closed.
This piece is featured in the November 2024 issue of The Fore Edge, a quarterly newsletter from MCBA that highlights new artist’s books and zines for collections, universities, and libraries. If you are interested in receiving this newsletter, there is a sign up available here. Past featured pieces can be viewed here.
“Using sports and masculinity as a lens to view identity, his various projects of the last few years have focused on this area of identity construction. His current projects address issues of hyper-masculinity, sexuality and the male body. His practice has tended to focus on portrait and self-portrait based projects, often utilizing formal studio strategies that prioritize the engagement between the artist and the model. Photographic prints and their installation have been central in his practice, but his work has also incorporated video, sound, printmaking and sculpture. The sense of compartmentalization in book arts, with box making in particular, allows for a containment of objects/images/ideas, while the various book forms simultaneously reveal more to the viewer through discovery. Primarily a self-taught book artist through trial and error, Selleck has been working closely with collaborators who help fabricate his more complicated structures and designs.”
Closed: 7.25” x 5.25” x 0.75”
Open: 40”
*Consignment item. Not eligible for 10% membership discount. All consignment purchases are final and non-refundable once shipped.
These artist’s books are featured in the MCBA/Jerome Book Arts Residency XVII Exhibition, on display in MCBA’s Main Gallery from October 31st, 2024 to January 4th, 2025. They will ship January 10th, 2025, after the exhibition has closed.
This piece is featured in the November 2024 issue of The Fore Edge, a quarterly newsletter from MCBA that highlights new artist’s books and zines for collections, universities, and libraries. If you are interested in receiving this newsletter, there is a sign up available here. Past featured pieces can be viewed here.
“Using sports and masculinity as a lens to view identity, his various projects of the last few years have focused on this area of identity construction. His current projects address issues of hyper-masculinity, sexuality and the male body. His practice has tended to focus on portrait and self-portrait based projects, often utilizing formal studio strategies that prioritize the engagement between the artist and the model. Photographic prints and their installation have been central in his practice, but his work has also incorporated video, sound, printmaking and sculpture. The sense of compartmentalization in book arts, with box making in particular, allows for a containment of objects/images/ideas, while the various book forms simultaneously reveal more to the viewer through discovery. Primarily a self-taught book artist through trial and error, Selleck has been working closely with collaborators who help fabricate his more complicated structures and designs.”
Closed: 7.25” x 5.25” x 0.75”
Open: 40”
*Consignment item. Not eligible for 10% membership discount. All consignment purchases are final and non-refundable once shipped.
These artist’s books are featured in the MCBA/Jerome Book Arts Residency XVII Exhibition, on display in MCBA’s Main Gallery from October 31st, 2024 to January 4th, 2025. They will ship January 10th, 2025, after the exhibition has closed.
This piece is featured in the November 2024 issue of The Fore Edge, a quarterly newsletter from MCBA that highlights new artist’s books and zines for collections, universities, and libraries. If you are interested in receiving this newsletter, there is a sign up available here. Past featured pieces can be viewed here.
“Using sports and masculinity as a lens to view identity, his various projects of the last few years have focused on this area of identity construction. His current projects address issues of hyper-masculinity, sexuality and the male body. His practice has tended to focus on portrait and self-portrait based projects, often utilizing formal studio strategies that prioritize the engagement between the artist and the model. Photographic prints and their installation have been central in his practice, but his work has also incorporated video, sound, printmaking and sculpture. The sense of compartmentalization in book arts, with box making in particular, allows for a containment of objects/images/ideas, while the various book forms simultaneously reveal more to the viewer through discovery. Primarily a self-taught book artist through trial and error, Selleck has been working closely with collaborators who help fabricate his more complicated structures and designs.”
Closed: 7.25” x 5.25” x 0.75”
Open: 40”
*Consignment item. Not eligible for 10% membership discount. All consignment purchases are final and non-refundable once shipped.
Christopher Selleck was born in Augusta, GA. He received his BFA in Photography from the University of MN-Twin Cities in 2013 and his MFA in Visual Studies and Photography from the Minneapolis College of Art & Design in 2016. Selleck currently divides his time between an active studio practice and teaching photography at the Minneapolis College. He has been exhibited and published both Nationally and Regionally, including a notable solo exhibit at the Minneapolis Institute of Arts.
