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Untitled, Book Series of 13
ca. 1995-2000
7 x 19 x 6 1/2 in. (17.78 x 48.26 x 16.51 cm)
Stella Waitzkin (active Brooklyn, New York, 1920 - 2003, West Tinsbury, Massachusetts) Primary
Bookish (2011-2012)
Stella Waitzkin’s obsessive “library” installations filled her small apartment in New York’s Chelsea Hotel from floor to ceiling. Waitzkin lived at the Chelsea for thirty-five years—one of the hotel’s legendary roster of artists, writers, and musicians. She cast ornately bound books and stacks of books in resin, as if to arrest them in time and hermetically preserve and protect the knowledge held between their covers. Like cherished memories, her books are hauntingly inaccessible and removed from reality.
Encode/Store/Retrieve, December 8, 2023 – April 21, 2024, Second Floor, Central and North Galleries, San José Museum of Art.
Bookish, September 25, 2011 - January 15, 2012, 2nd Floor, South Gallery, San José Museum of Art.
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Untitled, Book Series of 13
United States Sculpture
ca. 1995-20007 x 19 x 6 1/2 in. (17.78 x 48.26 x 16.51 cm)
Stella Waitzkin (active Brooklyn, New York, 1920 - 2003, West Tinsbury, Massachusetts) Primary
Object Type: Sculpture
Creation Place: North America, United States, New York
Medium and Support: Resin and found objects (books) on wood shelf
Credit Line: Gift of the Waitzkin Memorial Library and the Kohler Foundation Inc.
Accession Number: 2010.15
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Bookish (2011-2012)
Stella Waitzkin’s obsessive “library” installations filled her small apartment in New York’s Chelsea Hotel from floor to ceiling. Waitzkin lived at the Chelsea for thirty-five years—one of the hotel’s legendary roster of artists, writers, and musicians. She cast ornately bound books and stacks of books in resin, as if to arrest them in time and hermetically preserve and protect the knowledge held between their covers. Like cherished memories, her books are hauntingly inaccessible and removed from reality.
Exhibition
Encode/Store/Retrieve, December 8, 2023 – April 21, 2024, Second Floor, Central and North Galleries, San José Museum of Art.
Bookish, September 25, 2011 - January 15, 2012, 2nd Floor, South Gallery, San José Museum of Art.
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- Sculpture Dimensions: 7 x 19 x 6 1/2 in. (17.78 x 48.26 x 16.51 cm)
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