STATEMENT:

 

Pushing the boundaries of what a book can be, we use book board as an armature to build constructions in the form of furniture and household objects whose drawers, flaps and movables tell a new kind of women's history. 

Mounted on the wall or freestanding, the structures join our pop-up and carousel books to offer a variety of formats and more than a little wry commentary hidden within.

Amee J. Pollack and Laurie Spitz

 

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Spitz & Pollack

200 East 78th Street, #14G, New York, NY 10075
Email: spitzandpollack@yahoo.com
Tel: 646-298-0542
Website: www.ameejpollack.com

BIOGRAPHIES/COMBINED RESUME
Collaborating professionally for the past five years, artists Amee J. Pollack and Laurie Spitz are represented by both Vamp and Tramp Booksellers in Birmingham, Alabama and Central Booking Gallery in Brooklyn, New York. They received an invitational award for a solo exhibition exploring women's legacies from Ceres Gallery in Chelsea for February 2012. That exhibition called The Inheritance - exhibits one-of-a-kind constructions and artists' books.

AMEE J POLLACK
A mixed media artist who received a BA from Franklin and Marshall College (1990), an MFA in Book Arts and Printmaking from The University of the Arts, Philadelphia (1994) and a fellowship from Pratt Institute, Brooklyn (2004). She currently advises BFA students at the Mason Gross School of the Arts, Rutgers University in New Brunswick, New Jersey. For over ten years, she was an arts educator teaching bookbinding, papermaking, and printmaking all over New York City including as an Instructor/Lecturer at Creative Arts Laboratory, Teacher's College, Columbia University and College of New Rochelle, New York.

LAURIE SPITZ
Formerly the Executive Story Editor of 20th Century Fox Film Corporation and freelance writer (CBS-TV, various publications). Her handmade novel, A Plane to Nirvana, developed from one of her essays published by The New York Times, was the beginning of a new creative path – combining storytelling with art. She received her BA in Comparative Literature from University of California at Berkeley (1968) and has studied at The Center for Book Arts in New York City.

SELECTED PERMANENT COLLECTIONS:
	Brooklyn Museum of Art, Brooklyn, New York; The Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum, Smithsonian, New York Denison, Granville, Ohio. The Getty Research Institute, Santa Monica, California National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington D.C. Newark Public Library, Newark, New Jersey The New York Public Library (Print Collection), New York, New York California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo, California Cerritos Public Library, Los Angeles, California Environmental Design Library at University of California, Berkeley, California George Mason University, Virginia. Long Island University, Brooklyn, New York Maryland Institute College of Art (MICA), Baltimore, Maryland Michigan State University, Michigan Otis College of Art and Design, Los Angeles, California Reed College, Portland, Oregon Savannah College of Art & Design (SCAD), Atlanta, Georgia Swarthmore College, Swarthmore, Pennsylvania Texas Tech University, Lubbock, Texas University of California, Irvine, California University of Colorado at Boulder, Colorado University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa University of Miami, Florida University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania University of Vermont, Burlington, Vermont Wesleyan University, Middletown, Connecticut
RECENT EXHIBITIONS:
2012	Musee de l’imprimerie, Lyon, France – catalog and animated film planned
2011	Nature as Art, Ceres Gallery, New York, New York
	The Book: A Contemporary View, Delaware Center for the Contemporary Arts, Wilmington, Delaware and Towson State University, Maryland –catalog
	Games and Word Play, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
2010	San Diego Book Arts, University of California, San Diego, California - catalog
	Central Booking, Brooklyn, New York
2008 - 9	Art of the Book '08: 25th Anniversary, 2-year traveling show throughout Canada , Canadian Bookbinders and Book Artists Guild, opened at the Craft Gallery in Toronto, Canada and closed at University of Victoria, British Columbia - received Harmatan Leather Award, catalog
	Artists & Books, The Art Museum Complex, Duxbury, Massachusetts
	Artists of Mischief, Rosenbach Museum, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
	Beyond Words, Long Beach Island Foundation for the Arts & Sciences, Loveladies, New Jersey – catalog
	Bookends, Target Gallery, Alexandria, Virginia
	History of Printing, Newark Public Library, Newark, New Jersey
	The Hybrid Conference, The University of the Arts, Hamilton Gallery, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania - catalog
2007	unContained Vessels, Center for Book Arts, New York, New York - catalog
	Play, Proteus Gowanus Gallery, Brooklyn, New York
	Singular Objects, Brooklyn College Library, Brooklyn, New York
2006	Books as Sculpture, Bayside Book Arts Gallery, Milwaukee, Wisconsin
	Cultivated Environments, Center for Book Arts, New York, New York
	Weather or Not: Atmospheric Books, University of Colorado, Boulder, Colorada
	Changing the Wind, Susan Hensel Art Gallery, Minneapolis, Minnesota
PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS:
	Canadian Bookbinders and Book Artists Guild, Toronto, Ontario. Center for Book Arts, New York, New York. Philadelphia Center for the Book, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

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