Special Collection

Mott Haven Branch of the New York Public Library
October 1-31, 2005

Special Collection was a contemporary art show disguised into the everyday infrastructure of a small neighborhood library in the Bronx. Works shown had an affinity for the qualities indigenous to a library—art that addressed the conceptual space of a library, art that interacted with the physical structure of the library, and other related work.

more about show guidelines
call for entries

complete list of participating artists
postcard

special thanks to J.C. Rice
the Mott Haven staff of the NYPL
and the artists who participated in this project


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Patrick Brennan and Sherri Caudell
New Orleans Zine (installation photo)
     
Patrick Brennan and Sherri Caudell
New Orleans Zine
visitors were free to take one
   
                 
                 
Augustine Cruz
Frederick Douglass
   
                                             

Brent Crothers
Below the Surface

               
   
Kerry Downey
Endless Columns (installation photo)
   
Kerry Downey
Endless Columns
 
   
   
Haisi Hu
props from Once Upon a Life (installation photo)
video screened during opening
 
                         
       
Sam Lewitt
unlimited photocopy edition
 
             
                       
Julie Nagle
three table legs in crate
       
                                           
         
Richard Martinez
architectural ornament