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500 4 x 6" mixed media w/ collage on paper artworks for the exhibit: A Book About Death - The Last Waltz. 

There are multiple conceptual layers to this series and all 500 artworks are to be viewed as life: a stream of moments. 

This is also the 10th anniversary commemorative exhibit of the 2009 A Book About Death (Emily Harvey Foundation Gallery - NY, NY) in which I also participated by creating 500 original artworks.

 
I'm honored and humbled to announce that a number of my artworks from this exhibit will be transferred to the following museums as part of their permanent collections:

The Smithsonian Institution, Archives of American Art - Washington, DC - USA
Museum of Modern Art - NY, NY - USA
University of Iowa, The Alternative Traditions in Contemporary Arts Archive - Iowa City, IA - USA
ARTPOOL - Budapest, Hungary
The Islip Art Museum - East Islip, NY - USA
North New England Museum of Contemporary Art, The Woskow Study Collection - Burlington, VT - USA
Museum Fur Kommunikation - Berlin, Germany
Musee de la Post - Paris, France

The Book Art Museum - Lodz, Poland 
Museum Schloss Moyland - Bedburg-Hau, Germany
Communication Museum - Bern, Switzerland

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A Book About Death - The Last Waltz

Islip Art Museum
East Islip, NY

Exhibition Calendar:
14 September– 2 November 2019

The Islip Art Museum is the leading exhibition space for contemporary art on Long Island. The New York Times has called the Museum the "best facility of its kind outside Manhattan." 

Islip Art Museum

(photo: NY Times)

photos: Islip Art Museum

(not actual exhibit)

Islip Art Museum unpacking my art

Photo: LuAnn Palazzo

Greenwich Village Exhibit - NYC, NY

"Panru"

mixed media w/ collage on paper

 © 2016 Gary A. Bibb

The Boyer Foundation presents the New York Big Apple II Project. The inaugural exhibition was in 2015 and they have decided to continue the concept as an annual event. Once again international artists were invited to participate in the small works art exhibit hosted at the Hudson Park Library Gallery (Greenwich Village) NYC.

Exhibition Calendar: November 1 - 30, 2016

 










photos: Hudson Park Library

Gary A. Bibb - The Culture Lounge, NYC

"Climmone"
 mixed media w/ collage on cardboard and wood
 © 2015 Gary A. Bibb


The exhibit, "What Do You Wish?" is presented at the Culture Lounge, Staten Island, NY.

Exhibition Calendar: July 16 - Sept 20, 2015


The Culture Lounge at the St. George Ferry Terminal, Staten Island, NY is a project space focused on presenting art exhibits which build a bridge between artists and the viewing audience. With a goal of turning passengers into participants, the exhibitions create a cultural experience for nearly 75,000 daily commuters by engaging and challenging them to consider their environs in new ways.

Islip Art Museum - NY, USA

“Don’t Touch that Button” 
 digital collage
 © 2014 (the listed artists)

This collaborative artwork has been selected for the international exhibit: "Mash Up: Collages in Mixed Media"  curated by Stephen Lamia, Ph.D. (Dowling College) and featured at the Islip Art Museum, East Islip, New York (Long Island).


Exhibition Calendar: June 29 - September 14, 2014
Reception: July 13, 2014

exhibit photos courtesy LuAnn Palazzo

LuAnn Palazzo started the process for this artwork, where each artist would receive the image via email and after adding their elements, the image would be passed on to the next artist. Once completed, the artwork was printed as a high resolution 14" x 11" image for the exhibit. 

Artists’ Statement:
“Don't Touch That Button” is a piece premised on the Exquisite Corpse game invented by the Surrealists, in which a collection of words or images was assembled by artists who added to a composition in sequence. The Mail Art version of the game, called Add and Pass, was played by these seven international artists in May 2014 expressly for this exhibition. They played the game across half a world, using email to digitally complete the collage.

Collaborating Artists:
LuAnn Palazzo * - New York (USA)
Gary A. Bibb * - Colorado (USA)
William Evertson * - Connecticut  (USA)
Joan L. Harrison *  - New York (USA)
Matthew Rose * - France
Ria Vanden Eynde - Belgium
Susan Shulman - Canada

* These artists also participated in the "Remarque" art project conceived and curated by Jack the Hack (aka Gary A. Bibb) from early 2014. Click here for the website: jackthehack-remarques.blogspot.com/


The following artwork stages are before and after elements were added by Gary A. Bibb.

before

after addition of elements by Gary A. Bibb

completed artwork