Buzz Spector

Artist, Object, Installation, Meaning

Feb. 2 – Mar. 2, 2003 

Project Room Installation Series 

Organized by: Samek Art Gallery
Series Curator: Dan Mills
A post-installation series catalogue will be published.

For this series, three artists have been invited to create site-specific installations in the Project Room during the 2002-2003 exhibition season. Elizabeth Newman, Buzz Spector and Randy Williams share a love of objects, of things as physical items and as objects imbued with meaning. However, each alters these objects through juxtaposition, deconstruction and manipulation in divergent ways. Bucknell University students will participate in the installation process.

Buzz Spector has been creating art on, with and about books since the late 1970s. As a writer and visual artist, Spector has investigated the book from a multitude of perspectives including as a sculptural form, literature, information, history, metaphor, and fetish object, among many others. Recognized for his torn and altered book objects, Spector has created numerous installations, and recently has made large format Polaroid book images. His book installations have filled boats, taken the form of walls and dwellings, they have been installed overhead, and once included every book in his sizable collection, arranged from tallest to shortest, one shelf. For this exhibition, Spector will create a site-specific installation in the Gallery Project Room