Scott McCarney’s bookworks and artists’ books have been widely published, exhibited, and collected internationally over the past three decades. This exhibition, guest curated by Cyril Reade, focuses largely on McCarney’s sculptural altered bookworks that reveal the impermanence of knowledge and the complexity of public discourse surrounding gay issues.

Scott McCarney has been making books as works of art for close to thirty years. His bookworks explore many media, from offset and digital printing to sculptural installation. He lectures, teaches, and exhibits internationally and is currently an adjunct faculty member at Rochester Institute of Technology. His work for the past several years has utilized print-on-demand technology with intensive, pre- and post-production consideration.

Cyril Reade is Associate Professor of Art History in the Department of Fine Arts at Rutgers-Camden, and Director of the Rutgers-Camden Center for the Arts. He joined Rutgers in Sept. 2011, coming from the Rochester Institute of Technology where he taught art history. He earned his doctorate in the Visual and Cultural Studies Program of the University of Rochester.

This exhibition has been supported in part by the New York State Council on the Arts Visual Arts Program.