Jen Bervin: Shift Rotate Reflect, Selected Works (1997-2020)
Published by University Galleries of Illinois State University in conjunction with the first survey of poet and artist Jen Bervin's work, this monograph features 23 individual and collaborative projects from 1997 to 2020. The works demonstrate the range of Bervin's interdisciplinary research, including the legacies of women artists and writers, relationships between texts and textiles, and abstractions of language and landscape.
Essays by exhibition curator Kendra Paitz and scholar Jayme Collins, interviews by poet and playwright Claudia Rankine (with Bervin) and Jennifer Yee (with Bervin and Charlotte Lagarde), poem by Bervin, index of artist's and trade books, and visual biography. Edited by Kendra Paitz and Jen Bervin. Designed by Brett Yasko.
2022 / 192 pages / fabric-wrapped, debossed, foil-stamped cover / ORDER
Essays by exhibition curator Kendra Paitz and scholar Jayme Collins, interviews by poet and playwright Claudia Rankine (with Bervin) and Jennifer Yee (with Bervin and Charlotte Lagarde), poem by Bervin, index of artist's and trade books, and visual biography. Edited by Kendra Paitz and Jen Bervin. Designed by Brett Yasko.
2022 / 192 pages / fabric-wrapped, debossed, foil-stamped cover / ORDER
Photo credits: (top) Installation view of Jen Bervin: Shift Rotate Reflect, University Galleries of Illinois State University, 2020. Photo by Lyndsie Schlink. Courtesy of University Galleries. (bottom) Cover of Jen Bervin's monograph. Photo by Kendra Paitz.