An exhibition curated by Lorenza Sannai,
shown in galleries in Milan, Bonn, Berlin, and Paris

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For the exhibition 10 Ways, artist curator Lorenza Sannai has brought the work of 10 members of the New York City-based group, American Abstract Artists, to four cities in Europe. Geometry and small scale are the unifying elements in a show that includes one artwork and a related small edition of 10 books by each artist. The artists are Power Boothe, John Goodyear, Lynne Harlow, Daniel G. Hill, James Juszczyk, Joanne Mattera, Lorenza Sannai, Susan Smith, Don Voisine, and Stephen Westfall.

The exhibition began in Milan, running May-June, 2015

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 The exhibition traveled to Clement & Schneider, Bonn, in Fall 2015
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It then traveled to Dr. Julius in Berlin, where it ran April-June, 2016
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The exhibition is now at RCM Galerie, Paris, October 20-November 21, where it is augmented with additional work by the artists, selected by gallery directors, Robert and Camille Murphy
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The Exhibition, Milan

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Our visit begins at the front door of Derbylius Libreria Galleria, where curator Lorenza Sannai and Derbylius owner/director Carla Roncato installed the exhibition on the left wall. We then turn our attention to the opposite wall and finally, from a position at the back of the gallery, view the work on our way out.

Entering the gallery. Work from left: Daniel G. Hill (top), Don Voisine, Power Boothe (partly visible), Stephen Westfall, John Goodyear, Lynne Harlow, Joanne Mattera.
Lorenza Sannai photo

Panorama of the wall: Hill, Voisine, Boothe, Westfall, Goodman, Harlow, Mattera, Lorenza Sannai

Lorenza Sannai photos comprise the panorama

Daniel G. Hill, Black White Weave 1 (1 of a multiple of 3), 2015, dyed and natural cotton over wood, 10 3/4 x 10 3/4 x 1 3/8 inches

  All photos of artwork by Jim Osman unless indicated otherwise

Don Voisine, untitled, oil on wood, 12 x 12 inches

Power Boothe,  Inside Out #1, 2015, work on paper, 12 x 12 inches

Stephen Westfall, Glimpse, 2014, gouache on paper, 11 7/8 x 11 7/8 inches

Work courtesy of Lennon Weinberg, Inc., New York City

John Goodyear, Colored Edges, 2014, acrylic on canvas and wood, 12 x 12 x 6 inches

Work courtesy of Berry Campbell Gallery, New York City

Lynne Harlow,  Gropius House, 2014, acrylic on Plexiglas, 4 x 4 x 1/2 inches

Joanne Mattera, Slant 4, 2015, encaustic on panels, diptych, 8 x 11.5 inches

Joanne Mattera photo

Lorenza Sannai,  Even, 2015, acrylic and marker on gessoboard, 8 x 8 x 3/4 inches

Susan Smith, James Juszczyk

Lorenza Sannai photo

Susan Smith, 2x4 With R-O Square, 2009, found 2x4 with oil on canvas panel, 6 x 8 1/2 x 1 1/2 inches

Susan Smith photo

James Juszczyk, Period Plus, 2015, acrylic on canvas, 12 x 12 inches

Above and below: Alternate perspective of both walls

Lorenza Sannai photos

Derbylius Libreria Galleria d'Arte  opened in 1992 in Milan. Since 2010 it has been located at 12 Via Pietro Custodi, with an inviting display window. For over 20 years, Derbylius has focused on the relationship between art in word and image through the international avant-garde art of the 20th Century. Its particular interest is in the Italian avant-garde, specifically in the city of Milan, which saw the birth of Futurism, Arte Nucleare,  Spatialism, Concrete Art, Visual Poetry and La Scrittura Verbo-Visuale  (word-based image) and the relationships they have created in Europe and around the world. The particular interest of Derbylius is to recreate through posters, catalogs, posters and invitations the historic environment in which the artist or artistic movement developed.

Concurrent with its gallery activities, Derbylius functions as a publishing house, building a tangible link between word and image.  Through her exhibitions and publications, Carla Roncato has promoted the work of historical and contemporary artists who have chosen the book as "matter" and on it built an eclectic paradigm of artist book =  book as object =  book object as art.

This information has been translated and condensed from the information in Italian here in the section "Chi siamo"—Joanne Mattera

The Exhibition, Bonn

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After an extended run in Milan, 10 Ways traveled to Clement & Schneider in Bonn, Germany, where it remained on view through November, 2015. 

Theatrical view into the dark-walled gallery

All photos by Christoph Jaschke/Clement & Schneider

From left: Don Voisine, Power Boothe, Lorenza Sannai, Joanne Mattera, Stephen Westfall

Continuing around the gallery: Susan Smith, Daniel G. Hill, Lynne Harlow, James Juszczyk. John Goodyear

View showing the artists' books in their plexi cases, with a volume by Stephen Westfall featured prominently

The Exhibition, Berlin

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In its third venue, 10 Ways, was at Dr. Julius in Berlin in April-June, 2016. (American artists ask if the gallery name refers to the basketball player, Dr. J.  No, the name has a more formidable referent. Located on Leberstrasse, it is named for Dr. Julius Leber, a German resistance fighter who died a hero.)

Dr. Julius, Berlin

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Installation view with the artists' books

All photos: Lorenza Sannai

From left: Stephen Westfall, Don Voisine, Lynne Harlow, James Juszczyk, Joanne Mattera

Mattera, Daniel G. Hill, Lorenza Sannai, Susan Smith

Hill, Sannai, Smith, Power Boothe, John Goodyear

The Exhibition, Paris

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In the fourth incarnation of the exhibition, at the RCM Galerie in Paris, gallery director Robert Murphy requested and selected additional work from each artist. Here we take you around the gallery clockwise, pausing to view the new work in the exhibition. If you are in Paris, 10 Ways is up through November 21, 2016.

The gallery at 32 Rue de Lille, with one of the original 10 Ways works, by Daniel G. Hill

Closer view of Hill's woven painting, with each artist's books in plexi boxes visible behind it

We start our clockwise tour of the gallery: Hill in window, the artists' books, additional painting by Don Voisine

Don Voisine

Continuing toward the back, with additional work by Susan Smith and John Goodyear, respectively, and a wall of works from the original show 

Susan Smith

John Goodyear

Panorama of half the gallery

The original small show. (Hill's work is in the window; Lorenza Sannai's is on the wall at right in the image just above this one)

Additional work by Lorenza Sannai, Joanne Mattera

Joanne Mattera thread-and-pin-on-paper drawings

Mattera, Sannai, Hill, Sannai

Additional work by Daniel G. Hill

Additional work by Lorenza Sannai

Sannai painting; sculpture by a gallery artist

All Paris photos by Daniel G. Hill

The Books

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Each book consists of a four-page volume of card stock that folds into itself. Curator Lorenza Sannai had each artist's group of 10 printed with her or his name on the front and a brief bio on each. It was up to the individual artists to determine whether their books would consist of  individually conceived and realized volumes or a series of 10 that are identical or nearly so. 

The project was carried over a period of about three months in each artist's studio, coming together for the first time in this exhibition.  As Sannai noted in her catalogue essay, the combination of artwork and book was intended as a dialogue. In the intimacy of the  gallery, those dialogues became a larger conversation about geometry, scale, and material, as well as about how we "read" art. The artworks are included here as reference. 

Photographs of the artist books are by Jim Osman unless noted otherwise.

Daniel G. Hill

Lorenza Sannai photo

Don Voisine

Power Boothe

Stephen Westfall

John Goodyear

Goodyear: "The arrangement of the converging shapes is identical in the first three pages of all books; however, the concluding integration is different in each of the ten."

Lynne Harlow

Joanne Mattera

Mattera: "I opted for a series of 10 identical books, engaging the diagonal reductively with pencil, thread and negative space. It was conceived as conversation with my painting, Slant 4, in which the two panels read as a kind of open book."

Joanne Mattera photo

Lorenza Sannai

Susan Smith

Smith: "Each book has been constructed with different untouched found papers. Each book is unique because my dialogue with these papers drives the concept."

Above and two below: Susan Smith photos

James Juszczyk