Justin Lieberman: Hopi Basket Weaving

Summary: Hopi Basket Weavingis written and illustrated over the pages of an old book of the same title, pasted up with drawings, paintings and text about Lieberman's recent exhibitions and projects. The result is something between a catalogue raisonn and an artist's book, full of carefully casual juxtapositions and a few remaining basket weavers peeking out from behind the collages. Lieberman quotes Pat Robertson, Dennis Coop...er and Susan Sontag; handwrites (in aquatint) a resume listing such gems as, "fired for urinating in the food;" and riffs, with sly humor, on advertising. He burns a copy of Everything is Illuminatedand zips its ashes into a sandwich bag above the slogan "Everything is Illuminated / Everything is Eliminated / Everything is Laminated." More seriously and with colossal effectiveness, he posits that, "What happens in Africa, stays in Africa." Painstakingly designed by Lieberman, this is the first publication of his work. [read more]