Adrianne Wortzel

Basic Info

Name: Adrianne Wortzel
Country of Origin: US
Website: https://www.adriannewortzel.com/bio/

Description

Biography and image are courtesy of the artist:
Adrianne Wortzel is an American artist based in New York City. She has exhibited her work for over six decades at venues including the Asheville Art Museum, Whitney Museum of American Art, Ars Electronica, Cooper Union and MIT Visual List Center. Her artists’ books and electronic literature interweave elements of analogue techniques with computer-generated processes, exploring all the possibilities for the printed “Book” in the 21st Century. Wortzel’s innovative work SOLACE AND PERPETUITY, a life story was awarded a New York Foundation on the Arts Award for Fiction in 2015. Her most recent artists’ book SEE NO EVIL, was exhibited in Daily Ritual curated by Amanda McDonald Crowley at the Center for Book Arts in 2022. Her artists’ books and works of electronic literature have been collected by the Morgan Library and Museum, Harvard Library, Duke University David M. Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library, Pratt Institute Artists’ Books Collection and MIT Distinctive Collections. Wortzel received a B.A. in Fine Arts from Brooklyn College and an MFA in Computer Arts from The School of Visual Arts. She is a professor emeritus in the Department of Entertainment Technology and Emerging Media Technologies at the New York City College of Technology.

Explore Artworks By Adrianne Wortzel

See No Evil: Moth

Description of the work is courtesy of the artist: See No Evil: Moth is a drawing and text work in the form of a diary, created by a fictive, anxious, urban person whose life span straddles the 20th and 21st centuries. Each book shows a shaded side of the self; and the text is a […]

Solace and Perpetuity: A Life Story (Paperback Edition Set)

Description is of the work is courtesy of the artist: Solace and Perpetuity: A Life Story (Paperback Edition Set) comprises 10 different paperback volumes, each sold separately at $18.50 and as a set. The Paperback is arranged by the dewey decimal system comprising volumes 700.100 – 709.109, each with its own unique color. These beautiful […]

Solace and Perpetuity: A Life Story (Purple)

Description of the work is courtesy of the artist: Solace and Perpetuity: A Life Story (Purple) is an algorithmically rendered, partly fictionalized autobiography of an artist. As in a medieval Book of Hours, various genres of original writings are represented: diary entries, dreams, academic papers, fictive prose, poetry, plays, and video and installation scripts. Numbered […]

Solace and Perpetuity: A Life Story (Orange)

Description of the work is courtesy of the artist: Solace and Perpetuity: A Life Story (Orange) is an algorithmically rendered, partly fictionalized autobiography of an artist. As in a medieval Book of Hours, various genres of original writings are represented: diary entries, dreams, academic papers, fictive prose, poetry, plays, and video and installation scripts. Numbered […]

Diorama Book II

Description of the work is courtesy of the artist: Diorama Books is a series of books-as-objects. The series encompasses a four book quadrilogy: Diorama Book I, Diorama Book II, Ziggurat, and Flatworld. Each feature excerpts of text along the fore edges and archaic images along the fac;ades. Diorama Books borrows imagery from historical moments sourced […]

See No Evil: Urchin

Description of the work is courtesy of the artist: See No Evil: Urchin is a drawing and text work in the form of a diary, created by a fictive, anxious, urban person whose life span straddles the 20th and 21st centuries. Each book shows a shaded side of the self; and the text is a […]