Organized by Brooklyn Public Library and the Brooklyn Campus of Long Island University, the series presents three installations in which each artist creates a reading environment from their private world for public viewing.
Exhibitions are free and open to the public.
Barry has created a space reminiscent of his family vacations in a country cabin in Maine, where viewers are invited to sit in secondhand chintz chairs and read library books while surrounded by such objects as a wooden sleigh, ice skates, a deck of fortune-telling cards, and family photos inscribed with messages that encourage viewers to add their own stories to the blank books nearby. I remember my father always reading. Summer is the time of year when I have the most time to read. When we're lucky enough, my extended family travels to Maine and rents a big house with lots of places to retreat and read. My work recreates that private experience in an effort to share it in the public space of the Library.