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Kenneth Speiser

Title: Que es un Libro? What Is A Book? How Do We Learn?

The basic concept of this sculpture is about books as objects.
People buy books by the yard to create libraries in their homes, books as objects.
Coffee table books that are so huge, heavy and expensive they are rarely opened, books as objects.
If a book titled “Music, Sound, Noise” is never opened is it still a book?
If I make a wood sculpture titled “Music, Sound, Noise” that looks like a book, that has a marble inside it’s empty box, rolling around making sounds is that any less of a book that a real book that sits silently, unopened right next to it.
If I hinge two blocks of wood together and put a title on the outside of one block, would that make it a book?
If a “Real” book is never opened, is it still a book, or just a block of paper wood pulp, no information given out?
What is the nature of access to information? If the book is never opened then there is no access to information.
     
 
Speiser
 
           
 

EDUCATION: BFA from the Rhode Island School of Design

EXHIBITIONS AND COMMISSIONS:
2006    Art League of RI    Newport Art Museum    Newport, RI
2006    Pocket Change Print Show    AS220 Gallery    Providence, RI
2006    6 Month Installation    Rhode Island Foundation    Providence, RI
2006    Group Show    Bristol Art Museum    Bristol, RI
2006    Group Show    Four Sisters Gallery    Rocky Mount, NC
2005    “The Journey: 1890-2005    Imagine Fine Art    Smithfield, RI
2005    Group Show    Attleboro Museum    Attleboro, MA
2005    “Chazans’ Choice”    Museum of Art, RISD    Providence, RI
2004    “A Rabble of Sports”    Mims Gallery    Rocky Mount, NC
2004    “Small but Monumental”    Arnold Gallery    Newport, RI
2004    One Man show “First flight”    Atrium Gallery    Providence, RI
2004    Group Show    A&C Fine Art    East Greenwich, RI
2004    Artists of Collage    Flanagan Gallery    Lincoln, RI
2004    Group Show    A&C Fine Art    East Greenwich, RI
2003    “Contemporary Monotypes:    Donaldson Gallery    Farmington, CT
2003    Art League of Rhode Island    University of RI Museum    Kingston, RI    
2003    “Reveal/Conceal”    Newport Art Museum    Newport, RI
2002    “KENNSPEISERWORKS”    Newport Art Museum    Newport, RI
2002    Annual Summer Exhibition    De Cordova Museum    Lincoln, MA
2001    Works on Paper    RI Economic Development Corp.    Providence, RI
2001    Commission:  “Jacks”    Slater Park    Pawtucket, RI
2001    “Gardenart”    Museum of Art, RISD    Providence, RI


COLLECTIONS:
Newport Art Museum    Newport, RI
The Rhode Island School of Design Museum    Providence, RI
DeCordova  Museum & Sculpture Park    Lincoln, MA
Fidelity Investments    Boston, MA
Memorial Hospital of Rhode Island    Pawtucket, RI
Department of Transportation    Miami, FL
City of Providence: Parks Department    Providence, RI
University of RI School of Oceanography    Narragansett, RI
Town of Westerly: Wilcox Park    Westerly, RI
Edwards & Angell Law    Providence, RI
Pagano, Schenck & Kay Advertising    Boston, MA
GTECH Corporation    West Greenwich, RI
Teknor Apex Corporation    Pawtucket, RI
Duffy & Shanley Advertising    Providence, RI
Prudential Insurance    Boston, MA
Hasbro Children’s Hospital    Providence, RI
Dean Witter Reynolds, Inc.    Providence, RI
Hamilton College    Clinton, NY
Brendan Smith Law Associates    Providence, RI
Reilly Law Associates    Providence, RI
HI-TECH Hose Corporation    Newburyport, MA
RI Resource Recovery Corporation    Johnston, RI
Royal Caribbean Cruise Line    London, UK
Big East Conference    Providence, RI
Boston Consulting Group    New York City, NY
  
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