Crossover
Outlying Exhibition | Seerveld Gallery, Palos Heights, IL | Publication and design

As a component of Outlying, our solo exhibition, Crossover showcases the images of a cross-disciplinary practitioner (the photography of a designer) and explores the restraints of an automated printing process and the series of serendipities it can yield. Additionally, the definition of crossover, as transcending borders, is an underlying reference to Outlying’s topic of pushing past boundaries as well as an attribution to our immigrant origins.

The images in Crossover can be viewed in three ways: one half of each image on separate spreads and then as whole images when page folios are spread apart and reveal that each image crosses over the gutter area of the page layout. In the spirit of the Surrealist exquisite corpse game, the spreads yield unexpected combinations of image pairs.

Outlying took place at Seerveld Gallery and was organized by Jean Carey. Outside of common design practice and, in some cases, common design formats, the works developed for Outlying stem from personal interests in and notions of identity and popular culture, whimsy and improvisation, as well as experimental work with language and typography.