Mickey Smith holding up the August 2008 issue of DETAILS magazine. Images from her Volume series illustrate a piece by author Michael Chabon.

20x200 photographer Mickey Smith (like the majority of our artists) is a busy bee. She recently moved from Minnesota to New York, joined a gallery, started a blog, and her first East Coast solo show, Collocations, opened this past Saturday, at The Center for Photography at Woodstock.

From the press release:

The exhibition entitled Collocations features works from Smith’s ongoing series, Volume in which the artist, since 2004 has documented bound periodicals and professional journals found in the archives of such public libraries as Columbia University, Library of Congress, Minneapolis Public Library, New York University, Seattle Public Library, Time, Inc.Archives, University of Minnesota Libraries, and the University of Missouri Kansas City Libraries. For this ongoing project, Smith searches though public libraries inspired by stacks of these aging texts. She photographs the books and titles as she finds them, stacked in the library or left by the last reader. Her graphic compositions offer a topographic landscape that is enhanced by the ironic quality ofrepeating publication titles which range from the known to the obscure.

Collocation No. 3 (Life)

On Saturday, September 13 there will be an opening celebration and lecture. The work will remain on view through October 26.

The Center for Photography at Woodstock
59 Tinker Street
Woodstock NY 12498

Mickey's 20x200 edition print: Word Study
Mickey's site
Mickey's blog