An artist who treated his bookshelves as source material on display in New Paltz starting June 17
The Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art in New Paltz will host an exhibition from June 17 to November 8, featuring R. B. Kitaj's complete portfolio of 50 silkscreen prints based on book covers and dust jackets from his personal library. The show also includes a companion series by contemporary artist Daria Irincheeva, depicting books that were suppressed during the Soviet era. Kitaj (1932–2007), an Ohio-born, London-based figurative painter known for merging Pop Art collage with dense literary and political references, used his bookshelves as source material for this rarely exhibited body of work.