Untitled #48 L (Paperbacks), 2009
Mary Ellen Bartley uses photographs of the printed book to question the formal qualities of the written language and the various abstractions and histories that can be pulled from its forms. Bartley works with library archives at the Pollock Krasner house and, most recently, the personal library of Giorgio Morandi. Bartley received a BFA at Purchase College, SUNY. Her work is in the collections of the Paul Getty Museum, the Walker Art Center, and the MOMA Library Special Collections.