For many years, Seager Gray Gallery has presented an annual "Art of the Book" exhibition, a genre that often reinvents reading material—whether a richly-bound volume or trashy pulp fiction—as a found object, recontextualizing it in the best Duchampian fashion and thereby subverting its meaning. In Andrew Hayes' hybrid sculptures of metal and books, the content of the volume is instead incidental to the formal forces at play.
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