Futurity Library: Disobedient Artists' Books in the Postbook Age
On view: April 25–July 26, 2026
Opening Reception: May 15, 6–8 pm (RSVP today!)
The Bay Area has long been fertile ground for technological innovation and artistic experimentation—a fitting origin for an exhibition that takes the artist book as its site of inquiry.
Futurity Library: Disobedient Artists' Books in the Postbook Age frames the artist book as an evolutionary object: a form capacious enough to absorb new technologies, shed familiar structures, and persistently question its own conventions.
Curator bex ya yolk brings together artists working across a provocative range of materials and methods, from the handmade to the high-tech, each pushing on the boundaries of what a book can structurally, conceptually, and experientially be. Spanning material innovation and conceptual provocation, from 3D-printed structures to works that abandon the codex altogether, this exhibition collectively asks what the book is, and what it might yet become.
Opening Reception
Join us for the Futurity Library opening reception on May 15 from 6–8 pm. Remarks at 7, light refreshments served.
About the Curator
bex ya yolk (they/them) is a visual artist, graphic designer, book maker, and adjunct professor based in Chicago, IL. yolk received a BFA in Graphic Design from Virginia Commonwealth University School of the Arts and an MFA in Visual Communication Design from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago with a concentration in Book Arts as a full merit scholar. yolk has received grant endowment from the Atlanta Contemporary, Codex International Biennial Artists' Book Fair and Symposium, the College Book Art Association, VCUarts Adjunct Faculty Research, and the Judith Alexander Foundation. They are a BOLT artist-in-residence at the Chicago Artist Coalition, 2024-2026.
yolk is the founder of an artists’ book bindery + publishing initiative—THUNGRY which focuses on disrupting what qualifies a Book, complicating traditional ways of book building + semantics through experimentation and queering praxis. THUNGRY explores historical research, sociology, and speculative theory into 'the Maternal Complex' made up of subgenres like care work, reproductive design, abortion access activism, reproductive justice and health care disparity, maternal identities, and the gestational state especially in queer folx exploring the intersectionalities between the Book + these kinds of bodies.
