Look Books

March 14 – May 25,  2024

Closing Reception May 22 | 6 – 8 PM

LOOK BOOK included large works by several notable contemporary artists, a selection of books and historic objects and works from an open call, all beautifully organized in our gallery.

A lookbook is a collection of images to show a style or aesthetic. Often used as a kind of diary, lookbooks distill the zeitgeist of fashion for a particular year, month or season, showing texture, color, lighting, attitude, atmosphere and cultural influences. Whether virtual or actual, lookbooks are made up of pictures to get the point across. Like mood boards, they can encompass many sorts of disparate elements into a collage of visual ideas. They can be simple or complex.

Curated by Maxim Schmidt and Martha Willette Lewis

This event is free and open to the public; we do want to remind people who’ve never been here before that the Institute Library can only be reached by walking up a flight of stairs, and the Library is not ADA-compliant.