Jina Valentine

Ticket to the Unknown Jina Valentine English And French edition

Ticket to the Unknown considers the schizophrenic texts of Aloïse Corbaz, an Art Brut artist better known for her drawing than her writing. Both a translation of texts and a commentary on dilemmas of reading and translation in artist's writing, this book explore the limits of the sayable and the visible as well as the corporeality of text itself. ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Jina Valentine has exhibited widely in the United States and internationally, including Steve Turner Gallery, Marlborough Gallery, The Elizabeth Foundation, The Drawing Center, and The Studio Museum in Harlem. She received the Joan Mitchell MFA Fellowship and has participated in residencies at the Cité Internationale des Arts, Women's Studio Workshop, Sculpture Space, and the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture. She received her BFA from Carnegie Mellon University and her MFA from Stanford University. She is represented by Fleisher/Ollman Gallery in Philadelphia and Patricia Sweetow Gallery in San Francisco. She is currently an assistant professor of art at the University of Carolina Chapel Hill. Ticket to the Unknown is published by Future Plan and Program, a provisional publishing project featuring newly-commissioned literary works by visual artists.