Lynne Avadenka

2024
Elements of an Ephemeral Archive
S-R Gallery, Signal-Return
November 3 - December 22, 2024
(solo exhibition)
Closing Reception, December 19
5 - 8 pm

Between Memory and Archive: Jewish Print Culture
National Endowment for the Humanities grant awarded
(co-directors Barbara Mann and Shani Avni)

Vico’s Spiral: Half Century of Artists’ Books
Center for Book Arts, NYC (exhibition)

Cup of Sugar/PASC + Signal-Return
The Lantern, Detroit (exhibition)

Living Under Water:
The Work of Andi Arnovitz, Lynne Avadenka, Meydad Eliyahu, Ken Goldman, Leora Wise
The Isaac Agree Downtown Synagogue, Detroit (exhibition)

Representation
Hilberry Gateway Gallery (exhibition)
Detroit, Michigan

New Impressions 2024
Hamilton Wood Type and Printing Museum (exhibition)
Two Rivers, Wisconsin

Of the Making of Many Books There Is No End
The Flint Institute of Arts (lecture)

Visiting Artist
Modern Languages & Literatures
Case Western Reserve University
Cleveland, Ohio

“Books Like Sapphires/From the Library of Congress
Judaica Collection,” by Ann Brener, Brandeis University Press
(work included)

“A Doctrine of Handy-Works, or Another Story of Printing Told in Twelve Brief Pages,” “By A Thread” and “Plum Colored Regret”
works acquired by Northwestern University Library

“The House Is in the Book: Collaboration in Isolation” and “By A Thread”
acquired by Stanford University Library

“The Uncommon Perspective of M.E.J. Colter”
acquired by UNC Chapel Hill Library

HBI Research Award
Limited edition project,
in collaboration with Andi Arnovitz

(L)inking Letters
Open Book Gallery
Minneapolis (exhibition)

Threading
The Nahon Museum of Italian Jewish Art
Jerusalem (exhibition)

Hello Thank You Come In
50th Anniversary Members Exhibition
Center for Book Arts
New York

Old Type, New Ways:
Works from the Hamilton Wood Type and Printing Museum
Milwaukee Institute of Art and Design (exhibition)

2023
Monster Mash (Jewish Monsters and Demons)
Third Man Records
Detroit (video premiere)

In Other Words: reimagining writing beyond language
The Detroit Artists Market
Detroit, Michigan (exhibition)

Hebrew Yiddish Wood Type Workshop
Wayzgoose 2023
The Hamilton Wood Type and Printing Museum
Two Rivers, Wisconsin (team teaching)

IA: Intel·ligència Artificial
Centre de Cultura Contemporània de Barcelona
Barcelona, Spain (exhibition)

Hebrew Type Intensive
Bixler Type Foundry
Skaneateles, New York (participant)

“A Doctrine of Handy-Works, or Another Story of Printing Told in Twelve Brief Pages”
acquired by The Library of Congress, Washington DC;
Special Collections Research Center, University of Michigan;
Michigan State University Library;
Stanford University Library
(limited edition suite)

New Impressions 2023
Hamilton Wood Type and Printing Museum
Two Rivers, Wisconsin (exhibition)

Between Memory and the Archive: Jewish Print Culture

Of the Making of Many Books There is No End (Flint Institute of Arts lecture)

Breathing Mud: The Legend of the Golem

Hebrew Typecasting Pilot Program at Bixler Letterfoundry: Recap!

Printing in My Studio

Lynne Avadenka Visits the Cary Collection

Working With Hebrew Type

Artist’s Books Unshelved: Immortal Stories

Quarantine Public Library

Studio Stories 2020

Living Under Water

Signal Return

Kresge Artist Fellowship 

Vamp and Tramp Booksellers

2024 Spring Issue, American Craft magazine, Telling the Story

Klemkow, Hannah, (Plume, Issue 4, Fall 2023) Process: Lynne Avadenka

Lewis, Bobbie (Detroit Jewish News, June 20, 2023) Artist Lynne Avadenka Explores the Beauty and History of Hebrew Type

Sharp, Sarah Rose (Hyperallergic, February 27, 2023) Radicalizing the Hebrew Letter

Heller, Steven (The Daily Heller, January 5, 2023) Artist Celebrates Heritage of Jewish Women as Typographers and Printers

Friedman, Dan (The Forward, December 9, 2022) The Art of Lynne Avadenka Celebrates Women Who Worked With (And Against) Type)

Letts, K.A. (Detroit Art Review, May 16, 2022) Many Voices: The Fine Art of Craft

Cornago, Raquel (Radio Sefarad, December 9, 2021) “La Casa está en el Libro”

Chessler, Suzanne (Detroit Jewish News, November 11, 2021), Six Feet Apart

Musleah, Rahel (Hadassah Magazine, January/February 2020) Connecting the Dots Between Judaism and Environmentalism

Hodges, Michael (The Detroit News, November 19, 2019), Small, Elegant Lynne Avadenka Show Shines

Beck, Mordecai (The Jerusalem Post, November 28, 2019) The Jerusalem Biennale: The Incredible Breadth of Art

Letts, K.A. (Rust Belt Arts, November, 21, 2019) Paperworks at Charach Gallery

Smulevich, Adam (Pagine Ebraiche, November 2019) Ambiente, l'esempio ebraico

Davis, Barry (The Jerusalem Post, October 20, 2019), The Concept of Living Under Water is Pretty Simple

Micol De Pas, (Joi Magazine, November 19, 2018), Global Warming, Il Lavor di cinque artisti

RIA (Italian Public Television, November, 2018) Artisti du Acqua (Artists on the Water)

Jenna Weisman Joselit (The Forward, June 11, 2016), Lynne Avadenka’s Triumph of the Imagination

Rebecca Miller (Boxcar Press, February 15, 2016), Printing in the Mitten: An Interview with Lynne Avadenka

Sarah Rose Sharp (Hyperallergic, February 22, 2016) Books That Break With Traditional Bindings

Sarah Rose Sharp (Essay'd, February 2, 2015), Essay'd

Jonathan Goodman (The Brooklyn Rail, September 8, 2015) Type As Image