Jay Bolotin: The Book of Only Enoch

June 10 – October 8, 2016 - This exhibition focuses on The Book of Only Enoch, a portfolio of 20 woodcut and relief etchings, and selected plates used to create the prints. Through these media, Bolotin tells the story of Only Enoch, a sensitive Jewish boy from Kentucky who is named after an apocryphal book left out of the Hebrew Bible.

The large, highly detailed prints of Only Enoch each combine woodcut images and etching text passages. The title page states, “The Book of Only Enoch, The Formerly Lost Manuscript of Benjamin Weil, Havana, Cuba, circa 1955, as Drawn and Cut By Jay Bolotin, 2011-2014”. The viewer is encouraged to enter his world with awe, trepidation, and prepared for a journey through an invented world inhabited by people, flora, fauna, and heretofore unknown forms and spaces. And in ways that may remind us of epic story-tellers including William Blake and Lewis Carroll, Bolotin combines words and images to create worlds with their own logic, in order to tell captivating, bizarre and dreamlike stories.