Hunterdon Art Museum exhibition explores the wonder of … paper
By: TRIS McCALL | Published: 2025-07-01 12:32:00 | Source: www.njarts.net
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COURTESY OF MICHELLE SAMOUR
Michelle Samour’s “Life Inside the Mountain III” is part of the “Pulp: The Fluid and the Concrete” exhibition at The Hunterdon Art Museum in Clinton.
Few products in the art supply store are as protean as paper. Depending on its thickness, it can be as supple and leathery as elephant hide or as diaphanous as stained glass. It can fray like a textile, or hold as rigid as canvas, or bend like skin. Lay it flat and you can write on it; feed it into a machine and you can print on it. Wad it up and it communicates in three dimensions like a sculpture. Bind it in sheets and it becomes a book.
Despite all that, paper doesn’t always get respect. It lacks the reputation for gravity that canvas, wood and stone enjoy. Collectors and…
