Nerds rejoice! This week’s gallery picks highlight the delight of books and the written word.

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1. In this exhibition of new work, Sam Jaffe continues her investigation into the tensions between the handmade and the industrial made. Jaffe states, “Above all, my work is about surrendering to materials and the fetishistic nature of material culture.” at 65GRAND
2. The Archives, Tony Bevan’s latest series, sees the artist taking on infinite space. Inspired by Jorge Luis Borges’ “The Library of Babel”, a story depicting the universe as a library, these labyrinthine repositories of books allude to the vast spaces of the imagination at Ben Brown Fine Arts
3. When Danae Falliers explored the extraordinary, Rem Koolhaas-designed, Seattle Public Library, she photographed the building and its endless stacks and shelves of neatly organized books. Due to the relatively low lighting conditions, all of the text along the book spines softly disappeared, and Falliers recognized that her library photographs had edged closer to pure abstraction, an idea that she with ran with when creating the work for this exhibition at Craig Krull Gallery
4. Charlotte Cornation’s porcelain books inspired by her oniric life using Jung dream interpretation at Galerie BSL
5. Dwyer Kilcollin latest work is deeply invested in an examination of the image from the inside out. Kilcollin’s work encapsulates a fluency in the virtual that is subsequently rendered materially-cast by hand using a gestural application of crushed rock and resin.  Many of the works evoke familiar forms: a sweater, a book, a backpack, a pair of binoculars-their forms pigmented by the view beyond the fence  at M+B
6. In Self Illuminated, Christine La Sala asks, “What can we learn from The Giant Quiz Book?” This propels her to explore the possibility of illumination through assemblage, dioramas, and light, offering interpretations on questions from the book at Alter Space