Join us at the Newark Public Library Main Branch at Centennial Hall with Jersey-City based artist Anne Percoco, who will talk about her new work Beyond the Binary for her upcoming exhibitions featuring her solo work and her practice as part of the Next Epoch Library.
She writes: “Native plants are good. Invasive plants are bad. Right? Beyond the Binary questions that pervasive assumption across eleven accordion-fold booklets, following one plant or idea at a time through ecology, history, and language. This project does not make a blanket case either for or against native or invasive species. It makes a case for nuance, and for looking at the specific contexts of individual plants
Anne Percoco is a sculptor and interdisciplinary artist based in Jersey City, NJ. Her work spans public intervention, installation, and artists’ books and zines, and has been presented at venues across the United States, including the Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum, Anchorage Museum, Queens Museum, and the U.S. Botanical Garden, and internationally across Europe and India.
She will be debuting her new zine series for Next Epoch See Library at Deja Vu at Eonta Space, 34 Dekalb Ave — open the weekends of Aug 28–30 and Sep 11–13 Beyond the Binary for Next Epoch Seed Library examining the native/invasive plant binary. She will also be showing her work Indra’s Cloud at the Creation from Destruction exhibition at Art House at 345 Marin Blvd on view from Sept. 11- Oct. 25.
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Beyond the Binary (2026) by Anne Percoco