The Sunday Paper #428

September 4, 2022

I’m honored to be in a book arts exhibition that just opened in Fort Collins, CO. Off the Shelf: Contemporary Book Arts in Colorado exhibits artists that innovate and defy our conceptual framework of the book and its contents. The artist book, a medium spanning the public and private sphere of creators and viewers, reflects on issues intimate and grand. The diversity of works represented in this exhibition demonstrate the breadth and depth of the book as a potent artistic device. I’ll be attending the opening and a panel discussion this coming Wednesday, September 7th at 5pm.

Sammy Seung-Min Lee, Mammorial, 2017. Image courtesy of the artist.

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Art on Paper begins at the end of this week in NYC. Accola Griefen Fine Art is exhibiting works on/with paper by women artists from 1970 to the present.

JoAnne McFarland, Cotton Gin Dress, 2021, collage on paper, 16 1/4″ x 12 1/4″

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Matt Leedham explores who he was before the pandemic and who he is after it in the exhibition Recto / Verso at Multiple Exposures Gallery in Alexandria, VA.

“Going Somewhere / Going Nowhere” by Matt Leedham

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The Renwick Gallery’s 50th Anniversary Acquisition Exhibition represents a range of craft mediums, including fiber, (paper weaving!!) ceramics, glass, metal and wood.

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Paper Tidbits:

• Check out these lovely handmade paper cards, bookmarks, ornaments, magnets and original art.
• Join me for a virtual workshop on how to create a collapsible Japanese lantern November 4-6.

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I’m featuring one-sheet wonders here on the blog, since the projects my new book, The Art of Papercraft, fall into that category. I’d love to feature your one-sheet wonders!

California-based visual artist Andie Thrams uses watercolors in wildland forests to create paintings and artist’s books that explore mystery, reverence, and delight, while grappling with the vanishing habitats of our era. Merging the lineages of illuminated manuscripts and natural history field journals with a contemporary art and science awareness, her paintings weave intricate botanical detail into rich layers of shape, color, and hand-lettered text to evoke the complex interconnections within ecosystems of the Greater West.

This is a G-fold single sheet book of 24 pages housed in folding paper case. Original images were scanned from hectograph prints made with ink and watercolor on kozo, with additional drawing, painting, and writing applied using ink, watercolor, gouache, and tree resin. Text by Andie and anonymous contributors. Edition of 32, with 6 artist proofs, digitally printed in Andie’s studio using pigment ink on Awagami kozo paper. Folding case of Cave paper.

HOPE? Whiskey Tango Foxtrot; One of twelve artist’s books included in the collaborative project, HOPE? by Andie Thrams, Donna & Peter Thomas, and Susan Lowdermilk.. 4-1/8 x 4-1/8 inches (folded), 16-1/2 x 12-3/8 inches (open)

In the Studio:

Here’s a 5-minute video featuring the participants who attended the recent Red Cliff Paper Retreat. Enjoy!

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