Artist's Books Wander Off

 It's summer and you can tell covid is over because there are lots of exhibitions in lots of places.  Here's where some of my pieces are spending the summer:

The University of South Dakota is exhibiting Bound and Unbound VII, an exhibition of altered books juried by that wonderful book artist, Brian Dettmer.  It runs from August 21, 2023 through January 3, 2004, and I am proud to have two books in this always fantastic exhibition.

A Little Bird Told Me

7.5"h x 4.5"w x .75"d, ten panels (2018)

Accordion-style altered book created from a mass-market

poetry book, tea bags, watercolor paper, inkjet images of vintage

snapshots, and book & magazine scraps.

I Love the Little Fishies

7.25"h x 4.75"w x 1", eight panels (2018)

Accordion-style altered book created in collaboration with Sabine Remy

of Dusseldorf, Germany, from a vintage German pocketbook, thread,

and magazine & book scraps.

Down at the beautiful Collins Library of the University of Puget Sound in Tacoma is the annual members' exhibition of Puget Sound Book Artists.  There is much talent in PSBA and the exhibition, as always, is a treat.  The theme for this exhibition was "Collaboration" and my piece is the cleverly-titled altered book called "A Book About Collaboration." (Sorry.)

A Book About Collaboration

Altered book, 10.75"h x 7.5"w x .5"d, 18 pgs (2023)

Vintage hard-cover book, newspaper/magazine/book scraps,

tissue paper, decorative paper, thread, pigmented gold wax, spray paint.

Out East in Rochester, NY, the Rochester Public Library will be offering its 12th annual "Art of the Book" show.  The exhibition will run from September 18, 2023, through January 6, 2024, and will feature artists' books, altered books, and paper sculpture.  My little altered book "Gustav Builds a Tower" will be included in what will be a very interesting show.

Gustav Builds a Tower

Altered book, 6.75"h x 4.75"w x 1.25"d, 68 pgs, (2019)

Vintage Italian paperback  book, Lokta paper, tissue paper, vintage snapshots,

gold pigmented wax, scarlet thread, book & magazine scraps.