Fall 2019 : Exhibits and a Residency

It has been a while since my last post. Summer 2019 was busy with teaching and teaching related travel. I didn't seem to find time to write blog posts but I did post on Instagram and you can catch up there if you feel so inclined!

This Fall brings some fun exhibits and an artist residency.

Hemingway and the Art of Awareness, No. 6

Coming up in October at the de Saisset Museum at Santa Clara University is a compelling book arts exhibit including my work:

Unbound: The Art of Deterioration

de Saisset Museum

Santa Clara University, Santa Clara, CA

October 4th - December 6th, 2019

Opening Reception: Thursday, October 3rd

Member's Preview: 6:00 - 7:00

Public Opening Reception: 7:00 - 8:30

There will be a number of my Bibliomuse series pieces in that exhibit.

Hemingway and the Art of Awareness, No. 1-6

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This summer I began an Artist's Residency at the Santa Cruz Resource Recovery Facility, a.k.a. the Dump! The program is called the Santa Cruz Recycled Art Program (SCRAP) and is loosely modeled on the 25 year plus Recology Program in San Francisco. 

Me pondering the wood pile. Photo by fellow resident Janet Fine

Artists in the SCRAP program are given access to most of the items brought to the Santa Cruz Dimeo Lane facility. There are wood and metal piles, plastic and cardboard bins, electronics, paper, dirt piles, etc., and a tipping station where Santa Cruz residents bring just about anything you can think of that they need to get rid of - this is where we find the really interesting stuff.

While we are allowed to glean most anything as art supplies from the dump we are expected to use our own studio spaces to create.

We gained access to the facility in late July 2019 and the residency will culminate in a exhibit at the R. Blitzer Gallery in Santa Cruz in December 2019:

Santa Cruz Recycled Art Program (SCRAP)

R. Blitzer Gallery

Santa Cruz, CA

December 6th - 28th

Opening Reception: First Friday, December 6th

5:00 - 9:00

The dominant material that has attracted me at the dump is tar paper which is what you are seeing in these photos. Circles, numbers, dirt, and misc. objects have also been following me back to my studio. I've been making books, boxes and wall pieces with the tar paper and stenciling with found objects and painting with dirt. I don't want to give too much away so I will let these images speak from themselves for now, and hope that you'll come to the exhibit to see my installation in December. 

I have also have been posting images on Instagram and will continue to do so as I reveal more about the project leading up to the exhibit.

 

 

MUSUBU - San Francisco

MUSUBU! The San Francisco version!

If you've been following along you will recall we first exhibited MUSUBU at the Urawa Art Museum in Japan.

Now it is traveling to the American Bookbinder's Museum in San Francisco. Same artists, and mostly the same work. A handful of artists have created new work for the San Francisco exhibit including Kenneth Wilkes, Howard Munson and myself who have made pieces inspired by our trip to Japan to see MUSUBU in Urawa.

If you need a refresher you can read about the inception of this exhibit here, and a report on my trip to Japan to see the exhibit here.

Additionally, you can see photos taken by r.r. jones at the MUSUBU exhibit at the Urawa Art Museum here (I was fortunate to have my photographer traveling with me!)

Many people have worked very hard on this exhibit so I hope that you can visit if you are in the area.

Here is exhibit information:

American Bookbinder's Museum 

7 April - 19 May 2018

Opening Reception 7 April 2018, 5:00 - 8:00 with a

Curators' Talk at 6:30

(Hisako, Myself and Keiko Fujii will be speaking)

Hope to see you there!