| Title | Toxic Kids |
| Artist / Creator | Lise Melhorn-Boe |
| Press Name | Transformer Press |
| Artist's Nationality | Canada |
| Place of Publication | Kingston, ON |
| Publication Date | 2009 |
| Process / Technique | Colour-photocopied. |
| Number of Images | 26 illustrations |
| Structure / Binding | Stapled pamphlet |
| Paper Stock | Boise HDP Color Copy and Color Copy Cover (acid-free.) |
| Number of Pages | 6 single-sided pages + endpapers |
| Dimensions (WxHxD) | 8.5 x 11 x thin inches closed. |
| Edition Size | Edition of 50 |
| Signed & Numbered | Signed and numbered edition |
Toxic Kids by Lise Melhorn-Boe
$50.00
This paper doll book contains photocopies of lovely hand-drawn doll clothes found at a flea market, with hand written text on the clothing about toxins in the environment that adversely affect children.
Artist Bio
Lise Melhorn-Boe has been making and exhibiting books and sculptural bookworks for thirty-five years. She studied at the University of Guelph and received her M.A. and M.F.A. degrees from Wayne State University in Detroit. Melhorn-Boe has exhibited widely across Canada and the United States as well as Europe and South America. Her work is in several public and university collections including the Art Gallery of Ontario, the Canada Council Art Bank, Library and Archives Canada, the National Gallery in Ottawa, and the Museum of Modern Art in New York. She has had solo exhibitions at the Art Gallery of Sudbury, The Timmins Museum Centre, the Art Gallery of Algoma, the Emma Ciotti Gallery (Iroquois Falls), the Art Gallery of Temiskaming (Haileybury), the Robert McLaughlin Gallery (Oshawa), the Lake Galleries (Toronto) and the gallery at the University of Toronto's Scarborough Campus, as well as White Water Gallery and W.K.P. Kennedy Gallery in North Bay. Melhorn-Boe offers bookmaking workshops for adults and children.