Artist's Bio

Rhiannon Alpers is book artist and designer, specializing in the mediums of letterpress printing, bookbinding and papermaking under the imprint of Gazelle & Goat Press. Her sculptural artist books are influenced by the untenanted remnants of plant and animal life. Many pieces are entrenched in the visual language and historical sensibility of cabinets of curiosities and the work of Joseph Cornell. Her commercial and production work has included clients such as Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, Hardly Strictly Bluegrass, the San Francisco Ballet, and the Long Now Foundation. She has taught workshops and college courses at San Francisco Art Institute, University of San Francisco, Academy of Art University, San Francisco Center for the Book, Center for Book and Paper in Chicago, Columbia College Chicago.