Hello Friends, You may have noticed that posts to this blog have gotten fewer and farther between since closing the retail side of the gallery. These posts take a huge amount of time to write and post and frankly, Facebook is a much easier platform to keep updated. Therefore, I've decided to stop posting new articles to this blog—mostly.
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This project started out as an artist book. You may recall What We Carried, by Jim Lommasson, an artist book from our Book Power Redux exhibition show back in 2014.
Well, that book morphed into an important body of work that has spread far and wide to critical acclaim.
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Whenever new books arrive, I feel like a kid in a candy store! Unwrapping the treasures such talented artists have entrusted to me never ceases to be a thrill. This time it is a pleasure to present new books by Lynn Skordal and Poppy Dully. Two favorites of collectors everywhere, these artists produce work that is innovative and compelling—and both have unique styles, making books like no one else.
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Thank You Book #6 was created as a keepsake for the College Book Arts Association meeting in Tucson, Arizona, January 4-5, 2019. I have been a member of the CBAA since it's founding, and admire the mission to "support and promote academic book arts education by fostering the development of its practice, teaching, scholarship and criticism. "
I was particularly excited about this conference as it had a focus on Photo Books, and was organized by the dynamic duo of Karen and Phil Zimmermann.
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A recently arrived batch of new books from the ever-awesome Mar Goman has me all jazzed up. Many of you will remember Mar from her two solo shows at 23 Sandy Gallery. Artist books are just a small segment of her prolific artistic output.
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I get the best mail. Five new books and a fun selfie card from the ever-awesome Mar Goman. Her new books will be up on the web site later this week—IF her very favorite collector doesn't snap them all up quick.
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Marian Crane recently sent three new works. Her stitched, embroidered and beaded artist books has always been popular with fans of "Uncommon Threads. "
Marian tells us about The Truth Remains 2.
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Barbara Ciureg and Lindsay Lochman have been collaborating on photography and publishing project since they met in art school in the 1970's. 23 Sandy is very pleased to present three of their powerful projects in gallery inventory.
The first and most thrilling: Pliant History
From the artist statement: To expand the current discourse of power, Ciurej and Lochman requested women to “assume the pose” of Michelangelo’s imposing figures of authority – the prophets and sibyls from the Sistine Chapel ceiling.
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Thank You Book #5 debuts on this most exciting day for book artists around the world—the official release of Hedi Kyle's new book, The Art of the Fold, which she wrote with her daughter, Ulla Warchol.
Hedi has been a huge inspiration since I first discovered book arts 21 years ago. You may remember how much I gushed when she visited Portland for the Hello Hedi exhibition we held at 23 Sandy Gallery in 2015—probably the best show we ever did.
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Museum libraries can be an overlooked part of the museum environment. Too frequently these research and curatorial gems are tucked in a corner or hidden behind intimidating doors. Happily, more and more often these days, museum librarians are reaching out and connecting library holdings with the major exhibitions in the museum.
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Over the first 10 exhilarating years of 23 Sandy Gallery, we organized 20 international, juried book art exhibitions. These shows featured unique and limited-edition artist books, broadsides, letterpress printing, calligraphy and more—really, any form of book and paper art. Each in-depth, themed exhibition presented 50 to 75 works by up to 60 artists from across the United States and from as far away as Japan, Germany, England, Argentina, Australia and all points in between.
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Thank You Book #4 debuted last weekend at a beautiful event celebrating Sandra Kroupa and her 50 year anniversary working in the Special Collections Library at the University of Washington. Sandra is a passionate supporter of book arts and more importantly— book artists.
The tunnel book pages spell out Sandra's own words to live by, "Inspiration.
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