23 Sandy Gallery is pleased to announce our POP-UP NOW II award winners. This exciting exhibition is on view in the gallery through December 17th, so stop by soon to see the show if you happen to be in Portland.
Pop-up and movable artist books are always crowd pleasers—if only on structural fun alone.
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23 Sandy Gallery is pleased to announce the award winners for our current exhibition titled BLOOD QUANTUM. This thoughtful and moving show features 48 books by 47 artists from across the United States and as far away as Argentina, Germany and Montreal. Blood Quantum is a concept that refers to the degree of ancestry for an individual of a specific racial or ethnic group such as Native Americans which brought us submissions focusing on ancestry, identity, heritage, family history and personal cultural narrative.
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23 Sandy Gallery is thrilled to announce the award winners for our current exhibition titled HELLO HEDI. This lively and engaging show features 56 books by 53 artists, all inspired by the myriad structures invented by Hedi Kyle. A force in our field, Hedi has invented many popular structures including the flag book, blizzard book, fishbone fold, Wunderkabinets, pivoting panel book and many others.
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It is a great pleasure to announce our award winners for Book Power Redux. Jane Carlin, library director at University of Puget Sound Collins Library and MalPina Chan, an independent curator based in Olympia spent hours agonizing over how to select just four of the 61 books in this "powerful" exhibition to be singled out for awards. Let me tell you--this was a very tough job!
Winning a Best of Show Award is Susan Collard, for her heartbreaking book, My Little Book of Suicides.
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23 Sandy Gallery is pleased to announce our Best of Show Awards for The Poetic Pen. Since all of the submissions for this incredibly beautiful show far exceeded our expectations, it was a very difficult to choose, but based on a variety of criteria, we have selected four exceptional pieces for their outstanding visual and poetic appeal and mastery of the craft. In no particular order, here is a bit of information about each of our award winners.
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