Jane Carlin, our esteemed juror for Book Power and the library director at the University of Puget Sound has installed Book Power Redux in her library and reports from sources near and far say it looks fantastic!
Mark your calendars for a panel discussion and artist reception at UPS on Thursday, September 4th at 4:00. Please spread the word about this version of our show. The library has a beautiful and easily accessible exhibition space and I am very proud of our first traveling exhibition.
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Thursday, July 31, 7:00 p. m.
It is always a pleasure to be invited to speak to the Book Arts Guild in Seattle.
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It's hard to believe how time flies! You only have one more weekend in the gallery to catch Book Power Redux. This phenomenal international juried exhibition of book art addressing social and political issues can take a while to explore, so plan to spend some at least a couple of hours here before it closes Saturday, July 26th.
Book Power Redux will then travel to Collins Memorial Library at the University of Puget Sound and be on ehxibit August 5 through October 15, 2014.
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23Sandy Gallery is proud to present a new Curated Collection of artist books made for the Al-Mutanabbi Street Starts Here Project.
The Al-Mutanabbi Street Starts Here Project began in 2007 when San Francisco poet and bookseller Beau Beausoleil read about a bombing on al-Mutanabbi Street in Baghdad. Al-Mutanabbi Street was the heart of Iraq’s literary community, a street lined with bookstores and cafés where writers and intellectuals gathered.
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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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Big news! I was interviewed on the radio about our fantastic Book Power show. Porltand’s KBOO radio has a weekly program called Art Focus and for this episode Joseph Gallivan and I spent about 30 minutes talking about several amazing works after he toured the gallery. Interestingly, Joseph chose the books we talked about during the interview.
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BOOK POWER REDUX
Artist Books Addressing Our Social and Political World
May 30 - July 26, 2014 23 Sandy Gallery Portland, Oregon
August 5 - October 15, 2014 University of Puget Sound Collins Library Tacoma, Washington
Book Power Redux is an international juried exhibition of book art addressing social and political issues. Artist books can be a powerful vehicle for social change and activism. For this show we sought out works that shine a light on some of the most vital issues of our day: race, diversity, equality, justice, bullying, poverty, civil rights, war and more.
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You are invited to an artists reception to celebrate the opening of Book Power Redux. Several artists will be attending, with a few flying in from out-of-state. Join us for your chance to meet the artists and ask them directly about the stories behind their very powerful books! Cross your fingers, weather permitting we'll have a lovely party on the front lawn.
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Thank you to each and every artist who submitted work to Book Power Redux, our next upcoming juried exhibition May 30 - July 26, 2014. The gallery's very first traveling exhibition, Book Power Redux will move the the University of Puget Sound in Tacoma Washington in mid-August.
Jane Carlin, the library director at UPS and Olympia-based artist and curator MalPina Chan and I had the duties of scoring each of the 201 books that were submitted to the show.
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Tomorrow at midnight is the deadline for Book Power Redux. Our jurors, Jane Carlin and MalPina Chan are going to be thrilled to see the stunning books you've created for this show. So many excellent entries have been submitted already.
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Preparing photos of your book art for submission to a juried show? This series covers five tips to make sure your books are shown to jurors in the very best light possible. This tip covers the number one most common problem with images submitted to our juried shows: strange color casts caused by common household tungsten light bulbs.
Tip # 1: Neutralize Your Colors
If you do only one thing to the photos of our books, do whatever you can to achieve a neutral “white balance.
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