Images of the rock, paper, and scissors from the popular tie breaking game are featured on each of the double board pages of this Jacob's ladder book. No matter how many times the book is flipped, the top image in any pair is always the winning object (provided the title page stays at the top of the book). Images are woodcut prints wrapped over book board and linked with black ribbon. Woodcuts are printed in black and gray on white paper. Each image of paper, rock or scissors is different from the other images of the same object. Issued in a paper sleave with woodgrain design from woodcut in black and gray. Artist's signiture, title and date are inside the sleave., Slipcover signed and editioned by artist
Title identified from exhibition website; Illustrated/created by Lowdermilk, text from Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte; Multiple block woodcut on Masa paper with PVC pipe scroll ends printed on a Takach etching press; In scroll form, rolled and tied with black ribbon; Issued in case of Stonehenge black paper, Signed by the artist
Drawings, mostly done in red ink, with handwritten titles or notes are juxtiposed with collages of color photographs. Text in Danish. Paperback with dust jacket.
Concrete poem in four parts using the commercial names of house paint colors. Left hand pages (verso) are the paint colors, with the paint's name on the left side (recto) page., Also issued in a special edition of 45 + 5 a.p. in box with print.
Includes table of contents: Subliminal messages, Secret societies, This cute piece of miniature art, Come a little closer, Masterpieces in colour; Images in book are of scanned cards which were discarded from a Los Angeles library; First image of card is very close up and second image is of the full card
Includes Small observations on the small tasks of the bricoleur inserted in pocket on inside cover; A plastic sleeve for each of the living artists with exhibition instructions; An exhibition checklist, illustrations of exhibited works, publication concept, and lay-outs is stapled to the inside of the back cover
Ill. (etching) by Terry Horrigan on center pages, folded to create a pop-up effect in center, with artist's signature on centerfold print. Set in Poliphilus and Blado cast by Michael and Winifred Bixler, and printed by Terry Horrigan on Fabriano Ingres paper with text by Catherine Mutz and calligraphy design by Ann Miller. Natural-color Nepalese Lokta paper wrapper; brown Lokta endpapers.
Handprinted block prints on library checkout cards, gouache, mulberry paper, brads, type. Bound in found vintage cover. Each book in the edition varies with the discarded library cards used. Slipcased in a manila folder. Orange overdue book card in pocket, numbered and initialed by the artist. Jacket is from a copy of: The world of the viruses / Stewart M. Brooks. Arist Statement: Drawings of people reading made during my daily commute are translated into block prints and hand-printed onto discarded and collected checkout cards. The commuters engaged in their own private world intersect with book titles and signatures of past readers. The office materials used to construct each book imply tasks workers are bound for. The nostalgia of the old cards suggest a history of the changing methods of reading.
Gouache on found library checkout cards, linen thread, linen tape, found book covers. For years I have been collecting objects and images for The Female Icon Collection; popular figurines, book illustrations, product characters, archetypes of Woman, and real women in history ... The Shower Party Book ... [is] illustrated from this collection. It's about a journey that is a search for identity, trying on different female roles from media icons to protagonists identified with. We are constantly reinventing ourselves to find our place in the world"--Artist's statement.