An artist's book comprised of three prints by Celmins and text assembled from "descriptions of the stars from around the world" --Front cover flap. Center fold pullout of abstract starscape on vellum paper.
14 p. "Deluxe edition is cased in a variation of the Japanese portfolio structure, with bone clasps"--Publisher's website. Haikus by Sara Pirkle Hughes, with artwork by her twin sister Amy Pirkle, telling the story of their grandmother, who left her home in Japan as a young mother to begin a new life in the 1950's American South. Design, printing, artwork, and handmade paper by Amy Pirkle
Published as part of Book Works’ Chap Book Series (No. 7), printed offset in an edition of 1,000 copies, b&w, 72 pages with a colour soft cover. --Artist's website.
Includes texts written by the artist and illustrated with typographic images. Part of Infra thin Projects commissioned and curated by Mark Beasley for Book Works, 2004. "This publication represents a chain of declamatory 'rants' that critically probe traditional notions of narrative authority"--Publisher's web site.
Amy Pirkle dedicated this book to her grandmother of whom she says: " As far back as I can remember, I knew that when I walked into my grandmother's kitchen in South Georgia, I'd find her in the kitchen with a hot batch of biscuits made from scratch." This short book reflects that warm childhood memory with paper the color of baked biscuits and simple duo- or tri-colored linocut images. Several fold out pages are included. Letter press printed in metal types on Nideggen mould made paper. Pamphlet bound with hard, split boards covered with lino-cut printed paper. Signed by the artist. This book was purchased with Kiyoko by Sara Pirkle Hughes from the Maternal Legends exhibit at 23 Sandy Gallery in Portland, OR (December 5, 2008-January 3, 2009) which was juried by Cara List, Art and Architecture Librarian, University of Oregon.
72 p. Commercially produced hardcover book, bound with grey book cloth, containing text and artists' stamps, inspired by postage stamps. Each artist contributed a perforated sheet of stamps, which are layered between two sheets of vellum paper. The image, without perforation, is reproduced on the following page.
84 p. Inspired by artist Ceal Floyer's work Monochrome, a supermarket receipt listing purchases of 36 white products that was included in her solo exhibition at the Ikon Gallery in 2001. Savage stole the same 36 items, calculated the savings and compiled images of the items into this work.Accompanies an Ikon Offsite project at various sites in Birmingham, England, Nov.-Dec. 2005. Published in an ed. of 500 numbered copies. Hardback book covered in white cloth with text embossed on front cover.
72 p. Commercially produced hardcover book, bound with grey book cloth, containing text and artists' stamps, inspired by postage stamps. Each artist contributed a perforated sheet of stamps, which are layered between two sheets of vellum paper. The image, without perforation, is reproduced on the following page.
