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John Eric Broaddus

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John Eric Broaddus – 1943-1990 Artist Extraordinaire! Broaddus’ work, rarely seen on the market, is in international private and important public collections, including the Cooper-Hewitt Museum, the New York Public Library, the Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry, Wellesley College Library, the Arts of the Book Collection at Yale University, and the [...] Related posts:

Kerry McAleer-Keeler

sara — Thu, 01 Dec 2011 14:30:12 +0000

Artist Kerry McAleer-Keeler – inspired by Joseph Cornell – creates boxed assemblages

We have pleasure in introducing the innovative work of Kerry McAleer-Keeler to a wider audience with seven beautiful examples of her creativity in Catalogue 41. Kerry is currently Director of the Master Program in Art and the Book and Assistant Professor at the Corcoran College of Art, Washington, DC. She holds a MFA degree from George Washington University. “Kerry is an artist who wishes to tell a story. To her, artwork is created to bring a spectator into the world of the artist’s imagination—where the viewer can participate and relate to the narration depicted in her book objects. A reaction is what she is interested in evoking whether it is joy, understanding, humor, or even controversy.

“McAleer-Keeler enjoys making tangible, permanent objects; items that are not so easy to toss away in a consumer driven society. It is important that her book works expresses a commonality of human experi- ences. Her work seeks to address universal issues confronted by all individuals over a lifetime; namely those of love, origin, isolation, spirituality and comfort.

“In her work certain symbolic elements have developed into a visual vocabulary. Birds, hands, materials from nature, antique photographs, playing cards, butterflies and spirals are all elements that perform an important role in her pieces. Freedom, chance, the human spirit, and the life cycle of the natural world are all ideas that these objects reflect.“ – Artist’s Statement.

Keith Dietrich

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Keith Dietrich is currently professor of the Visual Arts at Stellenbosch University in South Africa. Hundreds of art students from the late Seventies to the present day have benefited from his long career as teacher and artist at the University of Pretoria, and now at Stellenbosch. His qualifications include an M.A. in Fine Arts (cum laude) and a D. Litt. et Phil. in the History of Art. In addition, he completed two years of post- graduate study in painting at the Institute of Fine Art in Antwerp, Belgium. He has been awarded numerous prizes, scholarships and travel grants spanning the years 1975 to 2011. He has participated in community projects in Botswana and South Africa, and is a past member of the Advisory Board of the Market Gallery, Johannesburg.

It is with great pleasure that we introduce the thought-provoking work of Keith Dietrich to these pages with two excellent examples of his book art.

Dean Allen Dass

sara — Thu, 01 Dec 2011 14:03:02 +0000

Artist and Teacher

Artist and teacher, Dean Dass looks at many influences and sources going back to Pindar (5th century B.C.) and Girolamo Fracastoro (16th Century) right up to the present day. His work is filled with myth, symbol and dreams, being the structures of the unconscious.

He brings his talent and artistic expertise as artist and printmaker together with his interest in the natural world to the imagery of his bookmaking. His books take the viewer on a journey of awe and delight with the touching and turning of the pages. His is a unique voice that stands alone in the art of the contemporary Artist’s Book.

Dass has participated in solo and group exhibitions in the U.S.A. and internationally. His work has been shown in Finland, Sweden, the Netherlands, Poland and the U.K., as well as at numerous locations in the United States.

His work is in private and many public collections, including the Brooklyn Museum of Art, Des Moines Art Center, Free Library of Philadelphia, National Collection of Poland, Krakow, Philadelphia Museum of Art, the University of Virginia Art Museum, and the Walker Art Center, Minneapolis.

Dass is currently Professor of Art at the University of Virginia.

More About Rudy Pozzatti, book artist

sara — Mon, 14 Dec 2009 04:33:04 +0000

Rudy Pozzatti has been an artist and teacher in Bloomington, Indiana for many years; he is one of Indiana’s living legends. He had a major Retrospective at the Indiana University Art Museum IN 2002.

“Pozzotti’s career is extraordinary … in the media of drawing, printmaking, monotypes, collages, oils, watercolors, and sculpture.” – Norman A. Geske, p.14, Rudy Pozzatti: A Printmaker’s Odyssey.

“Rudy Pozzatti is a man who is in all aspects generous. He is a good artist, teacher, craftsman, and friend. Enthusiastic as he is about his own work he has always embraced and encouraged the work of others. He is among the first people I would call with a technical question, knowing his instruction would be most thorough. More importantly he is among those I most hope to emulate.” -Steven Sorman.

“Ultimately, Rudy Pozzatti is the consummate printmaker, one who mastered the techniques of intaglio, woodcut, lithography, and silkscreen, and one who learned to work with the inherent qualities of each so that they complemented and enlivened his own artistic pursuits. His abilities have earned him an international reputation as an artist and as a master printer. His charms and his generosity have earned him untold respect and too many enduring friendships to ever count. We are all, indeed, enriched by the man and his art.” – Pegram Harrison – Extract from the catalogue: “Rudy Pozzatti – A Printmaker’s Odyssey”, Indiana University Art Museum, 2002.

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Richard Tipping – Australian artist, sculptor and poet

sara — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 19:47:36 +0000

Richard Tipping is Australian by birth. He is internationally known for his involvement in the visual arts, where his ‘word-works’ explore relations between picture and text, material and context, title and frame, as well as language and landscape.

He has numerous films, publications, audio-cassettes, and articles to his credit. Tipping has received many grants and awards and commissioned to do large public sculptures, including one on the Sydney Harbour Bridge and one across the facade of the Art Gallery of New South Wales, Australia.

The work of Richard Tipping is in many public and private collections internationally.

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Tom Phillips, RA

sara — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 19:41:54 +0000

“Tom Phillips was born in London in 1937. He attended St Catherine’s College, Oxford in 1957, where he read English and at the same time studied drawing at the Ruskin School. In 1961 he went to Camberwell School of Art where his chief source of inspiration was Frank Auerbach. He went on to teach at Bath Academy of Art, Ipswich (where he taught Brian Eno) and Wolverhampton Art College between 1965 and 1972.

“Phillips’s first solo show was in 1965 at the Artists International Association Gallery in London, followed by an exhibition at the Angela Flowers Gallery in 1970. He won first prize at The John Moores Liverpool Exhibition in 1969 and subsequently went on to exhibit in many solo and group exhibitions around the world. Two early exhibitions of particular significance were the 1973 showing of ‘A Humument’ in its entirety at the ICA, London and the 1975 retrospective at the Kunsthalle in Basel. In 1989 he had a solo exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery (which holds a number of portraits by Tom Phillips including his portrait of Dame Iris Murdoch) and in 1993 a major exhibition of his work was held at the Royal Academy of Arts. To celebrate his 60th birthday in 1997, retrospectives of his work were held at the Dulwich Picture Gallery and the South London Gallery. More recently in 2001 an exhibition of his drawings was held at the Modern Art Museum, Fort Worth.

“Phillips was Vice-Chair of the Copyright Council from 1985 to 1989. He was elected to the Royal Academy of Arts in 1989 and was Chairman of the Royal Academy’s Exhibitions Committee from 1995 to 2007. He curated the Royal Academy’s exhibition ‘Africa: The Art of a Continent’ (1995) which subsequently travelled to the Martin Gropius Bau, Berlin and the Guggenheim Museum in New York. He was appointed a Member of the Royal Society of Painter Etchers and Engravers in 1987 and an Honorary Member of the Royal Society of Portrait Painters in 1999. He is an Honorary Fellow of St Catherine’s College, Oxford, Leeds University (Bretton Hall) and the London Institute as well as an Honorary Member of the Royal Institute. He served as a Trustee of the National Portrait Gallery (1998 – 2006 ) and a Trustee of the British Museum (1999 – 2006). Phillips was made a Commander of the British Empire for services to the Arts in the 2002 Birthday Honours list.” – Official Tom Phillips website.

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Albert Dupont – Lettrist

sara — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 18:59:32 +0000

Albert Dupont was born in October 1951 in Hanoi. After literary studies, he started engraving during his collaboration with Georges Visat, publisher of the Surrealists. He became friendly with the painter, Matta, and met Isidore Isou, theorist of Creativity. He joined the Lettrism movement and has been involved with it for many years, founding and editing various magazines. His work is in public and private collections and institutions internationally.

Lettrism is a French avant-garde movement, established in Paris in the mid-1940s by Romanian immigrant Isidore Isou. In a body of work totalling hundreds of volumes, Isou and the Lettrists have applied their theories to all areas of art and culture, most notably in poetry, film, painting and political theory. The movement has its theoretical roots in Dada and Surrealism. In French, the movement is called Lettrisme, from the French word for letter, arising from the fact that many of their early works centered around letters and other visual or spoken symbols. The Lettristes themselves prefer the spelling ‘Letterism’ for the Anglicized term, and this is the form that is used on those rare occasions when they produce or supervise English translations of their writings: however, ‘Lettrism’ is at least as common in English usage. The term, having been the original name that was first given to the group, has lingered as a blanket term to cover all of their activities, even as many of these have moved away from any connection to letters. But other names have also been introduced, either for the group as a whole or for its activities in specific domains, such as ‘the Isouian movement’, ‘youth uprising’, ‘hypergraphics’, ‘creatics’, ‘infinitesimal art’ and ‘excoördism’.

Dupont’s work is varied and addresses all the arts: painting, sculpture, printmaking, artist books, novels, movies, etc … where immersion in “the language” is all-important.

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The Circle Press

sara — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 18:52:40 +0000

“Ron King is a maker. He is not just an artist – though this is his primary identity – he is a craftsman, capable of turning his hand to the ready solutiion of practical problems. He is not overawed by unfamiliar materials or equipment: each new encounter is a challenge, whether it’s a questtion of making satisfactory hinges for leaves of wood, or devising the format for Tabernacle … He rises to meet the challenge and he will resolve it, even if it takes years. (He [had] for instance, been working on Tabernacle intermittently since 1988.) It is in this quality of inspired fabrication that his real genius resides. King’s books have not only been thoroughly thought-through and lived with until properly crystallized, they have been made, to the highest standards possible. These are not mere concepts or intellectual fripperies, they are things, things which have a real independent existence of their own. This accounts for their strength and for their singularity. Of course, King has never been arrogant enough to go it alone – … he has been careful in the selection of collaborators on his book projects …” – Andrew Lambirth, Introduction to ‘Cooking the Books’, 2002.

Ken Campbell

sara — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 18:48:13 +0000

Ken Campbell is a painter, poet and designer who seeks to bring these various disciplines together in the production of what has come to be called ‘artist’s books.’ His professional experience as a designer with an interest in appropriate methodology, and his early life as an apprentice printer, bring to his books a search for form through process; such form as may be found becoming part of the message. In this he hopes that the poetry is not so much illustrated as enlarged. His books have been acquired by many private and public collections including the Victoria and Albert Museum, the New York Public Library, the Library of Congress, the Houghton Library, Harvard, and Yale University. His work has been widely exhibited internationally.

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