Book Arts and Printmaking

I have organized an art showing at the Chester/Dionna Habitat...

Sat, 03 Nov 2012 19:51:00 -0400

I have organized an art showing at the Chester/Dionna Habitat for Children, Art from Within Project Gallery on the 9^th, November 2012. This gallery, located at 2247 South 15^th Street, Phila, PA 19145, was set up at Lee Cliett’s studio last month. I chose this space because this house gallery is very warm and friendly in comparison to the impersonal and commercial galleries. I plan to show three artists’ abstract work. All of them have very unique skills. You will see the 2D and also the 3D works of these very talented artists. You can play and touch the works in person; you can also appreciate the western works and the oriental cultural work.

I met Lee Cliett at the Wendy’s Frame Shop, located at 1604 South Broad Street, Phila, PA 19145, a few months ago. Her work is original and interesting and I could feel a western culture sprit in her works. All of her works are titled No Name. She thinks the person who buys her work and they have the name of this work themselves. Kunyoung Chang is a Korean artist and her works are very special. She addresses the spiritual moments of reading with ‘wishing stones’ using pulp from discarded books. Mike Knaub’s work is inspired by Japanese culture. He gilds silver, gold, and other metals onto glass to create a mirror in hopes to evoke the Japanese aesthetic of Wabi-Sabi. This can be seen in the work titled Chant. His film work Wander is telling a story about someone lost and looking for a way. The other works by Mike also are about being lost. They describe a surreal world ruled by distortion and disorientation.

Special added! Wendy Chen, the owner of Wendy’s Frame Shop, is willing put her abstract art collections in this show. This includes Isaiah Zagar’s mosaic works and a screen print, Isaiah, which is at the Pennsylvania Museum of the Arts now.

Curated by Mou Zhu, MFA Book Arts/Printmaking candidates 2013.

Contact: Mou Zhu email: zmou@uarts.edu

Facebook event link: http://www.facebook.com/events/487063304648877/

Join us at the CDHC Art from Within Project Galley, for this unique abstract show.

Manual Autonomy: Mary Smull Anderson Hall, 6th floor...

Tue, 30 Oct 2012 15:44:00 -0400

Manual Autonomy: Mary Smull

Anderson Hall, 6th floor gallery

University of the Arts

333 South Broad Street

Philadelphia, PA 19107

Exhibition Dates: October 29 – November 16, 2012, Mon. – Fri. 8:30am – 4:00pm and by appointment.

OPENING RECEPTION: 5:30 – 7:30pm, Thursday, November 1, 2012

GALLERY TALK: Mary Smull, 6:00pm, Thursday, November 1, 2012

Philadelphia, PA – Anderson Hall, 6th floor gallery at the University of the Arts is pleased to announce an exhibition by alumna Mary Smull.

Manual Autonomy presents two rule‐based needlepoint projects by Philadelphia artist Mary Smull. These works take needlepoint craft kits and deliberately subvert many of the original intensions of the kit, exploring the complicated relationship between hobbyist craft and fine art.

In the series Conceptual Needlepoint, Smull accepts the constraints of a needlepoint kit’s provided colors, but defies the kit’s intentions by formulating her own rules for the application of the colors, thus turning a prescribed pattern into an exploration of autonomy. In Finished Works Smull beings with abandoned, partially finished needlepoint projects, and then completes them — but using only white thread. These pieces preserve the structure of the original intension, but result in images full of hiatuses and encroaching blank fields.

Mary Smull holds a BFA from the University of the Arts in Fibers/Craft and an MFA in Fiber from Cranbrook Academy of Art. Smull’s work has been exhibited recently at Houston Center for Contemporary Craft; Public Fiction, Los Angeles, CA; and the Institute of Contemporary Art, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA. Her project SPUN: Society for the Prevention of Unfinished Needlepoint was recently presented at the Philadelphia Museum of Art in conjunction with the exhibition Craft Spoken Here. She teaches in the Fiber Department at Maryland Institute College of Art in Baltimore, MD.

Curated by Sarah Hulsey and Erin Paulson, MFA Book Arts/Printmaking candidates 2013.

Contact: Erin Paulson email: jpaulson@uarts.edu

High resolution images are available upon request.

Generously funded by the University of the Arts Alumni Association.

Works in progress of PROGworkRESS show, opening reception on...

Tue, 16 Oct 2012 23:08:00 -0400

Charissa Shulez

Mou Zhu

Katherine Pulido

Karen Hardy

Works in progress of PROGworkRESS show, opening reception on Friday, Oct 19th.

A detail image of one piece to be shown in the PROGworkRESS...

Mon, 15 Oct 2012 14:10:03 -0400

A detail image of one piece to be shown in the PROGworkRESS show, opening reception this Friday. (Artist J. Pascoe)

jennpascoe: If you’re in the Philly area, come check out this...

Fri, 05 Oct 2012 17:48:05 -0400

jennpascoe:

If you’re in the Philly area, come check out this opening! More here.

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PROGworkRESS presents recent work from artists in the Book Arts and Printmaking graduate program at the University of the Arts. The pieces shown both build the individual voices of the artists and interrelate in surprising and exciting ways. This show documents a wide range of developing projects as the artists move towards the completion of their thesis work.

Featuring:
Charissa Schulze explores the peripheries of history; Karen Hardy taps into our innate curiosity and instinctual fears with sculptural handmade paper; Mou Zhu compares censorship in the United States and China in video installation; J. Pascoe examines alienation and wonder through the use of multilayered prints; Sarah Hulsey creates a spatial diagram that maps the quotidian to the fanciful; Erin Paulson emphasizes our eternal quest for answers through points of embroidered light; Ellen Haines discovers the ups and downs of a cat who just can’t get enough pie in a story-book composition; Katherine Pulido investigates humorous interactions between whimsical and emotionally complex creatures in watercolor and ink; Kunyoung Chang addresses the spiritual moments of reading with ‘wishing stones’ using pulp from discarded books.

“This Works-In-Progress exhibition is a fine example of the variety of media and content that find their way into book-friendly forms and paper structures. It is an enticing preview of what is to come in the spring from these MFA candidates,” Amanda D’Amico, Master Printer, Borowsky Center for the Publishing Arts, the University of the Arts.

You are warmly invited to the opening reception on
Friday, October 19th, 5:30-7:30 pm.

2nd years Charissa Schulze and Karen Hardy are in this show! If...

Thu, 27 Sep 2012 09:40:00 -0400

2nd years Charissa Schulze and Karen Hardy are in this show! If you’re in France, check it out!

The Second Years took a tour today of The Historical Society of...

Thu, 13 Sep 2012 11:34:37 -0400

The Second Years took a tour today of The Historical Society of Pennsylvania as part of their Professional Practices class. This is a picture of ledgers from the very first bank of America!

ilovecharts: The Secret Law of Page Harmony

Wed, 12 Sep 2012 12:33:44 -0400

ilovecharts:

The Secret Law of Page Harmony

Non-Silver Manual

Sun, 09 Sep 2012 14:12:53 -0400

Have you seen UArts Professor Sarah Van Keuren’s online Non-Silver manual? Not only is it extremely useful but it’s FREE! Check it out here, and thank you Sarah Van Keuren for this wonderful resource!

True statement. printeresting: KeeganMeegan & Co. — Measure...

Sun, 09 Sep 2012 14:05:34 -0400

True statement.

printeresting:

KeeganMeegan & Co. — Measure Twice / Box Cutter

Art21 Posts

Wed, 05 Sep 2012 10:45:44 -0400

Current MFA student J. Pascoe has been writing for Art21’s “Open Enrollment” column for the last year, check out her posts here.

And keep an eye out for another current MFA student, Katherine Pulido, posting as guest-blogger in the next month or so.

Kick ass!

Gilder's Lament

Sun, 26 Aug 2012 12:15:43 -0400

Gilder's Lament:

thebookas:

My size is prepared,
The leaf is laid out,
My agate is polished and smooth.
The press, it is loaded,
The edge has been scraped,
I feel like I’m in the groove.
I put on the size,
I lay on the gold,
My confidence reaching its peak.
I polish the edge,
Till I see by its shine,
The edge of perfection I…

thebookas: (h/t The Paris Review) join Reading Rainbow on a...

Mon, 20 Aug 2012 09:07:00 -0400

thebookas:

(h/t The Paris Review)

join Reading Rainbow on a trip to the BINDERY

theartofgooglebooks: Inky cat footprints! From p. 170 of Clavis...

Mon, 20 Aug 2012 09:05:45 -0400

theartofgooglebooks:

Inky cat footprints!

From p. 170 of Clavis Bibliorum: The Key of the Bible, Unlocking the Richest Treasury of the Holy Scriptures by Francis Roberts (1675). Original from Princeton University. Digitized August 12, 2008.

Cats+books.

Summer internships! jennpascoe: Some pictures from my...

Sun, 05 Aug 2012 15:58:57 -0400

Summer internships!

jennpascoe:

Some pictures from my internship at the American Philosophical Society. I’ve been learning quite a bit about book conservation. The outdoor shots were of a recent project where we made paste papers to be used in later projects.

Holy Crap!

Sun, 29 Jul 2012 16:22:11 -0400

Just finishing up our Indiegogo campaign and wanted to share some numbers —

On our campaign page alone we had 821 visitors, 17,020 page views, and 123 funders raising a total of $5,315.

We had funders hailing from 59 different cities, 20 US states, and 2 countries!

Thank you so much everyone — this trip was life changing!

Finished poster!

Sun, 22 Jul 2012 20:21:19 -0400

Finished poster!

Some images of our almost finished “Korea Snapshot”...

Fri, 20 Jul 2012 22:31:00 -0400

Some images of our almost finished “Korea Snapshot” poster — images drawn by J. Pascoe and Ellen Haines! We should get these beauties printed this weekend!

The food in Seoul is delicious. You can see there is nothing...

Fri, 22 Jun 2012 23:27:19 -0400

The food in Seoul is delicious. You can see there is nothing left.

Seoul Tower. Going up, looking down, and leaving a little...

Fri, 22 Jun 2012 21:24:49 -0400

Seoul Tower. Going up, looking down, and leaving a little something behind.