Cover to Cover: Book Lab Explorations
Floating Circles - a collaboration by the Book Lab
The artists of the Book Lab are Rebecca Boardman, Elissa R. Campbell, Dorsey Hogg, Marilyn Gillis, Debra A. Kraemer, Ann Joppe-Mercure, Vera Ryerbach, Penne Tompkins, and Marcia Vogler. Cover to Cover: Book Lab Explorations is our featured exhibit within Unbound vol.X. Each individual artist is exhibiting their own work, and the Book Lab is also showing collaborative pieces they have co-created.
Most of these pieces are hard to convey with just one photo! They can be unfolded, manipulated, and "read". Please see them in person if at all possible!
Rebecca Boardman
There Are No Human Races
accordion book, opens to 60" w/text & images
& 10"x7"x2.5" box
board, paper, fabric, acetate
$1000
Rebecca Boardman
Child's Play
15-panel unfolding-star book & 4.5"x4.5"x3" box
(image is of single panel)
board, fabric, paper
$1200
Rebecca Boardman
Them's the Breaks
meandering book variable positioning
w/ 5.5"x5.5"x1.5" box
board, acrylic paint, thread, fabric
$450
Elissa R. Campbell
Medicinema
book board, mat board, book cloth,
prescription paper, adhesive
book - 4.625” x 6.5” x 2”
box - 2.75” x 10.25” x 7.375”
$600
Dorsey Hogg
Timeline
discarded encyclopedia americana
pages & covers
$700
Dorsey Hogg
Hey Girl!
discarded History of Art textbook pages
bellows- like book and found box
in the box: 6"x8"x1.5"
$450
Dorsey Hogg
Tying Up Loose Ends
discarded Encyclopedia Americana volume 17
approximately 11"x7"x3"
$1200
Marilyn Gillis
Nests
canvas cloth, threads, paper
6.75"x7.75"
$600
Marilyn Gillis
Stitching Through Time
felt, antique doilies, hand-dyed silk ribbon,
antique crochet instructions
7"x7"x1.75"
$600
Marilyn Gillis
Red Spot
accordion book with 10 self designed Notan images
8"x6.5" flat, opens to approximately 32"
$350
Debra A. Kraemer
Within My Garden Grow
Leporello book structure
Media: Box –textured book cloth, foamcore, matte medium, Nepalese lokta papers, pva &methyl cellulose, construction card, double-sided tape, ribbon, ink& origami-covered Styrofoam box props.
Book –canson paper, matboard, pva adhesive, inks, wooden sticks, double-sided tape, Tyvek hinges
Box: 13”x 61/2”x2”, Book: 12”x51/4”x 1” closed, extends to 41”
$800
Debra A. Kraemer
Dictionary of the Unknown (To Me)
double pocket-fold Concertina with separate cover
Media: acrylic-painted Tyvek, japanese textured linen cardstock, recycled envelopes, nepalese lokta & canson papers, inks, pva adhesive, double-sided tape
53/8” x 25/8” x 11/2” open
$800
Debra A. Kraemer
Expressions in Indigo
framed 2-sided accordian album & box
Media: matboard, construction card, handmade shibori on washi, book cloth, Nepalese lokta paper, adhesive, ink.
51/8” x 51/8” x 11/8”
$350
Ann Joppe-Mercure
Prayer
cut-out Tyvek, acrylic paint, book board
10"x13"x1"
$1000
"Lord, make me an instrument of thy peace..."
Ann Joppe-Mercure
Words of Wisdom
saggar-fired clay, canvas, acrylic paint
7"x7"x 6" (approximate dimensions when
rolled up)
scroll and pot - $400 each
Ann Joppe-Mercure
Written in Stone
clay, paint, paper, thread
individual books vary in size -
approximately 3"x2.75"x1"
$35 for each stone book
Vera Ryersbach
Homage to Joseph Cornell
mixed media box
13"x13"x3.75"
$300
Vera Ryersbach
Homage to Matisse
cut paper fold-out book
original - each panel 6.5"x5"
copies - 2.5"x3.75"
$150 original - $15/copy
Vera Ryersbach
Homage to Herni Rousseau
photographs
7.5"x5.75"
$100 original - $30/copy
