Asheville BookWorks host a variety of events throughout the year - gallery exhibits, special lectures and of course the Annual BookOpolis weekend.
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BookWorks is thrilled to announce the first visit of Vamp & Tramp, Booksellers, LLC. Vicky and Bill Stewart represent more than 250 contemporary fine presses and books artists. They travel throughout the US from January until Thanksgiving, taking the works they represent to museums, libraries and private collectors.
While they have a website (www.vampandtramp.com) with descriptions and images of all the work and exhibit regularly at selected book fairs, their real joy is bringing actual work to potential collectors. Their mini-van becomes a traveling gallery, a movable feast of Book Arts.
Vamp and Tramp serves presses/artists who are disinclined or unable to market their work. They schedule meetings with collectors to view the work of 10 or 30 or 60 presses and artists in one sitting.
While traveling around the country, the Stewarts offer educational talks and workshops to groups of all kinds, spreading the word about the wonders of contemporary fine press and artists’ books.
Join us on August 7 at 7:00 pm as Vamp & Tramp show and talk about a generous sampling of what’s new in the world of Book Arts.
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Works by Gwen Diehn & Sandy Webster
"Temporary Shelter" is a group of related work by Gwen Diehn and Sandy Webster. Much of the work was created during artists’ ‘retreats’ in Sandy’s studio. The exhibit reflects each artists’ individual styles and as well as work created in respond to each other. The topic is one that both artists have carried on a conversation about for several years. The show highlights two and three-dimensionional, mixed media work.
“The pieces are all part of a body of work that deals with temporary shelter-- that is, the ways in which we protect ourselves from the unknown, from the uncontrollable, from the very idea of temporality, from the unknowable, and from all those things that creep about in the night outside the circle of our small fires.” -Gwen Deihn
“Each shelter is shaped around an idea of safeness within structure. Houses of my childhood inform the houses of my imagination. The boats, like the houses, carry roots of home and the pigments of place. Land-worthy, well away from water, they give shelter and offer transport home.” -Sandy Webster
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Matt Liddle calls book arts his field because it is a broad enough category to encompass most of the things that interest him. Paper, in its profound simplicity is simultaneously ephemeral and durable, and also infinitely transformable. Printing adds the look and texture of the graphic image, and the power of something produced in multiple. Words are both a vehicle for communication and source of dynamic visual forms. Binding brings together the various elements in a physically interactive presentation. Matt Liddle likes the cleverness of book structures and the playfulness of folded paper arts, but aspires to create work that integrates the multiple elements of image,word and material to take something as simple as paper and transform it into something rich with content.
Originally from Albany, New York, Matt Liddle has been living in Sylva, North Carolina since 1995. He is an Associate Professor at Western Carolina University in Cullowhee, where he teaches printmaking and book arts in the Department of Art and Design. He received a BA from Dartmouth College (1983) and MFA in Printmaking/Book Arts (1991) from The University of the Arts. In addition to teaching, he has held a variety of jobs related to art, design and printing, and has pursued an interest in book arts since his early days working with artists Barry Moser, Steve Miller and Bill Schade. |
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A Look at Original Artists' Books and Prints Represented by Booklyn with Marshall Weber
Founded in 1999, Booklyn is an artist-run, nonprofit organization headquartered in Greenpoint, Brooklyn, New York. Booklyn’s promotes artist books as an art form and educational resource. This age of slick, offset, corporate-controlled publishing is also the age of photocopied zines, artist books, desktop publishing, and the small press. Booklyn’s mission is to encourage the proliferation and appreciation of people-made books as an antidote to industry-produced counterparts. For more images and info see www.booklyn.org |
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Shawn Sheehy's pop-up books explore ecological principles such as organism interrelationships and system balance. Aesthetically, they carry the appeal of popular children's pop-ups; conceptually, they carry content to appeal to all ages. This exhibit will feature Shawn's process ephemera as well as his books.
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Vitreography Exhibition & Open House
Vitreography is the process of printing from glass plates on an etching press. Imagery is created directly on heavy plate glass by sandblasting, etching with a mild caustic solution, grinding tools or by drawing with resist grease pencils and applying a thin coat of silicon. Printing from glass was pioneered and refined by Harvey Litteton Studio in Spruce Pine, NC.
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An Exhibition of Zinemakers Turned Bookmakers
Artists included in this exhibit: Amy Greenan, Eleanor Whitney, Emily Larned, Molly Kalkstein and Sara Jaffe.
Amy Greenan
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Sara Jaffe
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Molly Kalkstein
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An Exhibition of Paper Art by Shannon Brock
Family Album is a exhibition of paper art by Shannon Brock that focuses on her experiences while growing up on a small farm in eastern Missouri.
Using images from the rural and economically depressed surroundings of her youth, Shannon captures the beauty of people and places, their failures and their triumphs. Family Album is an exhibition showcasing Shannon's work, providing a dedicated space for her explorations of family, identity and origin.
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Collage Art by Charles Farrell & Sebastian Matthews
At core of this unique show are 11 pairs of postcard collages exchanged by two artists over a year and a half period. The 22 pieces have been selected from over 80 original collages that, in total, literally embody a stage in a friendship. As a body of work, they display collaboration and creative play in all its awkward grace, demonstrating a gradual deepening of craft and sharpening of skill. By the end of the collaboration, both artists were using 100% of both sides of the card. As one of the collaborators exclaimed, “It’s amazing that the post office even got them to our boxes!
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An exhibition of prints by our Knoxville, TN, neighbors and letterpress aficionados, Yee-Haw Industries.
For more information about Yee-Haw Industries, you can visit their website at www.yeehawindustries.com.
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for Jennifer Brook
Celebrate the culmination of a three-month book arts residency by Jennifer Brook and the completion of her limited edition bookwork entitled "Transplant."
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For more information visit: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mobilivre
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by Lance Wille, Jason Krekel, and Tyler Ramsey
For more information visit: www.handcrankedletterpress.com
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by Monika Teal
Monika Teal has exhibited her allegorical/narrative paintings in museums and galleries across the U.S. and Europe. She is the recipient of fellowships, grants and residencies and is a full time practicing artist. The BookWorks exhibit featured works from her stay in Italy, where she studied the works of egg tempera in the Florence and Sienna regions.
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