EXPLODING THE CODEX: Artists

2012 ExpoldingtheCodex exhibition list.
Color Catalog of the show is available through SFCB.

A Sacred Geography: Sonnets of the Himalaya and Tibet, Mary Heebner,

A Sacred Geography: Sonnets of the Himalaya and Tibet

Mary Heebner

Simplemente Maria Press

San Diego, California, 2005. 14/100.

Individual unbound sheets with engraved images pressed into each page. Housed in a linen encased box.

Alphabet Cube: Rubik’s Cube

Philip & Anna Morrison

Shoestring Press

Orinda, California, 2007.
Open Edition.

Cube with 26 type designers and styles printed on adhesive backed multicolored paper.

Around the Things We’ve Lost

Kahoru Otani

Kyoto, Japan, 2006. 2/3.

Linocuts and paste paper in simple binding.

Aunt Sallie’s Lament

Clair Van Vliet

Janus Press

Newark, Vermont, 2004. 31/120

Accordion fold format book with patterned swatches of paper, quilted cut pages. Laid in fitted box lined and covered with several patterned fabrics.

Black Torah

Robbin Ami Silverberg

Dobbin Books

Brooklyn, New York, 2003.
Unique.

Graphite flax paper (pulp sprayed) with text by artist about Kabbalist Black Torah burnt out and graphite text as commentary.

Body of Text

Kelly Wellman & Madeleine Zygarewicz

Mainz, Germany, 2000. 460/500.

Printed letterpress and offset printed. Unbound and layered photographs by Xochitl Oliva. With text and thumbnail sheet at back for sequencing. Housed in a wraparound portfolio case of black cloth over boards.

Book Page Tapestry

Jody Alexander

Santa Cruz, California, 2004.
Unique.

Paperback book pages, shellacked and sewn to mesh backing and attached to wooden ruler for hanging.

Bookworks

Anna & Arne Wolf

Berkeley, California.
Unique.

Alphabet book structure, letterpress printed with multicolored inks.

Cake of Books

Jody Alexander

Jalex Press

Santa Cruz, California, 2008.
Unique.

Individual bound books glued and painted with acrylic paint. Displayed in a circular, glass-covered cake dish.

Colander Calendar

Ed Baskaukas

San Francisco, California, 2006. Unique.

Metal colander width applied glue lettering and hand-punched holes designating days in the 12-month, calendar year of 2007.

Curiosity Specimen Series: Metamorphosis Four

Rhiannon Alpers

San Francisco, California, 2012. Unique.

Sculptural artist book series inspired by the writing and images of Maria Sybila Merian. Handmade papers made from exotic fibers: raw coconut, hyacinth bulbs, and other plants. Book doubles as both book and shadow box when opened.

Curiosity Specimen Series: Metamorphosis Nine

Rhiannon Alpers

San Francisco, California, 2012. Unique.

Dolly

Karen Bleitz

Circle Press, London, England, 1997. 16/17

A pop-out, jig-sawed book structure on the theme of the cloned sheep. Freestanding “herd” of 45 sheep integrated into the form of the book. Text on covers taken from newspaper headlines and Nature magazine, printed letterpress.

Egg

Seiko Tachibana

Oakland, California, 2003. 6/10.

Individual, unbound intaglio prints, housed in linen encased box.

Five Luminous Towers

Carol Barton

Popular Kinetics Press

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 2001. 17/50.

Offset printing, laser-cut pop-ups, light and batteries.

Ghost Diary

Maureen Cummins

High Falls, New York, 2003. Artist Proof, Edition of 25.

Glass “pages” hinged together with images and text.

Horse: Soul Book

Judy Serebrin

San Francisco, California, 2006. Unique.

High-fire porcelain stained but unglazed horse sculpture. Miniature books housed within body of sculpture. Books made from mixed media on paper (ink, watercolor, pastel, acrylic, pastepapers, prints) with exposed, link and kettle stitch bindings.

House of Cards

John Gerard

2009

Letterpress printed in black on handmade paper. Book pages have the form of a house sidewall and are printed with Latin texts from the Bible. A handwritten register in red Lombard letters on each page. Pages are interlocked with binding strips; in a gray dropback box with title in black on front and spine.

How It Is

Brighton Press

San Diego, California, 2005. 15/30.

A twelve-page woodcut by Bill Kelly on Seichosen and Twinrocker papers. Leporello binding.

How to Make a Highbred Paper Airplane

Dolph Smith

Memphis, Tennesee, 2011. Unique.

Wooden covers with exposed binding, watercolor, folded and cut pages made from handmade paper.

Immortality

Joan Ingoldsby Brown

San Francisco, California, 2000. 3/25.

Copies of images from 1800s adhered to black card stock with a modified accordion binding using green ribbon. Housed in a black Styrofoam open walled box with ribbon ties.

Inside Chance

Linda Smith

Picnic Press

Phoenix, Arizona, 2000. 29/100.

Text by Alberto Rios, relief line engravings printed on Somerset Velvet. Paper globe hand painted and encased in Plexiglas display box, on a hand printed and covered base.

Language of Her Body

Robin Price

Middletown, Connecticut, 2003. 41/60.

Tosa Hanga paper, with all media directly printed or painted onto the sheets.

L’horloge

Beatrice Coron

New York, New York, 2001. Edition of 25.

Black cloth houses an antique round clock attached to the lid interior: a single folded sheet with an English translation of The Clock by Théophile Gautier, and a fold-out book Vulnerant Omnes Ultima Necat.

Look Hard

Anna Wolf

Berkeley, California.

Folded paper structure and letterpress printed mantras on paper in a simple binding. Housed in Plexiglas open box.

Lunar Journey

Katherine Venturelli

Fiddletown, California, 2004

Printed papers using chine collé techniques, Turkish map fold, double-sided pages, letterpress printed with hand-etched plates.

Mending Wall

Margery S. Hellmann

The Holbourne Press

Seattle, Washington, 2000. 18/100.

Accordion-fold, popup book in five sections.

Letterpress printed in Gill Sans on Canson Mi-Teintes. Bound in gray paper over boards with burgundy spine.

Nature Fibonacci: Binary #5

Susan Happersett

Jersey City, New Jersey, 2000. Unique.

Pen and ink line drawings on gray paper in an accordion structure.

Nature Fibonacci: Scroll

Susan Happersett

Jersey City, New Jersey, 2000. Unique.

Pen and ink on a scroll structure. Housed in a light-weight black cardboard box.

O Star

Jan Owen

Belfast, Maine, 2004. Unique.

Acrylic on paper, gold leaf with woven Tyvek, calligraphy, and cloth covered portfolio case.

Palatium Paradisi Libro

Paul Johnson

Cheshire, England, 2012. Unique.

Water colored pages, hand-cut and tabbed to created pop-up scenes for every page. Housed in handmade paper case and paper rod enclosure.

PLL Three: Specimen / Kaddish

Leda Black

Palabra Press

Providence Rhode Island, 1997. 45/75.

Egg-shaped structure made of multimedia: wood, polystyrene, paper, acrylic, metal, ink, glue, and words of Walt Whitman.

Rosetta Disk

Long Now Foundation

San Francisco, CA, 2008. Open Edition.

Micro-etched text onto both sides of metal disk that can be read by a high-powered microscope. The disk contains 13,000 pages of documentation on over 1,500 human languages. A collection of information that attests to a richness of human cultural and linguistic diversity in the year 2008.

Sedimental, No. 2

Jody Alexander

Santa Cruz, California, 2011. Unique.

Wooden chair with layers of linen and felt surrounding individual bound books glued and painted with acrylic paint.

Trees: Poem by W.S. Merwin

Charles Hobson

Pacific Editions

San Francisco, California, 2010. 29/30.

Letterpress, monotype digital prints, with cut foam core and foil stamping.

True to Life

Julie Chen

Flying Fish Press

Berkeley, California, 2004. 79/100.

Letterpress printed tablet with wooden handles and Plexiglas window. The box contains a lifting floor with a built-in prop that can hold the tablet in an upright position for reading and display.

Untitled

Bettina Pauly

San Francisco, California.

Four-panel tunnel book.

The White Alphabet

Ron King

Circle Press

Guilford, England, 1994. 7/150.

A double-sided concertina alphabet book without printed text.

Winter Orchard

Marie & Carl Dern

Jungle Garden Press

Berkeley, California, 2005. 20/60.

Nine-panel, two-sided accordion book featuring 18 drawings of trees in winter, printed letterpress on Arches watercolor paper. Accompanied by a metal sculpture of a tree.

Would You, If You Knew

Judith Serebrin

San Francisco, California. Unique.

Thirty pages with thirty moving parts.

Printing Office by Beatrice Ward

Norman Clayton

One Heart Press

San Francisco, California. Multi-colored broadside.

Wunder Cabinet

Barbara Hodgson & Claudia Cohen

Heavenly Monkey Editions

Vancouver, Canada, 2011. 6/36.

Decorated box with inlaid wood veneers forming geometric patterns. Inside, in addition to book, each box, in various compartments, contains a unique assortment of -approximately two dozen objects culled from the creator’s own collections.

Memento

Julie Chen

Flying Fish Press

Berkeley, California, 2012. 10/50.

Handmade book within a metal locket. Locket has individual metal locks with miniature book in one side and a word collage on the other. Housed in lasercut box.

This book was made as part of the Al-Mutanabbi Street book project; Memento contains images of the street as it was before the bombing. Woven text entwines the Preamble of the American Constitution horizontally and the Preamble of Iraq’s Constitution vertically.

The locket is inspired by Victorian mourning jewelry in which some memento of the person may be worn close to the body.

The Veil
Julie Chen

Flying Fish Press

Berkeley, California, 2001. 35/100.

Text and illustrations by Julie Chen. Magnets embedded in the covers, which allow it to be displayed in a circular, sculptural egg- like format. Presented in a fitted box with magnetic closures

Cent Pour Cent Fibres

Denise Lapointe

Sans Gras Editions

Paris, France, 2006.

Sheet of handmade green paper, cut and folded accordion-style, with single line of text on both sides. Adhered to foam core boards, covered in handmade tan and brown papers cut to resemble a slice of bread.

Three sheets of ochre-colored handmade card stock, cut to resemble Swiss cheese slices and three sheets of mottled handmade card stock resembling sliced salami; designed to lay into book within slits cut into the text block. The whole resembling a sandwich, housed in a printed paper “bag.”

Local Conditions: One Hundred Views of Mt. Rainier (At Least)

Chandler O’Leary

Anagram Press

Tacoma, Washington, 2012. 6/30.

An interactive artist book capturing the changing faces of Mt. Rainier, with 120 image flats and a viewing box. By combining and layering the flats, the reader can create literally millions of scenes. Illustrated and compiled from data collected by artist, on location, over the course of two years.

Letterpress printed, hand-watercolored, housed in a set of drawers with nested stab-bound book and Japanese-style outer wrapper.

Not A Straight Line

Emily Martin

Naughty Dog Press

Iowa City, Iowa, 2011. 2/20.

Letterpress printed on Rives BFK paper and stained with acrylic paint. Bound in covers made with Moriki and University of Iowa flax paper.

Each individual book is hinged together with walnut crackle paper from Cave Paper. Comprised of 10 linked Coptic-bound books with one line of the text in each of the books. Housed in cream linen box with elastic closure.

Excerpts from the 2011 ExpoldingtheCodex exhibition with artists websites