Boundless @ Bainbridge Island Museum of Art

Emergence

Inheritance is one of the works featured in Boundless, an exhibition that “…celebrates the visionary ideals of the artist’s book which often challenge, in the best of ways, our preconceived notions of what a book can be. Boundless explores the vast field of artist’s books, but also the thinking of book artists. Each work reveals the mapping and laying bare of uncomfortable, surprising, or unexplored terrain.”

The exhibition is open from Mar 4 – Jun 22, 2022 at the Bainbridge Island Museum of Art in Bainbridge Island, WA. Click here for details.

Every Day & Special Days

Interwoven Alphabet, open

Interwoven Alphabet, a collaborative abcedary created with Diane Jacobs, featuring various themes including relationships, nature, the senses, time, and the environment, is on view in Every Day & Special Days at the Bainbridge Island Art Museum, Bainbridge Island, WA..

Co-curators: Cynthia Sears and Catherine Alice Michaelis present Every Day & Special Days taking viewers on a journey from daily delights and mundane activities to once-in-a-lifetime events.

Between birth and death, we string together memories of dailiness: the view from a window, the route we travel to school or work, the rhythm of mealtimes and seasons, or cultural messages that inform our interactions, to name just a few.

Special days lift us from the mundane and predictable. They might include a trip to the ocean, birthdays, a marriage, or immigrating to a new country. A special day may signal a change in our life or even our world, and become the new every day."

Interwoven Alphabet , and edition of 2, consists of 26 half-inch thick square felt pages. Each page features imagery on the larger sides and words are stitched along each narrow edge. Imagery and words correspond to the letter of the alphabet assigned to the page. New messages are revealed as the blocks are turned.

Water Is...

Water, my book from the Elemental series is featured in Water Is… an exhibition at the Bainbridge Island Museum of Art through June 27, 2021.

Water can move from solid to liquid to gas and exists on, in, and over the earth in these three states. In religion and mythology, water symbolism relate to creation, passages, wisdom, and purification. It not only has the potential to heal and to quench, but also to cause devastation. Water features stories about passages, purification, knowledge, and wisdom.

in Water, each accordion page features a story and together they unfold to give a waterfall effect. The first story is an account of a swimming lesson. The second story features a story of the transformative power of touch in the form of hair washing. The final story is an abstract account of passages.

Water is an edition of 4.

Read more about the exhibition here.