Raising The Supine Dome,
2010
Rhode Island School of Design
Raising The Supine Dome, Amy Borezo, Special Collections, Fleet Library
Artists' Books
Double-sided accordion book. Text and illustrations printed on one side of board; white grid on gray background printed on reverse. Numerous cutouts reveal printed grid. Bound in gray paper-covered boards; in cloth-covered slip case, as issued. "Raising the supine dome, by Amy Borezo. Printed in an edition of 20 on Holyoke Fine Paper from 14 point Caslon hand-set metal type and photopolymer plates at Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH in the fall of 2010. Titles set in Futura. Binding inspired by Deborah Howe's screen book."--colophon. Double-sided accordion book. Text and illustrations printed on one side of board; white grid on gray …
Extra Ordinary,
2010
Virginia Commonwealth University
Extra Ordinary, Lana Waldrep
Theses and Dissertations
The title of this thesis Extra Ordinary is intentionally ambiguous. Depending on how you read it, it can refer to either the very ordinary or to that which is outside of the ordinary.The works described within these pages functions similarly. From person to person and with time they move from the ordinary to beyond and back again. How can something be both mysterious and understood at the same time? How can I as a painter create a space where diametrically opposed forces can coexist and what is the effect of viewing such an object? This thesis addresses these issues with …
Altered Interactions,
2010
Virginia Commonwealth University
Altered Interactions, Kristen Rego
Theses and Dissertations
Surrounding materials, signage, and detritus on the daily path offer plenty to look at, if not too much. The eye seeks comfort in its passive vision by ignoring its peripheries. Identification of my personal vision reveals itself through the manipulation of ignored material. I consider hand-made vs. machine made, singular vs. the multiple particularly in plastics, packaging and other utilitarian objects. Industrial processes influence my one-person operation. Understanding the way objects are made allows for an opportunity to connect with them. I’m already surrounded by them, the least I can do is get to know them better.
Dreamfall: The Fleeting-Ness Of Memory,
2010
Virginia Commonwealth University
Dreamfall: The Fleeting-Ness Of Memory, Hon Chen
Theses and Dissertations
My work seeks to simulate the impermanence of memory, through the creation of structures and images that translate the mind’s formless but living past into physical material and sensation. The need to search for the missing six years of my childhood memories in Thailand has been the driving force behind the works, along with the lingering emotions of emptiness and unfulfillment. I create multimedia installations with materials, such as plaster, pvc panels, acrylic, polycrylic and dura-lar, to structurally realize a subject as intangible and elusive as memory. Issues of duality, identity, impermanence and memory are underlying themes for my thesis …
Me And You,
2010
Virginia Commonwealth University
Me And You, Nicole Andreoni
Theses and Dissertations
My work seeks to reveal the relationships between woman and man, woman and self, and woman and the space which she inhabits. Through personal memoirs and everyday observations the private becomes public, and moments of intimacy transpire. Intimacy requires dialogue, transparency, reciprocity, and self-disclosure, all things that I have been reflecting upon in my work over the last two years. Relationships are formed within the works and through the experience of the viewer with the art. Figures and abstraction coexist next to one another informing the viewer of things familiar, creating closeness, while also spatially confusing the viewer, creating a …
Bottom Creek, Bent Mountain, Va,
2010
Virginia Commonwealth University
Bottom Creek, Bent Mountain, Va, Genesis Chapman
Theses and Dissertations
The title of this thesis Bottom Creek, Bent Mountain, VA is the subject of my large ink drawings. Starting with the spring outside my window, this book describes the creeks as it flows across the mountain that I grew up on. My drawings document the experience of walking along the banks of Bottom Creek as it flows past farms fields and along the roadside. Described as a seemingly insignificant place, the creek is in fact it is one of the most basic, and important parts of this mountain’s landscape, because the creek’s natural process it is responsible for producing the …
A Post-Communist Picnic,
2010
Virginia Commonwealth University
A Post-Communist Picnic, Yi Sheng
Theses and Dissertations
Signaling the moon, packing balls of mud, carving a big sphere, cleaning with a giant unwieldy mop, playing with indigo, wrangling cardboard, setting sunflowers ablaze, playing a tune with a soda bottle, taking a walk with other people’s laundry, kindling smoke signals, weaving a bed, cracking seeds all night, listening to sleep, dressing a plant, these are some of the activities that have been incorporated into my work over the last two years. Most ideas begin in the studio and then are realized outside. Many of the tasks mentioned allow me to easily integrate into a crowd, where the project …
Come-See-Me Festival Records - Accession 815,
2010
Winthrop University
Come-See-Me Festival Records - Accession 815, Come-See-Me Festival
Manuscript Collection
The Come-See-Me Festival Records consist of records and memorabilia from the Come-See-Me Festivals since its founding in 1962. The collection contains correspondence, newspaper clippings, photographs, financial reports and papers, promotional materials, and other records and material chronicling the development of the Come-See-Me Festival in Rock Hill, SC.
How Books Work,
2010
Rhode Island School of Design
How Books Work, Julie Chen, Clifton Meador, Special Collections, Fleet Library
Artists' Books
16 pages : color illustrations. "Written, designed, and produced by Julie Chen and Clifton Meador ... Fall 2010"--Colophon. Cover title. Unnumbered edition of approximately 300 copies. In paper portfolio with mounted color illustration including title. Offset printed; lasercut elements. Clifton Meador, RISD Alumnus, BFA Photography, 1980. Gift of Julie Chen. Fleet Library at RISD Alumni Collection. Curated title for Fleet Library Special Collections exhibition By Hand: Women & Books Exhibit fall, 2021.
Why?,
2010
Rhode Island School of Design
Why?, Giacomo Traldi, Fleet Library, Special Collections, Jan Baker
Letters
This book was completed for Jan Baker's artists' book class.
The Xeroxed Book,
2010
Rhode Island School of Design
The Xeroxed Book, Eric Doeringer, Special Collections, Fleet Library
Artists' Books
1 volume, 185 pages. "The Xeroxed Book is based on Carl Andre, Robert Barry, Douglas Huebler, Joseph Kosuth, Sol LeWitt, Robert Morris, Lawrence Weiner - an artists book published by Seth Siegelaub and John Wendler in 1969 that is more commonly known as The Xerox Book. The Xerox Book was conceived as an exhibition in book form: Siegelaub invited the seven titular artists to submit 25-page projects designed to be reproduced by the then-new technology of the photocopy. However, photocopying proved too expensive at the time, and the book was printed on a traditional offset press. The Xeroxed Book is …
Bastokalypse,
2010
Rhode Island School of Design
Bastokalypse, M.S. Bastian, Special Collections, Fleet Library
Artists' Books
1 volume (unpaged) : chiefly ill.. Cover title. Book has text and illustrations on one side and a 52 meter frieze of apocalyptic imagery on the other side of accordion-fold paper board pages. Includes bibliographical references. Text in German English and French.
Red Radish,
2010
Rhode Island School of Design
Red Radish, Elle Conyers, Special Collections, Fleet Library
Artists' Books
14 unnumbered pages . Cover title. No edition statement. Author name on last printed page. Accordion fold, printed on one side only, folds out to 5 x 46 cm. Second part of compound word begins the word on the next page. Student work likely completed for one of Jan Baker's Printed Books classes, Rhode Island School of Design. RISD Alumna, BFA, GD, 2010. Gift of Jan Baker.
Erotica Botanica,
2010
Rhode Island School of Design
Erotica Botanica, Catherine Michaelis, Special Collections, Fleet Library
Artists' Books
16 unnumbered pages : illustrations. Artist's book written, designed and created by Catherine Michaelis. Limited edition of 40 copies, signed "Catherine Alice" by the artist. "Enter the sensual Erotica Botanica through an unfolding caress of its leaf shaped pages. Delicate flowers with enticing organs float up from the folds above a bed of leaves and seed pods. Erotic verse, written by flowers and pollinators, inspires the viewer to contemplate the sexual desire of plants."--May Day Press blog, viewed 12/6/10. The deluxe edition ... has a ... wrapper with supporting top and bottom flaps and five pop-ups, (one delicately concealed in …
Konglish,
2010
Rhode Island School of Design
Konglish, Jana Sim, Special Collections, Fleet Library
Artists' Books
28 unnumbered pages : color illustrations. Limited edition of 32 copies, signed and numbered by the artist. "This book is about the differences between how language is observed and interpreted. My focus is on three languages which are Korean, English and Konglish (Korean + English) ... There are short, humorous stories in each language that I have personally experienced based on the differences of the languages and how they function in different cultures ... Two laser cut volvelles ... have mixture of both Korean and English alphabets. The book will be very different depending on what language you are able …
Sheets,
2010
Rhode Island School of Design
Sheets, Dolores Connelly, Jessica Spring, Springtide Press, Special Collections, Fleet Library
Artists' Books
4 leaves (folded into house shape). "Sheets is a cycle of haiku by Dolores Connelly, each poem capturing a moment within a season. These haiku are excerpted with permission of the author from A Twisted Balance, One-Line Haiku and a Few Senryu, an unpublished collection of one hundred haiku dedicated to people forced from their homelands or houses"--Colophon. Title and statement of responsibility from colophon printed on the inside bottom of the cardboard box. "The text and ornaments are handset and letterpress printed on handmade abaca [paper] and housed in boxes made with Paper Studio's recycled cardboard box paper .. …
River D: The Shortest River In The World,
2010
Rhode Island School of Design
River D: The Shortest River In The World, Jill Timm, Mystical Places Press, Special Collections, Fleet Library
Artists' Books
[12] pages : color ill., map . "Limited edition of 32."-- Colophon, page [3] of cover.
Dirty Baby / By Ed Ruscha, Pictures ; Nels Cline, Music ; David Breskin, Ghazals.,
2010
Rhode Island School of Design
Dirty Baby / By Ed Ruscha, Pictures ; Nels Cline, Music ; David Breskin, Ghazals., Edward Ruscha, Special Collections, Fleet Library
Artists' Books
A33, B33 leaves : color illustrations; 4 compact discs. Side A and Side B are inverted and bound tête-bêche style. United States dime is imbedded on the cover of side A. Concept & design by David Breskin. The accompanying spoken word CDs feature the author reading his ghazals, the texts of which are printed in this book. Side A: For Dave Hickey. Side B: For Kareen Rashad Sultan Kahn, February 12, 1987-August 6, 2007, in memoriam. SUMMARY "Dirty Baby" is a collaboration between the paintings of Ed Ruscha, the music of Nels Cline, and the poems of David Breskin. The …
The Model Architect: The Panic Of '09,
2010
Rhode Island School of Design
The Model Architect: The Panic Of '09, Karen Hanmer, Special Collections, Fleet Library
Artists' Books
drum leaf binding variation in hard cover, with leather spine; cover; interior spreads and pages. Samuel Sloan's 1852 publication of model designs for houses is updated with this reflection on the current US housing crisis.
Local Conditions: One Hundred Views Of Mount Rainier (At Least),
2010
Rhode Island School of Design
Local Conditions: One Hundred Views Of Mount Rainier (At Least), Chandler O'Leary, Special Collections, Fleet Library
Artists' Books
1 container box, 120 card-sized prints, 1 guide (50 pages). Consists of 120 card-sized prints in a container box (20 x 26 x 19.5 cm) and a viewing box with slats for inserting the cards to create different views of Mount Rainier. The container box has three drawers, two of which contain the cards and the last containing the viewing box and a guide to the cards called "Locator key." The top of the container box is a viewing platform to hold the viewing box. The container box is inserted in a five-paneled wrapper printed on the interior with an …
