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VABC Bookmakers create Carousel Books

Garrett Queen — Wed, 28 Jul 2010 11:47:30 +0000

The bookmaking workshop focused on the construction of a continuous-accordion carousel book.
Book artists use cutouts, decorative paper, and design elements to convert the basic structures, shown in the photograph, to create a series of three-dimensional “scenes” or “images.”
Book covers can be added so that the book closes into a standard case binding. Alternately, soft covers can be added and the whole book fitted into a slip case.

“From the Woods to the Ocean” An Exhibit by VABC Artist Lana Lambert

Garrett Queen — Wed, 16 Jun 2010 23:59:24 +0000

“From the Woods to the Ocean”

A collection of prints, paintings, and artist books by Lana Lambert

Main Gallery at the McGuffey Art Center

201 Second Street NW Charlottesville, VA

June 29^th through August 15^th 2010

Opening reception with refreshments to be held July 2^nd 2010

from 5:30pm to 7:30pm

Lana Lambert is an artist from Nelson County who works mainly in woodblock prints and book arts but also enjoys painting. She received a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree with a concentration in printmaking from the Corcoran College of Art and Design in Washington, D.C. She has since moved back to her native environment and continues to be inspired by its natural beauty.

Lana has been inspired by the lyrical beauty of the twisting and bending trees of the Appalachian forest and has gone on to translate that beauty into numerous block prints and artist books. She has trained herself in the dying art of Japanese Woodblock Printing so she could capture the misty cloud cover of a spring storm as it lifts away from a rain soaked pine tree in the piece “Diligence is the Source of Empowerment”. Another piece entitled “Arbouricon I” is an artist book bound in oiled wood with the pages filled not with words but riddled with tree limbs and twigs as you leaf through a walk in the forest as your story.

Her most recent work has featured around the ocean and its collection of cephalopods and arthropods. “Drained Limulus” features a massive 36” x 23” woodblock print of a horseshoe crab. A mixed media painting titled “Diatomaceous Stained Glass” features numerous diatoms against a watercolor background cut from a single sheet of black paper. A ghostly squid glimmers on a background of murky blue in the piece “Bioluminescent Squid”. There are also a series of prints that combine woodblock prints of ancient trilobites with letterpress work surrounding them. The piece “Agnostus” is part of this collection. There are even some of the original woodblocks on display so that viewers can see the carving techniques that go into making a woodblock print.

Garrett Queen Examines the ABYSS

On The Drying Rack — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 15:48:04 +0000

As part of the VABC Infinite Stakes Contemporary Cartomancy Collaborative Project…

MICHAEL SWANBURG's Infinite Stakes Card

On The Drying Rack — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 15:02:15 +0000

A first proof of MICHAEL SWANBURG’s “birth” print for the Infinite Stakes cartomancy collaboration.

Back Story Poster

On The Drying Rack — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 15:40:47 +0000

Catherine Moore

TypeAThon Poster

On The Drying Rack — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 15:34:45 +0000

Catherine Moore Printer

Catherine Moore

The Moors, Provincetown

On The Drying Rack — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 16:47:07 +0000

“The Moors, Provincetown” Joan Schatzman

Drypoint etching, 5.5 x 5.25″

Untitled

On The Drying Rack — Thu, 21 May 2009 20:50:45 +0000

Beautiful two-color linocut by Frank Riccio.

Blocknight sketch

Frank Riccio — Wed, 29 Apr 2009 20:19:28 +0000

A scribble made during Blocknight

Figures

Stacey Evans — Wed, 29 Apr 2009 19:39:30 +0000

Pronto plate on pigment print