Lucid Arts Foundation Alumni Artist-in-Residence On-Line Exhibit

December 5, 2020

I am pleased to announce my participation in the Lucid Arts Foundation Alumni Artist-in-Residency exhibition (Group 3) currently on line HERE.

December 1, 2020 - January 3, 2021

Five years since my residency there. I went back to the blog archives, dated November 8, 2015 to recall the experience. Fascinating to relook and see the threads in my current work from that time.

Words I wrote: I will source possibilities for methods and materials from the place—its history, language, landscapes and natural processes.

i will work towards shaping moments and finding ways and forms that express the movements “between”—looking at rocks and stones that reflect frozen moments for inspiration in a changing landscape.

Recallng some explorations there:

Deconstructing 1970s vintage development maps of Pt. Reyes Peninsula. I wondered how this exercise might influence my constructions.

Light Studies, following and tracing the changing light, discovering forms using pen and masking tape. A way to think about transient moments.

Crumpling paper—an impulse out of the blue. A way to think about natural processes and moments when this impulse might occur.

Five years later:

Still breaking apart conventional forms and discovering alternative shapes for constructions.

Crumpling in different ways and discovering how to use these processes in my constructions and artist books.

Image from the film, The Bookmakers. Yes, sitting in the audience at one of the presentations at Codex. — Image from the film, *The* *Bookmakers*. Yes, sitting in the audience at one of the presentations at Codex.

Listening

December 5, 2020

So if we have good communication,

I tried and now I see it’s been many months since my last post. A challenging year filled with uncertainty, living through a pandemic, fire season & evacuees, racial injustices and an election many will not forget.

I found solace entering my studio each day. Slowing down with fewer distractions revealed unexpected silver linings such as unstructured time to listen beyond the projects in front of me. To echoes from previous experiences for example, remembering a residency six years ago at Haystack in Maine, where I discovered two useful tools, a scroll saw and a laser cutter, that would enable me to further develop cuttings. I purchased a scroll saw upon my return knowing how I wanted to use it. The laser cutter was a bigger investment and one I didn’t make since I wasn’t as sure about its usefulness. I did investigate places where I might rent one, if the need became apparent.

What I didn’t expect was one coming to me during this auspicious time, from my son whose employer had two sitting around not being used. And my need had become apparent as I was working with plexiglass on a collaborative project with Catherine Richardson, Materiality Re_Mined; The Cell Phone Looking at Itself, scheduled to be exhibited at the Seager Gray Gallery in July of 2021.

Look for more on this exhibition in posts to follow in 2021. And yes, the laser cutter was invaluable.

One of our collaborative pieces to be titled (by Brooke Holve & Catherine Richardson) using a laser cutter. — *One of our collaborative pieces to be titled (by Brooke Holve & Catherine Richardson)* using a laser cutter.

(retro) (intro) spection exhibition at SFCB

January 25, 2020

My work, cuts make you. will be on view in this exhibition.

And there’s More:

20192020

December 14, 2019

“No one went over to Bolus but in hope of getting something there.” A proverb from Iveragh

H ap py Hol id ay s!

Upcoming News for 2020:

More about my recent artist residency at Cill Rialaig in Ireland, now that I am connected to WiFi.
Updates on my collaboration with Catherine Richardson and Materiality Re_mined.
Mark your calendar for the retro/intro(spection) exhibition at the San Francisco Center for the Book (SFCB), February 7 - April 19, 2020. Opening reception is slated for February 7, 2020. My work, cuts make you. will be a part of this exhibition.

ath'wart press at Codex 2019

February 27, 2019

A rhythm of weather effects—light blinding rays offset by gray belting hail and rain. A spectacular and felt side show as my table was located on the aisle closest to the industrial sized windows of the Craneway Center in Richmond at the Codex International Book Fair.

I enjoyed every minute of this event. Where else can one experience a gathering of book artists from all over the world? Over 200 exhibitors from more than twenty-five countries shared their quality books along with engaging conversations on their creative processes.

The international focus this year was Codex Nordica and artists from Iceland, Norway, Sweden, Denmark and Finland were represented. Special to me as I have been traveling to Iceland for artist residencies since 2012. Last summer I taught Book Iceland at the Gullkistan Center for Creativity and met two of the artists as they presented the work of Airkir (www.aikir.wordpress.com), to the class. Eight from the group came to Codex. I invited them up to the NBLA shop in Sebastopol after Codex. They accepted. So, two days after the closing, we hosted what mushroomed into a delegation of ten artists: six from Iceland, three from Norway and one from Sweden. The whole afternoon was charmed. There was a lunch next door, then a showing of each other’s books, and finally sitting down with coffee and cake to talk about how we might collaborate or at least stay in touch. It was a wonderful ending to a week of non-stop conversation and contemplation on the medium of artist books.

The San Francisco Center for the Book is currently hosting the Nordic letterpress collaboration exhibition, Posted/Unposted. The exhibition opened before Codex and will run to April 29th.

I have been invited to present a talk during this exhibition on Book Iceland, a class I taught last summer at Gullkistan Center For Creativity in Laugarvatn to artists from the United States, England, Germany and Iceland. I will report back on my experiences there in the talk I have titled, Land & Texture: Exploring Iceland For Content in Artist Books. Inspired by the natural energies which shape Iceland’s landscape, the participating artists explored materials, tools, and processes, forming the content for their artist book projects.

The talk is scheduled for Tuesday, April 2, 6–8 pm at the San Francisco Center For The Book on 375 Rhode Island Street in
San Francisco, CA sfcb.org

Mark your calendars.

CODEX VII INTERNATIONAL BOOK FAIR

January 16, 2019

Come visit me: Table 201 under the imprint of ath’wart press

LOCATION: Craneway Pavilion 1414 Harbor Way So Richmond, CA 94804

HOURS: Sunday, Feb 3, 12:30 - 5:30 pm
Monday, Feb 4, 12:30 - 6:00 pm
Tuesday, Feb 5, 12:30 - 6:00 pm
Wed., Feb 6, 10:00 - 3:00 pm

PROGRAM: info at http://www.codexfoundation.org

BIBLIOPHORIA V →

June 3, 2018

OUTWITH

will be part of Sebastopol Center for the Arts exhibition

BIBLIOPHORIA V

June 22 through July 29, 2018

Opening Reception: June 22, 6 - 7:30pm

Sebastopol Center for the Arts
282 S. High Street, Sebastopol, CA 95472
Gallery Open Hours: Tuesday to Friday 10 - 4 pm Saturday & Sunday 1 - 4 pm

Outwith, 2016.  Four mixed-media constructions: book covers, board & cloth, birch panel.           24 x 24 x 3.25 inches — **Outwith,** 2016. Four mixed-media constructions: book covers, board & cloth, birch panel. 24 x 24 x 3.25 inches

NBLA holiday Open House

November 19, 2017

The Studio Printers of North Bay Letterpress Arts invite you

to our holiday open house on

Sunday, December 3rd from 1 - 5

925 d Gravenstein Hwy. So. Sebastopol, CA

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This is our 8th annual December Open House at NBLA. New this year: the riff-raffle with great prizes to be won and an exhibit of my letterpress work with the work of Lyn Dillin, Tami Lovett and Tiana Krahn. Come! Join us for the festivities!

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