The City of Philadelphia Office of Arts, Culture and the Creative Economy presents Blue, an exhibition organized by the Delaware Valley Chapter of the Guild of Book Workers
May 1, 2023 – July 15, 2023
2nd Floor, City Hall NE Corner, 8am to 5pm Mon-Fri. (not holidays)
Visitors must sign in at the Visitors Entrance, NE Corner. Tell the guards you are going to see the art exhibit on the second floor.
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Blue is many things; a color with lots of variety, a mood, a style of music, a political party. Everyone, even the nonsighted, possesses a special receptor that senses blue light. Blue light sets our circadian rhythm, our waking hours regulated by blue.
Lucette
Pigment Prints
Laika
Mackerel Run
Acrylic on Rives BFK
An Autobiography Book One
Mixed media book work in drop spine box
An Autobiography Book One (version 2)
primed cotton canvas, handmade paper, acrylic paint/mediums, ultramarine blue pigment,
oil paint/mediums, bristol board, heat activated film, mica, thread, floral specimens,
butterfly specimens, bird feathers, lapis lazuli, book board, book-cloth.
BLUE MOON
caterpillar stitch
BLUE MOOD
Tunnel book
White Night/ North Sea
Dyed Japanese paper, ink and color pencil.
the aquamarine is ageless
Hand-embroidery with hand-typed original text.
Progression
Library buckram and collage
A Whole Nother Kettle of Fish
Fine binding
Prussian Blue Minis
Miniature Books with paste paper covers, hand-tooled and painted with watercolor.
Aquatic Binding Models
Even More Simplified Binding models with salmon parchment spine, dyed salmon leather, Roma paper, shell gold. Parchment and sewing supports made by the binder.
Flats, Urban Houses and Cottage Homes; a companion volume to “The British Home of To-day” (2019)
Frank T Verity, Edwin Thomas Hall, Gerald C Horsley, and Walter Shaw Sparrow.
London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1906
Pigment inkjet printing on Griffen Mill Akbar, steel brads, acrylic. Elevations and pans on boards and endpapers from the text
Tangled Up in Blue
Four-needle Coptic binding of assorted blue papers.
Therapy Tale Blue, 1982
Color xerox and paper
Blue Magic Boxes
Decorative papers, book board
Where is the Blue Morpho going?
Decorative Japanese Paper, Washi Paper, Watercolor, Silk Thread, & Wooden dowels
A Blue Book
Cyanotypes mounted on Fabriano Cocktail paper. Covers are marbled paper made by the artist.
Blue Reflections
Paste papers
Blue Jays
Traditional Japanese album with metallic flecked and grass with petals mulberry paper on 90lb Arches watercolor paper with silk tie. Original watercolors of birds are painted over hand calligraphed Poem 51 by Emily Dickinson
Blue Reflections
Leather bookbinding, accordion book with watercolor paintings
Code Blue
Stitching on textured paper with surgical silk thread, silk thread, cotton thread.
Bookcloth from my husband’s shirts, binders board, letterpress.
Custom-made rare book box for two volumes
Leather, bookcloth, marbled paper, binders’ board, non-aqueous deacidification spray.
Paper Sea, Paper Sky, Peas in a Pond
Mixed Media & Digital Print
Botanical Wonders
Cave paper, blue book cloth, Awagami shiramine paper, cyanotypes on Hahnemühle Platinum Rag paper,
cyanotypes toned with botanicals on Arches watercolor paper.
Whispering Stones
Letterpress, monoprint, laser cutting, watercolor.
Handmade paper, printmaking paper, kozo, mica, indigo cave paper with mica inclusions, and ultra suede.
Lowlands Away
An oratorio with pastel drawings by Adrian Henri.
The Old School Press, Hinton Charterhouse, Bath, 2001.
Simplified binding. Cover illustration pigment printed on cotton vellum. Goat leather on spine, endbands and hinges.
Endpapers made with acrylics by the artist.
Swim
Bound with blue crinkle paper and blue vinyl
Blue Movie
Altered book
Plants of Brewerytown Garden
Cyanotypes, Sashiko embroidered Indigo-dyed cloth
Five Shades of Blue
Miniature books
blue pill
Paper, thread, dyed cloth, vegan pill capsules, and glass bottle with cork.
Blue Forest
Pinhole photographs printed with the cyanotype process, bound as a codex.
The Delaware Valley Chapter of the Guild of Book Workers 