Box 2
Contains 18 Results:
Scrap Book, 2008
Misaki Kawai is a Japanese sculptor, painter, designer, and installation artist who is known for her colorful and whimsical art works.
How to Ride the Bus, 2007
Published by Four Corner Books in London, this slim volume is nevertheless a paean to the MTA and consists of photographs of bus drivers and a short essay about the pleasures of riding the bus in New York City.
White Cat Vision, 2008
This artist's book is created by Panayiotis Terzis, an artist, printer, and publisher based in New York City.
This Site of Memory: Audrey Munson, 2006
Andrea Geyer is an artist who lives and works in New York City. In this work, Geyer shows a map of New York City and the various female statues dotting the city that were created with the model, Audrey Munson.
A Field Guide to Weeds, 2007
"This book masquerades as a 19th-century pocket guide, but a guide in which the weeds themselves have taken over. It uses the physical form of the book as a metaphor for a crack in the city sidewalk: the dandelion, pigweed, and poison ivy—-the very plants we step over, ignore, dig up, or scrupulously avoid—-creep out of the gutter, up pages, and overrun the book."--from idealcities.com
Paszport, 2008
"Paszport is a book about immigration, identity, displacement, and nostalgia. I digitally collaged several old documents-- passport, visas, identity cards, with some meaningful ephemera such as a butterfly stamp from a letter from my family."--from the artist
Rainbow in Your Hand, 2007
When held against a dark background, this tiny flipbook creates a rainbow in your hand when the pages are flipped.
The Feast, 2008
"Entitled The Feast, Um's four-volume set tells the story of a group of playful monks obsessed with noodles. In each book, the monks set off on a quest to find or create the aromatic dish, which they eventually eat and offer to Buddha. Screenprinted with silver and red inks, Um's beautifully rendered drawings become more elaborate as the book unfolds, culminating in a poster-size composition aswarm with activity centering on the object of the monks' passion."--from printedmatter.org