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 Number seven in Hand Papermaking's series
of distinctive
portfolios of handmade papers...
The Art of Pulp Painting
This juried collection features
seventeen artists who have created distinctive handmade
paper works utilizing paper pulp as a painting medium.
Within the broad field of handmade
paper art, pulp painting is an emerging specialty attracting
many artists with backgrounds in painting, drawing,
printmaking, and other disciplines. To create a pulp
painting, specially prepared pulps are applied to a freshly
made sheet of handmade paper in a number of ways, sometimes
with the aid of stencils, sometimes freehand, resulting in a
finished sheet of paper that fully incorporates the image.
The synthesis of substrate, medium, and image is a unique
characteristic of the pulp painting medium, allowing artists
to work not merely on paper, but in paper.
The jury for this portfolio
selected entries that demonstrate the equal importance of
visual image and well-made paper. Working with a wide
variety of fibers and all manner of implements from common
stencils and shaped deckles to obscure dental tools, the
selected artists explore some familiar themes (abstracted
nature, vessel forms, spiritual issues) and also investigate
the strange and unfamiliar (Fibonacci numbers, microscopy,
carnivorous plants).
A custom-made clamshell box houses
the paintings, each in a protective folder imprinted with
the artist's name. A handbound booklet contains statements
from each artist and a commissioned essay by the esteemed
Jane Glaubinger, Curator of Prints at The Cleveland Museum
of Art. Ms. Glaubinger has organized and written catalogs
for numerous exhibitions on prints and works on paper,
including the influential "Paper Now: Bent, Molded, and
Manipulated" in 1986.
The artists featured in the
portfolio are Laurence Barker, Shannon Brock, Wendy Cain,
Kathryn Clark, Susan Gosin, Lois James, Bobbie Lippman,
Bridget O'Malley, Dawn Peterson, Ken Polinskie, Margaret
Prentice, Victňria Rabal, Beverly Sky, Peter Sowiski, Lynn Sures, Cynthia
Thompson, Beck Whitehead, and Paul Wong.
Entries submitted for
consideration were reviewed by two jurors with impressive
credentials and expertise. Margaret Prentice co-founded
Twinrocker Handmade Paper in 1971 and is currently Associate
Professor in the Art Department at the University of Oregon,
teaching printmaking and papermaking since 1986. Paul Wong
is Artistic Director (since 1982) of Dieu Donné Papermill
where he has collaborated with many prominent artists. Both
jurors are accomplished artists, exhibiting nationally and
internationally, and have graciously accepted Hand
Papermaking's invitation to participate in the portfolio.
The portfolio designer is Steve
Miller, and the editor is Mina Takahashi.
All proceeds from sales of The
Art of Pulp Painting portfolio benefit Hand Papermaking,
Inc., a non-profit organization dedicated to advancing
traditional and contemporary ideas in the art of hand
papermaking.
The edition is limited to 150.
Price: $495. Add $15 for insured priority mail
in the US. Add $35 for airmail delivery outside the US. Visa
and Mastercard are accepted.
Hand Papermaking accepts orders online,
and by phone, fax, or mail.
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