Still Harmony: The Work of Jacqueline Rush Lee April 23, 2015 – Posted in: book arts, Books and Art, Content, sculpture

Jacqeuline Rush Lee has been creating bookworks for over 15 years. Her work has been and remains a staple in most anthologies that deal with contemporary bookworks. In 1998 Rush devised an experimental process where books and periodicals were fired in controlled kiln environments and transformed into what Rush calls “fossilized” books where “the books were no longer recognizable in their usual context, but transformed into poetic remnants of their former selves–ephemeral and ghost-like forms suggesting internal landscapes…

Shredded: The Bookworks of Jukhee Kwon March 10, 2015 – Posted in: Books and Art, Conceptual Art, sculpture

Libro Libero, 2013 “I destroy books…But actually my work is positive. A discarded book is a dead book. I give it new life.” – Jukhee Kwon For artist Jukhee Kwon, a South Korean working in London, the book is where it all begins. “It’s freedom and excitement for me, trying to express what has been hidden inside the book’s closed covers. The book has its own story, its own energy.” Kwon works only with discarded books,…

Happy Holidays! December 24, 2014 – Posted in: Books and Art, sculpture

Dear friends, Thank you for being a part of Book Patrol this past year. Your support is greatly appreciated. Wishing all of you and your loved ones a happy and healthy holiday season and a peaceful new year. Yours in books, Michael Pictured: Merry Mirror (2010) by Michael Johansson

Isabel Barbuzza’s Bookworks November 7, 2014 – Posted in: book arts, bookbinding, Books and Art, Content, Installation, sculpture

Color Reading Color Reading detail Isabel Barbuzza was born and raised in Argentina and is currently an associate professor at the School of Art and Art History in the University of Iowa. Her interest lies “in the relationships between space, place, objects and materials in contemporary society and how through perception, thought and language we facilitate engaging with the physical world.” Her work runs the gamut from artists books to sculpture to installation. Enjoy! Disasters…

Paddington Bear Invades London November 5, 2014 – Posted in: Books and Art, Content, sculpture

A run of first edition of Paddington In 1956 Michael Bond, a BBC cameraman, bought a small toy bear left alone on a shelf in a department store in London for his wife Brenda. He named it Paddington after the train station closest to his home. In 1958 Williams Collins published the first Paddington book, A Bear Called Paddington, illustrated by Peggy Fortnum. To date 150 titles have been published ranging from the original novels to board books…