Codex IX International Book Fair & Symposium
Ath’wart Press will be at CODEX book fair at TABLE #155. Come visit and see my latest artist books as well as collaborative works with poet/artist judi goldberg under the imprimatur of Off Press.
Come for crumples & tea with conversations!
10 10th Street Oakland, CA 94607
For more information about Codex: www.codexfoundation.org
*masks required, safe distancing encouraged
EXHIBITION SCHEDULE
The shop will be open on Sundays during the duration of the exhibit at set times below:
Oct 24th 11 - 1, Oct 31st 2 - 5, Nov 7th 11 - 3, Nov 14th 11 - 3, Nov 21st 11 - 3, Nov 28th 1 - 5
This installation is part of a larger movement of artists, “Art On The Edge Of The Abyss” a multimedia, multi-venue, cross-border art intervention that will investigate extractive industry in all of its forms (from mining and drilling to the reckless exploitation of water, soil, trees, marine life, and other natural resources) instigated by Peter Koch (Codex) and Edwin Dobb. The project will expose and interrogate extraction’s negative social and environmental consequences, from the damage done to people, especially indigenous and disenfranchised communities, to ravaged landscapes and poisoned water to climate change and its many troubling implications.
Featured here will be the installation & performance*
.NO TITLE
by judi goldberg AND Brooke Holve
A collaboration and conversation
between two artists
with different approaches and aesthetic
working with what is.
* To be held on Sunday, November 7 at 1:30pm
Installation view of Materiality Re_Mined; Deep Within the Screen of a Cell Phone
features an installation by two artists
Opening Reception: July 10th with a conversation between the artists at 3:00pm followed by a reception from 4 - 6pm.
At the Seager Gray Gallery in MillValley and on view till the end of July.
Gallery Address and info.
Little online presence recently as I have been involved with three others on a project at North Bay Letterpress Arts which we have called Prototype. Prototype #1 is a new _____________________. We are leaving it blank because it is still unclear to us what it is and what will come. So
Here beginneth:
Some Kind of Information. About the nature of Titles. Inspired by a poet who introduced a poem with two titles, then another with three and another without. Prototype #1 reflects our conversations and explorations about titles—-what they are, and what they are not. Of course we started by first consulting the dictionary for its definition:
NOUNThe name of a book, composition, or other artistic work
A name that describes someone’s position or job
The position of being the champion of a major sports competition
A right or claim to the ownership of property or to a rank or throne
(in church use) a fixed sphere of work and source of income as a condition or ordination
VERB1. give a name to (a book, composition, or other work)
ORIGINOld Englishtitul, reinforced by Old Frenchtitle, both from Latintitulus’ inscription, title’. The word originally denoted a placard or inscription placed on an object, giving information about it, hence a descriptive heading in a book or other composition.
Four folds and 24 folds ago. Now prepared to assemble.
Four folds and 24 folds to go to create just the structure (the spine and cover) for prototype. Image above are the printed parts of the spine for 100 prototypes.
Still under construction due to be launched at *NBLA’s Second Annual Fundraiser on Sunday, October 6th.
We have printed and currently are binding an edition of 100. Pricing still under discussion as we are trying to decide how to price it— by its folds, its page number, print runs, and…..
All proceeds will benefit North Bay Letterpress Arts. More to come upon its completion.
*One more note:
Please join us at Hopmonk Tavern for our Second Annual Fundraiser on October 6th! A celebration of printmaking, book arts, education and community. Tickets are available by contacting NBLA
Sunday, October 6, 2019
Lunch: 2:00 PM - 5:00 PM at HopMonk
Reception: 5:00 PM - 7:00 PM at Iota Printshop
I continue to work at this press on Thursdays, making artist books and broadsides under the
imprint of ath’wart press. Each year I reflect on how fortunate I am to have discovered this
place and the printers who work here. Come by on Sunday and help us celebrate all that is offered!
Holiday Open House
Free! Donations encouraged.
North Bay Letterpress Arts
925d Gravenstein Hwy SO
Sebastopol, CA 95472
Join us at the print shop for our annual open house! Festivities include: handmade
books and cards, printed artwork, food & drink, delightful conversations, shop tours,
and printing demos. See you there!
Brooke reports back from her recent travels to Iceland and the workshop she taught, BOOK ICELAND. Presentation at North Bay Letter Press Arts (NBLA), on Sunday, August 5th from 2pm to 3:30pm NBLA is located in Sebastopol at 925d Gravenstein Hwy South. www.northbayletterpressarts.org
I will be presenting this talk at the Iota Printshop
on Saturday, Sept 24th from 3pm to 5pm.
Details below:
http://northbayletterpressarts.org/event/brooke-holve-talk/
LET IT BE (here)
AND/BUT
LET IT BE (there)
Credits:
Talk Back letterpress broadside by Judi Goldberg & Eric Johnson
Once We Knew letterpress broadside by Judi Goldberg
outwith construction by Brooke Holve (from Cuts Make You. exhibition at the Morris Graves Art Museum)
Early this year, I completed a collection of five artists books, entitled "Cuts Make You" in response to my solo exhibition, Cuttings, at Risk Press Gallery (Sebastopol) in October of 2013. For the exhibition, I installed an empty scroll book, inviting those who attended to mark it with blue masking tape and blue ink pens (refer to image above). Upon the closing of the exhibit, the unfurling revealed a motley but contained collection of writing, scribbles, lines, tape and words. These marks became the prima materia for Cuts Make You.
Upon the closing of the exhibit, I cut up, printed upon and cut into the scroll, applying the similar methods that attendees used during the exhibit. Applying tape randomly to the surfaces, I printed over it with a die cut of the floor plan of the gallery to reference the place of the exhibit. Over and on the masked tyvek, I printed to cut out new spaces. Cutting and printing generated pages and ideas. The result is a series of books that hold and reference the archival and ephemeral of the exhibit.
Stonington Public Library.
As a way to process and document my experience at Haystack last summer, I made 3 artist books which I hoped might capture a bit of my time there, the surrounding place as well as experiences in the studio. The books are a collection of 'sorts'. They are made from materials that I gathered: book pages from the Deer Isle dump, others from my CA. studio; old Maine maps purchased from Karna's shop in Belfast, ME; stone images, laser cut and printed onto wood veneer and book pages; milk paint, encaustic wax and coffee sticks from the Haystack dining hall.
Upon reviewing the colophon that I had written, I realized that I had repeated the word, "overlooking" several times. The word suggested to me that I rethink what I was making. My direction shifted and the word, "overlook" became a focus.
These books are a beginning of an exploration of form with the word, "overlook" as a focus.