CODEX VIII INTERNATIONAL BOOK FAIR

I will be showing my artist books once again
at the CODEX INTERNATIONAL BOOK FAIR
under the imprimatur of
ath’wart press*.

Come Visit Me: TABLE 26

DATES: April 10 - 13, 2022

LOCATION: Craneway Pavilion 1414 Harbour Way So. Richmond, CA 94804

HOURS: Sunday, April 10 12:30 pm - 5:30 pm
Monday, April 11 12:30 pm - 6:00 pm
Tuesday, April 12 12:30 pm - 6:00 pm
Wed, April 13 10:00 am - 3:00 pm

PROGRAM: Information at https://www.codexfoundation.org

ADMISSION TICKETS: Multi Day $35.00; Single Day $15.00; Student (w/ID) $10.00

• More about ATH’WART in the blog post following.

Three years ago at CODEX VII, 2019.

The artist books to be featured at the fair were part of two installations on the topic of extraction exhibited last year at the Seager Gray Gallery in Mill Valley and North Bay Letterpress Arts in Sebastopol.

Catalogs of the installations below:

Materiality Re_Mined; Deep Within the Screen of a Cell Phone →

This e-book on our installation, Materiality Re_Mined; Deep Within the Screen of a Cell Phone has now been published and can be accessed here on blurb.com. It contains images of the installation and written contributions by Barbara Morris and Jeremy Morgan.

Materiality Re_Mined

Materiality Re_Mined; Deep Within the Screen of a Cell Phone

features an installation by two artists

Brooke Holve & Catherine Richardson

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.

108 Throckmorton Avenue, Mill Valley, CA

415.384.8288 | Wednesday through Sunday, 12pm - 4:00pm or by appointment

MATERIALITY RE_MINED; Deep Within the Screen of a Cell Phone

Materiality Re_Mined; Deep Within the Screen of a Cell Phone

features an installation by two artists, Brooke Holve and Catherine Richardson.

The exhibit opens at the Seager Gray Gallery in MIll Valley on July 1 and will be on view till the end of July. The opening reception is on July 10th with a conversation by the artists at 3:00 followed by a reception from 4 - 6.

I have been collaborating with Catherine Richardson on this topic of extraction for over two years. The installation will look at the global impact of our much coveted cell phones on the environment. Digging deep into the components of a cell phone, the artists reveal connections between its “smartness,” the mining industries and humans’ relationship with the earth.

For more descriptive information on the installation, click “Press Release” below.

Press Release

A PREVIEW: Plexiglass & Mixed Media, Shelves of Objects that reflect the artists’ processes, Projections and Artist Book

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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). 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

.Below are pics of the catalog/exhibition guide, published by the codexfoundation.org compiled by Sam Pelts.

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Materiality Re_Mined pgs 110 - 113 in the catalog. A digital “sketch” of our mobile phone project that seeks to expose the trail of minerals and elements mined to build the devices we depend on.

Cill Rialaig Artist Residency - October 30 - November 26

Off to Ireland this week for an artist residency at Cill Rialaig on Kerry’s spectacular Iveragh Peninsula. This remote and rugged village of eight little stone cottages, was built out of the ruins of a 1790’s prefamine village atop a cliff face overlooking the Atlantic Ocean and Skellig Michael (a UNESCO World Heritage site). Seven of the cottages are living work spaces without TV, telephone and internet for the visiting artists. The eighth, Tigh an Comhra’ ( Gaelic for “house of conversation”) or Meeting House offers residents a place to gather and partake from a rich library. It was formerly the home of a famous inhabitant, seannachai (storyteller), Sean O’Connaill in the early part of the 20th c. I have been assigned cottage #3.

The closest village, Ballinskelligs, is three miles away. This is in a Gaeltacht, a rare Irish-speaking area, and is one of the least populated areas in Europe. With a population of less that 600, it offers few services: one general grocery store, a post office, two pubs and a few seasonal eateries, which most likely will not be open during my stay.

While there I will be working with Catherine Richardson on a collaborative project on extraction in addition to continuing my own investigations on processes of shaping. Not sure how often I will be blogging on this trip as all will be dependent on how connected I will be. Do look occasionally, however, on my instagram site holvebrooke.