Reader's Art 12: Lisa McGarry

Reader's Art 12: Longing for Home  Lisa McGarry, an American living in Italy, sent Four Rooms of One's Own, an original text by the artist exploring the Hindu proverb that says we are each like a house with four rooms: emotional, physical, intellectual and spiritual. Four Rooms of One’s Own takes the form of a varied-fold accordion book, with the individual rooms each assuming a different color and unfolding in a unique way that reveals its degree of publicness/intimacy. 


Reader's Art 12: Longing for Home
March 12- April 26, 2012

Reader's Art 12:China Marks

Reader's Art 12: Longing for Home  China Marks

I draw with an industrial sewing machine, using thread and fabric to make drawings and one-of-a-kind books. I construct complex narratives from appropriated imagery and text. Process is the transformative agent, synthesizing and subverting the forms and stories contained in the original sources.

Reader's Art 12: Longing for Home
March 16- April 26, 2012

Reader's Art 12: Meredith Laura Lynn

Reader's Art 12: Longing for Home    Meredith Lynn 's work is based on drawing.  One of her History Books is in Reader's Art. These books are mostly handmade leather bound portfolios that open into drawings of historical events. The structure forces the viewer to touch the drawings and interact with them in an intimate way.


Reader's Art 12: Longing for Home 
March 16- April 26, 2012

Reader's Art 12: Mary Ellen Long

Reader's Art 12: Longing for Home

Mary Ellen Long was born in Los Angeles, California and lived in the North San Diego County for 22 years.  A multi-media artist  who now lives in Durango, Colorado, her work includes mixed media drawing and assemblage, collage,  indoor and outdoor environmental installations, and artists’ books. 

"I live in a mountain setting and work directly in nature on surrounding lands, intervening in subtle ways with what is found and observed;  using handmade paper to mark, wrap, and expand natural form and elements;  burying paper under winter snows to document process and transition;  and arranging indigenous elements in symbolic forms. "

 Her environmental art projects can be seen at weadartists.org and greenmuseum.org

The artist has exhibted widely for over thirty years and her collage and artists’ books are in numerous public and private collections internationally.

   

Her blog is a good way to find out her current projects.

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She had a solo show at Susan Hensel Gallery in 2007

Reader's Art 12: Longing for Home
March 16- April 26, 2012

Reader's Art 12: Sun Young Kang

Reader's Art 12:Longing for Home   Sun Young Kang

Most people experience the situation of being a “fish out of water.” As a foreigner far from my country, the meaning of this phrase has become painfully evident to me. In my experience, homesickness has not merely been a feeling of melancholy but something more like the suffering a real fish out of water might experience. I have struggled with my identity as an outsider, lost the ability to express myself because of language barriers and struggled in a different culture. The fish in this book represents me: I have not been able to escape the feeling of being an outsider badly missing my home. However, the true focus of this book is that if we have patience and are willing to make an effort, there is always hope in even the most desperate of situations. For fish, water is their home and gives them life. Although the fish out of water could not survive, at the end of this book it creates its own water. We can never permanently leave or lose our home because our true home is what we create throughout our life no matter where we are.

Reader's Art 12:Longing for Home
March 16- April 26, 2012

Reader's Art 12: Cathy G. Johnson

Reader's Art 12: Longing for Home  Cathy G. Johnson is an artist who creates drawings, watercolors, texts, comics and artists’ books that work with sentimental thought, humor and sincerity. She draws inspiration from personal journals as well as philosophy and critical theory. She explores themes of legitimacy, youth, fear, and the calm, chaotic desire for everything to just be okay. Reader's Art 12: Longing for Home  March 16- April 26, 2012

Reader's Art 12: S. Arden Hill

Reader's Art 12: Longing for Home  Canadian artist S. Arden Hill has sent a mysterious book

Cover: modge podge, gel medium, aerosol, dry transfer letters, and thread
Pages: mystery.

This book was inspired by a conversation with Joe Kalturnyk about Peter Eisenman’s theoretical house in which you could not enter. Like Foucault notion of what you can not see being more exciting/interesting than what you can see, Eisenman space is expected behind the walls of the house, hinted at by a small visible space. The Skin I Live in, being Japanese stab bound and transparent suggests something is locked with the cover but what is “the pages” is left a mystery.

Reader's Art 12: Longing for Home
March 16-April 26, 2012