Hello Thank You Come In: 50th Anniversary Members Exhibition continues through May 1 at the Center for Book Arts, 28 West 27th Street, FL3, New York, New York. I am thrilled to be joining this stellar group of book makers including Rosaire Appel, Biruta Auna, Roni Gross, Barbara Mauriello, and Buzz Spector, to name a few. Info

The interior pages of this book, “Stryker” are done with Sumi ink on fine newsprint. The covers are Sumi ink on double layers of Japanese rice paper, glued together and ironed.

I use a lot of newsprint in printmaking for rolling excess ink off the brayer. These waste sheets, with ink roll-offs in various colors, can be as interesting as the prints. One day I thought it would be fun to throw sumi ink onto them to create another layer of depth. Then I threw ink onto plain sheets, and made them into this book. The show-through of the sumi ink carries through from spread to spread, and on the cover. “Stryker” is part of the continuing series of paintings, prints and drawings titled “Elements.”

Thanks to @marco.palli for this video
Thanks to @lizcurtinartist for the FlatLay binding tutorial, and everything mixed media at Covello Center for Older Adults
Thanks to @kbmatter for her amazing print workshop at Covello Center for Older Adults
Thanks to @carterburdennetwork, and everyone above, for my three-month 2023 art residency at Covello Center for Older Adults

About the exhibition:
Center for Book Arts celebrates 50 years of uplifting and furthering the book arts & book art with Hello Thank You Come In: 50th Anniversary Members Exhibition, an exhibition of members’ works. The title is named for a favorite archival photograph of the door of the very first Center for Book Arts location, on which is a poster for the first Members Exhibition, celebrates the history of CBA Members Exhibitions and the talents of its current community of artist members on the occasion of Center for Book Arts’ 50th birthday. This ambitious exhibition features artists’ books or publications by current CBA members which make use of cloth, found objects, and archival materials in addition to traditional bookbinding materials. This juried show was organized by Camilo Otero and Gillian Lee.