Sok Gallery

Mar 25 2010

My goal, 200 artist books, seems almost attainable. I'm to 60+ books and the end of April (my self-imposed deadline) looms far not near. Yesterday's additions derived from a new source! The Watergate Tapes... I'm folding the book that inspired my winning 3-D piece - "Fishing for Nixon". Aged paperbacks fold nicely, thank you very much. ... read more

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Mar 21 2010

Artist’s Books As Environmental Art — The Sok Gallery

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If everything old is new again, then my creating artist's books from discarded textbooks is Vintage NuvoFluxus in its essence. The artist formerly known as me completed 15 Artist Books last week, complete with a sok for each and a cotton-string tag explaining the idea behind the book. Portrait of same to be included in Sok Gallery of Outsider Texts* which is scheduled to go online early April 2010. *that's not a link ... read more

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Definition of Assemblagist:

One who provides the redefinition of displaced ephemera and found objects by allowing for the movement of spatial and universal concepts via placement, thus creating the intent of objects previously limited only by the influence of space and time.
[ ə sémblijist ]
Assemblage Art re-purposes man’s ephemeral detritus and gives it new life. It’s found object art at its finest. The ultimate recycling tool, assemblage multi-media art incorporates the past, the used and the discarded with the treasures of the day. It’s also a celebration of collage concepts combined with 3-dimensional elements.
I am many things to some people. Artist, writer, poet, mother, wife, grandmother…
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:: the development of the Absolute is a moral imperative.
:: the definition of a substance evolves around a pluralistic tendency which is grounded firmly in the realism of the period. Buy now, pay later — FluXus
“objects, or fragments not intended as art materials“
:: e-assemblagist definition: One who creates assemblage art from re-purposed objects which are acquired over a lengthy period of time thus allowing for the natural decomposition of the object. Rust.
:: e-assemblages camouflage the original intent of the object by utilizing artistic processes. See above.
Fluxs.us — the umbrella of art, the canvas of distribution.
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