Ruth Greene
Installation view. 2013
Tom Knechtel
Library. 2009
Ink on paper, with artist-made book attached, framed
23 5/8 x 36 ½”
(TK13 01)
Installation view. 2013
Installation view. 2013
Nancy Jackson
Magnificat Portfolio. 2011
Fabric, lace, beads, embroidery thread, aluminum, oil, on board
15 2/4 x 13 x 2”
(NJ13 38)
Jean Lowe
Enamel on papier mache books, on shelves of painted paper over wood
The Abnormal Psychology of Captive Primates. 2013
14 ½ x 9 ¾ x 4 ¼”
(JL13 06)
Filing For Chapter 7.5 Moral Bankruptcy. 2013
14 ½ x 11 ½ x 4”
(JL13 07)
Dissonance Management For the Pet-Loving Carnivore. 2013
10 ½ x 11 x 3 ¼”
(JL13 08)
Cigar Envy, Deconstructing Phallocentrism. 2013
12 ½ x 10 x 3 ¾”
(JL13 09)
Tough Love and Your Elderly Parents. 2013
9 x 7 ¼ x 2 ¾”
(JL13 10)
Jean Lowe
Enamel on papier mache books, on shelves of painted paper over wood
Who’s Who in the World. 2013
10 ½ x 9 x 3 ¼”
(JL13 11a)
Who’s Who in the Universe. 2013
9 ¼ x 8 ½ x 3 ¼”
(JL13 11b)
Who’s Who in the Multiverse. 2013
6 3/4 x 6 x 1 ¼”
(JL13 11c)
The Triumph of Democracy. 2013
8 3/4 x 7 x 1 ¼”
(JL13 12)
The Honey Blond Bomber. 2013
8 ½ x 6 ¾ x 1 ½”
(JL13 13)
Jean Lowe
Enamel on papier mache books, on shelves of painted paper over wood
Journal of Personal and Environmental Health, Special Edition,
Body as Barometer of Global Environmental Health. 2013
8 x 5 ¾ x 1 ½”
(JL13 14)
A Child’s Guide To Understanding Climate Change. 2013
11 x 10 x 2 ½”
(JL13 15)
Condé Nast Traveler Top 10 Trips. 2013
11 x 10 x x 2 ½”
(JL13 16)
The Eco-Tourist’s Guide To Las Vegas. 2013
14 ¼ x 8 ¼ x 1 ¾”
(JL13 17)
Jean Lowe
Enamel on papier mache books, on shelves of painted paper over wood
If God Loves Me, Why Am I Living in My Van? 2013
10 x 9 ½ x 3 3/8”
(JL13 18)
If God Loves Me, Why Do I Need a Vibrator? 2013
10 1/8 x 9 ¼ x 3 5/8”
(JL13 19)
Myth Busters, Jesus: A Carpenter? 2013
6 7/8 x 10 x 2 ¾”
(JL13 20)
Trial and Error. 2013
12 ¼ x 10 1/8 x 3 7/8”
(JL13 21)
Getting Your Spouse To Change. 2013
12 ½ x 11 ¼ x 3 ¾”
(JL13 22)
Rosanna Albertini
Life Piercing Art – A Book of Portraits and Self-Portraits. 2013
Hand-made book: archival Fabiano paper, string, signed and numbered edition of 100
Rosanna Albertini
the paper remembers. 2013
Archival and found cardboard, Fabriano paper, wool, dry flower, hand-made
12 1/2 x 7 ½ x 7 ¾”
Cindy Tower
Little Opened Red. 1988
Encaustic on chain-sawed eucalyptus wood
8 ½ x 7 x 6 ¼”
Cindy Tower
Open Book. 1988
Encaustic on chain-sawed eucalyptus wood
17 x 15 x 9”
Cindy Tower
Stack. 1988
Encaustic on chain-sawed eucalyptus wood
12 x 35 x 8 ½”
Cindy Tower
Blue Opened Flat. 1988
Encaustic on chain-sawed eucalyptus wood
16 x 18 ¾ x 6”
Installation view. 2013
Ruth Greene
Each, paint on plywood, sizes vary from 6 x 4” to 10 x 8 5/8”, thicknesses of ¼” to ¾”
Skipped Not Flew, Volume One of the Cremora Trilogy. n.d.
A Break in the Aspic, Volume Two of the Cremora Trilogy. n.d.
Whether Permitting, Volume Three of the Cremora Trilogy. n.d.
Napping, An Autobiography. n.d.
Marcel Duchamp: Father of Recontextualization or Just Another Pretty Face. n.d.
Ruth Greene
Each, paint on plywood, sizes vary from 6 x 4” to 10 x 8 5/8”, thicknesses of ¼” to ¾”
The Importance of Being Blond. 2010
Importance of Being Blond, Volume 2. 2010
Bakery Tales. n.d.
Russian Bakery Tales. n.d.
Ruth Greene
Each, paint on plywood, sizes vary from 6 x 4” to 10 x 8 5/8”, thicknesses of ¼” to ¾”
less is much much more. 2012
Joys of Subtraction. 2012
Best Festive Swales. 2010
Ruth Greene
Each, paint on plywood, sizes vary from 6 x 4” to 10 x 8 5/8”, thicknesses of ¼” to ¾”
Book of Sighs. 2013
Concordance, The Book of Sighs. 2013
Dictionary of Sound. 2012
Blue Slate and Steel. 2013
Ruth Greene
Each, paint on plywood, sizes vary from 6 x 4” to 10 x 8 5/8”, thicknesses of ¼” to ¾”
Blue Slate and Steel. 2013
The Right to Quiet. 2010
Granite. n.d.
radical detachment. 2011
Ruth Greene
Each, paint on plywood, sizes vary from 6 x 4” to 10 x 8 5/8”, thicknesses of ¼” to ¾”
Norse Code. 2011
Crow. n.d.
Cloud Cliff. 2010
raking leaves. 2010
Ruth Greene
Each, paint on plywood, sizes vary from 6 x 4” to 10 x 8 5/8”, thicknesses of ¼” to ¾”
Braiding the Wind in the Pines. 2011
the beauty of absence. 2011
the beauty of absence illustrated. 2011
the Hologrammatic Nature of Universal Consciousness. 2010
II A Shared intelligence. 2010
Ruth Greene
Each, paint on plywood, sizes vary from 6 x 4” to 10 x 8 5/8”, thicknesses of ¼” to ¾”
Alone among things. 2010
collected works. n.d.
Droll Adventures. 2013
The Savage Warrior – Of Love. 2009
War and Penis. n.d.
Ruth Greene
Each, paint on plywood, sizes vary from 6 x 4” to 10 x 8 5/8”, thicknesses of ¼” to ¾”
To know Know Know Him is to Love Love Love Him. 2011
And I Do. 2011
Vaginas of the Colorado Rockies. n.d.
Vaginas of riparian and chaparral regions. n.d.
great vaginas of Tuscany and the Amalfi Coast. n.d.
Ruth Greene
Each, paint on plywood, sizes vary from 6 x 4” to 10 x 8 5/8”, thicknesses of ¼” to ¾”
the fluid universe, a compendium of liquidity. 2009
Impossible Thunderstorms. 2012
All Possible Thunderstorms. 2012
Implausible Thunderstorms. 2012
Ruth Greene
Each, paint on plywood, sizes vary from 6 x 4” to 10 x 8 5/8”, thicknesses of ¼” to ¾”
Set Theory, String Theory, Quantum Theory. 2010
Set Theory, String Theory, Quantum Theory, Opium Theory. n.d.
Hologrammatical, Misbehaving Philosophers Series. 2010
Both Andy and not-Andy, vol II, Misbehaving Philosophers Series. 2010
Causality of Expectance, Misbehaving Philosophers Series, vol 3. 2011
Ruth Greene
Each, paint on plywood, sizes vary from 6 x 4” to 10 x 8 5/8”, thicknesses of ¼” to ¾”
Plant Intelligence, Misbehaving Philosophers Series, vol 4. 2013
A Slice of reality. n.d.
Aleph - Zero. 2012
Ordinalities. 2012
Orders of Magnitude. 2012
Ruth Greene
Each, paint on plywood, sizes vary from 6 x 4” to 10 x 8 5/8”, thicknesses of ¼” to ¾”
A History of History. 2013
Laws and the Systems they Structure. 2012
Isomorphics: Transdisciplinary Studies. 2012
All That Is Known. 2013
Index to All That Is Known. 2013
It can be said of visual art and books that the two fields share a common aspiration. Both capture our ambitions, our struggles, our joys, triumphs and failures. Both attempt to preserve, document and house the very parts of the human essence that are worth preserving and provide insight, wisdom, caution and inspiration. The two realms of visual art and books will often cross paths and cooperate in their endeavor, sometimes so harmoniously that the distinctions between them become blurred. This summer, at Rosamund Felsen Gallery will be one of those times.
In the gallery’s exhibition, The Book Shop: Books as Artworks, Artworks as Books, art historian/journalist Rosanna Albertini and artists Ruth Greene, Tom Knechtel and Cindy Tower join gallery artists Nancy Jackson, Jean Lowe, Grant Mudford and C.K. Wilde in presenting books as artworks and artworks as books, all situated where the two fields commingle & intertwine. Artist Ruth Greene uses humor and intellect in a remarkably sophisticated manner, Tom Knechtel’s drawing, Library, is another example of his incredible technique and subject matter, while Cindy Tower carves her book sculptures using a chainsaw.
In a monograph published by the architectural doyen, Crosby Doe, of the house and garden of artist Mineo Mizuno, Grant Mudford photographs and an essay by Rosanna Albertini create a beautiful testimony to this unique residence. Examples of Albertini’s elegant handmade books will also be exhibited, along with those of her bookmaking mentor C.K. Wilde. Jean Lowe’s colorful and beloved painted papier-mâché books continue to use wit, irony and charm to critique social norms such as gender roles and other power relations. Nancy Jackson once again delights with an exquisite hand-embroidered, bejeweled portfolio made specifically to transport one of her paintings.
