Donna Seager Gallery will present The Art of the Book: Fourth Annual Exhibition of Handmade and Altered Artist Books from April 1 to May 31, 2009. There will be a reception for the artists on Friday, April 10 from 6 to 8pm. Donna Seager has distinguished herself, not just in Marin, but in the entire country as being in the forefront in representing handmade artist books. This year, with her expansion into the West Wing of the gallery, the exhibition will be on display for two months.
Artists books have long been appreciated and valued by museums and libraries with special collections, but now there is a growing interest among fine art collectors. In an effort to approach the subject from as many angles as possible, the Seager Gallery has amassed everything from fine letterpress editions with exquisite printmaking such as Charles Eckart’s Midnight Ride and Matt Phillips’ All That Jazz to new altered books by the ingenious Lisa Kokin. Julie Chen’s highly topical Panorama is a grand opus about our responsibility to the planet that opens to a full 60 inches across and Charles Hobson’s essay on sailing by Roger Angell is interactively illustrated with and actual sail that is “jibed” to expose the text. There are sculptural offerings by Tor Archer, Carl Dern and Laura Raboff and this year viewers can see the incredible calligraphy of Thomas Ingmire. Renowned artists William T. Wiley, Manuel Neri and Joseph Goldyne all have books in this exhibition and there are new works from Macy Chadwick, Alisa Golden, Susannah Hays, Howard Munson and Marie Dern, all favorites in the bay area book world. Donna Seager Gallery is located at
http://www.donnaseagergallery.com/current_exhibition/Art_of_the_Book_09.html
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