Contains 30 removable color postcards. Size 4 x 12 inches.

John McQueen: The Language of Containment (Renwick Contemporary American Craft Series)

Arts & Photography

Halper, Vicki

ROSSBACH, Ed

History & Criticism

Univ of Washington Pr

Findings: The Jewelry of Ramona Solberg

Widely admired in the field of fine art jewelry, Ramona Solberg brings together cultural artifacts that are both exotic and familiar. With her meticulous sense of composition, Solberg turns buttons, calipers, beads, pebbles, and her trademark dominos into boldly-scaled works of wearable art. Thirty-two of her necklaces are illustrated in color in Findings, comprehensively gathered for the first time. Vicki Halper sets Solberg's work in the context of her life as an artist, teacher, and traveler, and explores the creative links between Solberg and her students and fellow jewelers. She chronicles Solberg's career from her student days, through her tenure as professor at the University of Washington, to her active and productive recent years, and explores the community of Pacific Northwest artists with whom she is associated: Laurie Hall, Ron Ho, Kiff Slemmons, and Nancy Worden.

History

Americas

Published in conjunction with an exhibit at the Bank of America Gallery, Seattle, Washington, and scheduled to travel during 2001 and 2002. Thirty-one color plates are supported by curator Halper's essay describing the life and creative development of Solberg, an octogenarian whose inimitable jewelry incorporates the vitality of found object assemblage with superb intelligence and humor, and impeccable design. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Bank of America (Seattle, Wash.) Gallery

Solberg, Ramona

Those interested in contemporary painting will find this volume of unexpected and mythic images of Western themes and landscapes well designed in format and intriguing in content. Hansen is from Utah and now teaches art at Washington State U. in Pullman. Freelance art historian Halper provides a resume of Hansen's career and critical reception. The catalog of paintings follows in excellent color reproductions. There is a selected bibliography but no index. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Gaylen Hansen

Hansen, Gaylen C.

Bryan Ohno Gallery

A companion to an exhibition of Lavadour's paintings at the Northwest Museum of Arts and Culture, Spokane, Washington, from December 2001 through March 2002. Halper, curator and specialist in modern art of the Pacific Northwest, contributes an essay. Distributed in the US by the University of Washington Press. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

James Lavadour: Landscapes

Lavadour, James

Northwest Museum of Arts & Culture

Individual Artists

Published in conjunction with the July-October 2002 retrospective exhibit of James's work at the Museum of Northwest Art, La Conner, Washington, this catalogue features 12 color plates of James's paintings and 48 color plates of the artist's sculptures, created between 1956 and 2002. Halper's accompanying text details James's stay at a conscientious objectors' camp in Oregon during 1944, his relocation to Washington State, relationships with fellow artists in the Pacific Northwest including Morris Graves, Jim and Nan McKinnell, and Paul Havas and the development of James's work over the past 45 years. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Clayton James

Museum of Northwest Art

James, Clayton

In introducing this catalog for an exhibit in the museum's new building, its director notes that a critic called Kottler "the first of the true postmoderns working in ceramics." The plate featured on the cover reflects this Northwest artist's gay theme. A chronology spans early surrealism to Kottler's death in 1989. Also included is text from Kottler's 1969 self-published catalog titled Howard Kottler, Decal Plates. Distributed by the U. of Washington Press. Annotation ©2004 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Look Alikes: The Decal Plates Of Howard Kottler

Tacoma Art Museum

A first-century Roman cinerary urn. A Coca-Cola bottle from 1910. A contemporary sculpture of bandaged bones. Contrasts: A Glass Primer presents a wide variety of remarkable glass objects in an accessible and lively format. These objects are grouped, as in a child's book of opposites, to illustrate highlights in glass history (factory/studio, for example), characteristics of the medium (fluid/rigid), and ways of describing art in general (abstract/figurative). Above all, Contrasts is an invitation to creative seeing. Contrasts: A Glass Primer is published in conjunction with an exhibition of the same name on display at the Museum of Glass, Tacoma, through November 2009.

Contrasts: A Glass Primer

University of Washington Press

Links documents the first presentation of a broad spectrum of contemporary Australian studio glass to an American audience. The book explores an international network of craft influences and exchanges that started in the mid-1970s, clarifies techniques of glass production from manufacture to finished product, and illustrates significant contemporary glasswork that is not blown. Links begins in 1974, when American Richard Marquis traveled to Australia at the request of its government to promote studio glass and establish hot shops in educational institutions. His relationship with Australian Nick Mount initiated a lineage of blown-glass artists that is represented in the book. A second lineage of artists working in kiln-formed glass was initiated in 1979 when Klaus Moje, soon to be head of the Canberra School of Art Glass Workshop at ANU, met the founder of Oregon's Bullseye Glass Company at the Pilchuck Glass School north of Seattle. At Moje's instigation, the Bullseye factory began to research and manufacture fusible, compatible glass-a complicated technical feat. Their product has fueled an explosion of kiln-worked glass internationally, most prominently in Australia. The book features the work of 25 Australian artists linked to each other and to the Northwest through workshops and classes, use of a common material, training and education, shared space, and/or production assistance. Exhibition curator Vicki Halper , Seattle, specializes in art of the Pacific Northwest and American craft. She is the co-editor of Choosing Craft: The Artist's Viewpoint and Morris Graves: Selected Letters. Margot Osborne and Grace Cochrane are esteemed Australian art historians and curators. Lani McGregor is co-owner of Bullseye Glass and director of Bullseye Gallery.

Links: Australian Glass and the Pacific Northwest

Osborne, Margot

Cochrane, Grace

McGregor, Lani

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John McQueen: The Language of Containment (Renwick Contemporary American Craft Series)

Findings: The Jewelry of Ramona Solberg

Findings: The Jewelry of Ramona Solberg

Gaylen Hansen

James Lavadour: Landscapes

Clayton James

Look Alikes: The Decal Plates Of Howard Kottler

Contrasts: A Glass Primer

Links: Australian Glass and the Pacific Northwest