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| Jacqueline Rush Lee | |
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From Northern Ireland originally. Lives in Kailua, Hawaii. |
| About the Artist | |
I work decisively between the borders of craft and fine art to create sculptures informed by personal and art historical ideas. |
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Petrified Book |
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Absolute Depth
Petrified Book shedding text in Water |
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Shrunken Encyclopedia
Petrified Book |
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| Ex Libris 1997 - 2000
"Petrified Books"
In Ex Libris I developed a process to fire books in a kiln without clay slip so that they would be preserved in their pure, transformed state, unmasked by a clay surface additive.
Hundreds of used books were fired in experimental controlled kiln environments and transformed into fragile, though stable art forms that were reminiscent of scholar's rocks, coral or skeletal remains. Once fired the books were no longer recognizable in their usual context, but were transformed into poetic remnants of their former selves, suggesting a trajectory of time, transformation and memory. I t was through this series that I saw the poetics in using the book form as my primary medium and have continued to work with the book form with integrity and a fascination of exploration that has not yet tired me. |
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Core Slice
Transformed Books |
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| Sculpture made out of books |
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Inside Outside Slice
Transformed Books |
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| Sculpture made out of used books |
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Stack
Transformed Used Books |
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| Transformed book chunks |
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Short Stories
2003 |
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| Miniature Book Sculpture |
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Volumes Solo Exhibition Overview
Book Sculptures |
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| Solo Exhibition of Book Sculptures. This work was made originally in 2001 in which I used water to transform the materiality of the books (creating beautiful striated, curled edges) that also made the inks on the book edges bleed into beautiful colour palettes. I see these themes still present in my current works in which I continue to manipulate the materiality of the books and the pages and use inks to transform further--always working with the pure components of the books, but scrambling the formal and conceptual arrangement. |
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Epic: VII Biennial of Hawaii Artists
2003 - 2005 |
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| Bas Relief Panels of Book Stain Imprints in Gysum Cement (called Imprescoes) |
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Detail of Impresco Panel
2003 - 2005 |
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| Book Stain Imprint in Gypsum Cement |
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Detail of Impresco Panel
2003 - 2005 |
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| Book Stain Imprint in Gypsum Cement.
Epic 2003 - 2005
Book covers, fore edges and spines have been embedded into gypsum cement; then removed, leaving behind permanent colour stains. I call each of the panels from this installation Imprescoes; a merging together of the words "imprint' and "fresco." This work was created as a response to my Mother's death in 2003. Upon reflection, the marginalia and hand-worn discarded books that I came across in my work were symbolic of what was intimate, precious, and forever lost. As a body of work some themes carried over from Volumes in which the dyes of the books were manipulated to create an instant paint palette of sorts. Although not clear to me at the time Epic continued with this theme, which I interpreted as a happy accident. Stripped book covers, spines and fore edges when cast into gypsum cement, left soft, painterly stains when removed from the gypsum.
Specifically, within this process, a heat transfer takes place when pigments and dyes from the book covers, edges and spines naturally "bleed" into the curing gypsum. In my mind, an almost animistic transference of the hands and spirits of those who had previously possessed the books; moments frozen in time within the permanent medium of the bas-relief fresco. |
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Devotion Series
2007-present |
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| Used Books, Hand-painted Inks
"I like to think of these books as having been engulfed by the inks of their inner texts." |
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Unfurled 2 Detail
2008 |
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| Used Book, Hand-Painted Ink
In the Collection of Elizabeth Grossman HI |
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Unfurled
2008 |
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| Used Book, Hand-Painted Ink |
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Anthologia
2008 |
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| I like to think of this work as having been engulfed by the inks of its inner texts |
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Antholgia Detail |
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| Education and biography | |
| MFA in Art University of Hawaii at Manoa 2000 | |
| Future shows | |
| The Book Borrowers: Contemporary Artists Transforming the Book, Bellevue Arts Museum, WA February 24-June 14 2009 INTROspective, Center for Book Arts, New York. Jan 15 -March 28 2009 |
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| Website: www.jacquelinerushlee.com | |
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