COLOR – BY THE BOOK
Tempe, Arizona: Rare Hare Books, July 1997. First Edition. This is a limited edition, number 10 of 10 in a star binding with a sewn non-adhesive spine and a glued fore-edge. Folded paper spacers in the spine area. Woven color strips on each page. Strips are hand painted on watercolor paper. Pages of wove made paper. Laid paper for the covers and the supporting boards between the star points.
Includes a quote from Interaction of Color by Josef Albers. This work has a three-dimensional quality, best viewed from above.
Wood is the owner of Rarehare Creations in Tempe, Arizona. She received a B.F.A. in printmaking from Kent State University and pursued post-graduate studies in graphic design at the Cleveland Institute of Art. She has received several professional development grants from the Arizona Commission on the Arts as well as a fellowship from the Women’s Studio Workshop in New York. Wood has studied at the American Academy of Bookbinding and with numerous master binders including Hélène Jolis, Don Glaister, and Monique Lallier. She produces fine bindings and artist's books full-time in Rarehare Creations, her Tempe, Arizona, studio.
OCLC records eight of the 10 copies institutionally, at The Pratt Institute, Phoenix Public Library, Otis College of Art and Design, Yale, Indiana University, Massachusetts College of Art, the University of New Mexico, and the University of Cincinnati. Item #80286
Price: $500.00