exhibits and represents artists working across a variety of disciplines with particular focus on contemporary book arts, works on paper, collage and assemblage. |
910 Santa Fe, #101, Denver, Colorado, USA at the north end of the 910 Arts Complex street entrance just south of Swift's Diner Open |
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Sara LangworthyIowa City, Iowa, United States
Headlong, by Nick FlynnSomerset paper, ink 9.25 x 14.5 edition size: 120 © 2012 $50The narrow column of type is intended to give the reader a sense of vertigo or falling. The image reads as a map or set of traffic patterns before reading the excerpt. After reading, the bright spots indicate the people mentioned in the passage. The layout provides a sense of distance from the subjects, but also a sense of inevitability, of movement towards an unavoidable outcome. 
New Patterns in Old Stylehandmade paper, japanese paper, sumi ink 8.5 x 9.5 x 0.25 closed edition size: 24 © 2013 $850New Patterns in Old Style depicts an attempt to inhabit two opposing states at once. The text is reconfigured from the dual definition of the word “cleave,” and language used in tatting instructions. Images are built from layers of printed leaves, using both the positive and negative shapes formed when leaves were blown up to 400%, and cropped to rectangular frames. The long rectangles and overlapping leaf silhouettes reference sewing instructions clipped from newspapers. Sara Langworthy lives and works in Iowa City, Iowa where she maintains a studio and is a Lecturer in Printing and Book Arts at the University of Iowa Center for the Book. Her books can be found in national collections, including the Walker Art Center, Library of Congress, and Wellesly College. She has received fellowships or residencies from Women’s Studio Workshop, Minnesota Center for Book Arts, the Jerome Foundation (MN) and the University of Iowa. |