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Adelle Outerridge

Alicia Bailey

Amanda Watson-Will

Amelia Bird

Andrea Crane

Christopher Janke

Claire Jeanine Satin

Denise Bookwalter

Douglas Buebe

Emily Artinian

Holly Hanessian

Irene Chan

Jan Owen

Macy Chadwick

Mira Coviensky

Mirabelle Jones

Pamela Zwehl-Burke

RD Burton

Robbin Ami Silverberg

Terri Tibbatts

Thomas Parker Williams

Tonia Bonnell

Wim de Vos

 

Macy Chadwick

Oakland, California

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Cell Memory

ink, paper, string, fabric

envelope 7½ x 9½ inches; book 6 x 7¾ open

edition of 100

© 2002

$125

Cell Memory is an artist’s book about the microscopic world of the cell and distant memories. Circular die-cut pages, ethereal imagery, and poetry evoke the sense of unconscious memories residing within the cell. Cell Memory was written and created by Macy Chadwick.

 

The book was offset printed in grey and yellow ink on UV Ultra paper. Pamphlet sewn, enclosed in a shaped envelope with string and fabric additions. ChadwickPathways-image1.jpg


Pathways

ink, paper, Kimodesk film

11 x 9½ x 1

edition of 50

© 2010

$875

Pathways is a limited edition artist’s book exploring the interior landscape of a relationship in flux. The organic shapes within the pages hint at both neurology and geography. Turning the pages echoes the experience of focusing a microscope, layer by layer on a dense, complex slide.

 

Letterpress printed from handset type on UV Ultra paper, cut paper shapes with pochoir, laser printing on Kimodesk film, handbound with machine stitching. Contained in a custom box with a glass lid and base.

 

Macy Chadwick publishes artist’s books and limited-edition prints under the imprint In Cahoots Press in Oakland, California. Macy is originally from Rhode Island and she received an MFA in Book Arts and Printmaking from The University of the Arts in Philadelphia. She currently teaches classes at Academy of Art University in San Francisco, San Francisco Art Institute, and San Francisco Center for the Book. Her work is in prominent collections in the US and abroad, including the Victoria and Albert Museum, Yale University Special Collections, and University of Washington, Seattle.