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Back to Intro List of artists (alphabetized by first name) Carol Erickson Carol Es Cheryl Bailey/Deborah Henson Connie Norman Danielle Feliciano E. Brooke Lanier Elizabeth McKee Ellen Wiener Friedrich Kerksieck Heidi Zednik Jan Owen Jennifer Hines Justin Quinn Kristen Catlett Mamiko Ikeda Marí Emily Bohley Marina Soria Stephen Sidelinger Sun Young Kang Susan Kapuscinski Gaylord Turner Hilliker |
Jan Owen
Belfast, Maine Sunflower
acrylic, paper, Tyvek 12 x 151/4 closed, 45 x 151/4 open © 2011 - $950 I love the gestural lines and pattern of hand lettered text which now faces the seductive, shiny beauty of technology. We trust binary code and the web for our communication and interaction with others. The poems included in this book remind us there are things we should do while we are young and not virtually. Hand lettered on paste paper with woven Tyvek; hanging accordion fold book with case. Each Day
acrylic, paste paper, Tyvek 111/2 x 131/2 closed, 45 x 131/2 © 2011 - $950 When we’ve hardly begun summer, the days grow shorter. The poems selected for this hanging book are about words and writing in the darkness. Hand lettered on paste decorated paper; hanging accordion fold book. Text by Neruda, Tagliabue, Levertov, Whitman, Stafford Silence of the Night
sumi ink and gold acrylic, Hollytex paper 15 x 3 closed, 141/2 x 43 x 21/2 open © 2011 - $475 I used several layers of white and black painted Hollytex to create a sense of layers of silence that Thoreau describes. Hand lettered on several layers of Hollytex; hanging scroll. Text by Thoreau, Neruda, Rilke. Brush Palimpsest
sumi ink, Hollytex, paper 131/4 x 93/8 closed, 131/4 x 20 open © 2008 - SOLD Writing on translucent pages of Hollytex with brushes and pens allows a beautiful layers of marks and lines. The words seem permanent and fragile. Hand lettered on several layers of Hollytex; and paper; 8 page codex with paper case. Text by Goethe, Tagliabue, Paz
Jan Owen is an artist living in Belfast, Maine. Her work incorporates hand lettering, brush marks, paste decorated papers, and words by various authors into hanging books or panels. Her work is shown internationally and is in the collections of the Library of Congress, National Museum of Women in the Arts, and university special collections. |