Ten Page Feature Article about my book sculptures in “LIVING” Magazine: the in-house magazine of the HALEKULANI Hotel, Honolulu, as part of the Nella Media Group Promotions.
Article by Brittany Lyte, April 2017 Volume No. 2. PP 20 -30
“Metamorphosis: The Art of Altered Books” is on view at the Fuller Craft Museum, July 30 – November 6, 2016. I am one of 5 artists with 5 artworks featured in this exhibit. Curated by Beth C. McLaughlin.
From Catalogue:
“Jacqueline Rush Lee defies our expectations of what books can and should be with her fecund meditations on nature and permanence. With a deft hand, Lee explores the material possibilities, drawing parallels between the life cycles of books and those of humans through forms found in nature..”
–Curator Beth C. McLaughlin
expose-magazine-august-issue-2016-digital Interview by James Rogers about my work with books. (Scroll down for the feature article in the link)
My artwork “WHORL” is featured on the cover of Expose Art Magazine
(August 2016 edition) with a feature essay about my work and creative process by writer, James Rogers. Photo credit: Brad Goda, HI. I will be creating a site-specific installation based on this artwork as Artist-in-Residence at the University of Hawaii at Manoa this Fall, with an artist’s talk, September 1st and install September 6-9, 2016
http://exposeartmagazine.com/august-2016-edition/
Expose Art Magazine is an independent international publication. Our international circulation (in-print and digital) includes countries such as USA, China, Finland, Japan, Brazil, Australia, Mexico, France, and Italy – just to name a few. Our mission is to provide exposure for contemporary artists and engage in contemporary art dialogue with galleries and museums across the globe. Our curatorial team intentionally showcases emerging professional artists who are not yet represented by major galleries. Our editorial team and contributors provide critical reviews and interviews with mid-career artists. We seek to involve and collaborate with patrons of the arts, collectors, directors, curators, and gallerists in our efforts at enriching and revitalizing the ways contemporary art is created and shared. Expose Art Magazine is distributed at no cost to selected art galleries, both nationally and internationally
SAN JOSE INSTITUTE OF CONTEMPORARY ART: NextNewPaper
Myrow, Rachael. You Think you Know Paper? You Don’t Know. http://bit.ly/2zysRF6 June 2, 2016
I exhibited two artworks from my Made in China series in NextNewPaper and Anthologia was on loan from a collector for the accompanying This is not a Book: Chapter II Exhibition
“Unhinged: Book Art on the Cutting Edge,” is a survey of recent directions in book art through 73 diverse works by 63 prominent artists in the field from across the U.S, and including Australia, Canada, and Great Britain. Opening in the Whatcom Museum’s LightCatcher Building, the exhibition explores the limitless potential of the book as an independent, creative medium through both intimately-scaled pieces and large installations.
Catalogue:http://www.blurb.com/b/6483075-unhinged
[My work "Vascellum" featured]
Odd Volumes: Book Art from the Allan Chasanoff Collection, Yale
Drawn from a major collection given to the Gallery by Allan Chasanoff, B.A. 1961, Odd Volumes showcases a selection of experimental and innovative works of book art from the 1960s to the present. Notable artists included in the collection are Yoko Ono, Xu Bing, Olafur Eliasson, Donald Lipski, Dieter Roth, Robert The, among others. The collection was originally curated by Doug Beube, for Allan Chasanoff, then co-curated with Jock Reynolds and his students at Yale
My artwork “Cube” from my 2001 Volumes series will be on view in Odd Volumes at Yale Art Gallery, November 7, 2014 – February 1, 2015
https://artgallery.yale.edu/exhibitions/exhibition/odd-volumes-book-art-allan-chasanoff-collection
Book Art: Iconic Sculptures and Installations Made from Books
Editor: Paul Sloman. Gestalten Press, Germany 2011. A select sampling of artists that work with the book form.
6 Page Colour Illustrated Feature Showcase of my work with essay by Christine Antaya, and inside cover full back and front colour illustration of FLUTTER from my 2008 Devotion series.
Seager Gray Gallery, CA, 2013
Featuring Anthologia, among other works, in the exhibition (and on the cover)
The Open Book Project
Artwork feature with accompanying essays in book catalogue. Authors Lezlie Atzmon & Ryan Malloy.
Eastern Michigan University Press, March 2014
ART MADE FROM BOOKS
Altered, Sculpted, Carved. Transformed
Featured Artist in this hardcover book.
6 Page artwork feature (p. 134-139) with foreword by Alyson Kuhn and editing by Laura Heyenga. Chronicle Books, August 2013.
Edda
My Artwork “Endoskeleton” featured, along with essay inclusion in The Scandinavian Journal of Literary Research, Norway, in essay entitled “Bogen som tin og skulptur” (The Book as Thing and Sculpture), pps. 311-322.
SUMMER READING 2013
The HOLE Gallery, NYC. 312 Bowery
My piece “Inside Out” from my VOLUMES series featured in this group exhibition in NYC. Curated by Kathy Grayson.
Sculpture Magazine, May 2011, Vol. 30 NO. 4
Review of “Open Book” Group Exhibition, by Roger Green, p. 66, 67.
I was a featured artist in this exhibition along with notable artists who work with paper and the book form (Doug Beube, Noriko Ambe, Adele Outerbridge, among others). Curated by Leslie Atzmon and Ryan Molloy.
POPIERUKAS: 4th International Paperwork Exhibition 2013
Curated by Roberta Mizgeraite and Virilijus Trakimavicius, Kaunas, Lithuania EU (Catalogue)
An International Paper Art Exhibition in which I showcased one of my sculptures from my “Made in China” Series, 2012
This online-catalogue link includes Artists’ works from the exhibition that were featured in a beautiful bound-book catalogue.
Includes Artists Claire Brewster, Valerie Buess, Beatrice Coron, Aimee Lee, Beili Liu, among others
http://www.popierukas.com/en/archive/5
FLUX HAWAII: “An Open Book.”
Jacqueline Rush Lee Feature Article. October 4, Winter 2010, p. 26-29
Essay by Carolyn Mirante, Lisa Yamada
Artist Portrait for Flux Magazine by John Hook, HI (Click on pic for detail)
Art Photography by Paul Kodama, HI
DIY: Do it Yourself, Design it Yourself
Artpower International Publishing Co. Ltd, Hong Kong.
Editors: Ding Xiaojuan, Alice Chan, Evelyn Hu.
Designer: Jessie Wang, Vera Wong
Fourteen Page Full Color Layout Feature Article, p. 60-73
Absolute Depth (Book Cover Image) for Unfurled | Collected Poetry, Canada
Commission Caitlin Press
http://caitlin-press.com/our-books/unfurled/
The Art of the Book
Ridderhof Martin Gallery, UMW Galleries, MD. January 25-Febuary 22, 2013
http://www.umwgalleries.org/the-art-of-the-book/
I have artwork featured in this exhibition. Includes Artists Robert The, Brian Dettmer, Cara Barer, Julie Chen, among others
Unbound | Altered Books
Academia de San Carlos, Mexico City, and National Autonomous University of Mexico, National School of Plastic Arts, (U.N.A.M), Noviembre de 2012
Invited as visiting artist and guest presenter at UNAM (National Autonomous University of Mexico, National School of Plastic Arts). Invited as workshop presenter and facilitator at the Academy of San Carlos, Mexico City where I lectured and taught a four day conceptual Workshop on the Art of Altering Books (“Unbound: Altered Books”) during this international symposium