Wessel & Lieberman Booksellers is pleased to announce an exhibition of the work of Barbara Hodgson. “Barbara Hodgson: Other Ways of Seeing Books” will run from March 6 through April 30, 2008. Please join us for a reception for the artist on Thursday, April 3, from 6-8pm.
Barbara Hodgson is a writer, book designer and photographer based in Vancouver, BC. She is the author and designer of four acclaimed illustrated novels; each a combination of good storytelling augmented with archival photographs, antique postcards, and rare engravings. Her non-fiction work includes her recent publication, Trading in Memories, 2007, an illustrated diary of her journeys as a world traveler, picking up bits and pieces of discarded material culture.
Her work has also been published in fine press limited editions by Heavenly Monkey Press in Vancouver, BC. Out of print titles include Good & Evil in the Garden and Expressed: Ten Philatelic Fictions. Her most recent work is The Temperamental Rose and Other Ways of Seeing Color, 2007, with noted Seattle bookbinder Claudia Cohen. This collaboration began during their first meeting in the summer of 2006, when they discovered mutual passions for color wheels and other systems for charting and codifying colors.
For the present exhibition, Hodgson has created a keepsake entitled The Temperamental Rose: An Experiment with Light. Each copy of the pamphlet is hand-colored with a selection of lightfast and fugitive watercolors. It is designed to be exposed to the sun over a period of a year to demonstrate the effect of light on pigments. The keepsake is available in a signed, limited edition of sixty copies.
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