Book Artists
Tona Wilson
Stories Behind Bars was inspired by the author's job as a Spanish interpreter in the US courts. The stories give the reader an insight into the complex issues surrounding the immigration debate.
Maureen Cummins
Cummins' 25+ limited-edition artist's books play with our reverence for historical facts and artifacts. Reader's are drawn to her beautiful, traditionally designed books which then contradict those same values either personally or politically, revealing disturbing attitudes and assumptions in United States' history. The Oberlin College Libraries have several of Cummins' artists' books.
Suzanne Lacy
Suzanne Lacy a renowned pioneer in socially engaged and public performance art. Her installations, videos, and performances deal with sexual violence, rural and urban poverty, incarceration, labor and aging. Lacy’s large-scale projects span the globe, including England, Colombia, Ecuador, Spain, Ireland and the U.S. For more see her recent retrospective Suzanne Lacy: We are Here. Oberlin College owns three of Lacy's artists' books.
Miranda Maher
My work begins with discrepancies, mistakes or even lies. I’ve dug into our self-deceptions about warfare and sexual violence; unpacked cultural delusions about femininity and explored our narcissism in relating to animals and nature. Oberlin College owns three of Maher's artists' books. From the artist's website
Malini Gupta
Originally from India, Ms. Gupta moved to the US to study Communication Design at Pacific Northwest College of Art, Portland, Oregon. She made an artists' book for her thesis design project and discovered her passion and profession. "I am very passionate about women’s equality and their rights. Most recently, I have worked on a book about gender biases in India" which led to her book The Fortune Teller. Gupta now runs a successful web design firm in Portland, Oregon.
Rebecca Lown
Rebecca Lown is a New York City-based designer who was awarded a production grant for her artist’s book Inviolable Habits. She has a BFA from the Rhode Island School of Design, is an adjunct professor in the M.F.A. program at The New School: A University in New York City, and has a successful book design studio. Oberlin College owns two of her artists' books.
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Patricia Johanson is an American artist and a pioneer in ecological-art (aka eco-art). Her large-scale art projects create aesthetic and practical habitats for humans and for wildlife. Designed with and in the natural landscape, Johanson solves infrastructure and environmental problems and also reconnects city-dwellers with nature and with the history of a place.
Patricia Johanson and the Re-Invention of Public Environmental Art, 1958-2010 by Call Number: Art Library, N6537.J57 W8 2013ISBN: 9781409435440Based on extensive analysis of unpublished private archives, Xin Wu offers us the first comprehensive scholarly interpretation of Patricia Johanson's landscape dersign through drawings, paintings, sculptures, installations, garden proposals, and built and unbuilt projects in the United States, Brazil, Kenya, and Korea. Johanson's search for an "art of the real" led her from painting and sculpture to public garden and environmental art. Johanson's work emphasizes the significance of the process of art creation, challenging the centrality of art objects.
Grayson Earle is a new media artist and educator. He is the co-creator of Bail Bloc and a member of The Illuminator art collective. He is currently participating in the Berlin Program for Artists. His work uses the context of art to materialize ideas and forms surrounding the role that digital technologies and networks can play in protest and political agency. He exhibits inside and outside of traditional art spaces, working with guerrilla video projection, cryptocurrency, machine learning, simulation, sculpture, and the internet.
The Illuminator Project
The Illuminator is a collaborative political art project which was created in the context of Occupy Wall Street.