Alicia Bailey • Denver, CO |
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Alicia Bailey Author Frances Horovitz. 8-panel accordion, intaglio print on rives lightweight with handpainted title page. Cover is lightweight Unryu with gold and silver flecks over museum board with handpainted title. Edition of 25. 3x3x.2 5inches, Opens to 3x27. 2001. |
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Alicia Bailey Traditional Haiku poetry refers to the rhythms of the natural world, quite often making explicit reference to the four seasons. Each wall of this box has a small book with Haiku poems for each season. The text is laserprint on pastepaper. The lid is adorned with beads and the box is handstamped and embossed. 3x3x3 inches. 1997. |
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Alicia Bailey Includes text by Annie Dillard, Aubri Aleka Keleman and Heidi Zednik. French-door book, bound with three brass rings on each side. Images and text are black-and-white and color copies on transparent stock, color inkjet on Arches 90 lb. rough watercolor, 90 lb. cover and transparency, laserprint on a variety of text-weight papers and hand-painted Arches cover. Edition of 25. 8x8x.25 inches. 1998. |
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Alicia Bailey Three short stories, Esmerelda, Reader of Palms & Thorns, written by Colorado writer Carolyn Hull during a retreat in Mexico, in the sultry magic realism style often associated with that geography. The stories are bound in a dos-a-dos-a-dos pamphlet stitched wrap around cover. Cover and chapter head illustrations are inkjet prints of photographs by Alicia Bailey. Pages are laserprint with hand stamping. Edition of 100. 5.75x4.5x.25inches |
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Alicia Bailey Book cover: birds nest paper, book cloth, handwritten spine, ribbon. Text pages: color copy on Mohawk Superfine text with handpainted/stamping on backside. Box is covered with pastepaper and is adorned with glass/metal bead sculpture. 28 pages, each page illustrated. Edition of 29. 2.5x1.25x1.25 inches. Susanna Roxman © 1995 |
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Alicia Bailey The poem ‘Tongue Tied’ by Patricia Beers describes the almost unbearable results of a lifetime of keeping silent. The two-sided accordian book is hinge-bound with 16 penny nails and housed in a nail/mesh and wood structure. Unless handled carefully this book can easily cause physical injury and pain. Text is laserprint on lace paper. Alicia Bailey’s photographs, which allude to bondage and repression, are inkjet printed on sumi paper. Objects and text initially hidden by the photographs are revealed as the reader interacts with this book. 4.5x3.5x2.5 inches. Opens to 18x3.5. Edition of 25. 1999. |
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Alicia Bailey Part of an ongoing series using cosmetic tools and containers as structure, this piece contributes to an ongoing commentary on the harms of the cosmetic industry. Lash Lure was the product that prompted FDA involvement with cosmetics in the 1930’s. This scroll book, housed in a test tube and wrapped around a mascara brush, tells the Lash Lure story. Laserprint on Tairei paper mounted on mascara wand with wood bead handle house in glass test tube with color inkjet label. 4 inches long tube; 9 x 2.5 inches scroll (11.4x1.3x1.3 cm). 2006. Edition of 24 signed and numbered. |
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Alicia Bailey Lipstick tube housing slit scroll book. Pages open by twisting the base of the lipstick tube. Pages lift and spread out. Mirror attached to interior lid. Alicia Bailey: "Carole Jackson wrote in her book Color Me Beautiful that 'the discovery of lipstick as a teenage girl changed my life.' "This slit scroll book, housed in a lipstick tube, includes dozens of observations about the history, manufacture and general qualities of lipstick. The cloth covered box housing the tube is coated on the outside with red wax. A mirror inside the box has Jackson's words handwritten in red. Altered lipstick tube sits inside a 3.5 x 1 x .75 inch cloth-covered box coated in red wax with snap closure. Aurora, Colorado:: ravenpress, 2001. Edition of 35. |
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