Mary V. Marsh
Everyday Reader
Numbered Variable Edition Aritst Book
$186

Drawings of people reading—sketched during the artist's daily commute—are translated into block prints on discarded library cards and newspapers. The commuters engaged in their own private world intersect with the book titles and names of past readers on the cards. In different postures of concentration, they are creating a mental space for themselves, an escape, or just making time pass. The office materials used to construct each book imply tasks the workers are bound for. The nostalgia of the old cards suggest a history of the changing methods of reading. An open edition variété, each Everyday Readers book is unique. Block prints on library checkout cards are combined and bound in pamphlet format and finished with a unique vintage book cover.

Hand-printed block prints on checkout cards, brads, type, vintage cover, manila folder slipcover. 16 pages, 5.25 x 3.75 x .5 " closed. 2009

To purchase this work please contact Laura at 23 Sandy Gallery.

Mary V. Marsh
Famous Women
One-of-a-Kind Artist Book
SOLD!

For years I have been collecting objects and images for The Female Icon Collection; popular figurines, book illustrations, product characters, archetypes of Woman, and real women in history. Famous Women and The Shower Party Book are both illustrated from this collection. It’s about a journey that is a search for identity, trying on different female roles from media icons to protagonists identified with. We are constantly reinventing ourselves to find our place in the world.

Gouache on found library checkout cards, linen tape, found book covers, 8 pages, accordion fold. 6 x 4 x .5 inches closed. Unique book. 2008.

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