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Jacqueline Rush Lee: INTROspective
January 15, 2009 - March 28, 2009

Jacqueline Rush Lee: INTROspetive

Organized by Alexander Campos, Executive Director

This exhibition of work will showcase sculptures created entirely out of used books with selections from the 2005 Biennial of Hawaii Artists (Epic) and her 2002 exhibition Volumes. VOLUMES (2002) is a body of work that was created entirely from used books. This body of work followed a “petrified” books series of 2000 in which Ms. Lee used kiln processes to transform books. In Volumes water was used to transform the books further. When soaked in water the dyes of the book fore edges bleed and the pages warp into beautiful striations. Once dried the books were then built into geometric forms. EPIC (2003-2005) is an installation consisting of a collection of gypsum cement panels that Ms. Lee calls “Imprescoes; a joining together of the words “imprint” and “fresco.” Using the discarded books of anonymous book owners, the work emerged from an experimental casting process in which book covers, edges, and raw book spines were embedded into gypsum cement, and then removed. As the dyes in the book covers and fore edges “bleed” into the curing gypsum, soft, painterly traces of the books are left behind.

Jacquline Rush  Lee
A Slice of Poetry
(2002) Transformed Books
Jeanne Frank
Anthologia
(2008) Book, ink, glue
Book of R's
(2003) Transformed Books
Coudscape for Anonymous (imprescoes)
(2005) Plaster Panel
Cube
(2002) Transformed Books
From Stacked volume series
Courtesy of Alan Chasanoff
Cube
(2002) Transformed Books
From Stacked volume series

Flutter
(2008) Book, ink, glue
Inside-Outside Slice
(2002) Transformed Books
Nee: Red Book
(2005) Book, ink, glue
Ode to Atsuo (Imprescoes)
(2005) Plaster Panel
Peacock
(2008) Book, ink, glue
Red Cube
(2002) Transformed Books
From Stacked volume series
Courtesy of Ingred Tully
Short Stories
(2005) Transformed Books
Courtesy of Mary Lou Lee
Slice
(2002) Transformed Books
Slice Trio
(2002) Transformed Books
Unfurled
(2008) Book, ink, glue
Unfurled
(2008) Book, ink, glue
Untitled
(2008) Book, ink, glue
Untitled (Imprescoes)
(2005) Plaster Panel
Untitled (Imprescoes)
(2005) Plaster Panel
Untitled (Imprescoes)
(2005) Plaster Panel

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