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A series of beautiful and unique, usable journals, these hardcover, blank books each focus on a single artist, and feature a detail of an artwork wrapped around the cover and endpapers that highlight details from the artist’s studies or other works on paper. We offer a variety of grid designs for the interior - lines, circles, traditional grids - that the artist or estate hand selects for their journal. The opening page includes a single quote about making from each artist. The Journal series celebrates the creativity of artists and their ability to inspire. Each edition includes a detail of an artwork on the cover and studies or drawings as endpapers. Produced in collaboration with the artists or artist’s estates, The Journal series is printed in limited editions.

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Known for her intricate and distinct artistic language, Asawa produced numerous sculptures, drawings, and prints that are built on simple, repeated gestures that accumulate into complex compositions. Her works on paper and “continuous” looped-wire sculptures suggest a field of fluctuating positive and negative forms, a means of reshaping how we perceive the world. Personal motifs reappear throughout in the most comprehensive look at the artist’s oeuvre to date––ceramic casts of faces of her family, friends, and neighbors; the carved front door Asawa and her family made for their home; and drawings of her children, grandchildren, and husband sleeping––all providing an expansive look into the artist’s life.A document of the breathtaking and surprising exhibition Ruth Asawa: All Is Possible, organized by Helen Molesworth, this book records and expands upon the show, offering new insight from writers and curators with a selection of sixty-four works from Asawa’s spectacular oeuvre. With an introduction by Molesworth, this book features focused texts from Makeda Best, Taylor Davis, Ruth Erickson, Briony Fer, Jennifer L. Roberts, and John Yau.

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