Bookworks and Papermaking:
Empty and constructed books, an intellectual commentary on coffee table books and the silences of women, have been recurring themes in Kathryn’s work. The piece in the Bookworks exhibition came from her series of seven book objects called Bound and Knotted Pages, each produced by the artist in editions of seven. The complete series forms part of the collection of The National Library of Canada, Ottawa.
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- “The Binding is Just an Illusion” hand made paper with screen print
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- “Contained Pages” (edition 7) 10x23x31cm, cotton, flax, kozo paper, muslin bag, 1979, from a series of seven books, Collection National Library of Canada,
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- “Double Bound” (edition 7) 6x19x24cm cotton & flax paper, dyed edges 1980 – from a series of seven books, one complete set is in the Collection of the National Library of Canada, Ottawa
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- “Pages, A Record of Events II”, 1984, handmade paper with embedded documentation. 35cm x 35cm 35cm. “Pages, A Record of Events I” is in the collection of the Museum of Arts and Design, New York City
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- “Reference Index”, 1984, edition 7, two drawer card catalogue with text in manuscript on hand-made pieces of cotton/flax paper. 14x34x41cm, Collection National Library of Canada,
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- “Red Pages”, 1984, 15×35 x35cm private collection
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- “A Journey’s Index” handmade paper with maps and text in antique card catalog box
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- “Batterers”, 1996, collaboration with the Janus Press, text – Denise Levertov, edition 110
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- text by Denise Levertov
The paper for the wall reliefs were produced from linen, cotton and abaca linters, prepared in large vats and then formed on a vacuum table and dried. Some were then painted with fragments added either on the surface or embedded into the paper. Most of these earlier works were in light natural colors and occasionally black. All the work was made in her fifth floor studio at 400 Dowd, Montreal.
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- “Sheet/Metal” collection Telegloble Canada
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- “Aerial Series”, 1989, cast paper, painted – 70″x 88″x 7″ (most works in this series are in public and private collections in Canada and the US)
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- work commissioned for installation – Groupe Andre Perry Inc. , Washington, D.C. the finale work is 7.5′ x 24′ x 8″ installed with polished stainless steel behind the center panels
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- cast paper columns
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- detail column and capital
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- Nedjer/Calligraphy I, 1992, cast paper collage 61cm x 46cm
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- “Aerial Series II”, cast paper painted with embedded text, framed 35.5″x30.5″x3.5″
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- “Edge Series”. work commissioned by the Canadian Paperworkers Union, Montreal, 1984, paper with dyed edges, 48″ x 12′
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- Ladders – Installation at Galerie Aubes, Montréal 244x35x4cm (each ladder) vacuum formed paper, wood & rope 1982