Lynn Gordon
medium: mixed media
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 Just a Bit Off Center 2009 Mixed media |
 Cork Tower 2009 Mixed media |
 Go with the Flow 2009 Mixed media |
 Kyoto Rain 2009 Mixed media |
 Welcome to my World 2010 Mixed media |
 Hang Tough 2010 Mixed media |
 Door To ... 2009 Mixed media |
 Wisdom on the Journey 2010 Mixed media |
 Wisdom on the Journey (interior) 2010 Mixed media |
 Wisdom on the Journey (inner compartment housing a chambered nautilus) 2010 Mixed media |
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Contact information
Artist resides in: Sheboygan, WI
Email Address: Lsgordon48@hotmail.com
Web site: virtualartgalleryofsheboygan.com
Artist statement
There is something about a box. Who can ignore the temptation to lift a corner and peek inside? A box is a simple structure, yet deceptively intriguing--a container harboring a secret space that seems both forbidden and surprising. Everyone loves to have boxes to house their treasures. Each box is unique and hand-crafted out of binder's board, quality paper or cloth, and embellished with clay, wire, copper or other materials. Most text is letter pressed in the old-world tradition.
Biography
I am a librarian by degree, a bookbinder by training and an artist by desire. In graduate school, I specialized in the history of paper and its preservation, and a professor offered me a two-year apprenticeship in rare-book restoration. I learned to work with hand tools using old-world methods. After the apprenticeship, I started my own business called Bible and Book Repair in my hometown. Once a book is restored, one option is constructing a drop-spine box to hold and protect it. I moved from bookbinder to artist when a friend asked me to make thirteen boxes to house chambered nautiluses as invitations for her friend's fiftieth birthday party. This was a watershed event because it prompted me to move from high-level craftswomanship to artistic creation. Although I still repair and bind books, creating and embellishing the hand constructed boxes has released pent-up artistic energies.
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