In Solitude by Melissa Wagner-Lawler
This piece was featured in the February 2024 issue of The Fore Edge, a quarterly newsletter from MCBA that highlights new artist’s books and zines for collections, universities, and libraries. If you are interested in receiving this newsletter, there is a sign up available here. Past featured pieces can be viewed here.
“In Solitude is an artist book created during June 2023 during a residency at In Cahoots Residency. The work explores the relationship between expansive spaces and contemplative solitude in a modified pamphlet stitch structure. The middle signature opens to a 40” wide image.” - Melissa Wagner-Lawler
7.5” x 5.5” x 1”
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Melissa Wagner-Lawler (she/her) is an artist and Teaching Faculty in the Printmaking & Book Arts department at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. She received her BFA from Milwaukee Institute of Art and Design and MFA in Visual Studies from the Minneapolis College of Art and Design. For over a decade, Wagner-Lawler’s practice has been dedicated to artist books and exploring the intricacies of the format. Her artist books use letterpress and other printmaking techniques to investigate elements of tension, the breakdown of information and the fragility of circumstance. To date, she has produced 15 editioned book works, all of which are housed within collections around the country.
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