We are excited to be taking part again in the Vancouver Art Book Fair again in 2021.
Click on either of the images below to see what we are offering up for the 2021 Vancouver Art Book Fair!
Below is an archive of Art Byte Critique’s participation in the 2020 Vancouver Art Book Fair
ARTHUR HUANG
MARIKO JESSE
YUKO KAMEI
MISAKO OBA
LORI ONO
NICK WEST
CLICK the images above FOR the selection of artist’s books & zines available for VABF 2020
About the participating Art Byte Critique artists
Six Art Byte Critique artists are excited to be exhibiting a mix of new releases and recent releases for the Vancouver Art Book Fair 2020!
The six artists are Arthur Huang (https://arthurjhuang.work), Mariko Jesse (https://marikojesse.com), Yuko Kamei (http://yuccak.net), Misako Oba (https://www.misakooba.com), Lori Ono (https://loriono.com), and Nick West (https://www.nickwest.work).
Below is information about each artist’s new and recent releases that will be available for detailed viewing at our table at the VABF 2020.
Please visit each artist’s page by clicking their image above to see their entire collection as well as ordering and payment information.
Arthur Huang is releasing “daily drawings collection: the stars edition” Derived from his ongoing almost, sometimes not so much, daily practice where he makes drawings during his commutes on trains and buses. These drawings are made in the moment focusing on mark making and his intuitive response to the marks on the page. To try and understand the language in these drawings, he has been taking various approaches to analyzing them in his studio practice. This release, the second in this series, compiles all the Daily Drawings he has made since 2017 while listening to the Canadian indie/pop band Stars and charts the dates and order of these drawings looking for relationships within this subset of drawings.
Mariko Jesse is exhibiting three new releases from her recent 'Gardens' collection of works. All three releases feature Japanese woodblock (mokuhanga) printing. The Night Garden and Beetle zines are made from a mokuhanga print with hand-painted elements on washi and explore narrative through a single image. They are printed in a limited edition of 10 pieces. The Night Garden sketchbooks are handmade with washi paper using Japanese stitch-binding with covers made from her mokuhanga prints. Each book is a different shape and size and therefore unique. Mariko's pieces are entirely hand-made and hand-printed and contain wabi-sabi elements of printing flaws that add to their overall charm.
Yuko Kamei is presenting a new release entitled "Works of Heat" which is a photographic series inspired by the process in which heat energy forms the Earth. Dough is attached to stones and oven baked to simulate how bedrock transforms during volcanic activity, resulting in a new landscape whose surface is akin to that of rocks. This book folds and unfolds, allowing one to see the results individually and collectively similar to asteroids floating in space.
Misako Oba is presenting a new release entitled "Beyond Time and Space Vol. 1" which extends her mixed media encaustic work into the art book form. This series incorporates the Hyakunin Isshu, a collection of 100 Japanese ancient poems from 7th to 11th century Japan called the Waka, into her mixed media encaustic process.
Lori Ono is presenting three releases exploring her ongoing interests with mushrooms. The first is the "Book of Eringi" - a concertina-style book with paper pages and a polymer clay cover shaped like an eringi mushroom. Her second release is "Pop Out Mushrooms" - a concertina-style book with pop-out pages of illustrated mushrooms inside a case with a mushroom cover of polymer clay. Lori Ono's third release is "Pop Out Night Mushrooms" - a concertina-style book with pop-out pages of illustrated glow in the dark mushrooms.The polymer clay mushrooms on the case glow in the dark. The mushrooms inside the case are hand-drawn with ink and glow in the dark paint. She is currently taking part in the Mycophilia Artist Residency at Ayatana Artist's Research Program.
Nick West is exhibiting recent and new work from his "Books From Things" series where he reimagines what a book can be by creating objects composed of readily available objects. Working modularly, West uses the technique of assemblage to make these works.
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