Rhiannon Alpers
Dwellings, handmade paper, letterpress & ink wash, boxmaking, 8 x 8 x 30 when completely open, 2019
Specimen Series (25 one of a kind artist books), letterpress, handmade paper, collage & assemblage, boxmaking, 4 x 6 x 3 closed, 2010 - 2016
Remnants, macro photography, digital printing, letterpress, boxmaking, 7 x 10 x 3 closed, 2015
Field Work, letterpress, laser cutting and eco-printing, 4 x 4 x 28, 2019
Finding Her Place: The Woman behind the Naturalist, Letterpress, laser-cutting, digital, lino block, macro photography, 9.5 x 10 x 2 expanding accordion, 2018
A Thousand Starlings, mono-printing and letterpress, 6 x 8 x 1, 2017
My artwork is tied to natural themes, and the untenanted remnants of plant and animal life. Many of my most recent artist books are entrenched in the history and visual sensibility of cabinets of curiosities. Through first hand experiences and reframed stories, I seek to illuminate the perspectives of early pioneering women naturalists, and their scientific documentation in the field.
For me, artist books are a medium that allows for multidimensional stories to take shape and be accessible to the viewer in both a sequential and spatial form. The finished artist books incorporate components of handmade paper, bookbinding, macro-photography, laser cutting, digital and letterpress printing as well as the writing.
Rhiannon Alpers, has an MFA in Book and Paper Arts from Columbia College Chicago and a BA in Book Arts from UC Santa Barbara, College of Creative Studies. She is a papermaker, letterpress printer and book artist. She has taught academic courses at San Francisco Art Institute, California College of the Arts (San Francisco), University of San Francisco, and Columbia College Chicago. She has taught workshops for San Francisco Center for the Book, Penland School of Crafts, Book Arts LA, San Diego Book Arts, Contemporary Jewish Museum, Kala Printmaking Institute, Center for Book and Paper in Chicago, and at her own studio in the Mission District.
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