The Bookbinder’s Daughters

Here is some pretty cool art, though its beauty can’t really captured on an iphone: “The Bookbinder’s Daughters” by Chris Dorosz from a show at the Scott Richards gallery in San Francisco.

I love Dorosz’s art because the images seem so alive, almost moving. When you see this piece and you walk around it, it looks different from every angle. Every figure conveys her own personality.

Here is how the press release describes Dorosz’s work:

Using the two-dimensional images as a guide, Dorosz then creates three-dimensional models, which he arranges in a group. To make the works, the artist employs a technique he has developed over the years: he fabricates a grid of clear nylon rods suspended vertically within a Plexiglas stage; he then applies drops of paint to the rods, and the images materialize.

The resulting figures seem to move, fracture apart, and reform—almost like holograms—as the viewer walks around them, bringing to mind digital pixels or even DNA.  The moment of action is suspended in time and space, as indicated by the show title and the titles of all of the works in this series: Stasis, a state of equilibrium.

“Out of material discovery,” Dorosz says, “I began to regard the primacy of the paint drop, a form that takes shape not from a brush or any human-made implement or gesture, but purely from its own viscosity and the air it falls through.”  Editing all the way down to a drop of color, the smallest element of a painting, Dorosz is pushing the medium, and the creation of image, to its very limits.

Of course, every artist needs inspiration. Here are the models: that’s me in the middle, my sister Kim on the left and my sister Hilary on the right. Dorosz made this piece from a photograph taken by my mother, a bookbinder.

9 thoughts on “The Bookbinder’s Daughters

  1. OMG you used the ‘so very sexist and woman demeaning’ head tilt in this photo.. gasp! my god, you almost look like you are tilting your head like ‘ann romney’ did in the convention!

    also, look how much of your chest is exposed with that super sexist woman demeaning plunging neckline..

    and why oh why did you grow your hair out that long… do i see highlights? what kind of self appreciating woman are you?

    this entire BLOG IS RIDICULOUS…

    thank god i don’t live ANYWHERE NEAR YOU and can’t be harassed by your ridiculous and over blown views and reactions..

    reference:
    http://margotmagowan.wordpress.com/2012/09/19/teaching-your-daughters-to-pose-like-a-girl/

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