Artist Robert The creates sculptural works in which books are transformed with subversive wit and scrupulous invention. Often working with remaindered volumes that were part of large-scale mass-market editions, the artist transfigures these objects through singular gestures such as through-slicing words and cutting out new iconic forms. Always uniquely appropriate to his source material, the […]

Guy Laramée has been working with books as a sculptural medium for over twenty years. Carving directly into the bound pages of vintage volumes, the artist creates intricately detailed landscapes and architectures, often textured and painted to render complex topographies and surface vegetation. Laramée frequently works with old dictionaries and encyclopedias, bringing the geological timescale […]