Yesterday was the opening day of Unrestricted: an Exploration of Artist Books at the Port Angeles Fine Art Center.  The show will be open through May 13, 2018.

This exhibition is a collaboration with the Cynthia Sears Collection in the Sherry Grover Gallery, Bainbridge Island Museum of Art.

For those of you who can’t travel to the Olympic Peninsula, here is a visual synopsis. Clicking on any image will give you an enlarged version and/or the beginning of a slide show.

from the Bainbridge Island Museum of Art, Sherry Grover Gallery Artist Book Collection

Children of Margem, Robin Hruska

Manual of Weeds, Deborah Peek

The Ice Slide: An Educational Game from Jupiter’s Moon Europa, Carolyn Terry

Mortal Salt, Daniel Smith and Karen Finneyfrock

A Solemn Request, Amy Pirkle

In addition to the 17 BIMA artists, 30 invitational works came in from artists in the western United States and Canada. in the PAFAC large gallery:

overview

Ancient Forests of Frying Pan Creek, Lucia Harrison

Lovely and Amazing Photo Albums, Alicia Bailey

Soldier’s Heart, Mari Eckstein Gower

AK-47, Cora Li-Leger

Untitled, Randi Parkhurst

365 Debbi Commodore

Every Step a Lotus, Alicia Bailey

Suze Woolf

Lucia Harrison and Deborah Greenwood

The Old Chain, Carletta Carrington Wilson

Meditations on a Credit Card, Jan Dove

In the second gallery at PAFAC:

Overview and Broadsides by Ellie Mathews.

Mary Ashton, Japanese Rain

Amy Lund, Hygge

Pamela Hastings, Ancestors and Memories: How I Began

Diane Williams, Trash Talk

Lorna Leedy, Exactly the Same Except this Quietness

Mark Hoppmann, A is for Alien

Lynn Skordal, ARMANI unglued

Bonnie Thompson Norman, Ballot BOX

Bettina Pauly, Hänsel & Gretel

Laura Russell, Magnificent Beast

Curator: Jan Dove

Port Angeles Fine Arts Center
1203 E. Lauridsen Blvd.​
Port Angeles, WA 98362
pafac@olypen.com
(360) 457-3532

HOURS OF OPERATION:
Gallery: Reopens February 24 at 5pm
Thursday – Sunday
11am – 5pm
Art Park: Dawn to dusk 7 days a week.