Tuesday, September 16, 2008

Elysa Voshell

Elysa holds an MA in Book Arts from Camberwell College of Arts, University of the Arts London, and a BA in English Literature and Creative Writing from the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia. She has exhibited her work internationally at such venues as the Institute of Contemporary Arts, London, the Seoul International Artist’s Book Fair, and the Witte de With Center for Contemporary Art, Rotterdam, Netherlands. Voshell is the recipient of numerous awards and honors including a Special Opportunity Stipend from the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts, a Window of Opportunity Award from the Leeway Foundation, a Residency Fellowship from the Collins Foundation, and the Stein Family Scholarship for Advanced Studies in Book Arts from the Center for Book Arts, New York. The artist’s imprint, After Nostalgia Press, is based in Philadelphia.

You can see more of Elysa's work here and here

Image:
Elysa Voshell
From the series the nesting habits of extinct & vanishing birds
Letterpress, polyester-plate lithography, relief printing, and collage on altered
book pages
10 x 10 inches
2007; Series of 10 prints, each one-of-a-kind

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