Katherine Ng (book artist)

Katherine Ng is a book artist and letterpress printer in Southern California whose work often references her Chinese-American heritage.[1][2]

Ng is an alumna of the Women's Building and California State University, Northridge.[3] She went on to be an educator, teaching at Otis College of Art and Design and serving as the director of the letterpress studio at the Armory Center for the Arts in the 1990s. Some of her artists' books are published under the imprint Pressious Jade.

Artists' books

  • Aa: Alphabetical Afflictions (2000)
  • Spirit vessel (1997)
  • A Hypothetical Analysis of the Twinkle in Stars (as Told by a Child to His Teacher) (1994)
  • Fortune Ate Me (1994)
  • Banana Yellow (1992)
    • description and images of this book are featured in "From Site to Vision: the Woman's building in Contemporary Culture"[4]
  • The Book of Chain (1992)
  • Kitchen Cricket (1991)

Exhibitions

  • 2019-2021, Poetry Is Not a Luxury, Center for Book Arts, NY, San Francisco Center for the Book, Minnesota Center for Book Arts [5]
  • 2014, Word-Up: Interactions Between Images and Text, Huntington Beach Art Center
  • 2014, Binding Desire: Unfolding Artists Books, Ben Maltz Gallery
  • 2007, Touched, Armory Center for the Arts[6]
  • 2002, SO CALled Books, UCLA[7]
  • 1997, Outlooks, CSUN Art Dome[8]

References

  1. ^ LaFerla, Jane; Gunter, Alice; Gunter, Veronika Alice, eds. (2008). The Penland Book of Handmade Books: Master Classes in Bookmaking Techniques. New York: Lark. p. 106. ISBN 978-1600593000.
  2. ^ Golden, Alisa (2003). Unique handmade books (1st pbk. ed.). New York: Sterling Pub Co Inc. p. 157. ISBN 1402706146.
  3. ^ "Burning Desire". Issuu. Retrieved 13 March 2015.
  4. ^ Fromsite tovision : the Woman's Building in contemporary culture. Hale, Sondra., Wolverton, Terry., Maltz Gallery., Otis College of Art and Design., Pacific Standard Time (Exhibition). Los Angeles, CA: Ben Maltz Gallery, Otis College of Art and Design. 2011. ISBN 978-0930209230. OCLC 757387784.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: others (link)
  5. ^ Liberty, Megan (31 August 2019). "Redefining Identity Through Artists' Books". Hyperallergic.
  6. ^ "Katherine Ng". ArtSlant.com. Archived from the original on 26 November 2019.
  7. ^ Stein, Jeannine (7 October 2002). "Beyond Words". Los Angeles Times. Archived from the original on 7 June 2023. Retrieved 13 March 2015.
  8. ^ Woodward, Josef (30 October 1997). "Postgraduate Work". Los Angeles Times. Archived from the original on 7 June 2023. Retrieved 13 March 2015.