Jacqueline Rush Lee is an Anglo-Irish sculptor who lives and works in Hawaii (USA). Jacqueline has been working with books for fifteen years and is recognized for working with the book form. Her artworks are featured in blogs, magazines, books and international press.
Jacqueline’s work focuses on the book as object, medium and archetypal form. Working to reveal or transform the nature of a book, Lee is interested in the aesthetic of books as cultural objects that come with their own histories of use and meaning. By using books as her canvas or building block, Jacqueline subtly transforms their formal and conceptual arrangement through a variety of practices in which the physicality and thus the context of the books have been altered.
Billy Sprague is fascinated by nature’s growth and decay and it’s natural mutation of form for optimum function. This synapsis of organism and environment along with dreamlike futuristic scenarios fuel the imagery in much of Sprague’s work. Working mostly with graphite and colored pencil, microscopic like details collect on themselves and give birth to larger symbiotic forms that create the whole. Muscular formations twist and pull at themselves and sprout new forms upon it’s own striving life-force. Most drawings are placed upon carefully selected slightly deteriorating found papers, a conscious non-archival decision to further the play between drawn works and their natural degradation with their environment. Current explorations include desire for expansive works onto much larger paper formats utilizing minimal and strategic placement of color with attention to the papers existing decay and flaws.
Cherished Thoughts
Shaman Mask
What Dreams May Come
For Petey
