Artist statement

Making books has given me a wonderful means to explore ideas, images, words, and structure all at once. For me, the book form allows great variety in combining an idea – the mychhorizal fungus that sends messages and help to nearby trees, for example – as well as experimentation with form, such as We Hovered a Little. I would say most book artists have a deep love of paper, and I’m no exception. Choices of paper often guide my ideas, followed by the need to put an idea into methods and form. While I love color, I often work within the gray scale, and while I love holding a bona fide book, I often create sculptural books that question what a book can be. The variety and possibilities are limitless!

Biography

Sandy Weisman is both visual artist and poet. She owns 26 Split Rock Cove, a privately-owned artist community of studios, artist living space, and workshops overlooking Mussel Ridge Channel in S. Thomaston, ME.

Prior to coming to Maine, she was the director of museum education at the Massachusetts College of Art and Design, and an adjunct member of the Art Education Department there. She studied textiles at Boston University. Here in Maine, Sandy has primarily devoted her art practice to artist books. She is also one of the founding members of the Midcoast Maine Book Arts (MMBA) group.

Sandy’s art work has been exhibited locally at the Maine Jewish Museum in Portland, Michael Good Gallery in Rockport, Granite Gallery in Tenant’s Harbor, Waterfall Arts in Belfast, as well as in many group exhibitions with the MMBA. Her poetry has been included in two anthologies and several other journals, including Salamander, Spillway, Barrow Street, The Maine Review, Off the Coast, and Muddy River Poetry Review.

Website: www.sandyweisman.art
Artist Retreat Center: www.26splitrockcove.com
Email: sandy.weisman2@gmail.com
Phone: 617.515.3401

Photo credit - Amy Parrish