Additional Events
There are many book art related events that take place throughout the Bay Area around the same time as our Book Fair. Please have a look at the events below and please let us know if you know of others!
Friday, February 2, 2024
Pattern & Flow with author Mindell Dubansky
San Francisco Center for the Book
375 Rhode Island St
San Francisco, CA 94103
6 - 8 pm; presentation begins promptly at 6:30 pm
Mindy Dubansky’s book Pattern and Flow: A Golden Age of American Decorated Paper, 1960s to 2000s chronicles the flourishing of American decorated paper arts beginning in the 1960s and extending to the 2000s, with an ongoing legacy today. As museum librarian for preservation at the Thomas J. Watson Library at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Dubansky will discuss her research into the study of decorated papers, share stories of the artists responsible for developing innovative styles of paper, and her role in the creation of the Paper Legacy Collection at the Thomas J. Watson Library.
Saturday, February 3, 2024
METAL / STONE / WOOD
Sarah Horowitz / Chris Stinehour / Richard Wagener
copper plate engravings / stone letter carving / wood engraving
Exhibition and Open House at The CODEX Foundation, Logan Book Arts Center
Saturday, February 3rd from 3-6pm
and
Thursday, February 8th from 12-4pm
San Francisco Center for the Book Kicks Off CODEX 2024!
San Francisco Center for the Book
375 Rhode Island St
San Francisco, CA 94103
Doors open at 6 pm; event wraps up at 9 pm
SFCB welcomes you to join them for an open house celebrating the beginning of the Book Art Fair & Symposium! Stop by, see CODEX colleagues, and view the exhibition in the gallery; light refreshments will be provided.
In This Moment: The Book as Witness
An Exhibition of Artist's Books
Environmental Design Library
210 Bauer Wurster Hall, UC Berkeley
January 3, 2024 – March 3, 2024
Open Reception: Saturday, February 3, 3 pm – 6 pm
A catalog of the show will be available
Many facets of the current zeitgeist could not have been predicted just a few short years ago. While a plethora of issues facing our local, national, and global communities have been festering for some time, the abundance of recent issues in our post-pandemic, post-Roe world that have been thrown into the mix has caused people to juggle an ever-increasing number of balls as part of everyday life. Work for this exhibition will address current social issues from the artists' individual or community perspective. Topics will range from global issues to local and personal stories.
Participants:
Julie Chen (Curator)
Katie Baldwin
Alisa Banks
e bond
Denise Bookwalter
Sarah Bryant
Macy Chadwick
Sandra C. Fernandez
Colette Fu
AB Gorham
Sarah Hulsey
Julie Leonard
Amy Lund
Sarah Matthews
Erin McAdams
Lois Morrison
Camden Richards
Steph Rue
Keri Miki-Lani Schroeder
Veronika Schäpers
Robbin Ami Silverberg
Rachel Simmons
Barbara Tetenbaum
Tricia Treacy
The Embodied Press: queer abstraction and the artists’ book
KALA Art Institute Gallery
2990 San Pablo Avenue
Berkeley, CA 94702
October 12, 2023 – February 9, 2024
Curated by Anthea Black
Reception: Saturday, February 3, 3 pm – 6 pm
The artists’ book is a perfect form to experience the pleasures and politics of the handmade. Saturated ink spreading across a page. Layer upon layer. Looking that quickly opens up a range of senses. The Embodied Press features artist’s books and publications by queer and transgender artists, from graphic novels and collage-works to bold experiments with letterpress, screenprinting, video, performance, and risograph. Works from the 1970s to today overlap several successive chapters of LGBTQ+ and queer-feminist political action to expand our readings of contemporary queer culture. Artists in The Embodied Press make important visual and material choices in their use of printing techniques, sequencing, and manipulation or absence of text; they revel in visual abstraction as an antidote to the daily pressure of navigating our identities. What happens when a book “frustrates legibility” or becomes difficult to read? It must be felt. Held. Absorbed and activated. Each work poses questions about difference, intersectionality and power to show that sexual, gender and racial difference cannot be easily understood or legitimized through public visibility alone. These ideas find great resonance in the artists’ book field as it radically expands the ways books can be produced, read, and understood as a form of culture.
Participating Artists:
Megan Adie
Nadine Bariteau
Joshua Beckman
Lukaza Branfman-Verissimo
Edie Fake
Tatana Kellner
Kate Laster
Emily McVarish
Heidi Neilson
Lyman Piersma
Pati Scobey
Miller & Shellabarger
Stan Shellabarger
Nicholas Shick
Clarissa Sligh
Bound to Be Different, Hand Bindings from Private Presses
American Bookbinders Museum
355 Clementina Street
San Francisco, CA 94103
Opening Reception February 3, 4:30pm
RSVP for the reception HERE
The American Bookbinders Museum is pleased to present: “Bound to Be Different, Hand Bindings from Private Presses“, showcasing a range of fine bindings crafted by eleven private presses. Each press has a unique approach to the aesthetics of printing and binding. Included are books from William Morris’s Kelmscott Press, founded in 1891, to contemporary presses.
Commercial books have a publisher (responsible for its content) and a bookmaker (responsible for its manufacture), but a private press is a publisher who is also a bookmaker. They publish limited editions in the hundreds of copies and rarely publish more than a few editions per year. In producing small, limited batches of books, great care is taken in crafting each volume.
All books in the exhibit were made entirely by hand, employing letterpress printing and hand-binding. Private presses have the freedom to publish classics or original works, and to use hand made materials and binding techniques that commercial publishers cannot replicate. As such, the books they produce are not only vessels for the conveyance of literature, they are works of art in their own right.
Monday, February 5, 2024
A Night of Radical Imagination
A celebration of the premiere of Radical Imagination, the first retrospective print portfolio of acclaimed activist artist and printmaker Favianna Rodriguez.
Monday February 5th, from 7pm to 10pm
at Favianna Rodriguez Studios
2200 Adeline St, Suite 315, Oakland, CA
Co-produced with Booklyn, Inc. and featured at Booklyn’s table (#35) at the 2024 Codex Book Fair, Feb. 4th through 7th at the Henry J. Kaiser Convention Center in Oakland, the Radical Imagination portfolio documents the impressive scope of over a decade of Rodriguez’s practice which ranges from powerful protest prints that have been editioned globally in the thousands, to the most intimate, complex, and unique linoleum block and screen-printed collages.
So please join Booklyn curators Beldan Sezen and Marshall Weber, and Favianna and members of her team, as we celebrate Favianna’s art work and the incredible activist art culture of the Bay Area. And yeah, we’ll have the good snacks and liquids for ya.
Favianna Rodriguez is an interdisciplinary artist and environmental and social justice activist based in Oakland, California. Her iconic images and unique style have launched global reconfigurations of progressive cultural consciousness best exemplified by her ubiquitous "Migration is Beautiful” butterfly design’s reconceptualizing of migration as a positive life force, countering global authoritarian attempts to demonize immigrants. Favianna co-founded, and is President of The Center for Cultural Power, a major resource provider for BIPOC artists and grassroots art organizations, she is a long-time member of the Justseeds activist printmakers cooperative. She has received the 2016 Robert Rauschenberg Artist as Activist Fellowship, the 2017 Atlantic Fellowship for Racial Equity, and the 2018 SOROS Equality Fellowship.
For more information contact mweber@booklyn.org, 917-406-1038. Register for the event on Eventbrite here.
Accessibility at the venue: This studio is located on the 3rd floor of a warehouse building, which requires visitors to go up 2 flights of stairs. If you require an elevator and/or ramp, please send an email to noemi@favianna.com so that we can tell you about the alternative entrance. This venue has wheelchair accessible bathrooms.
Please join us for a poetry reading by
CHRIS DANIELS
ELIZABETH ROBINSON
DAVID ABEL
Sunday, February 4, 7:00 pm
West Oakland Studio
2200 Adeline Street, #210A
Oakland, CA
510.506.3675
Tuesday, February 6, 2024
Charles Hobson
STUDIO ARCHIVE: Explorations for Artists’ Books.
Seager Gray Gallery
108 Throckmorton Ave.
Mill Valley, CA
Reception: 5:30pm - 8:00pm
In this inside view from the archives of Pacific Editions, Charles Hobson shares the many paintings drawings and sketches created for his rich body of trade and limited editions books along with the books themselves.
A Leaf, A Gourd, A Shell…
Performances and Readings at Dream Farm Commons
349 15th St, Oakland, CA 94612
Tuesday, February 6, 7-9 PM
For February 1-18, 2024, Dream Farm Commons and the Rhinoceros Project present “A leaf, a gourd, a shell…” a reimagining of the Rhinoceros Reading Room and Ephemera Collection. Held in conjunction with the CODEX International Book Art Fair & Symposium, this iteration of the Reading Room will present the work of some of the artists exhibiting at the fair, with an evening of readings and performance on the evening of February 6, from 7-9 PM.
For more information, please visit dreamfarmcommons.com.
Participating Artists, more to be announced:
Ioulia Akmadeeva
Antonio Guerra Gonzalez
Pokeweed Collective
Gino Robair
The Printmakers Left
The Rhinoceros Project (Anne Beck and Michelle Wilson)
Thursday, February 8, 2024
METAL / STONE / WOOD
Sarah Horowitz / Chris Stinehour / Richard Wagener
copper plate engravings / stone letter carving / wood engraving
Exhibition and Open House at The CODEX Foundation, Logan Book Arts Center
Saturday, February 3rd from 3-6pm
and
Thursday, February 8th from 12-4pm
A Radical Alteration: Women’s Studio Workshop as a Sustainable Model for Art Making
Gallery walk through and discussion
San Francisco Center for the Book
375 Rhode Island St
San Francisco, CA 94103
6 - 8 pm; presentation begins promptly at 6:30 pm
San Francisco Center for the Book will host Women’s Studio Workshop for an evening presentation of their rich 50-year history, the role WSW has played as one of the few remaining arts organizations devoted to women-identifying artists, and the importance of providing community space for studio artists to come together.
In San Francisco Center for the Book’s gallery:
A Radical Alteration: Women’s Studio Workshop as a Sustainable Model for Art Making (thru March 31, 2024)
San Francisco Center for the Book
375 Rhode Island St
San Francisco, CA 94103
Gallery hours: Wednesday - Sunday, 10 am - 5 pm
Kicking off at SFCB, Women’s Studio Workshop’s 50th anniversary exhibition looks at the organization’s rich history as a proponent of book arts for marginalized communities in the U.S., where documentation and critical analysis in the field are still largely reserved for White male artists. Through artists’ books, zines, printed materials, ephemera, and archival materials, the exhibition examines how the organization’s policies, programming, and operations have
evolved over the last fifty years, thus creating a space where the conditions of art-making and institutional support are in the service of a sustainable and more equitable art ecosystem.
Letterform Archive Open House: CODEX and the ABAA
Letterform Archive
2325 Third St. Floor 4R
San Francisco, CA 94107, USA
Reception: 5pm - 8pm
To celebrate the CODEX IX Book Fair and the 56th California International Antiquarian Book Fair, Letterform Archive welcomes book lovers for a special reception and salon.
Join us for drinks, hors d’oeuvres, and a pop-up exhibit of rare bibliographic items from the collection.