On Exhibit: "A Visual Feast"

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Bromer Gallery is pleased to announce the exhibition "A Visual Feast: The Art of Laura Davidson and David Esslemont". The exhibit brings together prints, watercolors, woodcuts, calligraphy, drawing, and bookbinding to create a tableau of book artistry.
 
Based out of Boston’s Fort Point neighborhood, Laura Davidson centers her work on past-made-present, using found objects and soft textures to imbue her work with nostalgia. She expresses her talents through a range of media, including books, drawings, prints, paper mosaics, and paper sculptures. 
 
David Esslemont, born in England and currently a resident of northeast Iowa, focuses much of his artistic attention on the interaction between nature, art, and humanity. He often directly engages with nature in order to best present its nuanced beauty, and participates in his own visual narratives in his series of “food” books.
 
The exhibition will be on view until May 3rd, 2019. Learn more about the gallery and the artistry and craftsmanship of Laura Davidson and David Esslemont's work on the Bromer Gallery website, gallery.bromer.com.

Featured Books

  • Bog Poems.

    Bog Poems.

    London: Rainbow Press, 1975. First edition. One of 150 copies signed by the author. With full page two-color illustrations by Barrie Cooke. Handsomely printed early limited edition prints eight poems thematically related to Heaney's poetic pursuit of the archaeology of Ireland's violent past. These poems were published a month ahead...

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  • Q.R.V.

    Q.R.V.

    Boston: Anne & David Bromer, 1989. (32)ff. From an edition of 400 copies, this is one of 110 hand-colored in metallic casein by the artist, and signed by him below the colophon. This Gorey rarity is bound in a one-of-a-kind designer binding by Brother Edgard Claes, a binder known for...

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  • Mite Series in Tartan.

    Mite Series in Tartan.

    Glasgow: Bryce, David, & Son, (c. 1900-1905). Five miniature volumes. (127); (127); (240); (384); (127)pp. The volumes included are: Golden Thoughts from Great Authors; Witty, Humorous, and Merry Thoughts; Robert Burns' Poems, Chiefly in the Scottish Dialect; The Smallest English Dictionary in the World; and Old English, Scotch, and Irish...

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  • The Headless Bust. A Melancholy Meditation on the False Millennium.

    The Headless Bust. A Melancholy Meditation on the False Millennium.

    NY: Harcourt Brace, 1999. First edition. One of twenty-six lettered copies, signed by Gorey. An adventure in verse of a man and his companion, the Bahhumbug. The end of their journey marks the start of the new millennium. With Bahhumbug beanbag toy, well-dressed in suit, tie, and spats, and standing...

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  • CARNET DE BAL (dance card holder).

    CARNET DE BAL (dance card holder).

    A nineteenth-century French solid gold enamel binding containing five bone leaves. First appearing around 1820, the carnets de bal were used to record the order of an evening's dances, as well as the name of the partner for a particular dance. This opulent example is decorated with a leaf border;...

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  • Airs and Angels.

    Airs and Angels.

    (Carrollton, OH: Press on Scroll Road, 2007). Quarto. xv, (21)pp. One of 60 copies. A book of thirteen poems by Irish poet Peter Fallon, with three color illustrations by Carol Blinn, title-page calligraphy by Jerry Kelly, and a foreword by Wendell Berry. Bound by Priscilla Spitler in marbled paper-covered boards...

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  • The Song & Story of the Three Holy Children: Shadrach, Meshach & Abed-Nego.

    The Song & Story of the Three Holy Children: Shadrach, Meshach &...

    Lexington, KY: Anvil Press, 1978. Small quarto. (16)ff. One of 75 copies. Illustrated with four woodcuts by Thomas. These depict the brutal scenes of the story, including the children's refusal to bow before King Nebuchadnezzar's golden idol and the angel saving the children from burning. Above the story from the...

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  • Weaving (cover title).

    Weaving (cover title).

    Kansas: 1898-1899. Oblong octavo. (19)ff. A double accordion-fold album of thirty-one woven paper designs in brown and coral. Included in this group are two weavings with movable elements, and one in the form of a frame with an image in the center. These examples of a popular kindergarten activity were...

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  • Architectural picture alphabet.

    Architectural picture alphabet.

    Vienna: J. de Pian and L. Müller, 1842-44. Folio. 26ff. Twenty-six color lithographs after Jean Baptiste de Pian, printed and finished by hand by the noted Viennese lithographers Leopold Müller, Johann Höfelich, and M. R. Toma, each tipped into mounts and matted. Each plate in this series has a large.......

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  • Die Fläche.

    Die Fläche.

    Vienna: Anton Schroll, c. 1903-1910. Two volumes in three small quarto portfolios. 192; 32pp. First volume loose and second volume accordion-fold, as issued. Full run of Die Fläche, or The Surface, a periodical produced by members of the Wiener Werkstätte to showcase and disseminate the work created in the Workshops.......

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  • Beowulf.

    Beowulf.

    Market Drayton: Tern Press, 1984. Octavo. (118)pp. From an edition of 310 copies this is one of ten with original drawings and an inlaid morocco binding. Signed by the translator, John Porter, and the artist, Parry, at colophon. Contains title decoration and thirteen pen and ink drawings. Bound in full...

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  • Simon Brett: An Engraver's Progress. A Selection of Engravings with an Introduction by the...

    Simon Brett: An Engraver's Progress. A Selection of Engravings with an Introduction...

    Mission, British Columbia, Canada: Barbarian Press, 2013. Folio. (50)pp., + 134ff. plates. One of 120 copies of the regular edition. Illustrated with 134 examples of Brett's wood engravings. Number four in the Barbarian Press Endgrain Edition series of books on individual wood engravers. This volume includes an autobiographical Introduction by...

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