On Exhibit: "A Visual Feast"

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Bromer Gallery is pleased to announce the opening of our next exhibition, "A Visual Feast: The Art of Laura Davidson and David Esslemont", on Thursday, February 21st, with a cocktail reception from 5:30 to 7:00 pm. 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

  • 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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  • Alphabet Gothique par Midolle.

    Alphabet Gothique par Midolle.

    N.p. (1845). Octavo. (26)ff. A manuscript alphabet book of calligraphic paintings, signed by the artist, Jean Midolle. Includes an elaborately decorated title page, twenty-four letters, and "Fin." A renowned nineteenth-century Swiss calligrapher and miniature-painter, Midolle executed his alphabets in the gothic style of lettering to resemble the text of a....

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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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  • 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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  • The Little of our Earthly Trust.

    The Little of our Earthly Trust.

    San Francisco: Arion Press, 2016. Small quarto. 96pp. One of 300 copies. Signed by the artist at colophon. Twenty-four three-color relief prints by Newman. Each recreates a drawing made between 1988 and 2016 of a small sculpture. The volume contains thirty-nine of Bishop's poems, selected by Helen Vendler, who also...

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  • Beginning to End. A Selection from the works of Samuel Beckett.

    Beginning to End. A Selection from the works of Samuel Beckett.

    NY: Gotham Book Mart, 1988. First edition. One of 300 numbered copies, signed by Beckett and Gorey. Adapted by Samuel Beckett and Jack MacGowran. Design and typography by Ronald Gordon and Dean Bornstein, and illustrated throughout with vignettes by Gorey, printed in blue. Fine in patterned paper over boards. (Toledano B76b).

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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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  • 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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  • Death of a Naturalist.

    Death of a Naturalist.

    NY: Oxford University Press, 1966. Octavo. First American edition. One of 1,000 copies comprised of sheets from the first edition with a new title page. This is Heaney's first commercially produced verse collection, preceded by Eleven Poems, a pamphlet published by Queen's University in Belfast. The future Nobel Laureate's richly...

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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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