Heartstones: Josie Iselin's environmental photography at Red Hill Books February 12, 2008

Josie Iselin will show her environmental art and sign books at Red Hill for an engaging evening just before Valentine's day. Her new book Heart Stones is an unabashedly sentimental meditation on the wonder of found natural objects and the romance of nature's synchronistic forms.

Josie Iselin holds a BA in Visual and Environmental Studies from Harvard and an MFA from San Francisco State University. She began her art career in the field of photography and installation art, exhibiting throughout the Bay Area and teaching at the California College of Arts and Crafts (CCA). She has exhibited at The Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, Intersection for the Arts, SF Camerawork, SF Art Commission City Site and other venues.

She uses her flatbed scanner and computer exclusively for generating her imagery. She has done so for over a decade and is still captivated by the fluidity with which this technique allows her to render and design with three-dimensional objects. Each book is built with-in the computer, in essence as a piece of sculpture.

Her first book, Loving Blind/SeeingRed: A Mother’s Decade, was produced as an artist’s book by Trillium Press, Brisbane, CA in 2004.

Her second and third books, Beach Stones and Leaves & Pods, were both released in 2006 by Abrams, an imprint of Harry N. Abrams, Inc, New York, NY. Her third book in the series on forms in nature, Seashells, came out in June 2007 and the fourth book, Heart Stones, is launching in time for Valentines Day, 2008.

Cost: FREE!

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