About
Alice Austin is a Philadelphia printmaker, painter, sculptor and book artist.
Her work is held in museums, private, public and special collections worldwide, including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Library of Congress, the Museum of Modern Art, and the Tate Gallery, London.
Coming soon...
Alice will be an exhibitor at the
CODEX IX International Biennial Book Fair February 4-7, 2024 at the HJK Convention Center, Oakland California.
See a video of Alice's 2015 presentation at the Library of Congress .
Her art work is also featured in the books 500 Handmade Books, Magic Books and Paper Toys, 1000 Artists' Books and Making Handmade Books . Her artist books have been reviewed in Fine Books magazine and in the New Yorker magazine's Book Bench blog.
Featured new work
Blanket Bog
Covid Year
nesting
UPCOMING
COVID YEAR
"COVID Year,” a book of 25 linoleum prints,is a presentation of pandemic thoughts and occurrences, with a focus on the seasonal plants from my garden.
The book measures 7.75” x 10.75," is an edition of ten, each signed and numbered, and housed in a clamshell box.
The hand-carved linoleum prints and the Garamond hand-set type are printed on Zerkall Book paper.
ROME PROJECT
The Rome Project reflects my experiences while a visiting artist at the American Academy in Rome in 2009, 2010 and 2013, studying the 1748 map by Giambattista Nolli, the Piante Grande di Roma. My intent was to synthesize the character of this historic map with the layers, patterns and textures of modern Rome through photographs, drawings and paintings made at locations highlighted in Nolli’s map. The results took many forms — an offset-printed book, hand-made paper pulp paintings, watercolors, drawings, linoleum prints and etchings.
Download a PDF of the show catalog .
RECENT EXHIBITIONS
Group exhibition by the Delaware Valley Chapter of the Guild of Book Workers. City Hall, Philadelphia, Pa.
May 1 - June 30, 2023
Alice’s book “COVID Year” has been selected for exhibition in the Designer Bookbinders International Competition 2022, “A Gathering of Leaves."
Currently on display in Edinburgh.
University of Edinburgh, Main Library Gallery, November 4, 2022 - February 25, 2023
Bodleian Libraries, Oxford University, UK, July 6 - Sept. 18, 2022
An Exhibition of work from The Ballinglen Museum of Art Permanent Collection. Curated by Ruth Fine. Open by appointment until March 11th 2023.
January 2 -March 11 2023