Finally Artist's Book by CB Sherlock
This artist’s book is featured in the 2022 & 2023 McKnight Fellowship Exhibition, on display in MCBA’s Main Gallery from January 21st, 2025 to March 30th, 2025. They will ship on April 5th, 2025, after the exhibition has closed.
This piece is featured in the February 2025 issue of The Fore Edge, a quarterly newsletter from MCBA that highlights new artist’s books and zines for collections, universities, and libraries. If you are interested in receiving this newsletter, there is a sign up available here. Past featured pieces can be viewed here.
“This book is a result of several years exploring the Yellowstone River and reflecting on my lifelong connection to it. I would travel along the river, stopping at fishing access points where I'd take photos, draw the river shoreline, look at the colors, and experience the sun overhead. Back at my studio I figured out the correct paper, brush, and pens before drawing each location. With the drawings I started writing. I started with words like KINSHIP, ENVIRONMENT, AND CHARACTER. Each word inspired a vignette, a tale about the river, or just a fact about me that had brought me back to this river again and again. I had ten drawings in the end, ten stories.
Turning these into a book was originally overwhelming. So I decided to make a smaller project. Use one drawing, but several stories that would fit together. The book, Finally, is the result. The center page is one of the first drawings of the yellow sandstone bluff along the Yellowstone River. I divided my chosen text into four parts. Two layouts are the first and third sections with text, sun motifs, and handwritten text to alluding to the river of the primary image. It is a book of the shoreline, the water, and the brilliant sun.” - CB Sherlock
With slipcase - 11.5” x 10.5” x 0.75”
Without slipcase - 11.25” x 10.25” 0.5”
*Consignment item. Not eligible for 10% membership discount. All consignment purchases are final and non-refundable once shipped.
This artist’s book is featured in the 2022 & 2023 McKnight Fellowship Exhibition, on display in MCBA’s Main Gallery from January 21st, 2025 to March 30th, 2025. They will ship on April 5th, 2025, after the exhibition has closed.
This piece is featured in the February 2025 issue of The Fore Edge, a quarterly newsletter from MCBA that highlights new artist’s books and zines for collections, universities, and libraries. If you are interested in receiving this newsletter, there is a sign up available here. Past featured pieces can be viewed here.
“This book is a result of several years exploring the Yellowstone River and reflecting on my lifelong connection to it. I would travel along the river, stopping at fishing access points where I'd take photos, draw the river shoreline, look at the colors, and experience the sun overhead. Back at my studio I figured out the correct paper, brush, and pens before drawing each location. With the drawings I started writing. I started with words like KINSHIP, ENVIRONMENT, AND CHARACTER. Each word inspired a vignette, a tale about the river, or just a fact about me that had brought me back to this river again and again. I had ten drawings in the end, ten stories.
Turning these into a book was originally overwhelming. So I decided to make a smaller project. Use one drawing, but several stories that would fit together. The book, Finally, is the result. The center page is one of the first drawings of the yellow sandstone bluff along the Yellowstone River. I divided my chosen text into four parts. Two layouts are the first and third sections with text, sun motifs, and handwritten text to alluding to the river of the primary image. It is a book of the shoreline, the water, and the brilliant sun.” - CB Sherlock
With slipcase - 11.5” x 10.5” x 0.75”
Without slipcase - 11.25” x 10.25” 0.5”
*Consignment item. Not eligible for 10% membership discount. All consignment purchases are final and non-refundable once shipped.
This artist’s book is featured in the 2022 & 2023 McKnight Fellowship Exhibition, on display in MCBA’s Main Gallery from January 21st, 2025 to March 30th, 2025. They will ship on April 5th, 2025, after the exhibition has closed.
This piece is featured in the February 2025 issue of The Fore Edge, a quarterly newsletter from MCBA that highlights new artist’s books and zines for collections, universities, and libraries. If you are interested in receiving this newsletter, there is a sign up available here. Past featured pieces can be viewed here.
“This book is a result of several years exploring the Yellowstone River and reflecting on my lifelong connection to it. I would travel along the river, stopping at fishing access points where I'd take photos, draw the river shoreline, look at the colors, and experience the sun overhead. Back at my studio I figured out the correct paper, brush, and pens before drawing each location. With the drawings I started writing. I started with words like KINSHIP, ENVIRONMENT, AND CHARACTER. Each word inspired a vignette, a tale about the river, or just a fact about me that had brought me back to this river again and again. I had ten drawings in the end, ten stories.
Turning these into a book was originally overwhelming. So I decided to make a smaller project. Use one drawing, but several stories that would fit together. The book, Finally, is the result. The center page is one of the first drawings of the yellow sandstone bluff along the Yellowstone River. I divided my chosen text into four parts. Two layouts are the first and third sections with text, sun motifs, and handwritten text to alluding to the river of the primary image. It is a book of the shoreline, the water, and the brilliant sun.” - CB Sherlock
With slipcase - 11.5” x 10.5” x 0.75”
Without slipcase - 11.25” x 10.25” 0.5”
*Consignment item. Not eligible for 10% membership discount. All consignment purchases are final and non-refundable once shipped.
CB Sherlock (she/her) is a book artist and printmaker. Her work originates in themes of nature, community, belonging, and identity which is achieved through combining lettered images, nature, and unique book structures. She made her first book in third grade and continues to make artist books. As an Artist Coop member at the Traffic Zone Center for Visual Arts, she is able to flourish as an artist and teacher of letterpress and nontraditional bindings.
As a letterpress printer, book artist and paper engineer, CB creates small edition books, prints, and one of a kind works of art. In book making she is able to use the intimacy, flexibility, movement through time, and inter-active qualities of the book. Multiple techniques are engaged in the image making: hand painting, paper collaged, painterly printing. It all comes into formation from the inside out, first the text block, then covers, slipcase or box. Some projects retain the familiarity of the book, other depart. Each one is to be touched, interacted with, viewed and read
Her work is exhibited nationally and internationally and has been recognized by the Minnesota Book Awards, the Hertzog Awards and the International Competition of the Society of Book Binders. They can be found in many special collections including the Walker Art Center, the British Library, and MOMA.
