Artist Member
Crescendo
378 Days, 378 Pages
Going North, Going West
Just Sitting I
Laurie Alpert 
BIO
Laurie Alpert is a Printmaker and Book Artist from Brookline, Massachusetts. She has her BFA in Painting from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, and her MFA in Painting from Massachusetts College of Art and Design. Alpert’s professional affiliations include membership at the Bromfield Gallery in Boston’s South End and Full Tilt Print Studio, a professional printmaking cooperative, in Hyde Park. She is also a member of Boston Printmakers, the Monotype Guild of New England, the New York Center for Book Arts, the Philadelphia Center for the Book and the New England Book Artists.
ARTIST’S STATEMENT
I make Artists’ Books because, for quite some time, my prints had included music and a variety of different types of text. Each piece was sequential but confined to the rectangle, and it made perfect sense to me to transform the work into book form.
While experimenting with a variety of Artists’ Book structures, I became more and more interested in sculptural forms and the different ways in which books can be bound (or unbound). The work asks the question as to whether each “page” can exist on its own as a strong and resolved image; or whether it needs the sequential context in which to exist.
The images in the books begin with photographs that I’ve taken, either of my studio floor, twigs sticking out of the snow, a bar of soap (yes, soap!) or other seemingly mundane things that I happen upon. I then manipulate them and turn them into Polyester Plate Lithographs prints and/or transform them into sculptural, unique books. The origin of the work is inconsequential – it is the alteration that gives the image its new life.