Artist Member
Variable Repetition
Handbound book, with screen printed textblock and sewn onto paper tapes with etching on paper cover.
7 ⅛w x 5 ½h x 3/16”d
Variable Repetition 2
Handbound book, with screen printed textblock and sewn onto paper tapes with etching on paper cover.
14 ¼w x 5 ½h x 3/16”d
Variable Repetition 3
Handbound book, with screen printed textblock and sewn onto paper tapes with etching on paper cover.
14 ¼w x 5 ½h x 3/16”d
Rebekah Lord Gardiner
BIO
Rebekah Lord Gardiner ‘82 graduated from the Philadelphia Colleges of the Arts, (now known as the University of the Arts) with a BFA in Printmaking. Rebekah also attended the North Bennet Street School and Brandeis University earning a certificate in Bookbinding and apost-baccalaureate in Fine Arts, respectively. She has exhibited in solo and juried shows throughout the Boston area. Rebekah’s professional career includes being a Master Printer and Production Manager at the Fabric Workshop, bookbinding instructor and guest lecturer at the North Bennet Street School and Rhode Island School of Design. Presently she co-runs Shepherd & Maudsleigh Studio with Liz Shepherd in West Newton, MA. Her work is in private collections in the United States, the UK, and France.
ARTIST’S STATEMENT
Fragments remain
Crumbling walls
Overgrown plants
Photographs
Diaries
What is left behind?
I use early 20th c. family photographs of my great grandparents’ property to investigate the ephemeral and the concrete. The prints and books that result from these investigations explore repetition, documentation, family, and gardens and are a conversation between the generations. Diaries are concrete vessels of ephemeral elements made noteworthy: weather observations, bird nests, and flowers blooming to name a few. All are gone when read by subsequent generations yet come alive in the intimate experience between the reader and the book. I am intrigued by the beauty of the documentation and the patterns created by the handwriting of the writer, my great grandmother, and yet I ask a century later; what about her thoughts and dreams? She never expressed those. As interesting as what is noted, what about what has been left out? The undercurrent that runs through my prints and books is the unspoken. The layers of imagery create the negative spaces that may hold the answers to what is not said.