Stephen Sidelinger

Stephen Sidelinger is an artist/designer/educator/architectural colorist/textile artist/embroiderer and a book artist. He draws upon all these disciplines to create his unique, hand-bound books, which are in public and private collections throughout the world. He is the author of Color Manual, published by Prentice-Hall, and is currently writing Visual Language, based on his course of the same title. He is a professor of art at the Otis College of Art and Design.

On Exhibit

Book of the Human Condition: Plays of Tennesee Williams
Venice, 1982
Gouache, silk book with hidden compartment, velvet binding with gold embroidery
Unique

"The book was originally just a means of presentation for my work. I was inspired by the communication of proletariat manuscripts, their artistic beauty, and their multi-layered narratives. In the 250+ volumes I have created, I am most often attempting to evoke a mood on a given topic through a series of abstract illustrations. In the bindings I like to toy gently with the traditions of classic binding types to give the final object a slightly more modern context. "

Terra Firma
Venice, 1990
UCLA Arts Library

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