Claire Kessler-Bradner

Claire is a second-generation San Francisco printmaker. Growing up in the culture of the print shop, she developed a love of process and problem-solving, seductive materials, equipment and tools, and the camaraderie of making art together. These early interests have translated into three interrelated branches of her practice: a socially engaged inquiry into human connections in shared space, a studio practice where printmaking, bookmaking, drawing and sculptural techniques meet this narrative social content, and a teaching practice designed to engage a new generation in the materiality and the diverse visual languages of art. Claire has a masters degree from the California College of the Arts.

The Poetics of Place

The typewriter becomes a drawing tool for the artist. In this book, Kessler-Bradner draws the shapes of her house and neighborhood with each line literally describing what it is.

paper, magnani pescia woodcut, print inkjet on print on BFK.

$225