EDUCATION
- B.A., Art History - University of California, Los Angeles
- M.S., Library Science - Simmons College, Boston
- Graduate work in Museum Studies – John F. Kennedy University, San Francisco
- Studies in bookbinding and the book arts at North Bennett Street School, Massachusetts College of Art, the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston and San Francisco Center for the Book
EXHIBITION HISTORY
2011
*Sedimentals (Solo Show), Community School of Music and Art, Mountain View, CA
*The Book: A Contemporary View, Delaware Center for the Contemporary Art, Wilmington, DE
*Reconstructions, Conrad Wilde Gallery, Tucson, AZ
2010
*By a Thread, San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art, San Jose, CA
*Book as Medium: Holding/Withholding Text, Mary Porter Sesnon Art Gallery, UC Santa Cruz
*Visual Conversations with Women Artists II, Pajaro Valley Arts Council, Watsonville, CA
*The Art of the Book, Donna Seager Gallery, San Rafael, CA
*It’s in the Pulp: The Art of Papermaking in Santa Cruz, Museum of Art & History, Santa Cruz
CALIFORNIA: All Media Exhibition, Cabrillo College Art Gallery, Aptos, CA
*Modified, Art Ark, San Jose, CA
2009
*Marking Time, an Exhibit of the Guild of Bookworkers, multiple locations 2009-2011
*Polygot: Expressive Media in Book Arts, Gualala Arts Center, Gualala, CA
*Beyond the Familiar Glance, Three Person Exhibit at Monterey Peninsula College, CA
*Visual Conversations with Women Artists, Eloise Pickard Smith Art Gallery, UC Santa Cruz, CA
*The Art of the Book, Donna Seager Gallery, San Rafael, CA
*In This House That I Call Home, Pajaro Valley Arts Council, Watsonville, CA
*Assemblage+Collage+Construction, Museum of Art and History, Santa Cruz, CA
*ECO-Morphosis, Santa Cruz County Bank Arts Collaborative, Santa Cruz, CA
*Altogether: Collage/Assemblage, Santa Cruz Art League, Santa Cruz, CA
Conversations, Martin Luther King Library, San Jose, CA
2008
*New West Coast Design: Books, San Francisco Center for the Book
*Conceptually Bound 3, Chico State & Community Center for Music & Art, Mtn. View
*The Art of the Book, Donna Seager Gallery, San Rafael, CA
*Art for Art, Mill Gallery, Santa Cruz, CA
*ReDo Fashion Show, Santa Cruz Art League, Santa Cruz, CA
*Annual Michelangelo Fashion Show, Santa Cruz Civic Center, Santa Cruz, CA
Bookworks 2008, San Francisco Public Library
*Banned and Recovered: Artists Respond to Censorship, African American Museum and Library, Oakland, CA
*Recollections: Celebrating 30 Years of SCRAP, Market Street Gallery, San Francisco
2007
*The Art of the Book, Donna Seager Gallery, San Rafael, CA
*Action/Interaction: Book/Art, Columbia Center for Book & Paper, Chicago, IL
*Groundbreaking, Tannery Arts Center, Santa Cruz, CA
*Fiber + Book, Fiber Art Center, Amherst, MA
*ON/OFF: Art in the Digital Era, Cabrillo College Art Gallery, Aptos, CA
*Cutting Edge Books, Cal State, Hayward, CA
*Book Arts Jam, Foothill College, Los Altos Hills, CA
*San Francisco Open Studios, San Francisco, CA
*Conceptually Bound 3, University Art Gallery, California State University, Chico
2006
*X-Libris: 10th Anniversay Exhibit, San Francisco Center for the Book
*Art of the Book, 1212 Gallery, Burlingame, CA
*Remembrances & Transformations of the Book, Cabrillo College Art Gallery, Aptos, CA
*Don Q (lobby exhibit), Theatre of Yugen, San Francisco, CA
Bookworks 2006, San Francisco Public Library, San Francisco, CA
Bound to Inspire, Olive Hyde Gallery, Fremont, CA
*Book Arts Jam, Foothill College, Los Altos Hills, CA
2005
*4th International Book & Paper Triennial, Columbia College, Chicago, IL.
*Shared Passions, Euphrat Museum, De Anza College, Cupertino, CA
*Recycled Show, NIDO Gallery, Moss Landing, CA
2004
*Works on Paper, Santa Cruz Art League, Santa Cruz, CA (Award Winner)
*Book Arts Jam, Foothill College, Los Altos Hills, CA
$19.99, Santa Cruz Institute of Art, Santa Cruz, CA
*What’s in a Book, New Langton Arts, San Francisco, CA
Touch My Books…Please, Art Museum of Los Gatos, Los Gatos, CA
*Exhibit of Recent Work by Faculty and Friends of San Francisco Center for the Book, The Book Club of California, San Francisco, CA
A Book in the Hand…, Diablo Valley College Art Gallery, Pleasant Hills, CA
Reversing Vandalism, San Francisco Public Library, San Francisco, CA
2003
*Washi in American Artist’s Books, Center for Book Arts, New York, NY,
*In Flight: Guild of Book Workers Traveling Exhibit, Traveling exhibit, U.S. tour, Fall 2003 through Summer 2005
*Book/Marks, Graduate Theological Union, Berkeley, CA
*Book Arts Jam, Foothill College, Los Altos Hills, CA
Book Works 2003, San Francisco Public Library, CA
Instructors’ Exhibit, Center for Book Arts, New York, NY
Pacific Center for Book Arts Members’ Exhibit, Mechanics’ Institute Library, San Francisco, CA
2002
*Open Studios, 2002, Sponsored by the Cultural Council of Santa Cruz County, CA
*Conceptually Bound 2, Coyote Gallery/Butte College Library, Oroville, CA
Best of Mountain Studios, Santa Cruz Mountains Art Center, Ben Lomond, CA
Hand Bookbinders of California 30th Annual Members' Exhibit, San Francisco Public Library
*3rd National Columbia Book and Paper Arts Biennial, Columbia College, Chicago, IL
*72nd Annual Statewide Exhibit, Santa Cruz Art League, Santa Cruz, CA
Celebrating Teachers as Artists, San Francisco Center for the Book, San Francisco, CA
The Scene and the Unseen, Santa Cruz Mountains Art Center (Fourth Place Juror’s Prize)
2001
*Public Space Exhibits
Santa Cruz County Building and Health Services Building, Santa Cruz, CA
*Open Studios, 2001, Sponsored by the Cultural Council of Santa Cruz County, CA
*Juried All-Media Exhibition, 2001, Monterey Museum of Art, Monterey, CA
*Statewide Book Arts Competition and Exhibition, Triton Museum, Santa Clara, CA
Bookworks 2001: PCBA Members Exhibit, San Francisco Public Library, San Francisco, CA
*Conceptually Bound, 1078 Gallery, Chico, CA
Nine &Poet’s Eye/Artist’s Tongue, Santa Cruz Mountains Art Center, Ben Lomond, CA
2000
Public Space Exhibit, Santa Cruz Public Library, Scotts Valley Branch, Scotts Valley, CA
*Open Studios 2000, Sponsored by the Cultural Council of Santa Cruz County, CA
eARTh Show (Awarded best in category: Incorporating Natural Earth Materials)
Poet’s Eye/Artist’s Tongue & Simply Red, Santa Cruz Mountains Art Center, Ben Lomond, CA
*Third Biennial Artists’ Books Juried Exhibition, La Jolla Athenaeum, Music & Arts Library
Days of the Handmade Book, South Regional Museum of Art, South Bend, IN
*Book Explorations 2000, New Art Forum, Kingston, MA
1999
Rugg Road Paper Artists’ Book Show, Rugg Road Paper Company, Boston, MA
*Magic Paper/Magic Book Show, Chicago Public Library, Harold Washington Library Center
Artists’ Books Created by Pine Manor College Faculty, Pine Manor College, Annenberg Library, Chestnut Hill, MA
*Book Explorations ’99, New Art Forum, Kingston, MA
Awarded Honorable Mention for Excellence in Artistic Creativity
L’Infinito de Giacomo Leopardi: 620 Relieurs du Monde pour un Poeme, Bibliotheque Historique de la Ville de Paris, France
1998
*Abecedariums: An Exhibit of the Guild of Book Workers, Traveling show, U.S. tour, Fall 1998 through Winter 2000
*New Frontiers in Book Art: Artists’ Books in New England, Cambridge Art Association, Lowell Street Gallery, Cambridge, MA
Bookbinding as Art, Inaugural Exhibition, Recanati, Italy
*Book Explorations ’98, New Art Forum, Kingston, MA
1997
Days of the Handmade Book, Colfax Cultural Center, South Bend, Indiana and St. Mary’s College, Notre Dame, Indiana
*The Open Book: A National Show of Contemporary Bookworks, Dancing Horse Studios, Denver, Colorado
Third Wexford Artists’ Book Exhibition, Wexford Arts Centre, Wexford, Ireland
SELECTED COLLECTIONS
Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT
University of Washington, Seattle, WA
University of Oregon, Eugene, OR
Oberlin College, Oberlin, OH
Mary K. Austin
Neal Connerty
Carlos Mangana
Mark Henderson and Anne Sconberg
TEACHING
Foothill College, Los Altos Hills, CA (2002-present)
University of California, Santa Cruz, CA (2007-present)
Monterey Peninsula College, Monterey, CA (2009)
Cabrillo College Summer Arts Workshops (2006)
University of California, Extension, Santa Cruz, CA (2000-2005)
San Francisco Center for the Book, San Francisco, CA (1999-present)
Center for Book Arts, New York, NY (2003-2005)
Community School for Music and Art, Mountain View, CA (2003-2004)
SELECTED LECTURES
School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA 2011
Book Arts Jam, Foothill College 2010
University of California, Santa Cruz 2010
Book Arts Jam, Foothill College 2008
Cabrillo Arts, Summer Arts Workshops 2006
Sacramento Book Arts Group 2004
CURATING
After the Flood: A Rescue and Release Project with Books
Cabrillo College, 100 Building and Library Display cases
Decorated Cloth Book Covers from the Turn of the Century: Selected Treasures from the Annenberg Library
Pine Manor College, Annenberg Library, Chestnut Hill, MA. 1998
Selected and researched items from the library’s special collection of “Distinguished Women’s First Editions” for display in the library.
BIBLIOGRAPHY
500 Handmade Books: Inspiring Interpretations of a Timeless Form. Asheville, NC: Lark Books, 2008. Work appears on pages 10, 66, 335.
Cyr, Gabe. New Directions in Altered Books. Asheville, NC: Lark Books, 2006. Work appears on pages 16, 17 & 21.
Dog Eared Magazine: a Journal of Book Arts: Issues two, four, eight.
Feliciano, Kristina. Making Memory Books by Hand. Rockport Publishing, 1999. Work appears on pages 34-35.
Golden, Alisa. Expressive Handmade Books. New York: Sterling Publishing, 2005. Work appears on page 95.
Kogan, Deborah. “Artists Making Fabric Books” Ampersand 25.1 (2007). Work profiled in article on pages 1-8.
LaPlantz, Shereen. The Art and Craft of Handmade Books. Lark Books, 2001.
Work appears on page 81.
Manoogian, Jone and Kara Sjoblom. “Bay Area Book Artists.” Crart Magazine. October 2002. Work appears on pages 54-55.
Taylor, Terry. Eco Books. Asheville, NC: Lark Books, 2009. Work appears on page 32.
Watson, Chris. “Book Artist Jody Alexander Explores the Character of Books.” Santa Cruz Sentinel 11 Feb. 2010: C1-C2.
REVIEWS
Bing, Alison. “Celebrating Teachers as Artists” (Review). SFGate.com, 2002.
<http://www.sfgate.com/listings/event.php?art,e111491>
Davidson, Maureen.”Threads at ICA San Jose Tugs at a Loose Idea.” The Exhibitionist [Blog] 6 April 2010. KUSP.org. Web.
Davidson, Maureen. “Book as Medium: Holding/Withholding Text at UCSC Sesnon Gallery.” The Exhibitionist [Blog] 2 Mar 2010. KUSP.org. Web.
Polanski, G. Jurek. “AbeCedarium: An Exhibit of Alphabet Books, March 13 – 15 May, 1999, Newberry Library, Chicago” (Review). ARTSCOPE.NET, 1999.
Rathermel, Jeff. “A priest, a yuppie and a sports fan walk into a book art exhibition…” Guild of Bookworkers Newsletter. 187 (2009): 28-29.
