Amy Borezo
Orange, Massachusetts

Amy Borezo received an MFA in Painting/Printmaking from the Rhode Island School of Design in 2000. While there, she studied Letterpress and the Art of the Book at Brown University with Walter Feldman. After graduating, she studied bookbinding with Barry Spence and worked for Master Bookbinder Daniel Kelm. Amy opened Shelter Bookworks in 2005, a full-service bookbinding and letterpress studio in Orange, Massachusetts. Her artist's books are exhibited widely and are in a variety of major institutional and private collections. Amy also teaches book and print related courses, most recently at Dartmouth College.

Website: shelterbookworks.com

Labor / Movement (seven workers), 2012

Labor/Movement / (seven workers) depicts movement visually in book form while calling attention to the complexity of everyday human activity. The book tracks the motions of seven workers over a brief period of time with lines that intersect and interact, forming an intricate pattern on top of a static industrial floor. Each folio is sewn onto the mountain fold of a concertina. When the concertina is fully extended, a portion of each page can be seen simultaneously with each other page. The text is 'Lecture on Moving', by avant-garde dancer Yvonne Rainer.

Dimensions: Closed: 12 x 15 inches, 30.5 x 38 centimeters; Open: 12 x 60 inches, 30.5 x 152.5 centimeters

Hand-set metal and wood type and photopolymer plate printing on Stonehenge paper. Concertina is Tiziano paper. Cover is book cloth over boards.