“2020 is the 30th anniversary of Robbin Ami Silverberg’s artist book studio, Dobbin Books, housed at Dobbin Mews, an old horse stables in Greenpoint, Brooklyn.
For 30 years, she has designed, produced & published more than 25 collaborative artist books along with circa 60 solo editions, 55 unique artist books, and about 20 artist book installations. Examples of Dobbin Books publications are found in over 130 public collections & numerous private ones.
Silverberg is involved in all aspects of the work: from creating content, whether as imagery or text, to designing & producing the entire book: design & production of the paper, printing, binding, and boxing. The desire to make all facets of an artist book publication is due to her intention to realize a coherent whole work of art, along with her love of the creative processes involved.
Unique to Dobbin Books is that Silverberg runs one of four hand papermaking studios in NYC, and she maintains that the paper should be an activated substrate that supports & enhances the book’s content & design.
The exhibition presents 68 artist books dating from 1992 to 2019, along with three videos and three installations."
"This catalog was published on the occasion of my retrospective, Read Me. Like a Book., at the library on Pratt Institute’s Brooklyn campus.
It highlights 30 artist books representing the 30 years of Dobbin Books' publications.”
Catalogue published on the occasion of a retrospective exhibition, richly illustrated with colour and b/w images, contains 3 essays by Paul van Capelleveen, Susanne Padberg, and Michael Joseph, with an afterword by Kirk E. Pillow and Russ Abell.
Hard cover, 20,5 x 28,5 cm, 164 pages, New York 2020
ISBN: 978-1-7342054-0-4
