The cover of this book is made with some kind of rubbery plastic that looks like moleskin. The title is embossed into the front. Inside is a compilation of drawings by over forty artists who apparently got six pages to “present here their research of ideas or their depictions of various universes”. Sounds like they needed a fancy way to say drawings of anything the artist wanted. I only recognize a handful of the artists work. It’s a real range of style, from watercolor paintings to pen drawings to collages. Ok I admit the real reason I bought this book was because I saw Marcel Dzama was one of the contributors but I did learn about a few new interesting artists like Marie Dainat who makes beautiful cut-outs or Valerie du Chene whose color palette is amazing. You can pick up a copy of this book here.

© Julia Rothman 2007