As a former bookbinder, I am deeply connected to the book. I am well versed in how books are made and how materials, content, typography and images can alter the reader’s experience. I see the book as a performative vehicle to express different concepts as a maker, reader and even destroyer. I have made and dismantled thousands of books and reorganized them in varying ways in response to current book banning, assaults on fact-based journalism, the retelling of history and the misrepresentation of truth.
Amanda Love (b.1974 Columbia, South Carolina) lives and works in Granville, Ohio. Love is an interdisciplinary artist with a background in bookbinding, typography, and book conservation. In two decades in Chicago she regularly exhibited sculpture and artist books, collaborated with artist/musicians on numerous creative projects, founded LoveLeaf Press, fine bookbinding, letterpress and design studio. Love’s work ranges from small intimate works to large scale installations.
