Living with Dying: Grief, Loss, Beauty and Joy
Birthday Card, hand-sewing and letterpress, 10 x 8 inches, 2021
Katherine Kuehn is a printmaker and book artist. She spent nineteen years working at Pace Editions in New York City. There she collaborated with contemporary artists to produce editioned prints and unique works. She taught book arts and printmaking at Whitman College in Walla Walla, Washington and at the Oregon College of Arts and Crafts. In 2014 she moved to Portland, Oregon where she established her own studio. She continues to work as a freelance printer and bookbinder; she also continues to publish under her own imprint, The Salient Seedling Press. While teaching at the Oregon College of Art and Craft she began sewing texts on various fabrics including ribbons. These pieces are exhibited along with her books. Her books and sewn text pieces can be found in numerous Book Arts collections.
About Birthday Card Katherine writes:
My husband Richard Mahon was a man of few possessions. Following his death in May, 2021, I am now slowly looking through the things Richard squirreled away in his study. I have begun making boxes with hand printed labels describing the meaning and origin of these ephemeral items. These boxes will be tucked into Richard’s bookshelves. The birthday card I sent to this exhibition will be folded and placed in an envelope to join my other tributes to Richard’s memory. This activity is bringing me great comfort.