Barbara Landes and Paul Sullivan
On Nov 16 2020, we had a wonderful video studio visit with Beth Racette, an artist, who is in charge of the visual art shows at the Overture Center for the Arts in Madison WI. It was part of a virtual fundraiser. Videographer is Dave Alcorn and the editor is Michael Koszewski.
Our 2016 Overture Show is here. (It is the 2nd show down on the page.)
Our collaboration is indivisible. We make the parts together, and we compose with them together. When we sketch, we’ll often swop a sharpie back and forth. See How we work for more.
Paul Sullivan working on abaca tapestry. Madison WI
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Papermaking
We got hooked on papermaking at Dieu Donné, the great papermill in NYC. We were taught by their then studio director, Pat Almonrode, in the last class he taught there back around 2000. Later, we took advantage of their open studio nights.
In the 2012/2013 school year, we worked with Tim Barrett in Iowa (Barbara as a grad student, Paul as a walk-on.)
Full time collaborators since 2015
Barbara Landes at the studio 2020. Madison WI (a nice picture of the artist, but piece is made from corrugated cardboard & no handmade paper)
We met in the 1990s at the NY Academy of Art, a grad school for figurative art in NYC. The figure didn’t stick with us, but we did. We shared a studio in Jersey City at 111 First St for 8 years.
Before NYAA -
Barbara got a BS from James Madison U and also studied at the Maryland Institute. She spent a year at the Memphis College of Art.
Paul went to the Art Students League for a few years. After NYAA, he studied Industrial Design at Pratt.
We moved to Madison for more grad school for Barbara in printmaking and papermaking at UW Madison (MFA 2013) and the Center for the Book at the Univ of Iowa in Iowa City.
Feel free to email: landessullivan at gmail.com
casting arrangement for drying 5 hr abaca with reed, bobby pins and and 2 x 4s with kozo. The object wrapped in blue tape is a separate cast of ping pong balls.
the dried object flipped over. We’ve made several of these long segmented objects because the openings and some twistiness make them ideal for combining or attaching other objects.
using the object strung across the top of a composition
9/13/22 cast abaca papers with reed and bobby pin inclusions, abaca wrapped paneling, painted foam board 3’ x 4.5’ x 2’