Claudia Marchand * Graphic Design

Catalog design for a 2025–2026 traveling exhibition of recent encaustic paintings and sculpture by artist Sara Mast, published and organized by the College of Arts and Architecture, Montana State University. Includes plate images, many detail photos, and several essays that discuss abstraction of the landscape, ecological stewardship, and the significant role of PEM glass used by the artist as a material for her sculpture and encaustic (pigmented wax) paintings. This 32-page printed catalog will accompany the exhibition to several venues in the region, including Helen E. Copeland Gallery at MSU in Bozeman, MT. Website: art.montana.edu/copeland-gallery. (Cover image: detail of Standing in the River, 2023, encaustic on Encausticbord, 72 x 108 inches, 9 panels. Photo: Ryan Parker, ©Sara Mast)

Catalog for the exhibition Sue Coe: Why No Justice? at the Museum of Art of the University of New Hampshire in Durham, NH, from September 7–December 2, 2023. (Pictured above is the cover of the exhibition catalog with Strike, 1980, mixed media on heavy wove paper.) The exhibition, curated by Museum of Art Director, Kristina L. Durocher, displays a selection of political activist artworks done in a variety of medium by artist and illustrator Sue Coe from 1980–1994, courtesy of Gallerie St. Etienne, NYC, with financial assistance from the Museum of Art Social Justice Fund and Friends of the Museum of Art. The artist will give a talk at the Museum on October 19, 2023.

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Catalog for Museum of New Art, Portsmouth, New Hampshire. Group exhibition of six artists living and working along the NH Seacoast region. The artists are Thomas Cowgill, Grant Drumheller, Carl Austin Hyatt, Lisa Noonis, Cheryle St. Onge, and Christopher Volpe. Curated by Erin Hutton. Catalog content manager Barbara O'Brien. Includes a poem by the current Poet Laureate of Portsmouth, Diannely Antigua. The metaphoric use of the term horizon by the curator to relate the varieties of art in the exhibition of spotlighted artists allows for the poetry of reflection of one's life arc to enter in, and reminds us also of the glimpses we have to view a horizon—perhaps to a distant future or a past that still has presence—that bring meaningfulness to life. I selected a detail of Grant Drumheller's painting Pier for the cover, that expresses this poetry with bird's eye perspective in lively, loose brushstrokes and vivid overlaying colors. On view through Sept. 4, 2023 at MONA, 135 Congress St., Portsmouth, NH.

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Catalog to accompany artist Grant Drumheller's exhibition In the Garden at University of New Hampshire Museum of Art in Durham, NH from January 26–April 1, 2023. (Pictured is the cover with Morning on the Deck, 2022, acrylic and Flashe on linen, 60 x 72 inches.) The exhibition is in honor of his retirement from his professorship with UNH Dept. of Art and Art History since 1986. (Photos: Andrew Edgar) Below are selected pages from the catalog.

Catalog to accompany artist Bob Oppenheim's exhibition Variants at Howard Yezerski Gallery

in Boston, on view from September 9–October 22, 2022.

Bob Oppenheim: Variants is an exhibition of paintings from his recent series Bob has titled Variants, for the variations on his circle within a square basic structure. The catalog includes an essay by the Director of the Museum of Art at the University of New Hampshire, Kristina Durocher; Bob's introduction and artist statement; and 41 full-color image plates. On the cover: Seed (2021) (detail). (Photos: Will Howcroft) Below are selected pages from this perfect-bound catalog, available through Howard Yezerski Gallery.

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Catalog for artist Keith Maddy's exhibition Inner Flight at Howard Yezerski Gallery, Boston.

Keith Maddy: Inner Flight is an exhibition of 15 artworks of collaged hand-cut vintage printed paper on found vintage objects. The catalog includes essays by independent curator and art critic Barbara O'Brien, NYC architect Jack Esterson, and myself, and full-color image plates. On the cover: Dreaming in the Bough of the Magnolia Tree (2020) (detail). Below are selected pages from this catalog, available through Howard Yezerski Gallery.

Liz Shepherd Sculpture & Prints, self-published monographic catalog.

Above, top: the full cover featuring Liz's etching Gear Pile (2019); table of contents with a detail of Given Over Prayer Rug – Bird of Life (2015) (photos: Stewart Clements); and a view of Liz's most recent exhibition at Boston Sculptors Gallery, Ungathered (Oct. 2020), an installation featuring prints combined with sculpture (photo: Julia Featheringill).

This catalog includes an essay by Curator Lisa Crossman and artist statements for each chapter that reflects upon her various bodies of exhibited artwork in print and sculpture. (click to jump to Liz's site)

above: three self-published exhibition catalogs for artists with essay

(showing the front covers, click each to view)

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above: self-published exhibition catalogs for Boston artists

(showing the covers flat, front and back)

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above: full-page magazine advertisements

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above: exterior wall banner triptych design for Lexicon: The Language of Gesture in 25 Years at the Kemper Museum

exhibition in 2019 at the Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, Kansas City, MO (Photo courtesy of Breeze Richardson)

pictured above: front covers of the exhibition catalogues for

Polly Apfelbaum: Waiting for the UFOs (a space set between a landscape and a bunch of flowers)

and Angela Dufresne: Making a Scene, 2018, Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art

(artworks: Polly Apfelbaum, Sun Targets: Scorpius, 2018, glazed ceramic, 12 x 12 inches;

Angela Dufresne, The Lonely Are the Brave, 2018, oil on canvas, 42 x 62 1/2 inches)

Both exhibitions showed at the Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art in Kansas City, MO.

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above: exterior banner triptych design for Rashid Johnson: Hail We Now Sing Joy exhibition,

2017, Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, (Photos Courtesy: Kent Michael Smith)

below: full-page ad for Art Forum magazine, February 2017 issue

(artwork: Rashid Johnson, Untitled Escape Collage, 2016)

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(pictured above, front cover and full wrap-around cover): exhibition catalogue for

Siah Armajani: Bridge Builder exhibition, 2016–17, Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art

(artwork: Siah Armajani, Sunset at Hiawatha Avenue, 2008)

five art books designed and produced in a little over a year (2014–15)

(pictured top to bottom): exhibition catalogue for the Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art's Dark Days, Bright Nights: Contemporary Paintings from Finland, a show of 13 Finnish contemporary artists curated by Executive Director Barbara O'Brien [cover image: Fifth Generation, painting by Sirpa Särkijärvi]; a monographic exhibition catalogue Adam Cvijanovic: American Montage, for the artist's show at the Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art in Kansas City, Missouri which was curated by Erin Dziedzic—bound in cloth with debossed foil stamps and a half jacket which features his painting Abandoned Drive In; an exhibition catalogue for Boston-based painter Deborah Barlow for her solo museum exhibition Behind, Beyond, Beneath: Scaling the Continuum; a monographic catalogue for Boston-based artist Liz Shepherd featuring her sculpture and prints; and a 208-page catalogue celebrating the Kemper Museum's 20th anniversary, showcasing their collection, 20 years of exhibitions in Kansas City, titled Marking 20 Years: Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, published in conjunction with the Museum's anniversary exhibition in 2014.