Secret 7"

I'm beyond thrilled that my work was selected for Secret 7” to be featured on the album cover of Jeff Buckley's "Lover You Should've Come Over" 

Secret 7" selects 7 tracks from 7 of the best-known musicians around (this year includes songs by Jeff Buckley, Jimi Hendrix, and The Clash) and presses each one 100 times to vinyl. They then invite creatives from around the world to interpret the tracks in their own style.

This year the unique sleeves are exhibited and being auctioned off to benefit Mind UK, a mental health organization that helps half a million people in England and Wales annually. The 2018 exhibition is being held at The Jetty, Greenwich Peninsula, in London and is sponsored by Sony Music and Squarespace.

A Very Small Guide to Chair Constellations

"A Very Small Guide to Chair Constellations." (2017)

A tiny little book measuring only 2 1/8 x 2 3/4 inches (which is exactly 1/8th of a standard US letter sheet of paper), printed in 2 colors on vintage 1940s onion skin typewriter paper. It is bound with handmade marble paper from Florence and hand sewn with red silk thread. There are 32 chair constellations total over 36 pages.

A Very Small Guide to Chair Constellations

2.125 x 2.75" page size, 4.25 x 2.75" opened

hand sewn signature binding

signed and numbered edition of 20

2017

copyright Kate Castelli

Boxing Day

Chair Constellations (I) | Risograph on vintage book page | 6.25 x 9.5" | 2016

Tiny Diagrams

Tiny Diagrams | three color Riso print on vintage graph paper | artist's proof (full bleed with trim marks) | 2016

NEW Website

New layout...new work...& never before seen work from the archives...happily introducing the new www.katecastelli.com!

Check out my latest collage series, new artist book, updated and expanded sketchbook spreads, an experimental book from the archives, and an artist book that was included in my MFA thesis...

I've also updated the interview and press links in the elsewhere section.

Check it out!

The Sketchbook Project 2016: Distance & Time

I'm down to the wire (per usual) on the deadline for The Sketchbook Project 2016. My prompt this year was "Distance and Time," which has been an underlying thread in my work for quite a while. The final book incorporated primary colors, constellation charts, early perspective diagrams from the Renaissance,  Florentine paper, and proof prints from my last woodblock circle series.

{vellum overlay} I had this anecdote in the back of my mind as I was working in the studio.

{pages 18-19}  Primary colors, graph paper, and numbers are constant threads throughout.

{pages 14-15} A vivid blue scrap of marbled paper from Florence combined with a Renaissance diagram and process prints.

{pages 6-7} an incomplete map of the universe...

The Sketchbook Project 2016: Distance & Time
22 pages, single signature binding
cut paper, vintage ephemera and woodblock proofs
9.875 x 6.75" opened
unique edition

copyright Kate Castelli 2016

Website update!

A long overdue website update. What's new? The full process and final edition of the color reduction prints Ode to Pluto, a new and ongoing drawing series Not a Circle, and the dizzying Razzle Dazzle book.

I've also updated and expanded the Sea of Lines drawing series and the Ephemeral section!

Check it out!

Vernal Equinox

Not a Circle (II) and Not a Circle (III) | ink on vintage endpages | copyright Kate Castelli 2015

Spring has sprung...and my favorite daffodils and crocuses are blooming after a very long and harsh winter. They are a welcome sight indeed!

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Not a Circle (False) | ink on vintage paper | 6.75x10" | copyright Kate Castelli 2015

Someone I loved once gave me
a box full of darkness
It took me years to understand
That this, too was a gift.

 ("The Uses of Sorrow" by Mary Oliver)

Friday the 13th

Not a Circle (III) | ink on vintage paper | 7.125x10" | copyright Kate Castelli 2015

Studio playlist (snow-day edition...blizzards make for productive days in the studio...)

This is the Last Time / The National
Uptown Funk (featuring Bruno Mars) / Mark Ronson
Hollow Moon (Bad Wolf) / AWOLNATION
Better Man /Leon Bridges
Future Starts Slow / The Kills
I Put a Spell on You / Annie Lennox
I'm on Fire / Bruce Springsteen
Shots / Imagine Dragons
What Makes a Good Man? / The Heavy
Same Mistakes / The Echo-Friendly
Sign / Harriet

The Impossibility of February

Not a Circle (I) | ink on vintage paper | 7.5x10" | copyright Kate Castelli 2015

All of the circles...

(actually not all of the circles...just some of the circles)

Tiny Little (series)

Pairs of circles in conversation with each other. From the on-going series of Tiny Little circles (the woodblocks are only 3-4" in diameter). Printed on vintage navigational charts from the 1920s

Unique impressions, 8.75 x 11" each

The impossibility of February

The Frequency of Falling
woodblock on vintage paper, unique impression
7 x 9.5"

copyright Kate Castelli 2014

Website Update

I updated my website with new work from the last 6 months (and my thesis show) including
my obsessive line drawings, circle woodblock prints on book covers, and recent sketches from Italy.

You can check all the new work at http://www.katecastelli.com!