Artist Statement Guide
An artist statement is a brief description of your artwork that helps the viewer understand your art. It is written in the first person, while artist bios are written in the third person.
The artist statement for your artist book submission does not need to be long. 2 - 4 sentences are all you need.
Examples of Artist Statement
Seasonal turns: four accordion books
“The spiraling seasons are represented in four hand-held accordion books. Landscapes and portraits evoke the warm hatching of Spring, Summer’s swimming, Fall’s bare trees and piles, and the icy migrations and shadowy days of Winter. Departure and return, comfort and loss are recorded as the days flow past.”
R & J : the txt msg edition
"The language in Shakespeare's plays has stood the test of time, but could it survive a translation into text messages by a modern teenager? I asked my 16-year-old granddaughter to rewrite the balcony scene from Romeo and Juliet as if it had all happened between two teens text messaging on their cell phones."
Metamorphoses
"This book draws its inspiration from Ovid's classic poem Metamorphoses. Each of the ten spreads is illustrated with a character from the poem, and further meditations upon the myths are provided by poems which are slipped into the hollow inside each page. All illustrations were created by Grant Hanna in acrylic and watercolor on 190lb hot press Arches Aquarelle paper, then finished digitally in Adobe Photoshop."
Biography
"The book is an exploration of the chemical elements in the human body and the roles they play elsewhere in the world. Each spread is a diagram describing the elements as they exist on the periodic table, the earth's crust, a variety of man-made weapons, medicines and tools, sea water, etc. Each element is identified as a specific-colored rectangle and these rectangles continue through the diagrams. These diagrams sometimes are difficult to decode, and toward the end are interrupted by blind stamped organic shapes and pressure printing."