FOLIO: Modern Baroque

A documentation of an impermanent installation. “In a space for things,” house drawings of motifs on vellum, impermanently placed in an entryway of patterned glass.

Thoughts, drawn in the former Hudson home of triple-crowned poet and art critic John Ashbery. Created after onsite study of Baroque ornamentation that began at the American Academy in Rome. This work explores the intersection of historic ornamentation with light entering an interior space…rooms of mid-century furnishings, surrounded by William Morris, Arts & Crafts wallpaper, vintage things and books.

Compositions of translucent light-diffusions serve as foundational studies for modern Baroque motifs to become handprinted Rome Editions and OrangeHOWELL Textiles.

DM: orangehowell@gmail.com

Folio Specifications:

• Format: Limited Edition Artist Folio/Zine/Book (Edition of 25, signed and numbered)

• Detail: Mono-printed front cover, embellishments

• Extent: 48 pages, predominantly visual plates

• Medium: Translucent vellum drawings, architectural images and handprinted textiles

• Facets: Modern Baroque motif design process, the historic interior of John Ashbery, Arts & Crafts (William Morris) wallpaper and impermanent site-specific installation

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FOLIO: OrangeHOWELL, Modern Baroque

Mono-print

8.5” x 11”

Edition of 25

2026

$250

(Zelle orangehowell@gmail.com)

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