Exhibition: Feel Your Way Through

The Western New York Book Arts Center announces gallery exhibition Feel Your Way Through, featuring works from Lou Lovisek & Talia Ryan. This exhibition will be on view Saturday, April 5, 2025 & April 19, 2025. There will be a closing reception April 19, 2025 from 12pm-2pm. 

Lou Lovisek is a mixed media artist working in Buffalo, NY. Lovisek earned a degree in printmaking from Binghamton University and has a background in sewing, book binding, and botanical illustration. With a love of children’s book illustration, Lovisek writes, illustrates, and creates books handling every part of the process from hand-cutting and etching copper plates, printing, and hand-binding the pages. Illustrating their own short stories, the artwork of the children’s books is whimsical and at times unnerving.

Talia Ryan is a printmaker who explores large scale book arts and movable paper engineering. She has exhibited work at PAUSA Art House, the Castellani Art Museum, and the WNY Book Arts Center, where she was artist-in-residence in 2021. She earned dual BA and MA degrees in studio art and art education from Nazareth University. She now lives in Buffalo, where she works as a public school art teacher and teaching artist in her community.