Barbara Landes

Studio sketch

Collaboration with Paul Sullivan handmade abaca paper and bamboo @ 4’ x 3’ x 2.5’

Studio sketch

Collaboration with Paul Sullivan handmade abaca and cotton papers, pink foam board, fabric, rocks @ 4’ x 4’ x 3.5’

studio sketch

Collaboration with Paul Sullivan handmade abaca paper, bobby pin inclusions and bamboo @ 3’ x 4’ x 5’

Giving in any guise

Landes Sullivan, handmade cast abaca papers, fiberglass, armature wire, 4’x 5’ x 3’, 2019

Studio sketch

Collaboration with Paul Sullivan handmade abaca paper, paint and wood @ 10’ x 5’ x 2.5’

Yours, unless you stop noticing it

2022 bamboo, handmade abaca papers, fabric, wire, cable ties, 11’ high, collaboration with Paul Sullivan, installed at Edgewood college

Yours, unless you stop noticing it

2022 bamboo, handmade abaca papers, fabric, wire, cable ties, 11’ high, collaboration with Paul Sullivan, installed at Edgewood college

Yours, unless you stop noticing it

2022 bamboo, handmade abaca papers, fabric, wire, cable ties, 11’ high, collaboration with Paul Sullivan, installed at Edgewood college

Yours, unless you stop noticing it - detail

2022 bamboo, handmade abaca papers, fabric, wire, cable ties, 11’ high, collaboration with Paul Sullivan, installed at Edgewood college

Blue neck holding up

2014 handmade cast cotton and abaca papers, plywood, rocks 2’ x 4’ x 3’

Nosing around

handmade cast cotton and abaca papers, carved wood 54” x 28” x 27”

studio sketch

handmade csat cotton, branches and plywood scraps with abaca

studio sketch

found wood, handmade cast cotton @ 6’ x 3’ x 3’

Empty Column

handmade cast cotton and abaca papers, rocks 21” x 8” x 8”

The flood interrupts my flow in a good way

handmade cast cotton and abaca papers, plywood, rocks 68” x 40 x 34”

Loosely Wrapped

handmade cast cotton and abaca watermarked papers, found wood, rocks 22” x 14” x 12”

studio sketch

handmade cast paper works in the studio

Barbara is an artist and papermaker. She currently collaborates with her husband, Paul Sullivan. The works on this website lead directly to the collaborations, both aesthetically and literally. Landes Sullivan makes free use of pieces (and parts) of the works documented here. Finished pieces are never put in storage. We try to show them, they are occasionally sold, but, most often, they are taken apart and the various pieces are used again to create new works.

My work grows out of my handmade papers and studio experiments. Other elements come in to complement and literally to support the paper such as insulation foam board, plywood and heavy wire. Nothing has changed on that score. We talk and think about the works in terms of materials, composition, color, installation.

The works evolve, change and grow into a finished piece from there. We want to surprise ourselves, as well as our viewers.

To see more of our current work, please go to LandesSullivan.com

BarbaraLandes at gmail.com or LandesSullivan at gmail.com