ocasiocasa museum of books – September 2013 show

The ‘Ocasiocasa Museum of Books’ is a new collection of sculptured masking tape art on rescued old books.

Our form of altered book art is unique; salvaged books are redesigned with sculpted covers while remaining completely intact and all pages still readable.

We began creating book art with our own collection of used books that we had purchased years ago, from Friends of the Library book sales, to read to our kids.

One of the books, an old copy of ‘The Yearling,’ was awarded Best of Show at the Alliance for the Arts ‘Art of the Book’ juried competition and exhibition earlier this year.

Below are a few of the art books in the new collection.

 

the lion, the witch, and the wardrobe

it happened one day -  a children's story book

alfred hitchcock presents: stories that go bump in the night

love story by erich segal

the portable mark twain

pets & playtime - a child's reader

the viking book of aphorisms

Our new collection consist of over a dozen books, never shown before, and will be featured in our studio gallery for the September show, beginning September 6th, for the Fort Myers ArtWalk.

It includes classics, mystery, vintage children’s readers, science fiction, and more.

framed illustrations on the walls

We now have some of our original illustrations in frames. 

These prints are original photography, digitally collaged and printed with archival epson inks on 100% cotton rag paper. Prints are protected with a matte varnish.

The Art of Masking Tape Sculpting - Class Announcement

As requested, by lots of people we've had the pleasure of meeting during the past year...







An introductory class on the process of sculpting with masking tape will take place at the Ocasiocasa Studio Gallery, in downtown Fort Myers. Jeff Ocasio will be demonstrating and teaching the hands-on class Saturday, August 3rd, from 11am to 12:30pm. Participants will learn the basics of shaping and applying the tape onto glass bottles.

All ages (9yrs & up) are welcome to attend. Class fee is $10 per person. An empty glass bottle, a roll of tape, and assorted glass stones will be supplied by Ocasiocasa.

12 months, 12 art posters

We’re looking forward to our second year at Ocasiocasa Studio Gallery. We have had 12 months of creating new art, and each month came with its own art poster. This collection of posters represents an especially wonderful year for us, and makes us smile really big. 

frank and his flying fish

One of our latest sculptures was accepted into a juried exhibition: 27th Annual All Florida Juried Exhibit at the Alliance for the Arts, here in SW Florida. Jeff and I are really happy to be a part of this; it gives a good feeling that the path we want to be on as artist is a good one to be on. 

'Frank and His flying Fish' is a masking tape sculpture utilizing the base of a table lamp as its armature. It stands 30 inches tall and 38 inches from the fish's teeth to its tail. Frank, the altered toy sculpture, can be taken out and is poseable.

"frank and his flying fish"

Jackalopes and Rattlesnake Eggs - April 2013 Show

Jackalopes and Rattlesnake Eggs -- an art collection in foolery. Giving a nod to the fool's errand played throughout the world, this collection also includes a hoop snake, dropbear, and their own version of a bunyip.

music track:

"disOrder" by airtonehttp://ccmixter.org/files/airtone/33608is licensed under a Creative Commons license:http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/

"the heard" a small collection - march 2013

"the heard" --- a band of beasts representing the beginning times of the made-up universe, known as ocasiocasa, is the tiniest collection, yet, to be shown in our studio gallery. This is our short animated video created to promote the new art for March, 2013.

music track: "White Cube Art Noise" by essesq (feat. Mr. Weirdbient) http://ccmixter.org/files/essesq/23786 is licensed under a Creative Commons license: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/