I have always been jealous of people who can truly fill a sketchbook. Pages that are thick with paint, found objects glued on haphazardly, images drawn over and over and over until the artist’s vision is figured out. It feels very voyeuristic to me, like you’re seeing images that you weren’t meant to see. The mistakes, and the hope of creative potential. The really bad ideas, and the little seedlings of fantastic gallery-worthy pieces. ‘Peep Show’ takes you inside the beautiful and inspiring sketchbooks of seven very talented artists. If I could cover an entire gallery in pages from these books, I’d have to change my name to ‘The Happy Curator’.

{Most of these sketchbooks were found on Julia Rothman’s fantastic book blog, Book by Its Cover}

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Martha Rich:

Isaac Tobin:

Ben Finer:

Jenny Volvovski:

Tina Berning:

Sonja Ahlers:
{*Note. This is a ‘fur book’, not a sketchbook… but close enough!}

Julia Pott: