Letterpress Showcase
Organized by Elena Laza.
Exhibition Checklist:
David S. Rose
Pandora’s Box
(2002) Poplar box, laquer and black stain, wide variety of papers, letterpress, silkscreen, ink jet, pulp painting and other printing techniques
Placebo Affliction
(2003) Letterpress on paper; broadside.
Susan Angebranndt
Pi
(2002) Bembo and marydale on somerset, printed letterpress from polymer plates
Scott Baldwin
Summer in Maine
(2001) Linoleum cuts printed from polymer plates
Leda Black
Elaboration (Physical Language Laboratory #11)
(2000) Ink on paper
Frank Brannon
Alone Together
(2002) Handmade cotton rag paper, handmade paper cover paper, silk cloth on spine
Inge Bruggeman
Simple Harmonic Motions
(2001) Photopolymer plates and photocopy transfers on kitakata
Matthew Cogswell
Domus Lif
(1999) Somerset velvet paper, vellum, intaglio and letterpress prints
Ed Colker
Beneath the Trees
(2003) Somerset and fabriano papers, iris linen cloth cover
Shari DeGraw
All Things by Jorie Graham
(2002) Rives paper, spectrum types, indigo dyed flax paper over boards and silk-sewn headbands
Raphael Foddé
Upon a Time
(2002) Paper bound in linen
Carolyn Fraser
Seventeen Reasons: An Essay of Contingent Acts. Or, Short Theoretical Stories
(1999) letterpress, photographic transfers, red cloth over boards, goldstamped; English mouldmade somerset book paperstock with endsheets of zerkall nideggen sand
Roni Gross
I See You Everywhere
(2003) Moriki, colombe and bockingford papers
Linda Hoffman
Winter Air
(2001) Folded sheets with text and images laid in a cream double-thickness paper folder and matching cream flax drop box; letterpress: David Wolfe; box: Praxis bindery
Marilyn Joslyn
Domus Lif
(1999) Somerset velvet paper, vellum, intaglio and letterpress prints
Kay Michael Kramer
Printer’s Manuals: From Moxon to the Pia
(2002) Kelmscott text, cloth spine, marbled paper slides
Peter Kruty
A Treatise on Mushrooms
(2001) Excerpts by John Cage, Roland Barthes, and Kirsty Cunn; Twinrocker may linen paper, acrylic paint
My Life in the Gulag: A Personal Account of Life in Siberian Labor Camps by Justin Merk
(2001) Handmade Thai mulberry paper, kozo paper
Harold Kyle
I Find an Old Handwritten Letter and Suddenly Remember Every Boy I Ever Kissed
(1999) Twinrocker may linen handmade paper
Emily Martin
Does Any of The Look Familiar?
(2002) Flax paper, hamp flax paper, hand set type, polymer plates and other relief printing
Lisa Olson
In the Days When Wishing Still Helped: Sadie and the Flowers of Florida
(2003) Rives lightweight, inkjet imagery
Michelle Raccagni
My Life For Books
(2002) Fabriano paper, laval French cloth
John Ross
Typopolis
(2002) Fabriano paper, resin casting of wood type
Champe Smith
Ice Walk
(2001) Paper bound text and loose sheets in glasine sleeves, all housed in cloth-bound portfolio
Psychological Scenarios
(2003) Letterpess printed paper box with nine pencils (each has a different phrase) printed using photopolymer plates
Jessica Spring
A Proverbial Book
(2002) Fabriano mediovalis covered with Brazil wood-dyed chamois
Collectors’ Tales
(2001) Handmade paper, vintage hanger
Donna Thomas
Paper From Plants
(1999) Handmade paper from plants from 30 different paper-makers, moroccan leather spine
Peter Thomas
Paper From Plants
(1999) Handmade paper from plants from 30 different paper-makers, moroccan leather spine
Dave Wofford
In the Light From Stained Glass
(1998) Somerset paper using a pamphlet stitch
It Had Wings
(1998) Zerkall paper using a pamphlet stitch, cover made of handmade, hand-dyed paper
David Wolfe
A Girdle of Fist-Notes
(2002) Paper and leather
Thirteen Moons
(2003) Paper, cloth, and board
Where the Deer Were
(2002) Paper, leather and board
Support for the Center for Book Arts’ visual arts programming is provided, in part, by the New York State Council on the Arts, with the support of Andrew Cuomo and the New York State Legislature, and by public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council.
