Today Is 3 in x 9 in x .5 in 2011 This book was a collaboration between Tom Virgin and Michael Hettich for Arthur Jaffe’s 90th Birthday. Hettich and Virgin related years of teaching experience to a school of fish. This book is one of several collaborations by the two that revolve around teaching and [...]
Leila Thirteen Times 9 in x 9 in x 3 in (closed) 2005 This book was the result of several collaborations and a profound respect for another artist. The book consists of 13 pop up prints, seven to the right and six to the left. The book is an edition of 13. Covers are book [...]
Escape 3: Sex, Drugs, and Rock & Roll 11 inches x 15 inches x .5 inc 2008 In this third and final volume of the Escape Series, the artist lands on Duval Street in Key West during a charming festival called Fantasy Fest. It is a [...]
Escape 2 11 inches x 15 inches x .5 inc 2004 Escape 2 picks up where “escape*… restrictions apply” left off, from the 7 Mile Bridge, headed west, geographically, and from my status as a solo traveler to becoming an honored guest of the native Florida Keys’ residents on my [...]
“escape*… restrictions apply,” 11 inches x 15 inches x .5 inc 2003 This is Tom Virgin’s first artist’s book. It is the first of three books examining the concept of “escape” in the context of a trip from Miami to the Florida Keys. During the course of [...]
Your School 8 in x 45 in x 3 in (open) artist’s book 2012 “Your School” is an accordion structure book created from fused glass and cut copper drawings, bound with multiple ply waxed linen thread, and text printed on bands of Hahnemühle Ingres with a Vandercook 3 Proof Press. The book employs the [...]
Books using Long Stitch bindings (workshop with Rory Golden, Center for Book Arts, NYC), Books using quire bindings, simple and complex (workshop with Julie Miller, Oregon College of Art and Craft), Books using Coptic bindings (workshop with Marion Lavery, Holter Museum, Helena, Montana)
These books are collaborations with Leila Leder Kremer, studying the dismantling of aging Downtown Miami’s down at the heels former icons: the Burdine Quartermine Building (the Pink Building), Dupont Plaza, and the Everglades Hotel. All were fashionable in their day, but as times changed and profit displaced value in the housing markets, the buildings were [...]
Thirty years of Florida living did not dim the memory of Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore. Actually when I was a kid it was just plain Sleeping Bear Dunes, complete with Dune Rides in great big American Car dune buggies. A residency at Glen Arbor Art Association in 2005 gave me an opportunity to visit [...]
Every Pot Has a Lid 8 inches x 9 inches x 1/4 inch 2003 This book is a fable using simple household objects to express the complexity of relationships. The artist borrows quotations from notable historic figures to unravel and examine the permutations of love. Haiku written [...]