Tag Archives: letterpress

Your School, an artist’s book (glass/copper)

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 [...]

Ganko, an artist’s book

“Ganko,” is an observation of overlapping cultures, housed in a multiple quire binding. After a class in single/complex quire bindings by Julia Miller at Oregon College of Art and Craft in 2007, I couldn’t wait to put the knowledge to work. During my residency there during summer 2007 this book came together with letterpress printed [...]

Can’t See It From My House, an artist’s book

Can’t See It From My House     artist’s book/ title page    9” x 12” x .5”        2008 Can’t See It From My House was created from woodcut prints, photographs, and other ephemera gathered between 2005-2007 in Miami and Coconut Grove, Florida. It is a story of one neighborhood being replaced by another, although it [...]

Conversation, an artist’s book by Tom Virgin and Kari Snyder

Conversation    artist’s book/ title page    6.5” x 9” x .5”    2008 This book was born of a profound respect of the printmaking skills of Ms. Kari Snyder. A Florida Individual Artist Grant Winner, Kari’s intaglio prints of indigenous plants, birds, reptiles and other wildlife compelled me to ask her to collaborate on a book project. [...]

Process: DC Art Press Folio, 2010

This work is a portfolio that came from a collaboration with Leon Loughridge of DC Art Press. After flying into Denver on the way to an earlier residency at the Ucross Foundation, I saw one of his books at the Denver Public Library’s Artist’s Book Collection. Not only was the work exquisite, but the book [...]

Your School, an artist’s book (paper)

9.5 in x 40 in x .25 in (open)        artist’s book    2012 “Your School” is an accordion structure book created from waxed Stonehenge paper, and text printed on bands of Hahnemühle Ingres with a Vandercook 3 Proof Press. The book employs the metaphor of keeping a simple, low maintenance pet (a fish) to examine [...]