Tag: Letterpress

• Owed to The Mountain

  

  Owed to The MountainDiane Jacobs2021Scantron Press 12.5 × 12.5 in. closed36 pagesSingle-section softcover pamphletDigital inside with letterpress cover Owed to The Mountain is a lavish tribute to Mt. Hood, which, on clear days, is still visible from Portland, where artist Diane Jacobs resides. The years-long project includes three versions of the book — an elaborate sculptural…

  Levi Sherman

  January 23, 2023

  Review

  2021, Diane Jacobs, Fiction, HP Indigo, Letterpress, Memoir, Monograph, Nonfiction, Pamphlet Stitch, Scantron Press, Softcover

• a story, the truth, and a screenplay

  

  a story, the truth, and a screenplayRuby Figueroa2017 5.125 × 8.25 in.96 pagesLong stitch softcoverOffset insides with letterpress covers I’m a sucker for a character that breaks the fourth wall. The camera shifts, eyes meet through the screen, and we are brought in on real-time reactions and feelings. That slicing of time — cut! —…

  Leah Mackin

  February 25, 2022

  Review

  2017, Humor, Letterpress, Long Stitch, Memoir, Monograph, Offset Lithography, Photography, Ruby Figueroa, Softcover, Text

• Eulalia #3

  

  Eulalia #3Hope AmicoGutwrench Press2020 4.25 × 5 in. closed32 pagesBinding: Dos-à-dos sewn with a 3-hole pamphlet stitchLetterpress cover and laser insides Eulalia #3 is the third in a series of zines which center on the generative constraint of Amico’s practice – the content for each themed issue is completed in a single sitting. In reality,…

  Levi Sherman

  October 5, 2020

  Review

  2020, Collage, Dos-à-dos, Drawing, Eulalia, Eulalia #3, Grief, Gutwrench Press, Healing, Hope Amico, Laser, Letterpress, Memoir, Pamphlet, Pamphlet Stitch, Periodical, zine

• Interview with Sarah Nicholls

  

  We talk about audience, community, research and the end of the world.

  Artists’ Book Reviews

  July 20, 2020

  Interview

  alternative economies, art world, artists’ book, Brain Washing From Phone Towers, climate change, Interview, Letterpress, Pamphlet, publishing, Sarah Nicholls, Subscription, urbanization, walking

• ISOLATIONS

  

  ISOLATIONS is a process-oriented publication that reveals the labor of poetics and the poetics of labor.

  Levi Sherman

  April 27, 2020

  Review

  2019, art writing, broadside, catalog card, Collaboration, Envelope, Glassine, Google Doc, Handmade Paper, Huldra Press, Internet Art Book Fair, ISOLATIONS, Leah Mackin, Letterpress, Marianne Dages, Monograph, Poetry, Review, Rubber stamp, Single Sheet, Text

• Plant Out of Place

  

  Plant Out of PlaceSarah Nicholls2019Brain Washing From Phone Towers brainwashingfromphonetowers.com 4.75 × 8.75 in.12 pagesBinding: French fold accordion, stitched into a coverLetterpress and linocutEdition of 250 Despite its unusual format, Sarah Nicholls is emphatic that her work Plant Out of Place is a pamphlet. In fact, Plant Out of Place is one of a three-part…

  Levi Sherman

  August 15, 2019

  Review

  2019, artists’ book, book art, book review, Brain Washing From Phone Towers, Documentary, Folded, Letterpress, Pamphlet, Pamphlet Stitch, Periodical, Red Hook, Relief Print, Sarah Nicholls, Text, weeds

• Lost Houses of Lyndale

  

  Lost Houses of LyndaleMatt BergstromDesign by Mary Clare Butler2018Fata Morgana Presswww.fatamorganapress.com/ 8 × 5 in.40 pagesBinding: Single-section pamphletLetterpress cover and offset inside In Lost Houses of Lyndale, Matt Bergstrom presents a history of all the recently-demolished homes along a two-block stretch in the rapidly-gentrifying Logan Square neighborhood of Chicago. After a brief introduction, the book proceeds with a…

  Levi Sherman

  June 7, 2019

  Review

  2018, architecture, art writing, artists’ book, book art, book review, Chicago, Documentary, Drawing, Fata Morgana Press, history, Letterpress, Logan Square, Mary Clare Butler, Matt Bergstrom, Monograph, Offset Lithography, Pamphlet Stitch, Text