Manhattan Fine Press Book Fair ~ Book list for April 5th & 6th

27 Thursday Mar 2014

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Broadside, Chad Pastotnik, fine press books, intaglio prints, Letterpress, linocut, travel, wood engravings

This is just a little list of items I’ll have available for next weeks big show in New York. I’m pulling out some of the older titles I haven’t shown in a while where there may only be one or two copies left for sale and I’ll also have some of the broadsides available for purchase.

Looking forward to meeting some new people whom I’ve only had the pleasure of communicating with online or snail mail. Chris Adamson, who has the excellent blog Books and Vines, will be attending the show along with a few others coming in from all parts of the world. Hope to see some of you there!

Books:

The Intruder, by Robert Traver with wood engravings by Jim Westergard
Heart of Darkness, by Joseph Conrad illustrated by Marc Castelli
The Path, by Sigrid Christiansen with lino cuts by Chad Pastotnik
Saturnalia, by H.P. Lovecraft with a collagraph by Chad Pastotnik
Killing The Bear, by Judith Minty with wood engravings by Glenn Wolff
There Be Monsters, written and illustrated by Chad Pastotnik with lino cuts
The Changeling’s Exile, by Gerard Wozek with an intaglio print by Chad Pastotnik
The Frogs Who Wished A King, Aesop with intaglio prints by Chad Pastotnik
Ripping Oblivion, written and illustrated by Steve Toornman with his intaglio prints
The Legend of Minisens, by Judith Hitz with lino cuts and intaglio by Steve Toornman, Meredith Krell and Chad Pastotnik
Folly, written and illustrated by Erin Murray with lino cut. Erin was my star apprentice a couple years back.

Broadsides:

The Mad Angler’s Manifesto, by Michael Delp with lino cut by Chad Pastotnik
If, by Rudyard Kipling with a wood engraving by Chad Pastotnik
Along With Youth, by Ernest Hemingway with a wood engraving by Jim Horton
The Trout in Winter, by Jerry Dennis with an intaglio print by Glenn Wolff
Where They Run, map of Montauk Point, Long Island. Intaglio by Glenn Wolff
September Inverness, by Robert Hass

I’ll also have along some other small ephemera which is rarely seen outside the studio.

: The Intruder

: Heart of Darkness

: Saturnalia

: There Be Monsters.

: The Path

: The Changeling’s Exile

: Killing the Bear

: Minisens

: Ripping Oblivion

: The Mad Angler’s Manifesto

: If

: The Trout in Winter

: Along with Youth

: Where They Run

: September Inverness

“If” by Rudyard Kipling ~ A new broadside

30 Thursday May 2013

Posted by Deep Wood Press in Broadsides, If by Rudyard Kipling, Letterpress, Printing

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arts, Broadside, commissioned work, Letterpress, Rudyard Kipling, Wood Engraving, wood engravings

I recently had a commission to produce this classic for a customer and I’ve always had somewhat of an admiration for that “stiff upper lip” British mentality that this poem so embodies. So I made some extras for me and some for you as well, if you so desire…

The text is set all in 18pt ATF Garamond with the title in Americana. I was hoping to do the text in Baskerville to keep it all UK centric but, alas, when hand setting type one is constrained to the amount of sorts in the case. Even with the Garamond I was short four “o” and had to run the last four lines as a separate pressrun. The paper is Domestic Etch and sheet size is 10 x 16 inches, they are signed and numbered in an edition of 55 copies, printed in 2 colors and are available for $45. It is now on the website here:

http://deepwoodpress.com/books.html

The image is a old wood engraving of mine that first appeared in a small edition (50) of poems by Terry Wooten back in 1997 called Hermaion. With a few more cuts to the block I think it makes an admirable companion to If.

If you’re British or an Anglophile you know all about this poem of course. It’s been voted Britain’s favorite poem uncountable times by various survey entities and carries significant meaning beyond the aforementioned immutable British stereotype. I’ll let you do your own googling for info on Dr Leander Starr Jameson and the Boers War. Kipling wrote this for his own son who died in WWI only a few years after the poem was published in Rewards and Fairies in 1909, a shock Kipling never fully recovered from.

If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster

And treat those two impostors just the same:

Wood engraving by Chad Pastotnik, detail of Garamond type.

The wood engraving and part of the type set up on the galley.

“20 years of Deep Wood Press” retrospective show

01 Thursday Nov 2012

Posted by Deep Wood Press in Books, Ladislav Hanka, Letterpress, Workshop

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This Friday from 6-9 pm is the opening for my exhibit at the Kalamazoo Book Arts Center. The show will be up until December 7th so if you happen to be in the area please stop in to have a look.

In addition to the books that I’ve created or designed over the past two decades there will be a fair sampling of my intaglio and relief artwork framed and hung on the walls. I’m also putting some of the better work produced by my apprentices and collaborators here in the studio. Not so much of the commercial or commissioned work and none of the social garbage I was forced to do to feed myself and family in the early dark years of being letterpress when letterpress wasn’t cool.

I am including some of the early book work and design stuff that I now consider pure “junk”. But it’s honest. None of us (or precious few) start out doing spectacular work and it’s never easy to admit we were once so daft as to think we did. I put in the junk because this particular venue is also a teaching environment and hopefully it will be inspiring for those just getting started on their path into the black arts to see the evolution of someone else’s path. Maybe see the processing of ideas and skills from dreck to my present understanding of what it is.

On Saturday I’m teaching a small workshop during the day at KBAC where we’ll be printing beer coasters. I know, real highbrow stuff, but also very useful for the staff and student community. Back in 2009 I sold the center a platen press which hasn’t got much use, mostly because it’s very intimidating and has the potential to smash body parts if you don’t know what you’re doing. Beer coasters are nice and thick and are easy to pick up and feed into the press – perfect for learning on a platen. As a bonus, who wouldn’t want to have their own custom coaster for the upcoming holiday season?

This Friday is also Art Hop in Kalamazoo so the town will be buzzing with studio visits and gallery doors being open later into the night. Some of my favorite printmakers are in town such as Mary Brodbeck and Ladislav Hanka – both do amazing work and I’m looking forward to seeing the new stuff and visiting over the weekend.

I’m staying through to Monday to give a studio interview with Rebecca Theile at WMUK, the local NPR affiliate college radio station. I’ll post info about airing dates and availability of an online stream once I know.