letterpress work
First Amendment.
Print installation: Wood type, letterpress wall prints and pamhlet books.
Installation:
6' x 5', individual print variation: apporx. 9 x 10"
Print Revolution.
Pamphlet book: xerox.
4.25 x 5.5"
2017
Print Revolution: Freedom of Speech & a Free Press
in edition of 100.
AMENDMENT 1:
Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion,
or prohibiting the free exercise thereof;
or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press:
or right of the people peacefully to assemble,
and to petition the Government for a redress of grievences.
(Bill of Rights. Amendments 1-10 retified December, 1791)
Two major types of print shaped the political
processes of the American Revolution:
pamphlets and newspapers.
(excerpt from: Parkinson, Robert G. 'Print, Press, and the American Revolution').
Moundville
Letterpress, linoleum print, colored pencil on handmade
sisal paper
with iron oxide pigment.
17 X 11"
Edition of ten.
2010
Artifact drawings were done on site at the
Moundville Archaeological Center in Moundville, AL.
Bamiyan
Text: Shin Yu Pai & Rich Benjamin
Farsi translation: Ashkan Bayatpour
Reduction relief print, masking tape collotype, letterpress, linoleum cut titles.
12 x 17.25”
Edition of 75
Tuscaloosa
Alabama, 2009
Year of the Tiger
Linoleum cut with photopolymer.
9 x 15"
2010
Dear Reader (collaboration)
Poem by Matthew Mahaney, MFA in Creative Writing, UA
Type, color reduction linoleum, scratch negative, collotype.
4 7/8 x 6” each
Edition: set of 50 (poem in thirds)
2009
Boiled Peanuts (postcard)
Linoleum cut with handset type on reverse.
4 x 6"
2009
Colonia
Text: Shin Yu Pai
Lead type with scratch negative illustration.
7 x 9"
2009
colonia
single-celled structures shape
evolutionary origins
phylum phloem
exerting turgor
-shin yu pai
Willie King
MFA broadside project. Original includes text excerpt from:
Willie King and the Liberators, "I Found Love"
approx. 13.5 x 10"
2009
Mutanabbi Street Starts Here, 2007-current
What to Count
poem by Alise Alousi
Letterpress broadside with linoleum and woodcut images,
wood type, and polymer plates.
11" x 16"
Printed in 2007 for the Mutanabbi Street Starts Here Project.
with linoleum and woodcut images, wood type, and polymer plates.
Current: Mutanabbi Street Starts Here Exhibition (traveling exhibition)
About the project:
On March 5, 2007, a car bomb was detonated on Mutanabbi Street, the centuries-old center of book selling in Baghdad. Soon afterwards, an international group of poets, writers, artists, letterpress printers, booksellers, and readers gathered to create the Mutanabbi Street Coalition--in response not only to the tragedy of the 30 deaths and 100 injuries, but also to the idea of a targeted attack on a street that has always been a place for the exchange of ideas.
The coalitions goal was to respond to the tragedy with positive creativity: by printing broadsides featuring the work of Iraqi poets and supporting Doctors Without Borders. a non-profit agency working to relieve suffering in Iraq and in other troubled areas of the world through the sales of these broadsides.
On Rent
Poem by Jim Powell
Silk screen, wood type, xerox, stencil cuts, hardware.
Public broadside for Ides of March at ABC noRio, NY
Collaboration with Peter Spagnuolo.
On War
Poem by Peter Spagnuolo
Silk screen, wood type, xerox, stencil cuts, hardware.
Public broadside for Ides of March at ABC noRio, NY
Collaboration with Peter Spagnuolo.