Santa Cruz, CA: Moving Parts Press, (1991). Quarto. (44)pp. One of 70 copies, signed by the author, Francisco X. Alarcón. Forty pen-and-ink drawings by Ray Rice, in his second collaboration with his daughter, Felicia Rice, printer and proprietor of Moving Parts Press, are at once abstract, fractural, and familiar. Literally..... More
(Providence, RI): RISD, 2015. Ten photopolymer plates depict, in a hazy brown palette, gruesome photos of unidentified female bodies found on the outskirts of the border town of Ciudad Juarez, Mexico. The images’ abstractness evokes the frightening yet fascinating intermingling of life and death; the lines are definitive, but the..... More
Matanzas, Cuba: Ediciones Vigía, 2013. Octavo. 59pp. One of 200 copies. Nancy Balboa’s illustrations celebrate Cuba’s agriculture, and draw a parallel between its grassroots rural life and its heritage of grassroots revolution. Martí, considered by many the “patron saint” of Cuba, was at the forefront of such organic, popular activism..... More
Salt Lake City, UT: Red Butte Press, 2004. Octavo. (29)pp. One of 125 copies, signed by the artist, Chris Stern, and the author, William McDonough, at the colophon. Three monoprints by Stern punctuate the text. The images vary across the edition, making each book unique. Stern skillfully balances a western..... More
Decorah, IA: Solmentes Press, 2022. Quarto. (32)pp. One of thirty copies, from which a percentage of the original sales aided Ukraine TrustChain. Signed by the artist, David Esslemont. Devised as an immediate, empathic response to the Russian invasion of Ukraine in late February 2022, the book, in Esslemont's words, aims..... More
(c. 1999). Two posters, one featuring an armed young man beneath the Vietnamese flag watching an American fighter plane crash, and the other depicting Ho Chi Minh amidst the flags for North Vietnam and the Viet Cong. Though reproductions, these posters mark a shift in post-war Vietnam, in which propaganda..... More
Kent, OH: Pro-Arts, 1970. Screenprinted poster at the center of which is a Day-Glo orange female symbol encircling an equally iconic image of a raised fist. A striking piece from a hub of the 60's/70's era of political and social protest; the Kent State massacre took place on May 4..... More
NY: Jonathan Cape and Harrison Smith, (1930). First edition, second printing. This is Ward's second woodcut novel, with the story told exclusively via woodcut illustrations. Through this dramatic and expressive non-verbal style, Ward communicated situations and emotions using nothing more than the woodcut's stark contrast of black and white. A...... More
