- About the Press
- Selected Works
- Video
- 25th Anniversary Catalogue
- How to Order
- CV
January 2013 type trials for book in progress:
Love in the Time of War by Yusef KomunyakaaPrinted on individually painted, hand-dyed silk, with aluminum covers etched with a pattern derived from camouflage fabric. Torn and cut glassine inserts are imbedded within foredge-folded sheets to provide rattle and additional visual layer. Book structure by Daniel E. Kelm. 38 silk pages; 10.5 x 7.5 pages; edition approximately 75.
43, According to Robin Price, with Annotated Bibliography
Chosen by Mark Dimunation, Chief of the Rare Book and Special Collections Division, Library of Congress, for First Prize at the 2012 Pyramid Atlantic Book Arts Fair:43 poses a difficult journey, to follow the meaning of a number as time, age, location, space, and sequence. The artist unfolds this journey in an artful fashion -- intimate and yet engaging. This is a masterful presentation of a unique and creative approach to the book and to book arts.
Robin Price, Printer & Publisher Starr Mill, 91 Beverly Heights, Middletown, CT 06457 860.344.8644 rprice@wesleyan.edu
|
Neue Studios filmed and produced the video introduction to the Letterpress Apprenticeship Fundraising Appeal. In the course of assembling that video, filmmaker Eric Leone was inspired to create this video, "A Handmade Experience," in addition. It documents the process of Robin Price's work on As You Continue, an artist's book created in celebration of John Cage's 100th birthday. Studio footage is paired with Robin's spoken reflections on the significance of the project and its methods. Price used her left (non-dominant) hand in writing the quotation by Cage.
A Handmade Experience from Paul Horton on Vimeo.
Published in connection with a 2010 exhibition at Wesleyan University Davison Art Center, this large-format publication features an in-depth essay by independent scholar and curator Betty Bright, an interview with Robin Price by Suzy Taraba, and a complete list by Rutherford W. Witthus of Price's works from 1984 into early 2010. Indexed. Catalog design by Mark Zurolo and Lesley Tucker, printed on acid-free paper at Finlay Printing. 12 x 9 in.; 144 pp.; 140 color ill.; 49 monochrome ill.; paper covers in thirty random variations generated on press using chance operations.
Pricing and availability:
$20.00 plus $3.00 domestic shipping via media mail (international
please inquire)
Buy now via PayPal:
Alternate ordering methods:
by check via Davison Art Center, Wesleyan University
by check or Purchase Order number directly to Robin Price, Publisher
Please allow up to three weeks for delivery.
Chance will determine which of the thirty cover variations you receive (three are shown above).
 |
Thank you for your interest in ordering from the Press!Feel free to contact the press with any questions: rprice@wesleyan.edu or (860) 344-8644. PaymentPaying by PayPal: Log in, choose Send Money tab at top, and specify rprice@wesleyan.edu as recipient. The total amount should be the price of the works ordered plus shipping (see below). In the Message section on PayPal's second page, please type in the title(s) and quantities you wish to order, as well as shipping cost calculated. Paying by check: Please remit in U.S. dollars to the address below. Include your shipping address, email address, and phone number. Institutions can order with a Purchase Order number. Sorry, we cannot accept credit cards. Extended Payment Plans:Please contact the press if you would like to discuss an installment-based payment schedule. Shipping:We ship UPS Ground, insured, unless you specifically request USPS. Please allow three weeks for delivery (usually we ship more quickly than that). Estimating shipping costs:
|
Counting Ventures: Curriculum
Vitae
Robin
Price, born 1962, Denton, TX
Studio:
Starr Mill, Beverly Heights, Middletown, CT 06457
Founder
and proprietor, Robin Price, Printer & Publisher, 1984 to present
[formerly
Lavender Armadillo Press]
Faculty,
Graduate Liberal Studies Program, Wesleyan University, Middletown, CT,
1999 to
present
Adjunct
Professor, Occidental College, Los
Angeles, 1992-1995
Assistant
to the Master Printer, USC Fine Arts Press, University of Southern
California,
Los Angeles, 1988 -1992
Selected Solo and Two-Person
Exhibitions
Counting on Chance: 25 Years of Artists' Books by Robin Price, Publisher, Davison Art Center, Wesleyan University, Middletown, CT, 2010, and Columbia College Chicago Center for Book and Paper Art Gallery, Chicago, IL, 2011 [catalog]
From East to
West and Back Again: Robin Price, Keiji Shinohara,
Josef Váchal, Galerie
Califia, Horazd’ovice, Czech Republic, 2009
Robin Price,
Printer &
Publisher,
Bailey/Howe Library, University of Vermont, 2004-05
Serious Bliss:
New Work by
Robin Price and Anne Thompson, ArtSpace
Gallery, Hartford, CT, 2004
The Making of a
Book:
Conversations with Johannes de Ketham, The Athenaeum
Music & Arts Library, La Jolla,
CA, 2003
Dan’s Voyage, blind
collaboration with
James W. Pitts, PABA Gallery, New Haven, CT, 2002
Blind
Collaboration: Ten
Artists in Cahoots with Robin Price, Publisher, PABA Gallery,
New Haven,
CT, 2001
From
Printer’s Devil to Artist-Printer: The Letterpress Work of
Robin Price, Publisher, Arts of the
Book Collection, Yale University Library, 2001
Work from Robin
Price,
Printer & Publisher, The Book Club
of California, San Francisco, 1999
Collaborations
in the Art of the Book: Fine Press and Artist’s
Books from Robin Price, Publisher, 1984-1998, Dodd Research
Center, University of
Connecticut, 1998
The Joy of
Making: Fine
Press / Artist’s Books from Robin Price, Publisher, The Buttonwood
Tree,
Middletown, CT, 1997
Books
and Works on Paper, 1985-1995: Robin Price, Publisher and
Lavender Armadillo Press, Beverly Hills
Public Library, California Book Arts series,
1995
Robin Price,
Printer &
Publisher: An Exhibition of Work from 1984-1991, Arundel Books
Gallery in
the Bookstore, Los Angeles, 1991
Scavenger Xerox:
A Radical
Debut, The
Woman’s Building Gallery, Los Angeles, 1984
Selected Group Exhibitions
Seductive Alchemy: Books by Artists, Texas Woman's University Gallery, Denton, TX, 2013
Material Meanings: Artists' Books from the Smithsonian American Art Museum & National Portrait Gallery Library, AA/PG Library, Washington, DC, 2012
Exploding the Codex, San Francisco Center for the Book, 2012
Left to Chance: In Search of the Accidental Book Art, San Francisco Center for the Book, 2012
Mapping the Surface, Central Booking Gallery, Brooklyn, NY, 2011-2012
Doin' It in Public: Feminism and Art at the Woman's Building, Ben Maltz Gallery, Otis College of Art and Design, Los Angeles, 2011-2012
Women Over 25, Clark Humanities Museum, Scripps College, Claremont, CA, 2011
Agents of Change - An Exhibition of Artists' Books and Prints with a Social Conscience, Corcoran College of Art + Design, Washington, DC, 2011
Fine & Dirty: Contemporary Letterpress Art, curated by Jeff Rathermel and Betty Bright, Minnesota Center for Book Arts, 2011 [traveling through 2013] [catalog]
Music Bo(o)x, curated by Lynn Sures and John Risseeuw, Abecedarian Gallery, Denver, CO, 2011
A Celebration of the Book, McMaster Gallery, University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC, 2011 [catalog]
No Translation Required: Artists' Books in Germany/Georgia, Klingspor Museum, Offenbach, Germany, and Savannah College of Art and Design, Atlanta, Georgia, 2010 [catalog]
Quantified
Aesthetics, Minnesota
Center for Book
Arts, Minneapolis, 2010
Book as Medium:
Holding/Withholding Text, Sesnon Art
Gallery, University of California, Santa Cruz,
2010
FLOW:
art/text/new media, Center for
Book Arts, New
York, NY, 2009
Choice of All My
Library:
Thirteen Treasures from Lafayette’s Rare Book Collection, Lafayette
College
Library, 2008
Collaboration:
The Art of
Working Together,
Arts of the Book Collection, Yale University Library, 2008
Either Side of
the Skin, Penland
Gallery, Penland
School of Crafts, Penland, NC, 2008
Metaphor Taking
Shape:
Poetry, Art, and the Book, Beinecke
Library, Yale University, 2008
Fresh
Impressions:
Contemporary Letterpress Printing, Hoffman
Gallery, Oregon College of Art and Craft,
Portland, 2008
Sacred Text /
Contemporary
Form: Spiritual Traditions in the Digital Age, Milwaukee
Institute of Art and Design
Gallery, 2007
California
Printers in the
Fine Press Tradition,
Stanford University Library, 2007
Art &
Poetry: The Power
of the Broadside,
Pyramid Atlantic Art Center, Silver Spring, MD, 2007
Orient, Donna Seager
Gallery, San
Rafael, CA, 2006
Bound Visions:
Artist’s
Books,
Craft Alliance Gallery, St. Louis, MO, 2006
Beyond Words:
Artists’
Books,
University Art Gallery, Sewanee: University of the South, 2006
Alternative
Voices:
Artists’ Books, Comix, and Zines, Watkinson
Library, Trinity College, Hartford, CT,
2005-2006
The Artist Turns
to the
Book,
Getty Research Institute, Los Angeles, 2005
Resonance and
Response:
Artists’ Books from Special Collections, Wellesley
College, Wellesley, MA, 2005
Matter &
Spirit: The
Genesis and Evolution of the Book, Wells College
Book Arts Center, Aurora, NY, 2004
Word &
Image: An
Exhibit of Poetry Broadsides by Nine Small Presses, Currier Center
for the
Arts, The Putney School, Putney, VT, 2004
Girl Printers, Mandeville
Gallery, Union
College, Schenectady, NY, 2003 [Traveling]
Unseen
Hands, Milberg
Gallery, Princeton University Library,
2002-2003
Built by Hand, Pyramid
Atlantic
International Juried Book Exhibition, 1111 Sculpture Space, Washington,
DC,
2002
Book as Art XIII, The National
Museum of
Women in the Arts, 2002
A Print Odyssey:
2001, exhibit in
conjunction
with symposium, University of Georgia Summer Book Arts program,
Cortona, Italy,
2001 [Traveling]
Fantasy
Library: A Treasure Hunt Through the Public and Private
Artists’ Books Collections of San Diego, The Athenaeum
Music & Arts Library, La Jolla,
CA, 2001
Biennial 2000, Columbia
College Center
for Book and Paper Arts, Chicago, IL, 2000
Addendum to the
Columbia
College Biennial 2000,
Flaxman Library, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, IL, 2000
Visions of the
Apocalypse, Davison Art
Center,
Wesleyan University, Middletown, CT, 1999
Image and Text, Stephen F.
Austin State
University Gallery, Nacogdoches, TX, 1997-1998
The Book as a
Work of Art, Queens Public
Library
Gallery, Jamaica, NY, 1998
The Apocalypse, La Salle
University
Museum, Philadelphia, 1997
Paper, Art &
the Book, Center for
Book Arts, New
York, NY, 1996
A Century of
Local Printing
& Publishing,
University Research Library, University of California, Los Angeles, 1996
Under Pressure, Mesa Arts
Center, Mesa,
AZ, 1995
Printer &
Artist:
Thirty Fine Presses from USA and Britain, Rocket
Gallery, London, England, 1995
Fine Press
Limited Edition
Books,
Wessel & Lieberman Booksellers, Seattle, 1995
Inky Fingers:
Works by
Small & Fine Presses, Center for
Book Arts, New York, NY, 1994
Beyond the Book, Montgomery
Gallery,
Claremont, CA, 1993
California
Artist’s Books, Armory Center
for the
Arts, Pasadena, CA, 1991
National
Broadside Print
Exhibition,
Fine Arts Gallery, University Art Museum, University of
Wisconsin-Milwaukee,
1991
Women’s
Autobiographical
Artist’s Books,
University Art Museum, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, 1987
Selected Collections
The
Athenaeum Music & Arts Library, La Jolla, CA
Bibliothèque Nationale de Luxembourg
Boston
Public
Library, Special Collections
The British Library, London, England
California Polytechnic State University Library, Special Collections, San Luis Obispo
Claremont
Colleges Library, Special Collections
Columbia
University, Rare Book & Manuscript Library
Dartmouth
College, Rauner Library
Deutsche
Nationalbibliothek, Frankfurt am Main, Germany
Dürer
Haus, Nuremberg, Germany
Florida
Atlantic University Libraries, Jaffe Collection
Getty
Center for the Arts and Humanities Research Institute
Harvard
University, Houghton Library
Indiana
University, Lilly Library
Lafayette
College Library, Special Collections
Library
of Congress, Rare Books and Special Collections
McGill
University Library, Rare Books & Special Collections, Montreal,
Canada
Metropolitan
Toronto Reference Library, Special Collections, Toronto, Canada
Messiah
College Library, Special Collections
Middlebury
College Library, Special Collections
Mills
College Library, Special Collections
National
Library of Medicine
New
York Public Library, Rare Books Division and Performing Arts Library
Universitätsbibliothek
Basel,
Switzerland
Princeton
University
Library, Rare Books & Special Collections
Rochester
Institute
of Technology Libraries, Archive Collections
Rhode
Island
School of Design Library, Archives & Special Collections
Ruth
and
Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry
San
Francisco Public Library, Book Arts and Special Collections Center
Savannah
College of Art and Design Libraries, Special Collections
Sewanee:
The University of the South Library, Archives & Special Collections
Skidmore
College Library, Archives & Special Collections
Smith
College Library, Special Collections
Smithsonian
Museum of American Art Library
Southern
Methodist University, Bridwell Library
Stanford
University Library, Special Collections & University Archives
Swarthmore
College Library, Special Collections
Texas
Tech University, Southwest
Collection/Special
Collections Library
Trinity
College, Watkinson Library
Union
College
Library, Special Collections
University
of
California Los Angeles, Research Library and Clark Memorial Library
University
of California Davis Library, Special Collections
University
of California San Diego Library, Special Collections
University
of California Santa Barbara Library, Special Collections
University
of Connecticut, Dodd Research Center
University
of Chicago Libraries, Special Collections Research Center
University
of Delaware Library, Special Collections
University
of Illinois Library, Special Collections
University
of Iowa Libraries, Special Collections & University Archives
University
of Minnesota Libraries, Special Collections & Rare Books
University
of Nevada, Reno Libraries, Special Collections
University
of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Rare Book Collection
University
of Pennsylvania, Rare Book and Manuscript Library
University
of Texas Libraries, Harry Ransom Center
University
of Utah Library, Rare Books Division
University
of Vermont Libraries, Special Collections
University
of Virginia Library, Special Collections
University
of Washington Libraries, Special Collections Division
University
of Wisconsin-Madison Libraries, Special Collections
Wake
Forest University Library, Special Collections
The
Wellcome Institute Library, London, England
Wellesley
College Library, Special Collections
Wesleyan
University, Davison Art Center and Special Collections & Archives
Williams
College Libraries, Archives & Special Collections
Württembergische
Landesbibliothek,
Stuttgart, Germany
Yale
University Libraries, Arts of the Book Collection and Medical
Historical
Library
Lectures and Teaching
Lecturer & Guest Faculty, University of Utah Book Arts Program, 2012
Lecturer, Corcoran College of Art + Design, Washington, DC, 2011
Panelist, "Instigating Accidents: Chance as Strategy and Aesthetic," Columbia College Chicago Center for Book and Paper Arts, 2011
"Chance Operations in the Letterpress Book" workshop, Columbia College Chicago Center for Book and Paper Arts, 2011
Visiting Faculty, Block 7 (one month), Colorado College, Colorado Springs, 2011
"From Idea to Art: In-depth stories of making letterpress artists' books" lecture, Colorado College, Colorado Springs, 2011
"Chance Operations in Contemporary Artists' Books (Thank You, John Cage)" lecture preceding exhibition opening, Wesleyan University, 2010
Lecturer,
Museum of Contemporary Craft, Portland, OR, 2008
Lecturer,
Seattle Book Arts Guild, 2008
“Mixing
Chance & Choice: A Letterpress (and more) Extravaganza,” Oregon
College of
Art and Craft extension course, 2008
“Chance
Operations & Fine Printing,” one-week course at Penland School of
Craft,
2008
Visiting
Faculty, Colorado College, Colorado Springs, 2008
“Purposeful
Chance in Contemporary Artists’ Books (Thank You, John Cage!),”
Colophon Club,
San Francisco, 2008
“(1)
Chance (2) Choice (3) Repeat,” workshop, San Francisco Center for the
Book,
2008
Keynote
speaker & workshop instructor, Southeast Association for Book Arts,
University of South Carolina, 2007
Lecturer
& workshop instructor, “The Architecture of the Book” conference,
Sir
Wilfred Grenfell College, Corner Brook, Newfoundland, Canada, 2007
Lecturer,
University of the Arts, Philadelphia, 2006
“Chance
Operations and Fine Printing, or 17 things you need to know as a poet,”
Wells
Book Arts Summer Institute class, 2006
“Poetry,
Fine Printing, and Chance Operations in Artists’ Books,” Haas Library,
Western
Connecticut State University, 2004
Panel
moderator, “The Future of the Artists’ Book,” Oak Knoll Fest X, New
Castle, DE,
2003
“Book
Collaborations with Keiji Shinohara,” Minnesota Center for Book Arts,
Minneapolis, 2003
“Purposeful
Chance in
Contemporary Artists’ Books,” College of Visual Arts, St. Paul, MN,
2003,in
conjunction with the workshop, “Chance and the Visual Book,” Minnesota
Center
for Book Arts
Lecture
on the exhibition “By Chance: Serendipity and Randomness in
Contemporary
Artists’ Books,” Yale University, 2002
“Purposeful
Chance in Contemporary Artists’ Books (Thank You, John Cage!),”
Skidmore
College, 2002
Frederic W.
Goudy Lecture
on the Book Arts, “Hijinks at the Press: Chance, Randomness, and Blind
Collaboration in Contemporary Artists’ Books,” Scripps College, 2001,
in
conjunction with the workshop “Chance and the Visual Book: Exquisite
Carpe
Diem”
Lecturer,
Book Arts Summer Workshop, Dartmouth College, 2001
Visiting
Artist Lecture Series, University of the Arts MFA Book Arts /
Printmaking
program, Philadelphia 1999
“Letterpress:
The Heavy Metal of Choice / On Tour with Robin Price,” The Book Club of
California, San Francisco, 1999
“Authorship
and the Making of Ravaged with Joy,”
Image and Text II Symposium, Stephen F. Austin State University,
Nacogdoches,
TX, 1998
Panelist,
symposium in conjunction with the exhibit “The Book as a Work of Art,”
Queens
Public Library, Jamaica, NY, 1998
Visiting
Artist and Lecturer, Colorado College, Colorado Springs,1997
Lecture
for The Typophiles, New York, NY, 1996
Second
Annual Rare Book Seminar for Smith College Libraries Staff, “The Making
of The Book of Revelation,” 1996
“Three
Los Angeles Printers [NOT Saul Marks, Ward Ritchie, and Grant
Dahlstrom!],” The
Colophon Club, San Francisco, 1994
Selected Bibliography
Mutliple, Limited, Unique: Selections from the Permanent Collection of the Center for Book Arts, The Center for Book Arts, 2011, p 82
Crispin Elsted, Parenthesis No. 21, fall 2011, review of exhibition catalog Counting on Chance: 25 Years of Artists' Books by Robin Price, Publisher
Masters: Book
Arts, Lark Books, 2011
Counting on Chance: 25 Years of Artists' Books by Robin Price, Publisher, Davison Art Center, Wesleyan University, 2010
Betty
Bright, “Handwork and Hybrids: Contemporary Book Art,” Extra/ordinary:
Craft
and Contemporary Art, Duke University
Press, 2010
500
Handmade Books: A Celebration of Contemporary Book Forms, Lark Books, 2008
Book
Art Object, Codex
Foundation, 2008
Sidney
Berger, Parenthesis No. 13, August
2007, review of press book By-and-by
Richard
Goodman, Fine Books & Collections no. 26, March/April 2007
Betty
Bright, No Longer Innocent: Book Art in
America 1960-1980, New York: Granary Books, 2005, pp. 249-50
David
Jury, Letterpress: The Allure of the
Handmade. Mies, Switzerland: RotoVision, 2004
Keith
Smith, Structure of the Visual Book.
Expanded 4th edition, Rochester: Keith Smith Books, 2003, p
217
Betty
Bright, Parenthesis No. 7, 2002,
review of press books Ravaged with Joy and Slurring at bottom: a printer’s book
of errors
Connell
Gallagher, Parenthesis No. 5, 2000,
review of press book The Journey of the
Guitar: A Portrait of Pepe Romero
Sam Hamill, “Contemporary Poetry” column, Bookways, April 1994 and October 1992, for press books The Dooley Poems by John Gilgun and Wherever I Looked by Gary Young