- About the Press
- Selected Works
- 25th Anniversary Catalogue
- Counting Ventures
Currently on Exhibition: Counting on Chance: 25 Years of Artists’ Books by Robin Price, Publisher on exhibition at Columbia College Chicago Center for Book & Paper Arts through 9 April, 2011
43, According to Robin Price, with Annotated Bibliography
photo by Derek Dudek
Robin Price, Printer & Publisher
Starr Mill, Beverly Heights Middletown, CT 06457
860.344.8644 rprice@wesleyan.edu
43, According to Robin Price, with Annotated Bibliography
Anatomy Lesson: Unveiling the Fasciculus Medicinae
Slurring at bottom: a printer's book of errors
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.
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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 Artist’s Books by Robin Price, Publisher, Davison Art Center, Wesleyan University, Middletown, CT, 2010
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
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
Boston Public Library, Special Collections
The British Library, London, England
California Polytechnic State University Library, Special Collections, San Luis Obispo
Cambridge University Library, England
Claremont Colleges Library, Special Collections
Columbia University, Rare Book & Manuscript Library
Dartmouth College, Rauner Library
Deutsche Nationalbibliothek, Leipzig, 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, 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
Masters: Book Arts, Lark Books, 2011
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