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Graduate Artists Books * roll over the titles below to view the images...

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Tricks Are For Trolls 1998 *description
edition 5, (6 1/2"x9"x3/4") lithographic trading cards in case

Chinchilla
Consuela
V
Rememberance 1997 *description
edition 5, (6 1/2"x8 1/2") reductive woodcut & intaglio with hand written text
Come las unas
Cogiendo la nariz
Comer mal

Fumar en pipa
Nada ejercicio
Un alcoholico
Trash 1998 *description
edition 5, (6 1/4"x6 3/4") woodcut, lithography, monotype, beeswax & watercolor bound in envelopes

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Gross Separations 1997 / NFS
edition 3, (6"x6"x.1/2") reductive woodcuts with hard cover
Title Page

Ralph Gross Sr.
Betty May Gauvain

Idiosyncratic Compulsions 1997 *description
edition 7, (7"x5 3/4") reductive woodcut & hand stamping
Azucar
Vanidad
Masa Y Pan

Ropecabezas
Fantasia
Fumando
Unspoken Tendencies 1997 / NFS
edition 4, (5"x5"x3/4") reductive woodcuts with box cover
Irene Fisher
Buzzy - Happy

 
 


My primary focus in bookmaking has been to speak about my dating experiences in a rural and large urban environment. I used family and past lovers as a catalyst for the images, reflecting my identity and role in society.

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2001-2006 Artists Books

Tricks Are For Trolls: "Tricks Are For Trolls" was a part of the installation, "bitter-sweet". The cards were meant to be handled. The face side there is an image representing many different personas of the gay life style. The back side had an icon in conjunction with gay personal ads that were found in the back of pornographic magazines.

Trash: "Trash" was a part of the installation, "bitter-sweet". The letters were meant to be handled and explored individually. The inspiration were letters of support and rejection received from friends and family members.

Idiosyncratic Compulsions: Is a set of six prints that were bound together as a postcard book. The inspiration was to share my addictions and passions.

Remembrance: Is a set of six prints that explore the idea of additions that were a part of my past. The text is taken from things that were sold to me as truths when I was a child.


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