Stephanie Mahan Stigliano

Steven Sorman ~ New York

Other work by Sorman at Milkweed Editions

T(here) Poems by Patricia Clark Images by Steven Sorman Ancram, New York: Steven Sorman, 2009. Edition of 20. 9 x 13"; 31 loose leaves, unnumbered but identified by a small colored triangle (the poem and its accompanying print are of the same, unique color). Text printed in 14 pt. Baskerville on an Epson inkjet printer. Text and images printed on handmade Amalfi paper. Each print includes hand painting combined with one or more printmaking techniques: drypoint, etching, aquatint, open bite, photopolymer intaglio, collage, and dusting of silver pearl. Loose leaves laid in frosted paper wrapper that is in turn laid in a hard case of paper-covered boards. Title on front board. At Grand Valley State University visiting artist Steve Sorman taught "The Word and Image to Book" with writing professor Patricia Clark. The class included demonstrations in bookbinding and design by Sorman and workshops on writing by Clark. As a result of their relationship, Clark and Sorman produced this book, pairing fourteen of her poems with fourteen of his prints. Steve Sorman was the first to be appointed to the Stuart and Barbara Padnos Chair in Art and Design at Grand Valley State University in Michigan. He previously taught at the Minneapolis College of Art and Design, where he built a papermaking facility. He was also on the faculty (at large) at Vermont College and Bennington College. He has lectured and been a visiting artist at numerous academic institutions and worked abroad, under the aegis of the U.S. Information Agency. Patricia Clark is a professor in the Writing Department and also the poet-in-residence at Grand Valley State University in Michigan. Her poetry has appeared in magazines such as The Atlantic Monthly, Poetry, Slate, New England Review, North American Review, Pennsylvania Review, Black Warrior Review, and Seattle Review. She is the recipient of a Creative Artist Grant from ArtServe Michigan for 2003. $2,000	Click image for more


Lessons From The Russian: Poems I, II, III By Lee Blessing Mt. Kisco, NY: Tyler Graphics Ltd, 1999. Edition of 20. 12.25 x 9" with 21 poetry pages. Encased in a paper folio with mezzotint collage on the front cover and lithographic lettering along the spine. All images handprinted on 11.5 x 8.25" "Richard de Bas Blanc Narcisse" handmade paper except the Trail Proofs on 12 x (" light blue "Hodgkinson" handmade paper. Folio mezzotint printed on buff hanga, a Japanese machine-made kozo fiber paper. Poetry printed on "Zanders" machine-made vellum. Singed and numbered by the artist on the colophon. Three poems by Lee Blessing are accompanied by twenty one mezzotints with engraving by Steven Sorman. This was a collaboration with Tyler Graphics Ltd. from 1993 to 1999 under the supervision of Kenneth Tyler. Sorman created twenty mezzotints on copper plates, one on a brass plate, and twenty engravings on copper plates in early 1990 for a series of prints titled Santos-Santeros which was published in 1994. Many of these plates were reworked to accompany Blessing's poems. $2,000 Ya zhdu. I wait. I am waiting. I will continue to wait.	Click image for more

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