Curious Publishing presents 99 Typewriter Drawings

Back in January, I shared a digital catalog of drawings with a small number of my email newsletter recipients and readers of this blog. (you can read it here). I received a handful of requests for a physical book, but I didn’t think that it was really a possibility.

...until now!

99 Typewriter Drawings documents a recent series of drawings exploring offbeat combinations of image and text.
Each began with a typewritten fragment of text from a literary source such as Joseph Campbell, Andy Warhol, or self-help, and concluded with an improvised ink drawing.

Most spreads in 99 Typewriter Drawings include a QR code that opens a video on your phone, such as the one here.

Many of the drawings also appeared in time-lapse videos that were edited and uploaded to the web. The published videos, which are autonomous artworks of their own, are linked via QR Code in most spreads, allowing you to access another dimension of work instantly.

99 Typewriter Drawings is a full color, 5.5” X 8.5” perfect bound book of drawings completed between 2020-2021.

$25 from Curious Publishing

Available July 10, 2021

PRE-ORDER SALE: GET THE BOOK FOR JUST $15 IF YOU PURCHASE BEFORE JUNE 30

Swims

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About six years ago, I started getting into the practice of making “Artist’s Books.”
Artist’s Books are different from sketchbooks in that they revolve around a central theme or contain an over-arching idea, rather than being a place for sketching and notation.

Detail of a drawing from SWIMS

The SWIMS book was assembled in 2017 while I was exploring a motif based on a photograph of the Olympic swimmer Katie Ledecky. For a period of 6-8 months, I made hundreds of sketches and dozens of monotypes of the pose, examining nuanced differences in depiction and expression. I used a typewriter to “draw” waves for the title page of the book, and hand-coiled an antique wire through the holes of the individual pages, which gives it a different look and feel from a typical coil-bound drawing book.

Swimmer, oil on un-stretched canvas (2017)

The work from SWIMS culminated in the Swimmer painting, also from 2017, which was exhibited at the Institute of Contemporary Art in Portland, Maine that same year. (Here’s a link to a blog post about the exhibition).

Most of the drawings from the cycle have been disseminated, but the ones in this book are my personal favorites.

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SWIMS
One-of-a-kind Artist’s Book
(book board, vinyl paint, antique wire, drawing paper, soy ink, typewriter ribbon, Glassine)
8.5 x 6 in., 31 pages
2017