Purgatory Pie Press Exhibit
Of Interest
8.1.10 - 10.1.10 | 9:00 am - 5:00 pm
Collins Memorial Library at the University of Puget Sound is honored to host an exhibit of the work of Purgatory Pie Press. Dikko Faust started the Press in 1977 in Wisconsin. Since 1980, he and his wife Esther K Smith have operated out of New York City focusing on making books with traditional and experimental techniques. (Their wedding invitation was their first letterpress collaboration.) Purgatory Pie Press has had solo exhibitions at the rare book libraries in London’s Victoria and Albert Museum and the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Their editions have been shown at galleries and museums internationally, and are housed in the permanent collections of Museum of Modern Art, The Whitney, and the National Gallery of Art. The Press has also had solo exhibitions at Rhode Island School of Design (RISD), Harvard University, and San Francisco’s Center for the Book.
The exhibit will include: real type letterpress limited edition collaborative artist books, posters, coasters, postcards, PurgaToys-- PLUS examples from the Random House books including typographic proofs from the covers and display pages they designed and proofed on the letterpress for those publications.
An opening reception for the show will be held Friday, August 13, 2010 4-6pm. For more information see http://www.pugetsound.edu/academics/academic-resources/collins-memorial-library/news-events/purgatory-pie-press-exhibit/
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