Please visit us at Art Chicago 2008
Booth No.12-619
Thursday April 24, Opening Night Preview
Professional Preview 5;00pm – 6:00pm
Opening Party 6:00pm – 10:00pm
Friday, April 25, 11:00am – 7:00pm
Saturday, April 26, 11:00am – 7:00pm
Sunday. April 27, 11:00am – 6:00pm
Monday, April 28, 11:00am – 4:00pm
A Missouri native, Tom "Show Me" Huck flew into Santa
Fe as part of a whirlwind schedule across the
southwest. We've worked with him on past projects such as Hog Scalders
and Decapitation Nation.
Continuing at a frenetic pace on our newest editon "Pork Chop
Suey Pt. II: Oinktoberfest", Tom ended up
pulling an all-nighter in order to get his carving finished. (He
was scheduled to leave the next day
at 1:00-0 the RTP was pulled an hour before the flight) Nothing
like cutting things short- so thanks Tom...
Huck's influences include Daumier, Posada, and Durer which come
to no surprise considering the subject matter of his large scale
social satire. As large as his woodblocks are, there is a surprising
delicacy to his carving skill and sure quick handed-ness. .
During the month of June 2006, James Havard worked with collaborating
printer Steve Campbell to create “Religion Fighters”.
This print comes with the Deluxe Catalogue Raisonne. The Catalogue
is limited to 100 copies, individually signed and numbered by the
artist. Each is presented with an original, 12” x 12 _”
hardground etching with chine colle. The etching has been created
solely for this publication, is also limited to an edition of 100
and signed and numbered by the artist. We have an exclusive number
available at $750.
In an era when undocumented workeres are often vilified, Luis Jimenez
has memorialized the illegal entry into the United States of his
own father and grandmother. His 10-foot-tall sculpture Border
Crossing, depicts a man carrying a woman on his shoulders;
she leans forward, holding a child against her chest. Her face is
strained – perhaps because the Rio Grande is cold and dangerous.
It is cast in fiberglass and painted in dark yet garish colors.
Born in 1940, Jimenez grew up in a barrio of El Paso, Texas. He
moved to New York during the 1960s, and after years of struggle,
his first one-person exhibit at the Graham Gallery in 1969 was a
success. Jimenez moved back to the Southwest in 1972 and began work
on large-scale figurative works that celebrate the lives of working-class
Hispanics. His work is included in the collections of the Museum
of Fine Arts, Santa Fe, the Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington
DC, and the El Paso Museum of Art.
Jimenez's drawings and lithographs are infused with the raw energy
of live lived at the edges of society. In his graphic work, death
can be disguised as a woman who dances wildly with flaring skirts
ready to envelop souls. A dead coyote can say vlumes about the rough
and tumble of real life.
This June, Jimenez died from injuries when part of a monumental
sculpture he was creating for the Denver International Airport fell
on him.
One of Landfall's artists, Ghada Amer, is featured in an article
titled, "Behind the Veil". Amer is included under the
topic of "What Makes Art Erotic" along with her collaborator,
Reza Farkhondeh.
Jack and Ghada met while she was doing a residency at the H&R
Block Artspace in Kansas City. At the time, Ghada was working on
a series of drawings with Reza. After viewing the work, he invited
them to Landfall for a week to collaborate on a series of prints.
The joint effort resulted in three prints entitled, "For
Wonder Women", "Love Me", and "Kiss Cross".
Reza and Ghada work within the parameters of a truly collaborative
spirit. There is a constant flow if ideas moving back and forth.
Elements of Ghada's erotic embroidered female figures, fairy tales,
and sometimes text are melded with Reza's drawings of landscapes,
lonely trees, and gestured drips. The preliminary ideas of landscape
and gesture are fused with the line drawings and stitched elements,
creating a push/pull effect within the compositional plane with
neither dominating the space.
"It was wonderful to continue our collaboration in a different
setting. The concentrated atmosphere of Landfall Press, where everyone
worked to find the best solutions for our projects, was a continuation
in the changing dynamic of our work together."
– Ghada Amer and Reza Farkhondeh.
Interview with Christo and Jeanne-Claude -
a must read!
In November's issue of National Geographic, Christo and
Jeanne-Claude talk about their upcoming project for the Arkansas
River.
Bourgeoisie in De Nile a suite of 10 etchings
by photographer Joel-Peter Witkin
It is the Return - one of the nine projects artist
Lesley Dill created while visiting Landfall
last Fall (at left bottom)
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This past summer, James Drake returned
to Landfall with a new lithograph. Printed on a grand scale, James
continues with the various themes present in his "City of Tells"
series.

"Feast of Four Rivers" 2005, 3 Color Lithograph, 117" x
168" (wow!), Edition of 10, $15,000
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#30!
Charles M. Schulz met Christo and Jeanne-Claude in
1975. Two years later, Schulz memorialized Christo’s work in a daily
strip depicting a wrapped Snoopy house. With mutual admiration,
Christo took the Schulz comic from a 1978 strip to reality in 2004
with his Wrapped Snoopy House Project on display at the Charles
M. Schulz Museum and Research Center in Santa Rosa, California.

"Wrapped Snoopy House, Project for Charles M. Schulz Museum"
will mark the 30th collaboration between Christo, Jeanne-Claude
and Landfall Press. The lithograph/collage, inspired by the popular
pooch, measures 24 1/8 inches by 21 5/8 inches with an edition size
of 250. These will be offered at $5,500.00 each. The image debuted
at the 2004 IFPDA Print Fair in New York City.
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We now list print prices on the web site. You will find them listed
on the artist's pages and also in
the Inventory section of the web site.
As always, prices and print availability are subject to change without
notice. Please call or email us for more information on purchasing
prints.
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