Exhibition artist : Wayne Simpkins. True love will find a way

A$650 · Offered by Douglas Stewart Fine Books

Santa Barbara: University of California, Santa Barbara, 1974. Artist s book. Card portfolio containing 27 leaves (each numbered and initialled verso), composed in two parts: a catalogue and an autobiography. Each page is made by digital print with collage of photographs, with hand embellishments and pencil annotations. Created in an edition of 10 signed copies. This is an original manuscript book which was printed and hand written by the artist at the University of California, Santa Barbara. Ten copies exist no two of which are identical although the structure is essentially the same. colophon This book is an autbiography (of sorts). It is in two parts. Part I is a catalogue of an exhibition of lithographs and drawings by Wayne Simpkins (which is me). Part II contains biographical information about me (by Wayne Simpkins). Simpkins is currently an Associate Professor at the University of Memphis. I was born in Huntington, West Virginia. My BFA in Printmaking is from Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburg. I spent two years in the printer training program at the newly established Tamarind Institute, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque and am certified as a Tamarind Master Printer. My MFA in Printmaking is from the University of California, Santa Barbara. I ve been teaching here since 1974 when I moved to Memphis from Santa Barbara. I thought of myself as a painter until I enrolled in my first printmaking class at Carnegie Mellon. I m still a printmaker but I moved away from

• Binding: Hardcover

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