Spring
Text by Kenneth Goldsmith
Five 2-color wood engravings by James Siena
Limited to 200 numbered copies, signed by the poet and the artist
120 pages; 7.5 x 9.5 inches, hardbound
$500.
Spring is a section of a longer text, The Weather, which Goldsmith created by transcribing one year’s worth of daily, sixty-second weather reports broadcast on a New York City area AM radio station. Spring of this particular year (2003) was marked by the United States’ invasion of Iraq, and some of the weather reports include meteorological information from Iraq. Kenneth Goldsmith’s writing has been called some of the most “exhaustive and beautiful collage work yet produced in poetry” by Publishers Weekly. The author of seven books of poetry, founding editor of the online archive UbuWeb (ubu.com), and the editor of I’ll Be Your Mirror: The Selected Andy Warhol Interviews, Goldsmith is also the host of a weekly radio show on New York City’s WFMU. He teaches writing at the University of Pennsylvania, where he is senior editor of PennSound, an online poetry archive.
About his abstractions, James Siena has written, “I don’t make marks. I make moves. . . . When I make a painting, I respond to a set of parameters, like a visual algorithm.” The results, as Elizabeth Kley has written, “are too precise to be organic, too illogical to be geometric, and too dry to be decorative.” Siena has exhibited in numerous gallery shows in New York and Los Angeles, and in the 2004 Whitney Biennial. His first solo museum exhibition took place in 2003 at the San Francisco Art Institute Gallery. Awards include a Fellowship in Painting from the New York Foundation for the Arts in 1995; a Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation Biennial Competition Award in 1999; and an Award in Art from the American Academy of Arts and Letters in 2000. A solo show of paintings and gouaches occurred November, 2005 at Pace Wildenstein Gallery in New York.
Spring was set in Monotype Bembo and printed letterpress. The engravings were printed directly from the wood blocks. The paper is Zerkall book. The 120 page book is clothbound and measures 9.5 x 7.5 inches (24 x 19 cm.). The edition is limited to 200 numbered copies, each signed by the poet and the artist.
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