Ruth Lingen, Picture Press, New York, NY

Led Almost by My Tie, 2007

This book is the result of a 2 year collaboration between Jeremy Sigler, Jessica Stockholder and Ruth Lingen. The images were made using lithography, transfer, letterpress, digital, collage and hand coloring. The lithos were drawn directly on the plates by the artist. The type is Bulmer, with various metal and wood sans serifs, all hand set. All typography and printing done by Ruth Lingen, with assistance from Kathy Kuehn, Ariel Kitch and Casey Roberts. The paper is Somerset and vintage Coloraid, with various mylars and Jean Tetan plastics.

The binding was done by Mark Tomlinson and Ruth Lingen, in an edition of 30 plus 9 artist proofs.

Numbers 1–15 are glued onto 3/4 inch balsa wood, and numbers 16–30 are glued onto 1 inch balsa wood and come with a sculptural wall unit.

The book measures 8.5 x 5 x 1.5 inches, and the book/sculptural unit
measures approximately 14 x 18 x 9.5 inches. The plastic casting is by Squire Broel. All books are signed and numbered.

Collections: Boston Athenaeum, New York Public Library, University of California, San Diego, University of Southern California

BIOGRAPHIES

Jessica Stockholder was born in Seattle, Washington in 1959. She studied painting at the University of British Columbia, Vancouver, and received an MFA from Yale University. Stockholder is a pioneer of multimedia genre-bending installations that have become a prominent language in contemporary art. She is now director of Yale's Sculpture Department.

As a shop worker for the legendary New York printmaker Joe Wilfer and midwest bookmaster Walter Hamady, Ruth Lingen learned both her trade and the pleasure of collaborating with living artists. In the years since, she herself has become somewhat of a legend, collaborating with nearly 50 of the world's greatest artists—on prints (some for Pace editions, some on her own) and very special limited edition artist's books. She's worked with Jim Dine, Robert Ryman, Mary Heilmann, Kiki Smith, Chuck Close and Claes Oldenberg, Bob Holman, Robert Creeley, Jessica Stockholder and Jeremy Sigler, Donald Traever, Al Held and John Chamberlain, to name a few. Lingen's work can be found in the collection of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, The Getty and the Brooklyn Museum, as well as more than 20 libraries, from the New York Public to Harvard University's.

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