John Risseeuw - Prints and Books

Tempe, Arizona

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Letterpress and woodcut on handmade paper.  Casebound in black cloth over boards with handmade paper label. 

8 pp. 3 5/8”x4 3/4” closed; 10”x4 3/4” open Edition 25.

© 1999

sold - edition now out of print

While doing prints based on Thelonious Monk’s music, I did this small book upon invitation for a miniature artists’ book exhibition at the National Library of Tasmania.  This is an “origami book,” made from one sheet of paper printed on both sides and folded into the bookform.

Modal

Collaborative artists’ book with Charlie Cohan. Intaglio (drypoint and photoetch, Cohan) and relief collograph (Risseuw) with xerox transferred text on Magnani Pescia blue paper with black cloth covered board covers

5.25” x 6.75” x .75” closed; 56” x 6.75” x 5” open. Edition 6 © 2007

$800 - only one copy left

The Kind of Blue (1959) album by Miles Davis, with John Coltrane, Cannonball Adderley, Bill Evans, Wynton Kelly, Paul Chambers, and Jimmy Cobb is an example of classic modal jazz. “There will be fewer chords,” Davis told them, “but infinite possibilities as to what to do with them.” Modal was collaboratively created and produced by Charles Cohan and John Risseeuw in loving tribute to Davis’ achievement, in Cortona, Italy, during July 2007, using drypoint intaglio and relief on Magnani Pescia blue. Paul Chambers, after “All Blues” was recorded in one take, said, “Damn, that’s a hard mother.

 

Apotheosis

letterpress and wood and cloth relief on handmade paper

11 1/8 x 14 1/8

portfolio edition of 150

© 2003

$350

Dizzy’s Busy

13 3/4 x 16 1/2

letterpress and relief collagraph on Magnani paper

edition of 5

© 2008

$500

I Mean Monk

letterpress and relief blocks on handmade paper

10 x 9 3/4

edition of 28

© 1999

$150