The Magnolia Tapestry Project

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A survey of tapestries published by Magnolia to date, including an interview with Tapestry Project founders Donald Farnsworth and John Nava. Includes over 100 tapestry editions by 28 artists including Squeak Carnwath, Chuck Close, Leon Golub, Doug Hall, Alex Katz, Hung Liu, Deborah Oropallo, Mel Ramos, Nancy Spero, and William Wiley, with an introductory essay and commentary by Nick Stone.

Chuck Close: Tapestries

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Chuck Close's tapestry editions, translated from daguerreotypes and polaroids, realize the artist's signature conflation of intimate portraiture and rigorous attention to materials and surface. This catalog contains images of all of Close's woven editions, including likenesses of Kate Moss, Elton John, and Cindy Sherman, as well as the artist's iconic self portraits.

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Hung Liu’s 2007 exhibition Daughters of China, 1938 at Rena Bransten Gallery featured a suite of epic canvases based on a 1938 Chinese film celebrating a band of female resistance fighters. This book includes color images of every painting from that series, essays about Liu's work by Liu Xiaodong and William L. Fox, and selections from Liu’s digital stills from the film.

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Deer Boy, an artist’s book combining images by Hung Liu with a poem by Beat legend Michael McClure composed especially for this project, was inspired by Liu’s encounters with two fallen deer. Each book also contains a multicolored prayer flag of Chinese silk, printed with imagery by Liu.

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Hung Liu’s 2007 exhibition Daughters of China, 1938 at Rena Bransten Gallery featured a suite of paintings based on a 1938 Chinese film celebrating a band of female resistance fighters. Liu photographed the film, creating her own stills from which she drew inspiration for a series of epic canvases. To coincide with the exhibition, Liu, Jeff Kelley and Magnolia Editions have collaborated on an editioned portfolio of 15 archival inkjet prints. Each portfolio in the edition is housed in a custom-made book box with slipcase; the set also includes a new book on the Daughters of China series.

Tapestries by
Donald & Era Farnsworth

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The art of Donald and Era Farnsworth draws from the languages of science, myth, the art historical and the spiritual to address environmental and other contemporary issues. This catalog includes an essay by Nick Stone and images from all of the Farnsworths' woven editions, including a series of animistic tree portraits and the ongoing Mythos series, in which centuries-old works are given a respectfully irreverent digital reinterpretation.

George Miyasaki

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A catalog of George Miyasaki's work published by Magnolia Editions, this publication collects for the first time more than 20 years of collagraph, mixed media and tapestry editions by the West Coast's premier vanguard of Abstract Expressionism. Each print in Miyasaki's editions has been reproduced, providing an overview of the dynamic variations in color and texture which are Miyasaki's trademark.

Six Shooter Portfolio
Deborah Oropallo

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Deborah Oropallo's Six Shooter suite of eleven pigmented inkjet prints is a companion to her Wild Wild West Show series, delivering the artist’s consideration of western imagery - in this case, compositions inspired by cowboy-themed toy pistols - in a more intimate format. A text by Nick Stone and a poem, Cowboy, are included. Each suite of prints is housed in a handmade clamshell box with a white leather star embedded on the surface.

Origin: Specimens
Donald Farnsworth

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A catalog of works by Donald Farnsworth exhibited at the Fresno Art Museum. Farnsworth's large scale prints on paper and canvas combine extraordinarily detailed, hyper-realistic images of specimens from the natural world with text from Charles Darwin's Origin of Species, inviting the viewer to consider the dual roles of observation and belief in humanity's understanding of its own origins. Includes an essay by Nick Stone and a foreword by the artist.

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In 2006, Magnolia Editions teamed with genre-busting maverick William T. Wiley to create an unprecedented edition of fine art buttons. Each edition is housed inside a custom, one of a kind box resembling a book and created by John DeMerritt, president of Hand Bookbinders of California. A text composed by Wiley accompanies the edition, and can be read either as captions accompanying the imagery or as a single, continuous poem. Touching on classic Wiley themes of beauty, creativity, human ambition, transcendence, mortality and identity, Kali-fornia Dreamin strikes a balance between the epic nature of its content and the personal, unassuming scale of the button medium, providing a fascinating survey of the universe as seen through Wiley’s eyes.

Mildred Howard

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A monograph featuring mixed media, sculpture, and print works by Mildred Howard, including work shown in 2007 and 2008 at Paule Anglim Gallery in San Francisco and the Nielsen Gallery in Boston. This publication includes a new interview with the artist and more than 30 color images of work never before collected in print.

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Squeak Carnwath's Reasons & Secrets is two artist's books in one slipcase: one on the theme of Reasons, and one on Secrets. Each volume contains a text by the artist and a series of collographic and lithographic prints, executed a la poupée.

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A compact, practical guide to the use of Japanese techniques by Westerners, featuring woodcut illustrations from a classic 18th century Japanese papermaking guide.

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Traditional momigami is paper that is coated with paste and crushed to make a tough, durable material often used for book covers. Projects include a wallet and a portfolio.

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John Fante's gritty, tersely lyrical novel Ask the Dust has been praised by critics and writers for more than 60 years; Charles Bukowski once wrote that "Fante was my god." This previously unpublished manuscript, found by Joyce Fante five decades after its composition, was written by Fante as a condensed preview of the novel for his publisher. It is accompanied in this limited edition by a series of etchings excised in hardground, aquatint, and drypoint by John Register.