Paul Woodbine

This is an attractive, 16 page color booklet that was produced for the artist's only major show, in the Spring of 1990. In the catalog, there are ten reproductions of prints by the artist. Unfortunatley, they are much reduced in size but the color is vivid. The heavy, matte cover and title page offer striking examples from the printer/artist who's work could be described as a more painterly updating of Russian Consructivism. The catalog also offers a useful list of published portfolios and limited editions produced by the artist going back to 1975 and up to the time of the exhibit. Paul Woodbine was an early exponent of using letterpress and printers' type to create fine art. The latter-day discovery of letterpress as a craft and tool for book-artists, however, holds little resemblence to the sophisticated forms of this little known artist.