Imprint Publications and Artist Residency

Artist in Residence Program: The Imprint of the SFCB's Artist in Residence Program was initiated in 2005. Now in its sixth year, the program provides emerging and established artists with technical and studio support to create handmade limited-edition books. Participants are chosen from a creative community of San Francisco Bay Area artists ranging from those in the fine arts and multi-media to photographers, poets and writers. The goal of the Artist in Residency is to raise awareness of book arts as a vital genre in contemporary art, to bring fresh perspectives to the field, and to support artists in their vocation. Residency artists share their skills, processes and perspective through public lectures, workshops and by welcoming volunteer participation in the production of their editions which are printed and bound at the SFCB. The Residency hosts one artist (or artist team) per year, and concludes in December with a signed and numbered artist's book project issued in trade edition and deluxe edition versions. The artist-in-residency program is made possible through book sales, donations and artist sponsorships.

Imprint Publications Sales Publications of the Imprint of the San Francisco Center for the Book are available for purchase, with prices below. Shipping & Handling for each book is $20-25 and shipped Fedex for tracking purposes, and California residents add 9.5% tax. Purchases can be made online below or in person at SFCB. Inquiries or questions about Imprint books or sales can be made to Rhiannon Alpers: (415) 565-0545 x 10/ imprint@sfcb.org

2011 Imprint Artist in Residence: Kota Ezawa

Ezawa was born 1969 in Cologne, Germany, received his BFA from the San Francisco Art Institute, and his MFA from Stanford University. Ezawa re-presents iconic moments from the media, popular culture, and the history of photography in animated videos, slide projections, lightboxes, and prints. Ezawa meticulously recreates animated sequences using basic digital drawing and animation software; his source material includes the Zapruder 8mm film of the Kennedy assassination, the O.J. Simpson trial, and clips from the films Who’s Afraid of Virginia Wolf? and D.W. Griffith’s Birth of a Nation. His solo shows include Medley, Wexner Center for the Arts, 2009;  Lennon Sontag Beuys, St. Louis Art Museum, 2008, Artpace, San Antonio, 2006 and Matrix 154, Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, CT, 2005. Group exhibitions include the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the Museum of Modern Art New York, Berkeley Art Museum, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, as well as the 5th Seoul International Biennale of Media Art and the 2004 Shanghai Biennale. His recent publications include Odessa Staircase Redux, (ECU Press/JRP Ringier, 2010), and The History of Photography Remix, (Nazraeli Press, 2006). He received a Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation Award in 2003, a SECA Art Award from the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art in 2006 and a Eureka Fellowship in 2010. Ezawa lives and works in San Francisco.
 

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