African Art at Grinnell College (1997)
As part of the Exhibition Seminar course offered at Grinnell College, fourteen students worked with guest curator Victoria Rovine to organize the exhibit and write the catalog. The catalog provides information on sculptures, masks, drums, and other objects from the college's permanent collection that were used for this exhibit.
Catalog dimensions: 11 x 7 in., 63 pp
Price: $11

Alexey Titarenko: Photographs (2003)
As a photographer fascinated with old-world techniques and ways to push the boundaries of captured time, Titarenko creates haunting images of his home city, St. Petersburg, Russia. Titarenko is interested in figurative photography, but his images almost always include a backdrop of city buildings and communal spaces. This catalog includes images from three series he made between 1992 and 2000, with text in English and French by Gabriel Bauret. 42 black and white plates.
Catalog dimensions: 9.5 x 9.5 in., 104 pp
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American Masterworks from Smith College (1999)
Published by Smith College to accompany the exhibition, American Spectrum, which opened at the Smith College Museum of Art in 1999 and subsequently toured the United States, stopping at Faulconer Gallery in 2000. Various authors, edited by Linda Muehlig, 1999. 117 color illustrations, 120 black and white.
Catalog dimensions: 9.25 x 12.5 in., 307 pp, hardcover
Price: $55

Angela Strassheim: Left Behind (2006)
Angela Strassheim's first museum exhibition is also the first exhibition of any kind to include her Left Behind series in its entirety. The catalog, which reproduces all twenty-seven color photographs, includes an essay by Jean Dykstra.
Catalog dimensions: 9.75 x 11.75 in., 60 pp, hardcover
Price: $30
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The Art of Structural Design: A Swiss Legacy (2003)
Softcover catalog by David P. Billington, produced by the Princeton University Art Museum for the exhibition. Chapters on Wilhelm Ritter, Robert Maillart, Othmar Ammann, Pierre Lardy, Heinz Isler, and Christian Menn. Fully illustrated with color and b/w photographs on almost every page.
Catalog dimensions: 10.25 x 10.5 in., 210 pp,
Price: $ 37

Austin Thomas: Perches and Drawings (2006)
The first monograph on Austin Thomas's work, this catalog documents her work to date (2006). Essays by Roger D. Hodge, Jeffrey Kastner, Shamim M. Momin, and Daniel Strong. Checklist and artist biography. 78 color photographs.
Catalog dimensions: 9.5 x 7 in., 88 pp
Price: $15

Energy Inside (2001)
Curious about the state of modern sculpture, and specifically organic forms in sculpture, this exhibition invites exploration into a transformation of forms. Curator Lesley Wright writes in the introduction, Nature persists but in various states depending on the particular human filters applied by the artist. In our virtual world, it is the energy of nature that continues to fascinate, and it's the aspect that these sculptors, as creators, continue to try to harness. After all, without energy inside, there is no life. Works by Steve Currie, Heide Fasnacht,
Erik Levine, Matthew McCaslin, and Shelia Pepe. Color photos.
Catalog dimensions: 6.75 x 8.25 in., 32 pp
Price: $13

Estonian Art since 1990 (2001)
Inspired by the end of the Soviet occupation in 1994, Kay Wilson, Curator of the Print and Drawing Study Room, and John Mohan, Professor of Russian, traveled to Estonia to discover art that reflected major social and political change. They found art inspired by Estonian history and landscape indicating a powerful national renewal. The exhibition and catalogue represent the works of 17 Estonian artists and one artist collective, Studio 22, through individual biographies and color reproductions.
Catalog dimensions: 9 x 10.5 in., 88 pp
Price: $23

Every Day Life: Danica Phelps (2005)
Includes photographs, drawings, and text from a 10-year project recording Phelps' financial life; Walking Home, documenting a walk from Massachusetts to Maine; and Writers Trade, in which she exchaged drawings for text inspired by the work. These essays by curators, writers, gallery directors, publishers and professors, are also included.
Catalog dimensions: 7 x 9.5 in., 144 pp
Price $18
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Frank Breuer: Poles (2006)
Catalog for Frank Breuer's first museum exhibition in the United States features works from his Poles series. The twenty-four poles featured in the exhibition are reproduced in full color with an essay by Marcus Verhagen.
Catalog dimensions: 8.5 x 11.25 in., 68 pp, hardcover
Price: $30
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Grandeur and Fantasy: Piranesi's Visions and Views of Rome (2006)
Curated by ten students and Assoc. Professor of Art Tim Chasson, this catalog is the product of a semester-long seminar culminating in a four-week exhibition. The catalog includes seven essays by the student curators, a checklist of the exhibition, and a selected bibliography. Checklist contains thumbnail images of all 80 prints in the exhibition.
Catalog dimensions: 12 x 9 in., 56 pp
Price: $13

Grinnell College Art Faculty Show (2000)
Four of Grinnell College's studio art professors, Tony Crowley, Merle Zirkle, Jill Schrift, and Bobbie McKibbin, are represented in this small catalogue. Each artist is represented by two color reproductions of his or her work, a biography, and a personal statement.
Catalog dimensions: 8.75 x 7 in., 9 pp
Price: $5

Heavy Has Debt (2003)
For Phoebe Washburn's Faulconer Gallery installation in the summer of 2003, she recycled pieces used from a previous installation. Washburn created a 14-foot tall and 95-foot long curved wall using only small cardboard pieces, drywall screws, and the help of volunteers. To Washburn, her art breaks down the elements of construction to the most basic form. In her words, the process and completed object is so dumb - yet hopefully something amazing emerges from it. 2003.
Catalog dimensions: 9 x 11 in., 3-fold, 9 color photographs
Price: $3

HIN: The Quiet Beauty of Japanese Bamboo Art (2006)
Curated by Robert Coffland and Donald Doe. Essays by Donald Doe and Robert Coffland, artist biographies, and bibliography. Two full-page photographs of each basket.
Catalog dimensions: 10 x 10 in., 96 pp
Price: $43

INSTALLATIONS: Seven International Artists with Roots in Morocco
Curated by Kay Wilson and Aziz Daki. Art in a variety of media by Hicham Benahoud, Hassan Darsi, Abdelali Dahrouch, Safaa Erruas, Mohamed El baz, Mounir Fatmi, and Ikram Kabbaj, exploring social, cultural and political themes of our times. Essays by Kay Wilson, Aziz Daki, and Saadi A. Simawe.
Catalog dimensions: 10.5 x 8 inches, 64pp
Price: $24

I saw it: The Invented Reality of Goya's Disasters of War (2004)
Curated by twelve students and Assoc. Professor fo Art, Susan Strauber, this catalog is the product of a semester-long seminar culminating in a four-week exhibition. The catalog includes eight essays by the student curators, a timeline of Goya's life and current events, and a selected bibliography. Essays are illustrated with 30 bl/wh reproductions. Checklist contains thumbnail images of all 80 prints.
Catalog dimensions: 12 x 9 in., 44 pp
Price: $13

Italian Drawings and Prints from the Castelvecchio Museum, Verona (2002)
With 100 images from the 15th to the 21st century, this exhibition and catalog is a comprehensive view of the Castelvecchio's collection. Color reproductions of all 100 images and artist and drawing biographies accompany the images.
Catalog dimensions: 8.75 x 11 in., 110 pp
Price: $18

The Janice H. Levin Collection of French Art (2002)
Hardcover catalog produced by the Metropolitan Museum of Art, text by Richard Shone. Philip and Janice Levin assembled a remarkable collection, primarily of paintings but also of works on paper and small bronzes, all by French artists or artists working in France between 1840 - 1954. 115 illustrations, including 50 colorplates, bibliography, index.
Catalog dimensions: 8.75 x 11 in., 160 pp
Price: $25

John Wilson: A Retrospective (2004)
Essays by Pamela Franks and Dave Williams, interview with the artist by Saadi A. Simawe. Checklist, biography, chronology, 41 color plates, 6 bl/wh photographs of the artist.
Catalog dimensions: 8.5 x 11 in., 84 pp
Price:$22

Jolán Gross-Bettelheim: The American Prints (2001)
Written and organized by Emil Stamey '01, this catalog represents one of the few comprehensive examinations Gross-Bettelheim. The exhibition was held in Grinnell College's Print and Drawing Study Room. Essays include: artist biography, Architectural Images, Social and Political Images, and A Shift in Style. Twelve images accompany the text. 2001.
Catalog dimensions: 7 x 8.5 in., 42 pp
Price: $11

Keith Achepohl: Gardens of Earth and Water (2004)
Combining traditional printmaking techniques with unique paper shapes, stamping and collage, Achepohl creates layered images that have an even more powerful effect in their unique installation. Achepohl, professor of printmaking at the University of Iowa, sees himself not only as a printmaker, but also a gardener and beachcomber. As a result of these roles and interests, Achepohl's work conveys a mood of reflection and contemplation. Images in the catalog include installation views in the Faulconer Gallery. Essays by Lesley Wright and Antonio Damasio.
Catalog dimensions: 8 x 10.5 in., 70 pp, 48 pages of color photographs
Price: $13

Layers of Brazilian Art (2003)
Curator Lesley Wright and Grinnell College trustee Gregg Narber '68 visited studios and galleries in Rio de Janero and São Paolo to select works from 24 contemporary, urban Brazilian artists. The essays in the catalogue by Wright and Narber explore their journey in selecting work in addition to defining the common elements these artists have in light of their Brazilian roots.
Catalog dimensions: 8.75 x 10.75 in., 47 pp
Price: $8

Marco van Duyvendijk: Portraits from Asia (2006)
Catalog documenting the first exhibition in the United States for this Dutch photographer, who traveled to Mongolia, China, Taiwan, and South Korea between 2003 and 2006 to create a series of portraits from each country. Edited by Daniel Strong, curator of the exhibition, with commentary by the artist.
Catalog dimensions: 6 5/8 x 9 in., 128 pp, full-color
Price: $23

Master Quilts Past and Present: Preserving the Voice of America's Quiltmakers (2003)
Guest curator Amy Henderson '94 discusses the history of quilts within social and art historical contexts. Her essay also describes Quilter's S.O.S., a recent effort to record quiltmaker's stories about their art and process. The exhibit included antique quilts, art quilts by internationally-renowned fiber artists, and quilts by present-day Iowa quiltmakers. 2003.
Brochure dimensions: 7 x 11 in., opens 3-fold, 6 illus
Price: $3

Meighan Gale: Balancing Act (2003)
In an effort to find balance between the many roles Gale plays in life - artist, wife, mother, individual - she illustrates them in photographs, using the expressive quality of physical movement of her own body. Her movements are contrived, but they ask the viewer to consider the images in terms of stamina, timelessness, and memory. 2003.
Brochure dimensions: 9 x 11 in., opens 3-fold, 2 color photographs, 3 black and white.
Price: $3

Patient Process (2001)
As Donald Doe explains in the introduction to this catalogue, the idea of a Patient Process is not simply a method of art making but reflects a regional creative trend in the Midwest. Artists were chosen in part for their interest in printmaking, and all of the works in the exhibit were two-dimensional and highly detailed. The catalog includes 20 color reproductions of the ten artists' work and short biographies on each artist. 2001.
Catalog dimensions: 9 x 12 in., 60 pp
Price: $12

Positional Play (2002)
Artists Joe Mancuso and James von Minor collaborated on this exhibition including 131 objects placed at regular intervals across the gallery floor. Catalog contains interviews with the artists, an essay by Lesley Wright, and several photographs of the installation, including a fold-out cover page.
Catalog dimensions: 9 x 11 in., 11 pp
Price: $8

Power of the Word (2000)
Curated by Chang Tsong-zung, this collection of modern Chinese art had its American debut at the Faulconer Gallery. Works by Hung Tung, King of Kowloon, Mao Zedong, Qui Zi-jie, Wang Yong-ming, Wu Shan-zhuan, and Xu Bing. The catalog includes an introduction by director Lesley Wright, and an essay by Tsong-zung. No photos of the artists' work. 2000.
Catalog dimensions: 7 x 9.75 in., 14 pp
Price: $8

ReStructure (1999)
As the Faulconer Gallery's debut exhibit, ReStructure served to complement the new building and how the arts at Grinnell had changed with regard to this new space. The works featured in the exhibit explore a dual meaning for the term restructure: physical structures and art that restructures concepts, spaces or ideas.
Catalog dimensions: 11.75 x 15.75 in., 32 pp
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Roots of Renewal (2003)
In her essay for the catalog, curator Lesley Wright describes Roots of Renewal as …an exhibition which investigated new or renewed ways of seeing the contemporary Midwest, on beyond the stereotypes and clichés that have tended to delineate its visual culture. The 18 artists in this exhibit all live in the Midwest, and their work was chosen because of this regionalism as well as their engagement in issues and subjects pertinent to a changing Midwest landscape and culture. The catalog also includes artist statements and many installation
views of the exhibit. Essays by Lesley Wright, Jonathan G. Andelson, Donald Doe,
and Lenore Metrick.
Catalog dimensions: 6 x 8.5 in., 134 pp, 60 color photographs
Price: $23

Sandy Skoglund: Raining Popcorn (2001)
Sandy Skoglund installed a scene in the Faucloner Gallery made of popcorn. Although this catalog focuses on this work, it also includes pictures of other photographs and installations Skoglund has made in the past. Included in the catalog are an interview with Skoglund by Douglas Dreispoon, introductory essay by Marvin Heiferman, and nearly 30 color photos.
Catalog dimensions: 8.5 x 11 in., 45 pp
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Scandinavian Photography I : Sweden (2005)
The first of five exhibitions of contemporary Scandinavian photography, curated by Daniel Strong. Essay by Niclas Ostlind, in English and Swedish. Color reproductions of the majority of works exhibited, on 91 pages.
Catalog dimensions: 6.5 x 9 in., 149 pp.
Price $23

Scandinavian Photography II : Denmark (2005)
Survey of contemporary Danish photography, curated by Dainel Strong. Essays in English by Ingrid Fischer Jonge, Lars Schwander, Tove Thage, and Finn Thrane. Color reproductions of the majority of works exhibited, on over 140 pages.
Catalog dimensions: 6.5 x 9 in., 206 pp.
Price $23

Stories and Histories (2007)
Catalog for an exhibition exploring history, personal narrative, and storytelling in works of American art from the Grinnell College Art Collection. Introduction by Faulconer Gallery director Lesley Wright and Gallery intern Julia McHugh '07, co-curators of the exhibition, with an essay by McHugh.
Catalog dimensions: 6 1/2 x 8 1/2 in., 17 pp, 9 color photographs
Price: $8

Syncrisis and Resonance: Responses to Milton (2003)
John Milton's complementary poems L'Allegro and Il Penseroso inspired these two series of prints by Tony Crowley. Abstract forms and textured markings provide a visual documentation of Crowley's reactions to opposing ideas, moods, and energies in Milton's work.
Catalog dimensions: 12 x 12 in., 25 pp
Price: $5

Walking a Tightrope: German Expressionist Printmaking, 1904-1928 (2002)
Curated by ten students and Assistant Professor of Art, Jenny Anger, this catalog is the product of a semester-long seminar cumulating in a three-week exhibition. The catalogue includes nine essays by the student curators with full-page reproductions and thumbnail images of all 75 prints.
Catalog dimensions: 9 x 9 in., 52 pp
Price: $13

Ukucwebezela: To Shine Contemporary Zulu Ceramics (2008)
Guest Curator Elizabeth Perrill '99 organized an exhbition of contemporary Zulu Ceramics produced between 2004 and 2008. The exhbit provides a shapshot of South African contemporary ceramics that relates to the historical production of Zulu beer vessels and sculpture. Perrill's essay explores both the understated differences between works that might go unnoticed by an untrained eye and the newest divergences in Zulu ceramic aesthetics.
Catalog dimensions 10.5 x 8 in., 80 pp
Price: $20

Walter Sickert's Narrative Modernism (2006)
Essay by Pamela Soulos '05 for an exhibition of images reproduced in the British journal The New Age (1910-1914), exploring Sickert's impact on British modernism. Works from the Modernist Journals Project, Department of Modern Culture and Media, Brown University. Exhibition checklist, bibliography.
Catalog dimensions: 7.5 x 9.5 in., 22 pp, 11 full-page bl/wh illustrations.
Price: $ 8

Where are you From? Contemporary Art from Portugal /De Onde Vens? Arte Contemporânea de Portugal (2008)
Twenty emerging and mid-career Portuguese artists explore personal, geographical, artistic, theoretical, and economic sources and inspirations for their art. Essays by Lesley Wright, Jane Gilmore, Miguel Von Hafe Perez. Based on an exhibition at Faulconer Gallery in 2008, curated by Lesley Wright. Full color illustrations, many full-page. English/Portuguese. Published by Faulconer Gallery, Grinnell College.
Catalog dimensions: 9 x 7 in., 160 pp
Price: $23

William Kentridge Prints (2006)
A survey of over 160 of William Kentridge's prints from 1974 to 2005. Essay by Susan Stewart. Based on an exhibition at Faulconer Gallery in 2004, curated by Kay Wilson. Full color illustrations, many full-page, of every print. Co-published by David Krut Publishing and Faulconer Gallery, Grinnell College.
Catalog dimensions: 11 x 10 in., 160 pp
Price: $45

William Pergl: Sculpture (2001)
In William Pergl's sculptures one sees the value of craft through skillful process. Although his favorite medium is wood, Pergl has also worked with metals, plastic and rubber. His sculptures are often large in scale and rest directly on the floor, existing in the viewer's space without mediation by a pedestal. He has been an assistant professor of art in sculpture and drawing at Grinnell College since 2000.
Brochure dimensions: 6 x 10 in., opens 3-fold.
Price: $3

Works in Progress: Prints From the Wildwood Press 2009
This catalog includes works produced at Wildwood Press from its establishment in 1996 to and exhibition held at the Faulconer Gallery in the summer of 2008, curated by Daniel Strong. Published by Faulconer Gallery, Grinnell College.
Catalog dimensions: 10.5 x 9 in., 160 pp
Price: $20