It is Almost That (Box)

Lisa Pearson (editor)

Ten artists invited to use the booklet as a space for play

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Signed and numbered edition of 85, with each artist signing the dust jackets of her booklets, housed in a 9 × 6 × 5 in. hinged wood box.

Inspired by the Great Bear pamphlets produced by Something Else Press in the 1960s, Siglio offered ten artists (whose work also appears in the book It Is Almost That: A Collection of Image+Text Work by Women Artists and Writers) a simple, open space for play and experimentation. Some relate directly to their contributions in the collection, such as Molly Springfield’s drawn and copied notes for “Translation,” or the complete text of House of Dust by Alison Knowles to accompany the artifactual images in the book. Others are different pieces altogether such as Helen Kim’s imitation of the program for a boy’s boxing match with portraits of the children, or details from Jane Hammond’s paintings of riddles, glyphs and rebuses.

Each is a window into the artist’s work, and together they weave an thought-provoking web of connections, from the “lost” pages of Eleanor Antin’s alter-ego Anitova to Erica Van Horn’s notations of her life in Ireland. Susan Hiller’s booklet includes a poster with a grid of photographs of psychics. Suzanne Treister’s contribution is comprised of four separate alchemical diagrams, and Ann Hamilton’s “Time” is a single broadside of a concordance using the word “time” from A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce and Tender Buttons and Geography and Plays by Gertrude Stein.

The set includes ten saddle-stitched 5.5 × 8.5 inch booklets and broadsides, some in color and others in black-and-white, with dust jackets signed and numbered by each artist. Housed in a felt-lined, hinged wood box. A colophon/certificate of authenticity is included.

FOUND PAGES FROM ANTINOVA’S MEMOIR
by Eleanor Antin

NUDE FILM
by Fiona Banner

TIME
by Ann Hamilton

INSPECTION
by Jane Hammond

PSYCHIC
by Susan Hiller

DORCHESTER BOXERS
by Helen Kim

A HOUSE OF DUST
by Alison Knowles

NOTES FOR THE TRANSLATION
by Molly Springfield

HEXEN II / 4 DIAGRAMS
by Suzanne Treister

FROM THE JOURNAL SOME NOTES ON LIVING LOCALLY
by Erica Van Horn

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about limited editions

We sometimes make limited editions in collaboration with the artists and writers we publish to extend the published work in a compelling way. A siglio edition might include an artist’s multiple, an original work of art, a facsimile, or a fabricated object: always something imaginative, beautifully executed, and fairly priced.

Siglio limited editions are valued by individuals as well as institutions. Our limited editions can be found in the libraries of the Museum of Modern Art, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the Walker Art Center, and the Hessel Museum at Bard, Rhode Island School of Design, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Minneapolis College of Art and Design, as well as the special collections of NYU, Stanford, Brown, University of Chicago, Smith College, the Beinecke at Yale and the Danowski Poetry Library at Emory, among many others.

A list of our sold-out limited editions can be found here.

Standing orders or advance reservations for limited editions can be arranged by contacting lisa (at) sigliopress (dot) com.

Please note that prices rise as availability decreases and thus are subject to change.

see also

Books

It Is Almost ThatA Collection of Image+Text Work by Women Artists & WritersLisa Pearson (editor)

Editions

Torture of Women Artist EditionNancy Spero

A beautiful hand-pulled lithograph of a detail from Panel XI


✼ ex libris:

“Multiplicity and distance or void wasn’t an affected practice on Johnson’s part; they were the very lenses of his reality.” —Elizabeth Zuba, from her introduction to Not Nothing: Selected Writings by Ray Johnson

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