1/20/2012 @ 12:00

1/20/2012 @ 5:00

The Annex Groveland Gallery
25 Groveland Ter
Minneapolis, MN 55403

Groveland Gallery is pleased to announce an exhibition of prints by guest artist, Gaylord Schanilec. This is the first time Schanilec is exhibiting his prints independently from his books. As an artist, writer, letterpress printer, designer and illustrator, Schanilec has set the standard for contemporary artist’s books over the last 30 years. Schanilec’s studio and home, tucked into a valley above the Mississippi River near Stockholm, Wisconsin, has been the production facility for dozens of highly collected and unique fine press books. His multi-color wood engraving techniques are masterful in their meticulous rendering as well as their exquisite aesthetic sensibilities. His interests and experiences, as well as his hometown landscape and community, often become subjects for his books. The text for his 1989 book, "Farmers," was composed of interviews with local farming families and included illustrations of the surrounding rural landscape and its structures. "Sylvae," a study of trees in the artist’s 20-acre woods, features prints of the end grain and long grain of 24 species of trees, each accompanied by historical anecdotes and natural science notes. Schanilec has also investigated subjects far from home, including two books about New York City. In the first, "New York Revisited," commissioned by the Grolier Club in 2002 and written by Kenneth Auchincloss, Schanilec illuminates familiar New York icons with a fresh eye. His most recent book, "Bicycle Diaries," written by Richard Goodman, is an account of Goodman’s three months of daily bicycle visits to the World Trade Center disaster site.