Tricia Treacy

In a limited edition of seven, this artist book is about people involved in childhood memory and how the memory and their roles distort over time, meshed with new images. The book is created in multiple layers using the following processes : silkscreen, ink jet printing + letterpress (wood type, lead type, polymer plates + wood block.) It comes in a handmade letterpress-printed fabric case.

This book was launched at Codex 2011. It was purchased by the University of Washington’s Special Collection, Swarthmore College Special Collection and The Art of the Book Collection at Yale University.

Excerpted text from random children’s books presented in an unbound, random-order intended to create coincidental relationships of words and interpretations.

This collaborative artist book with Ashley John Pigford was created in 2010 and performed at the Print Center during the Outloud exhibition and performance as part of Philagrafika 2010; and performed in New York City for NYU Conflux festival.

It was included the following exhibitions:
Imprint, October, 2010 @ Anne Wright Wilson Fine Art Gallery, Georgetown College, Kentucky

Unspeakable, March 2011, a national juried book arts exhibition @ The Art Center in Corvallis, OR.

In edition of fifty, each set contains 40 two-sided letterpress cards wrapped in letterpress printed butcher paper.

A limited-edition artist book by Tricia Treacy where sound from audio reel-to-reel tapes was translated onto the page. The text, written by the artist was transcribed after listening to hours of family audio recordings, is letterpress printed from hand-set Helvetica type. The recordings were sent to her father and mother’s father after they immigrated from Ireland to America, as general communication. The book is encased in a black wrap-around hand-made portfolio case. What more to say was created at Pointed Press studio in Swarthmore, PA and completed in December 2009.

It was included The Assignment, a national book arts show in Portland in January 2010 + received an honorable mention prize. In March 2011, it received the juror’s prize in a national book arts exhibition at The Art Center in Corvallis, OR.

9 x 8.25 inches; 54 pgs; drawing, letterpress, artist book.

A limited-edition artist book by Tricia Treacy that is reminiscent of a dreamy narrative about silent family memories. Images are abstracted from original Super 8 films. Full-bleed images are digitally printed on Rives fine art paper. The text, written by the artist is letterpress printed from hand-set Helvetica type. The book is encased in a clear plastic box with a silk screen image on the cover. Old Movies was created at Pointed Press studio in Swarthmore, PA and completed in January 2009.

This book is part of the Special Collections at the University of Delaware and Swarthmore College. It was included in the UnFramed Exhibition at The Center for Book Arts in New York during the summer of 2011.

This is a collection of more than thirty letters written by poet Tom Devaney to Brazilian artist Ernesto Neto in Spring 2001. The book was published by Germ Folios with a letterpress-printed cover hand-sewn by Tricia Treacy, and designed by Nicole Michels.

Maud and Charlotte is a vignette written by Hayden Carruth that portrays the life of two women in Vermont. A signed, limited edition of 50 was letterpress printed in Perpetua on French Lana woven paper and bound in handmade Richard de Bas paper in 2001. It is cased in a handmade portfolio. Limited copies for sale : $300.

Renvyle, Winter is a suite of fourteen poems by Eamon Grennan written during 1997 in Connemara, Ireland. This signed, limited edition of 50 books was letterpress printed on Rives Johannot paper and bound in silk cloth in 2003. Images are printed in relief and poems are typeset in Aries. Limited copies for sale : $250.

This limited edition of Sam Hamill’s modern-day Pisan Canto was letterpress printed on calendared vellum paper in 2006. Two images are printed relief from woodcuts. All are bound in handmade paper by St. Armand in Montreal. Copies are for sale : deluxe edition in a hard cover portfolio is $350 + soft cover edition is $200.

A Troubled Heart is a collections of fifteen waka “short poems” by Saigyo Hosho (1118-1190) translated by Sam Hamill. This limited edition of 100 was designed, letterpress printed and hand-bound in 1999. The Japanese Hiragana characters were printed from ink drawings by Eriko Takahashi. The four calligraphic images are printed in relief on Kozuke paper. No copies for sale.