EVENTS
The R&D STORE at MASS MoCA and GARY LICHTENSTEIN EDITIONS present Uncle Umberto’s Orchard
With author and artist, Frederic Tuten and publisher, Mark Fischer, Plain Wrapper Press Redux
Saturday, September 14th at 3pm
1040 MASS MoCA Way, North Adams, MA 01247
Free and open to the public
Join us in celebrating the illustrious publication of Uncle Umberto’s Orchard, a short story by novelist and four-time Pushcart Prize-winning author Frederic Tuten. The limited edition of 60 copies is a collaboration with Plain Wrapper Press Redux and is paired with two multi-color screenprints developed by Gary Lichtenstein Editions & based on original paintings by Tuten. The deluxe edition of 20 is paired with a third silkscreen print.
Tuten has had solo shows of his drawings in East Hampton and a solo show of his paintings at Harper’s Gallery in Manhattan. He has also participated in group shows at galleries in Connecticut, Los Angeles, and Paris, and most recently at Harper’s in East Hampton. His book of drawings, On a Terrace in Tangier, each with a very short story, and with an introduction by the famed international curator Hans Ulrich Obrist, was published by Koenig in 2022.
Mark Fischer, Plain Wrapper Press Redux publisher, and Tuten will discuss their collaboration and entertain questions about their process. Following the talk, everybody is invited to Gary Lichtenstein Editions studio space to view the full suite of prints with friends and refreshments. Gary will describe the rich history of silkscreen as a medium and he and Frederic will discuss the origin and their creative approach to the project.
“Frederic Tuten overflows with visionary scenes right out of a fecund and ungovernable imagination. Done in an awkward, assured, cartoonish hand with undertones of Arshile Gorky’s teeming amorphic graphic fields, this is pigment, shape and scene as abstract language.” – Jerry Saltz, New York Magazine: Vulture, 2022
“Not thinking about anything except the sheer pleasure of making the work, Tuten forges wondrous paths that… inspire us to be just as spirited and creative and capricious as the artist.” – Ida Panicelli, Art Forum
RSVP appreciated but not required: melissa@gleditions.com
