Sarah Horowitz

Wiesedruck, Atelier Mars
Portland, OR

Sarah Horowitz did postgraduate work in printmaking (intaglio, lithography, relief and typography) at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst and has taught at the Portland Art Museum and Portland State University. She has done residencies with Hansjurg Brunner in Bern, Switzerland, at the Edinburgh Printmaker¡¯s Workshop in Edinburgh, Scotland, and in the studio of Jacques Barry in Lyon, France. She has been an artist member of Atelier Mars in Portland since 2000. Her press, Weisedruck, is named after her grandfather¡¯s printing press in Switzerland, Schudeldruck, and the Wiese, a stream that marks the border between Switzerland and Germany and marked an escape route for Jewish refugees during WWII.
 

Mohn
Edition of 20
Etchings drawn and handprinted by Sarah Horowitz; poem Corona (1948) by Paul Celan; translation by John Felsteiner (permission granted by Deutsche Verlags Anstalt and John Felstiner, respectively); printing from handset Centaur type on Japanese Mulberry paper and binding with silk book cloth by Inge Bruggeman with the assistance of Rachel Wiecking at Textura Letterpress Printing.

Special note: this book is the personal copy of the artist and is not for sale.