Barbara Tetenbaum
Triangular Press
Portland, Oregon
Barbara Tetenbaum is Associate Professor and Department Head of Book Arts at the Oregon College of Arts and Craft in Portland, Oregon. She received her MFA in printmaking at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and has been producing limited edition artist books since 1979 under the imprint Triangular Press. Her work appears in collections in the U.S., Canada, Europe and Tibet. She has recently received a Fulbright Lectureship to teach book arts in the Czech Republic, a 2004/05 Oregon Arts Commission Fellowship, and a 2004/05 Regional Arts and Culture Council grant to produce an artist book in celebration of the 25th anniversary of Triangular Press.

The Sequence of Events
2004
Edition of 75
Various machine-made papers; photocopy generated from found, turn-of-the-century engraving; bound using open wire comb.
Original text.
Special note: designed with a physical break between text and image to allow reflection on the text and deliberate spacing, timing.
Ode to a Grand Staircase (for four hands)
2001
Edition of 100
Collaboration with Julie Chen.
Divided into two halves with each side unfolding out to an elaborate panorama, can be read by turning the pages of each half; letterpress printed on Stonehenge paper using a combination of linoleum blocks, hand set type, and photopolymer plates: 7¨ù x 6¨ö inches, opens to 7¨ù x 38 inches.
Special note: This elaborate interplay of text, images and structure was a three-year project, in fact, a dialogue between Barbara Tetenbaum and Julie Chen. Ms. Tetenbaum first printed something on each page using linoleum blocks that was a response to the text. She left room for Julie Chen to add more graphics that were introduced by Ms. Chen using photopolymer plates. The story in this book comes from ¡°The March of the Grand Staircase¡± composed by Erik Satie in 1914.