Alchemy of Color Catalogue (2024)
This artist book was created in conjunction with The Alchemy of Color exhibition, showcasing the works of Eva Lundsager, Patricia Sonnino, and Janine Wong. The exhibition united three artists whose practices converge in their exploration and juxtaposition of color.
Each artist contributed a catalog/zine that includes an essay by Yutong Shi, alongside a collaboration with a poet responding to their work. In addition, Janine Wong's artist book, also titled Alchemy of Color, features Sheryda Warrener’s poetic fragments and reflections on Wong’s series of prints, Recto Verso, delving into the theme of color.
The artist book itself is composed of the printing plates used to create the prints, structured as a sequenced color poem. It pairs fields of color with stanzas from Sheryda’s poem, inviting readers to engage with the transformative power of color in both visual and poetic forms.
Unique
6 x 10 ¾ inches
2024
Night Trucks, Two Lights Burning (2010)
The Night Truck book is a limited edition letterpress book written by Peter Turchi with illustrated by Charles Ritchie. Janine designed, printed, and bound the edition of 100 books. The book is a short story about a young boy's childhood growing up in a trailer park in North Carolina.
This short story was recognized by the editors of Best American Short Stories as one 100 honorable stories and by the editors of the O. Henry Prize Stories as one of 15 recommended stories when it originally appeared in Ploughshares.
Chris Keller: Gathering (2010)
Broadside, Gathering, is a collaboration between Christopher Keller and Janine Wong, residents in the Print and Letterpress Artists Residency at the Penland School of Crafts. The work was letterpress printed from metal types and reduction linoleum in an edition of 30 copies in 2010.
Visit Christopher Keller's website here.
Suburban Journals (2004)
Suburban Journals, the Sketchbooks, Drawings, and Prints of Charles Ritchie is a book design for the University of Richmond Museums. This book design won the SEMC 1st Place Award for books and catalogues in 2005.
The Journals, which depict day-to-day life around the Ritchie's home in Silver Springs, MD, serve as a reference for the artist's prints and drawings.
