ESOPUS Magazine : Edition: Esopus Drawings

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"A beautiful, melancholy compilation of drawings...printed (disguised, really) as a Bristol sketchbook."—Andrew Russeth, ARTNews

Esopus Drawings features 25 drawings by Esopus editor Tod Lippy completed over the spring and summer of 2018. The edition, which is a facsimile of the sketchbook Lippy used printed on archival paper, appears on the 15th anniversary of the Esopus Foundation Ltd. and is meant to commemmorate this milestone by revisiting various aspects of our first decade and a half of operation.

As Lippy explains, "Because I am essentially the only person working on each issue, the production of Esopus has been an intensely personal exercise. For these drawings, I've worked mostly from photographs depicting Esopus events, artists’ projects from particular issues, behind-the-scenes glimpses of the printing and editorial process, and other instances related to the production of the publication. Each drawing took between two and five days to complete. Over the course of that time, I found myself becoming immersed in—and reliving on some level—a very specific moment in the history of Esopus. It was a profound and moving experience, and I am deeply grateful especially to the MacDowell Colony, which awarded me a August 2018 residency during which I completed many of these."

This edition was sent automatically to all Esopus Premium subscribers and is also available for purchase here.

Premium subscribers also received a perforated blank sheet of drawing paper at the end of their editions; more than 100 recipients completed their own drawings related to Esopus and sent it to the Esopus Foundation. These artworks are now part of the Esopus archive, acquired by Colby College in 2020.

Tod Lippy, Esopus Drawings, 2018

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