The Prints of Suzanne Caporael University of Wisconsin-Madison and Tandem Press, 2003

Tandem Press has published a full color catalogue entitled The Prints of Suzanne Caporael. Suzanne Caporael first came to Tandem Press in 1992 and it has been a privilege to observe the development of her work over the past several years. Her work is in many prestigious collections and major museums throughout the United States including the Art Institute of Chicago, The Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh, the High Museum, Atlanta, The Los Angeles County Museum of Art, and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art.

In addition to Caporael's beautiful images, Ed Leffingwell has written a very insightful essay where he charts the artistic journey Caporael has taken during this period. Leffingwell is a New York based writer, curator and critic who has written extensively on contemporary art and is currently working on The Keeper's Memory, a social history about the formation of a Brazilian art collection.

In 2002, Caporael began a new body of paintings and prints based on estuaries around the world called "Littoral Drift." As she has done in the past, with her work on the periodic table of the elements and ice, Caporael investigated the physical world and transformed the intellectual and methodical data she has collected into sublime and resonate images. These new prints, including the Hudson River Estuary and the Humber River Estuary, were initially inspired by The Shallow Water Dictionary by Professor John Stilgoe of Harvard University, and her further research into estuarine science and water forms continues as of this writing.

At Tandem Press, we have had the opportunity observe Suzanne Caporael's explorations firsthand, and we are most grateful to her for returning to Tandem on a regular basis. I would like to thank the members of the Anonymous Committee and the Trustees of the Brittingham Fund for sponsoring Suzanne Caporael's many visits to Tandem Press. I would also thank them for their most generous funding of this catalogue.

Copies of the catalogue, which sell for $30, can be obtained from Tandem Press.

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