The Prints of David Lynch University of Wisconsin-Madison and Tandem Press, 2000

Tandem Press has published a large, copiously illustrated catalogue of The Prints of David Lynch. The book is a monograph which features reproductions of the 118 monotypes, edition prints and photogravures Lynch created during three separate visits to Tandem from 1997 to 1999.

In her introduction to the catalogue, Paula Panczenko describes the images in the following manner: "The works are mostly monochromatic. They have a deliberately primitive and crude quality, which results in works of great beauty. [Lynch] includes words in many of the images, which are intended to start the viewer thinking about the works, however, he also sees the words as forms, shapes and textures."

David Lynch is primarily known as a filmaker. Although he has established a substantial reputation in this medium, David Lynch trained to be a painter when he attended the Pennsylvania Academy of Arts. Since 1967 he has exhibited his paintings at galleries and museums throughout the United States and abroad, including the Leo Castelli Gallery (New York City), the Kohn Turner Gallery (Los Angeles) and the Museum of Contemporary Art in Tokyo.

Copies of the catalogue, which sells for $25, can be obtained from Tandem Press.

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