Michael Andrews Bombshelter Press Book Artist

1092 Loma Drive, Hermosa Beach, CA 90254 310 374-7672 apeiron@beachnet.com

Michael Andrews is a mature artist, in mid career, utilizing leading edge technologies to pursue the creation of his unique artistic vision. He is expert in the disciplines of poetry/writing, photography, fine/rare book making, hot type and archival printing, binding, photographic printing, digital photographic and image printing, and the mixed media of all the above disciplines.

Print & Artist Book/Portfolio Formats

The work is available both as single prints or in collections. Single prints are available in the following sizes: 8.5x11, 13x19, 24x30+, 44x60+. As collections the prints are available as hand bound books or as loose leaf portfolios. Both incorporate the accompanying text. Artist Book/Portfolio Page Sizes: 4x5, 6x9, 8.5x11, 9x12, 10x13, 11x14, 13x19 & 20x24

Currently Available Artist Books / Portfolios

THE PLACE WHERE I WILL DIE The High Sierras in the national forest just outside the Southeast corner of Yosemite, about 25 to 35 miles Northeast of Bass Lake A family history from 1930 to 2003: portraits, forest, stones, lakes, flowers, landscapes, streams.

13x19 inch pages on 100% rag, archival paper & 48 pigment prints, sewn or loose leaf in linen binding with cover image in recessed window. The standard slipcase is made of various woods: Pine, Fir, Redwood, Cedar, Poplar, Oak, Mahogany, Maple, Rosewood, Teak, Walnut, Cherry, Padouk or Cocobolo. The window is clear lucite

RIVERRUN A five week river run of the San Juan River in southern Utah. 1976

180, 9x12 inch pages of text integrated with 126 photographic elements and printed on 190 gram, Natural Entrada, a 100% rag, archival paper. There are a total of 38 separate photographic pigment prints printed on 300 gram, Natural Entrada. Each print is numbered and signed by the author. The edition is loose leaf in linen binding with the cover image in a recessed window.

MACHU PICCHU Machu Picchu, Cusco, Sacsahuman, Incas, the Altaplana. 1976

The 10x13 edition has 60 pages, letterpress on Stonehenge rag paper & 22 pigment prints, loose leaf in linen binding with cover image in recessed window. The slipcase is made of various woods, oak, mahogany, maple, and is lined with black glass. The window is clear glass. Limited to 22 copies.

11X14 Digital Edition has 202 pages of text integrated with 124 photographic elements and printed on 190 gram, Natural Entrada, a 100% rag, archival paper. There are a total of 24 separate photographic pigment prints printed on 300 gram, Natural Entrada. Each print is numbered and signed by the author. The edition is loose leaf in linen binding with the cover image in a recessed window. The standard slipcase is made of various woods: Pine, Fir, Redwood, Cedar, Poplar, Oak, Mahogany Maple, Rosewood, Teak, Walnut, Cherry, Padouk or Cocobolo . The window is clear lucite.

RIDING SOUTH a A six month motorcycle ride from Los Angeles to Peru, 1979; the Nicaraguan war, ruins, portraits, dunes, crosses, markets, Machu Picchu. Foreword by Carlos Fuentes.

The 11x14 letterpress edition has 78 pages, on Arches watercolor & 29 pigment prints, loose leaf in linen binding with cover image in recessed window. The standard slipcase is made of various woods: Pine, Fir, Redwood, Cedar, Poplar, Oak, Mahogany, Maple, Rosewood, Teak, Walnut, Cherry, Padouk or Cocobolo. The window is clear lucite. Limited to 17 copies.

The 20x24 letterpress edition, limited to 7 copies, has 80 pages, many folded folio, on Arches watercolor & 29 pigment prints, loose leaf in linen portfolio box with cover label pasted into recess.

STONE The work collected here under the title of Stone represents both poetry and photography that spans nearly every one of my major projects. Stones, it seems, are ubiquitous: natural stone, river stone, Sierra granite, living stone, stone in sculpture, stone in archeological ruins, Acropolis, Greece, Stonehenge, Machu Picchu, Tikal, Palenque, Sacsahuaman.

First Printed 2004. 94 6x9 inch pages of text using Antikva and Marlon Book typefaces, integrated with 58 photographic illustrations and printed on 190 gram, Entrada Natural, a 100% rag, archival paper. There are a total of 24 separate photographic pigment prints printed on 300 gram, Entrada Natural. Each print is numbered and signed by the author. The edition is loose leaf in linen binding with the cover image in a recessed window. The cover image is printed on 220 grit sandpaper.The standard slipcase is made of Pine, Fir, Redwood, Cedar, Poplar, Oak, Mahogany, Maple, Rosewood, Teak, Walnut, Cherry, Padouk or Cocobolo. The window is clear lucite.

WOMAN Woman as angel; woman as victim; woman as mother; woman. I have no adequate description of this work other than a narrowly focused view of woman as I found her; woman in extremis. This view has nothing to do with woman as sexually desirable. Rather it is confined to women as I have encountered them in the world and how the world has treated them. They may be victims or angry, mothers or slaves, but always, it seems to me vulnerable.

50 6x9 inch pages of text using Lydian and Goudy typefaces, integrated with 17 photographic illustrations and printed on 190 gram, Entrada Natural, a 100% rag, archival paper. There are a total of 11 separate photographic pigment prints printed on 300 gram, Entrada Natural. Each print is numbered and signed by the author. The edition is loose leaf in linen binding with the cover image in a recessed window. The cover image is printed on canvas.

Slipcases are made of Pine, Fir, Redwood, Cedar, Poplar, Oak, Mahogany, Maple, Rosewood, Teak, Walnut, Cherry, Padouk or Cocobolo. The window is lucite.

CHILD This work is comprised of poems and images extracted from a number of other projects and assembled under the general category of things relating to children. More specifically, to children who taught me about life and how to grow up and how to never grow up, and the difference between the two.

11x14 Edition: 56 11x14 inch pages of text using Carollus Roman and Centaur typefaces, integrated with 24 photographic elements and printed on 190 gram, Entrada Natural, a 100% rag, archival paper. There are a total of 10 separate photographic pigment prints printed on 300 gram, Entrada Natural. Each print is numbered and signed by the author. The edition is loose leaf in linen binding with the cover image in a recessed window.

4x5 Edition: First Printed 2003. 56 4x5 inch pages of text using Carollus Roman and Centaur typefaces, integrated with 24 photographic elements and printed on 190 gram, Entrada Natural, a 100% rag, archival paper. There are a total of 10 separate photographic pigment prints printed on 300 gram, Entrada Natural. Each print is numbered and signed by the author. The edition is loose leaf in linen binding with the cover image in a recessed window. The standard slipcase is lucite.

Future Projects

MAN Men from around the world: heroes, men found, men admired, men feared, men pitied; mortals raging against death.

99% PACIFIED The Vietnam War. 1969 to 1971

THE MULLAH AND THE PUSHER A year in the frozen hells of Tehran, Iran, 1974

PERIEGESIS Travels from Vietnam to Australia, Southeast Asia, India, overland to Paris, on to Germany, Greece, Italy, England, to New York, overland to Los Angeles.

DRIVE BY SHOOTINGS Urban landscapes of Los Angeles, from motorcycle or automobile, the homeless, automobiles and architecture, pedestrians, windows, gutters and doors.

CITYSCAPES Urban landscapes; San Francisco, Las Vegas, New York.

GNOMES Still life, details, close up images of geometrically simple objects with accompanying gnomic poetry, short, pithy, epigrammatic or oracular in tone.

ROADSIDE EPIPHANIES Images taken on the road; highways, deserts, structures, landscapes, junk yards, signage.

DYING BOUQUETS Still life images of flowers and bouquets, usually in decay.

NOT ANOTHER LOVE POEM Love poems to my wife.

PAINTED LADIES & NAKED LADIES Images and signage of women, various cities and countries at various times & a series of nudes from 1984

SANTA FE TO TAOS Images from Santa Fe, New Mexico, including the Taos Pueblo.

THE XMAS KID Images from a history of secular Christmases.

RUINS Archeological ruins, Acropolis, Greece, Stonehenge, Machu Picchu, Tikal, Palenque, Sacsahuaman.