into California
Friday Oct 16 2015
5:30 PM
Pacific Grove Public Library
550 Central Ave., Pacific Grove, CA map
Tom Killion will show slides from California’s Wild Edge and do a booksigning as part of the Library’s “Edge of the Sea” exhibition (which includes several Killion prints).
Free and open to the public; for more information visit: http://www.pacificgrovelibrary.org
Woodcut and letterpress artist Tom Killion grew up in Marin County, California, on the slopes of Mt. Tamalpais, where the rugged scenery inspired him from an early age to create landscape prints strongly influenced by traditional Japanese woodblock prints. Along with publishing fine art letterpress books, Killion holds a PhD in African history from Stanford University and has taught history at several Bay Area universities. He is the founder of The Quail Press and his extensively illustrated books include 28 Views of Mount Tamalpais, The Coast of California, and Walls: A Journey Across Three Continents. Killion and Gary Snyder previously collaborated on The High Sierra of California, which was published by Heyday in 2002 and Tamalpais Walking, published in 2009. You can find out more about his artwork at www.tomkillion.com.
Photo by Katsunori Yamazato