(OPB2 #050) Steve Fitch: Plywood Signs

Plywood Signs is limited to 500 numbered copies, each including a 5x7 inch original print that has been signed by the artist.

“The ultimate DIY material might be plywood. It is cheap and easy to use for fabricating many things, including outdoor signs. Professionals use it as do untrained, amateur sign makers where the results often have a decidedly “outsider art” quality. Unfortunately, plywood signs do not endure very well the punishment of the elements: rain, snow, sunlight and wind. But the weathering of plywood, combined with the outsider aesthetic of many signs, often creates wonderful results. The wavy, swirling patterns in aging plywood suggest, to my eye, the primeval chaos of the universe.” — Steve Fitch

Widely published and exhibited, Fitch's photographs are included in the permanent collections of such museums as the Whitney Museum of American Art; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; Museum of Modern Art, New York; J. Paul Getty Museum; Amon Carter Museum; Center for Creative Photography; and California Museum of Photography. Plywood Signs is his second title with Nazraeli Press.

Plywood Signs is limited to 500 numbered copies, each including a 5x7 inch original print that has been signed by the artist.

ISBN: 978-1-59005-626-4

Hardcover, 6 x 8 1/2, 16 pages, 13 four-color plates, 1 original signed photographs