Design/Construct/Engage exhibit by Ed Hutchins
On Exhibit in Star Tribune Foundation Gallery:
August 15 through October 5, 2003

A whimsical record of a deluge of rabbits "overwhelming the metropolis," The Rabbit Report was created as a limited edition volume by Edward H. Hutchins in 1989. These paper mâché rabbits, each containing a screen-printed scroll, eschewed conventions of fine binding and printmaking at a time when editioned artists’ books were largely produced within the province of craft and industrial processes (evolving from private press tradition or commercial offset printing technologies). Hutchins exploration of alternative methods of reproduction – including rubberstamping, photocopying, simple relief printing and silkscreen – have continued to combine with the playful sensibility and structural variability that define his work. Design/Construct/Engage, on exhibit August 15 through October 5, presents sixty editioned books by Hutchins fabricated over a period of 30 years.