Join us in celebrating the illustrious publication of Uncle Umberto’s Orchard, a short story by four-time Pushcart Prize-winning author and visual artist Frederic Tuten. This deluxe, limited edition of 60 copies is a collaboration with Plain Wrapper Press Redux and is paired with two multi-color screen prints developed by Gary Lichtenstein Editions and based on original paintings by Tuten.

Mark Fischer, Plain Wrapper Press Redux publisher and Tuten will discuss their collaboration and field questions about their process. Afterward, Gary Lichtenstein Editions invites you to their studio space to view the full suite of prints with friends, refreshments and a discussion about silkscreen and the creative approach to the project.

“Frederic Tuten overflows with visionary scenes right out of a fecund and ungovernable imagination. Done in an awkward, assured, cartoonish hand with undertones of Arshile Gorky’s teeming amorphic graphic fields, this is pigment, shape and scene as abstract language.” – Jerry Saltz

About the Artist:
Tuten is the author of five novels and My Young Life, a memoir Steve Martin called “So thrilling. My Young Life describes a specific period, but it also evokes the timeless fascination with the Romantic life. Tuten’s stories, art, and film criticism have appeared in Artforum, The New York Times, Vogue, Granta, and Harper’s Magazine. Tuten is the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship for Fiction and the Award for Distinguished Writing from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. Tuten has most-recently exhibited his drawings and paintings with Harper’s Gallery in Manhattan and East Hampton. His book of drawings, On a Terrace in Tangier, a collaboration with international curator Hans Ulrich Obrist, was published by Koenig in 2022.

Photo: © Emma Marie Jenkinson