COPY JAM! 2: Text Edition

This Summer, PRINTERESTING wants to meet our readers in the Windy City! On Friday July 30, we will host an encore performance of our Copy Jam! at the Printers’ Ball at Luddington Building in beautiful, downtown Chicago, IL. The Ball is co-sponsored by Poetry magazine as well as the Center for Book and Paper Arts at Columbia College and the Student Affairs Offices at Columbia College. Because the Printers’ Ball has its roots in the literary world, we asked all participating artists to give us work that incorporates text in some way.

“COPY JAM!” will be an interactive print event. During the party, fifty works by fifty artists will be displayed in a grid on the wall. Upon arrival, each guest will be handed a complimentary ticket that can be exchanged for one black & white photocopy of any work the guest chooses. There will be no sales; one ticket equals one copy. Copies will be made LIVE in the gallery for one night only from 6-9PM!

Featured Artists:

Abra Ancliffe • Jesse Albrecht • Baltimore Print Studios • Christian Bok Glen Baldridge • Diana Behl • Kate Bingaman-Burt • Ingrid Burrington Allison Cole • Bill Donovan • Christa Donner • Johanna Drucker Friends Make Prints (Nic Annette Miller & Emily Bunnell) Tate Foley • FOUND Magazine • Kenneth Goldsmith Dusty Herbig • Adriane Herman • Dustin Amery Hostetler Holly Holly Hobby Hobby (Leah Mackin & Anni Altshuler) Rod Hunting • Dan Grzeca • JUDGE • Chad Kouri Emily Larned • Jimmy Luu • Sean Kuhnke • Robin McDowell Bill McRight • Leslie Mutchler • Matt Neff • Jena Osman Adam Pendleton • Mark Price • Justin Quinn • Favianna Rodriguez Erik Ruin & Cindy Milstein • Julia Schwadron • Jennifer Schmidt Scott Sherk • Esther K. Smith • Sonnenzimmer • Ryan Standfest Wendy Collin Sorin • Molly Springfield • SuperKonductor Temporary Services • Brad Vetter • Cardon Copy/Cardon Webb Brian Wiggins • Will Work for Good (Kevin O’ Neill & Karisa Senavitis)

Additional information on Printeresting’s Copy Jam! is available HERE and more information regarding The Printers’ Ball is available HERE.

Palling Around with Socialists: a group exhibition June 5th – 26th, 2010 Opening reception: Saturday, June 5th, 7:00 – 10:00 pm

Cincinnati, OH—Since its inception, U·turn Art Space has sought to facilitate discourse towards imagining questions about the methods and practices of a functional society. In Palling Around with Socialists, a number of artists and the gallery collective have come together to curate an exhibition that questions the nature of an individual as an autonomous being or as a component to an equitable community. Our nation presently finds itself in a culture war, where language is traversing outside the bounds of denoted definitions: words like socialist, fascism, tsar and terror are volleyed around public debates. While different parties and groups fear a loss of personal freedoms, we may be at greater risk of misarticulating the perceived conflicts with which we are faced. Concerns about the nature of private property, authorship and current intersections between economics, ethics and philosophy will be raised through the work of Shinsuke Aso, Gabriel Boyce and Preston Link, Alton Falcone, David Horvitz, Justin Kemp, Steve Kemple, Julia Schwadron and Steve Lambert. The presented works continue to exercise aesthetic sensitivity, demonstrating a belief in form contributing to the advancement of concepts. Critically playful and directly engaging our community with optimistic, activist strategies, U·turn and these artists seek to contribute to a larger dialogue with art that presents unexpected viewpoints and makes note of abstractions that may expand upon or resituate current discussions about social responsibility, power and control.

“The question of social change and art becomes then a problem of discovering the manner in which a new content modifies the conventional manner of expression: the manner in which purely aesthetic changes, occasioned by social changes, modify content to accord with newer forms. But insofar as the formal change may be socially conditioned, we must distinguish between those social changes that operate on the artist directly and those that operate indirectly.” –Meyer Schapiro in his essay “Art and Social Change”

Tomorrow night, Wednesday June 23rd, 7-10pm

93 2nd Ave (between 5th & 6th Sts, 2nd Ave stop on the F), NYC, NY.

Wed-Sat 3-8pm, 212.777.7988

June 23rd – July 3rd, 2010

Opening Reception: Wednesday, June 23rd, 7 to 10pm

click here to see the show, or click here for the press release

Participating Artists: Katelyn Alain, Melissa Anderson, Carrie-Ann Bracco, Charis Carmichael Braun, Dina Brodsky, Maya Brodsky, Daniel Brusky, Lyndsea Cochrane, Tim Daly, Bonnie DeWitt, Michelle Doll, Peter Drake, Samuel Evensen, Debra Goertz, Kathy Goodell, Jane Hamill, Jim Harris, Paul Hazelton, Catherine Howe, Caitlin Hurd, John Jacobsmeyer, Alan Bur Johnson, Christian Johnson, Michael Kagan, Alex Kanevsky, Karl Koett, Bryan Leboeuf, Lisa Lebofsky, Amy Mahnick, Alyssa Monks, Cory Morgenstein, Tun Myaing, John Nickle, Linnea Paskow, Rafael Perez, Jennifer Presant, Jean Pierre Roy, Kristen Schiele, Charlotte Schulz, Julia Schwadron, Viviane Silvera, Damian Stamer, Melanie Vote, Mitra Walter, and Eric White

PLEASE JOIN IN THE FUN FOR:

First show at the Big & Small/Casual Gallery in L.I.C.!

Matt Freedman is curating: “Twin Twin III, Artists Edition”

Opening: Friday, September 11, 5-8pm

The gallery’s first show is the third incarnation of Matt Freedman’s evolving Twin Twin project, which was installed at Vertextlist in 2005 and Pierogi in 2006. So far, the project has consisted of hundreds of everyday objects that, to Freedman, bear ghostly resemblances to the two fallen towers of the World Trade Center. The collection includes everything from modeled objects, to furniture, toys, the grating on an air conditioner and the scar on a boy’s knee. For this installation Freedman has extended the scope of the experiment and invited artist friends who are familiar with this project and share his complicated relationship with that day to contribute a piece to the collection. In his invitation to the artists he wrote:

“I want work repurposed for this show, work that would mean something else in any other context, and only in this one would remind us of 9-11. I’m not asking you to make a piece for the show, but to find a piece for the show from your own body of work. If you find you have produced work in the last eight years that you feel was influenced by 9-11, or if you see in a work of yours the shadowy image of the towers themselves for reasons you cannot fathom at all, I hope you will consider sharing that work with us for the weekend.”

Opening reception: Thurs., May 21, 6PM – 8PM (I won’t be in town for the opening – but go anyway!!)

Drawing Contemporaries, curated by Eyebeam senior fellow Michael Mandiberg, is an exhibition of works on paper made by a peer group of new media artists who all make drawings, either as a primary object, or as an experimental step in their process. The artists often use computers or algorithms as a logic structure or drawing aid in a way that is foregrounded in these works. Many of these artists are Eyebeam affiliated, but all are contemporaries whose influences upon each other can be traced in this exhibition.

Darren Kraft uses powdered graphite to photorealistically reproduce icons and logos associated with consumer and political culture; Eyebeam senior fellow Steve Lambert and Julia Schwadron write personal and poetic messages of hope which they leave taped up in public places; Michael Mandiberg uses the laser cutter to etch and carve works on paper that incorporate text, history and design; Marisa Olson performs Google image searches for obsolete technologies, and traces their contours directly off her laptop screen with a mechanical pencil; and Lee Walton creates elaborate indexes of possible graphic marks which are algorithmically used to document events as they occur. His subjects range from from pedestrian traffic to sports games.

Eyebeam is located at 540 W 21st St, and Eyebeam’s public hours are 12-6 Tuesday through Saturday

Along with other artists in The University of Iowa School of Art & Art History, and poets from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, and with the support of The Obermann Center for Advanced Studies – I recently helped to complete a “broadside” collaboration between poets and painters.

The project founders and organizers are Ben Estes, Ben Kopel, and Tammy Petro.

Please visit the new website: www.poetsandpainters.org to view the collaborations. They are really beautiful.

This is the collaboration between myself and poet Anne Marie Scipioni.

I’ve got some work in another show at Metaphor Contemporary Art in Brooklyn.

TREASURE CHEST A Holiday Group Show

featuring works by:

David Atkin . Pooja Bakri . Shawn Bonsky Hovey Brock . Gabe Brown . Mia Brownell . Cara Enteles . Loren Gohara . Callie Danae Hirsch . Eung Ho . Susan Homer . Ketta Ioannidou . Mary Judge . Julian Jackson . Yunmee Kyong . Rene Lynch . Manfred Mayerle . Jeff Sims . Julia Schwadron . Josette Urso . Lindsay Walt . Charles Yuen

I won’t make it to the opening, but it looks like it should be a fun party – check it out!

METAPHORcontemporary art

December 12 2008 – January 18 2009

382 atlantic avenue, brooklyn, ny 11217 718.254.9126

I’m honored to be a part of the project, “Of Great and Mortal Men – 43 songs for 43 U.S. Presidencies.”

On September 9, 2008, Standard Recording Company released the release of a triple CD Of Great and Mortal Men: 43 Songs for 43 U.S. Presidencies, a collection penned by songwriters J. Matthew Gerken (of Nice Monster), Christian Kiefer, and Jefferson Pitcher (formerly of Above the Orange Trees). The set features a slew of special studio guests including Califone, Rosie Thomas, Bill Callahan (Smog), Alan Sparhawk (Low), Mark Kozelek (Red House Painters, Sun Kil Moon), Marla Hansen (Sufjan Stevens), Steve Dawson (Dolly Varden), Vince DiFiore (Cake), Monahans, James Jackson Toth (Wooden Wand), and Tom Carter (Charalambides).

My work is included along with a group of artists who were invited to illustrate each song, for each president. Mine was Grover Cleveland!

Check out the c.d. here: OF GREAT AND MORTAL MEN

“Movin’ on Up!” July 12 – August 31, 2008 Reception July 12th, from 4pm to 7pm

featuring works by:

Wendy Edwards · Charo Garaigorta · Jacqueline Gourevitch · Susan Hamburger Stanford Kay · Erika Koop · Jerry Mischak · Justin Richel · Julia Schwadron · Bruce Stiglich · Diane Stiglich · Lynn Talbot · Dan Walker

Please join us this Saturday, July 12th from 4pm to 7pm, as we celebrate the opening of the Ken Jones Jr. Fine Art gallery in Easton, PA and the inaugural group exhibition, “Movin’ On Up!”.

www.kenjonesjr.com

June 6 – July 20, 2008 A group show highlighting Summer’s pleasures featuring painting, sculpture and installation

Cara Enteles, Melanie Fischer, Callie Danae Hirsch, Susan Homer, Ketta Ioannidou, Jung Hyang Kim, Timothy McDowell, Julia Schwadron, Rachel Selekman, Ilene Sunshine, Amy Talluto

Please join me for the opening reception: Friday, June 6th, 6-9pm