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Printed Matter is proud to present an extensive exhibit of artist books by Canadian pioneering conceptual artist, Garry Neill Kennedy, who from 1967 to 1990 was also the President of the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design. The show, curated by Adam O’Reilly, will present over 100 of Kennedy’s artist's books as well as accompanying posters, silkscreen prints, photos, and ephemera. The exhibition will run April 12th-May 30th at the Printed Matter storefront.
Kennedy’s double life as an art administrator had a significant influence on his artwork, with his sharp wit and humor, the books in this exhibit range from institutional critiques, political and social investigations, to appropriated New Yorker cartoons.
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Please join us for the DVD launch party of Laurel Nakadate's film "The Wolf Knife," with a reading by Mary Gaitskill, performance by Scott Tuma, and special guest performance by Rick Moody and Jolie Holland! The event will take place this Friday, April 27, 6-8 PM. See the facebook invite here.
The Wolf Knife is Laurel Nakadate's disturbing feature about the conflicted relationship between two 16-year-old girls who embark on a roadtrip to Nashville.
By the time Laurel Nakadate’s The Wolf Knife premiered in 2010, Nakadate was already known as one of the most provocative and ambitious video artists in New York. Her fearless short films of unglamorous, middle-aged bachelors and the youthful filmmaker herself dancing to Britney Spears, stripping, or singing over a birthday cake, were “incredibly twisted,” as Jerry Saltz put it in the Village Voice. The Wolf Knife, Nakadate’s second feature film, is the daughter of this early work, and inspires similar creepy feelings about desire, domination, and voyeurism. It is also a significant artistic leap forward. Unsurprisingly, the film received nominations for an Independent Spirit Award and a Gotham Independent Film Award for “Best Film Not Playing at a Theater Near You.”
Beer has been lovingly provided by Brooklyn Brewery.
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Join us Saturday, April 28th, 5-7PM, for a book launch and artist talk with Scott Hug about his publication Hell to Pay. The black and white images that make up the publication and accompanying poster series are recycled from other sources, utilizing isolated fragments of found images, redesigned and recombined to amplify their impact and offer subtle but subversive messages about consumption, war, celebrity and mass distraction. The body of newly created work is currently on view at Rawson Projects in Brooklyn and was part of an event organized for the Queens International 2012 at the QMA through May 20.
The images in HELL TO PAY draw heavily from American artist named Bern Porter (1911 – 2004), who worked as a poet, publisher, book artist, famed physicist researching on behalf of the Manhattan Project, and later a pacifist/activist with a twisted sense of humor about the so-called American Dream. Bern Porter's work as an underground artist, pulling source material from what he called "founds," made him and something of an artistic soulmate for Hug, who will discuss his book project in terms of Porter's legacy.
Posters are uneditioned and unsigned, created through Print on Demand with the idea they be affordable and readily available. For the event, Printed Matter will have three posters available for sale. They measure 18 x 24", retail for $50, and can be found on our website here
HELL TO PAY is 40 pages, softcover and staplebound, and retails for $20. It can be purchased here
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Kodoji Press & Printed Matter, Inc. are proud to announce the U.S. launch of The Butcher's Block, the first book of New York based artist Tim Roda. The book is edited by Nasim Weiler Contemporary, Hamburg/Germany and published by Kodoji Press. Please join us for a reception Friday, May 11th, 6 – 8 pm at the Printed Matter storefront
Tim Roda’s black and white family portraits mirror his childhood memories and family traditions as a place of individual and social myth building. He photographs himself, his wife and his four sons in carefully prepared, symbolically loaded settings, which he constructs in his studio. Specific to each image the settings are made from simple materials such as wood, clay, plaster, paper and everyday objects. The photographs are like fragments of a narrative in which the familiar mingles with the foreign, the known with the sinister.
The Butcher’s Block is the first extensive overview of Roda’s work. Included in the book are texts by three authors who approach the pictures in different ways. Kimberly Roda Moorhead, sister of the artist, writes a brief introductory text which addresses their childhood experiences in a very personal way. Ursula Panhans-Bühler provides a detailed analysis of the artist’s pictorial language and uncovers the psychological complexity of his compositions. The author and dramatist Dagrun Hintze was inspired by the photographs to produce an “art thriller”, which introduces the reader to Roda’s surreal world in an almost playful manner.
The Butcher's Block is sewnbound, hardcover, 178 pages, and retails for $48.00. It's available for purchase at the Printed Matter storefront or online here
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Printed Matter is pleased to host the JAPANESE YOUNG ARTISTS BOOK FAIR, the 6th annual book fair of contemporary artists' books put on by PEPPER'S PROJECT, a Tokyo-based gallery and art project. The fair includes a wide range of handmade books including artists' books, comics, graphic books, photography books, poetry books, art objects and others items. The material is on view March 1 - March 13 at the Printed Matter storefront.
The JAPANESE YOUNG ARTISTS BOOK FAIR is taking place simultaneously across 4 additional bookstores throughout New York - Kinokuniya Bookstores, St. Marks Book Shop, Book Court and Desert Island.
A list of works available at Printed Matter can be found on our website here
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Decathlon Books is an independent publishing project founded in 2009 by Duncan Hamilton and Peter Sutherland. The aim of the project was to produce ten books over a two-year period featuring a collection of artists Duncan and Peter felt were interesting and deserving of wider attention.
The books were designed to work as a set and so are formally consistent - produced simply and quickly on a web press in Queens, NYC. Each book is letter sized with a two-color cover and offset printed interior (occasionally with an additional print or poster insert). Between 2009 and 2011 Decathlon published books by Mark Gonzales, Todd Jordan, Misaki Kawai, Estelle Hanania, Til Gerhard, Jack Greer and Maggie Lee, Tomoo Gokita, Misha Hollenbach, Tony Cox and Padraig Timoney.
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Printed Matter is deeply saddened by the recent passing of Steven Leiber. Steven was a longtime advisor, supporter, client and friend of our organization, as well as brother to our Board Member David Leiber. An expert in the field of contemporary artists' books and publications, and the uncharted field of artists’ ephemera, Steven had a knowledge and enthusiasm for this too often marginalized material that was unmatched. His integrity and generosity will be greatly missed in our community and beyond. Our condolences to David and the rest of Steven's family.
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Printed Matter is pleased to launch two new albums including a solo cassette from Lea Bertucci and CD from Twistycat, a collaborative project between Bertucci and Ed Bear. Join us for a reception and live instore performance on Saurday, May 19th, 5-7 PM.
"Carillon" marks the solo debut of interdisciplinary artist Lea Bertucci. Two longform pieces for 1/4 inch tape collage and electroacoustic Bass Clarinet inhabit this C30 from Obsolete Units. Concrete sounds are recorded onto tape and collaged together to create dense, slowly shuddering masses of sound. The cassette retails for $7 and is available here.
"Controlled Burn", the latest album from Ed Bear and Lea Bertucci, (aka Twistycat), on Chicago's Peira Records marks a sonic and formal departure from previous recordings. Simultaneously minimal and lush, structured improvisations are ornamented with vibraphone and AM radio textures. Bertucci and Bear use electroacoustic/extended techniques on Bass Clarinet and Baritone Saxophone to explore microtonal harmony, creating a slowly shifting sonic space that reverberates with a mournful transcendence. The CD retails for $10 and is available here.
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Building upon Archizines, an exhibition curated by Elias Redstone that opened at Storefront on April 17th and includes 80 architecture magazines, fanzines and journals, Printed Matter is pleased to contribute Arch-Art! Books to the evolving exhibition. Arch-Art! Books presents a selection of artists' books culled from Printed Matter, Inc.'s current catalog and presents them as a medium through which architecture might be photographically and representationally explored. Each book is an flâneur's response to the urban environment, documenting the social patina and environmental decay left on architectural space. Together, the complementary shows form an exhibition of exchange and dialog; mining the overlap and friction found in the recent resurgence of alternative and independent architecture and art publishing from around the world.
Arch-Art! Books is curated by Adam O'Reilly. The exhibition is designed by \ / | < | \ | (Giancarlo Valle, Isaiah King and Ryan Neiheiser) with graphic work by Benjamin Critton
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Printed Matter, Inc is incredibly saddened by the sudden passing of
our beloved Board Member John McWhinnie. John was a passionate
supporter of the field of artists' publications and his contribution
will have a long-lasting impact. He was a wonderful guy and we will
miss him.
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We're pleased to announce the new and expanded reissue of the Guerrilla Girls' Art Museum Activity Book, first published by Printed Matter in 2004 and long out of print. Please join us for a launch at the storefront on Saturday, March 31st, 5-7 PM, with the Guerrilla Girls in attendance. A selection of posters from past exhibitions and actions will be on display for the event.
In this expanded edition, the Guerrilla Girls once again square up with the 1% who run museums, revisiting the statistics first put forward nearly a decade ago. The reissue updates the failures and rife corruption of the major art institutions with a comic-book style call to action meant to parody the cutesy books produced by museums to teach children to respect High Culture. After sleuthing around in the galleries, board-rooms and financial portfolios of the Met, the Brooklyn Museum, the Whitney, the Guggenheim and the Museum of Modern Art, the Guerrilla Girls present eight fun and funny activities designed to encourage readers to fight discrimination, unethical behavior and conflicts of interest in museums everywhere.
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