Ari Marcopoulos: Zines Signing at Gucci Wooster Bookstore (375 West Broadway)
Tonight, 5/24 6-8pm
Unfortunately I cannot make this but I’ll hear a report from some of my friends who will be going. I met Marcopoulos at past year’s Printed Matter New York Art Book Fair and chatted a bit. Excited for this new compilation of his countless homemade zines.
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May 24, 2023
PhotoWork Mixtape with Bryan Schutmaat on Zoom (Click for Info)
Tonight, 5/24 7pm EST
This will be the first of host, writer, and gallerist Sasha Wolf’s live podcasts. It seems in order to get the Zoom link you’ll have to donate a minimum of $10 but know that the money will be going towards continuing platforming conversations with some of the most current contemporary, emerging photo-based artists of today. This comes as a moment where I was just recommended Schutmaat’s imprint, Trespasser Books, by a friend who works as a production manager. I knew of the publisher before because of Donovan Smallwood’s LANGUOR which I fell in love with some time ago. Excited for this event, and hope to hear the recording of it soon.
PhotoWork Foundation & Podcast on Instagram: ”𝗣𝗵𝗼𝘁𝗼𝗪𝗼𝗿𝗸 𝗠𝗶𝘅𝘁𝗮𝗽𝗲 with Bryan Schutmaat | 𝗠𝗮𝘆 𝟮𝟰, 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟯 | 𝟳𝗽𝗺 𝗘𝗧 We’re excited to announce the first of many live on zoom get togethers, or what we are calling PhotoWork Mixtape. This is an opportunity for us to meet each other, hang-out and talk all things photography. The PhotoWork Podcast team (Sasha, Michael & Taylor) will be hosting these events and will welcome a special guest each evening to join us in discussion and Q&A. We’re beyond excited to have Bryan Schutmaat @bryanschutmaat as our first official mixtape guest. We hope you’ll join us. 𝗦𝗲𝗲 𝗟𝗶𝗻𝗸 𝗶𝗻 𝗕𝗶𝗼 𝘁𝗼 𝗥𝗲𝗴𝗶𝘀𝘁𝗲𝗿 #photographypodcast @sashawolfprojects @realphotoshow#photoworkpodcast #sashawolf #sashawolfprojects #realphotoshow #photowork #photoworkfoundation” April 30, 2023
"New Voices: On Transformation!" Opening Reception at the Print Center New York
Thursday, 6/1 6-8pm
I’ve been familiarizing myself with printmaking recently and saw this opening happening next week, wanted to pass along.
Print Center New York on Instagram: “We’re excited to welcome everyone to our summer exhibition “New Voices: On Transformation!” Join our public opening reception on June 1, 6–8pm to meet and celebrate the artists. Many thanks to @hyperallergic @rheanayyar.art for breaking the news, and huge congratulations to our inaugural New Voices cohort: Aaron Coleman (@aaron_s_coleman), Julia Curran (@julia.s.curran), Juana Estrada Hernández (@juanaseemyprints), Lois Harada (@loisharada), Nina Jordan (@ninjor_prints), Farah Mohammad (@famojee), Jacquelyn Stryker (@thestrycker), and Eriko Tsogo (@erikotsogo). “On Transformation” considers how these artists’ practices situate the #print medium, the moment, or the viewer at a threshold: a site of potential or active transformation. It is curated by Carmen Hermo @chermosa), Associate Curator for the @brooklynmuseum’s Elizabeth A. Sackler Center for Feminist Art, with assistance from Robin Siddall, Exhibitions and Programs Coordinator at Print Center New York. Link in bio to learn more about the exhibition and we look forward to seeing you on June 1! Images: Farah Mohammad. Fortnight, 2022. // Aaron Coleman. Gateway for Evasion, 2022. // Julia Curran. Spring’s Revenge, 2023. // Juana Estrada Hernández. Detail of Ah chambiar para nuestra casita, 2020. // Lois Harada. Wish You Were Here, Heart Mountain, 2022. // Nina Jordan. Detail of UNTITLED, FLOODED HOME VI, 2021. // Jacquelyn Strycker. Crazy Quilt, 2021. // Eriko Tsogo. American Me, 2022. Courtesy of Tappan Collective. Other images courtesy and © the artists. #PrintCenterNewYork #NewVoices #printmaking” May 24, 2023
Kevin McNamee-Tweed: “Pilcrow” Opening Reception & Pure Paragraphs Book Launch at Dutton Gallery (127 Eldridge St.)
Thursday, 5/25 6-8pm
I ran into poet and friend Travis Kent a couple days ago who told me about this gallery event and book release party. Kent is one of 130 writers and artists who contributed to the book. I’ve only known him as a fellow coworker over at Printed Matter where I learned about his journey from Texas to New York, and learned about his former days as a bookstore owner. I’m looking forward to familiarizing myself with his writing. For more info on the new publication see below or here for a full list of contributors.
Pure Paragraphs is a collection of paragraphs by one hundred and thirty artists and writers. Responding to a sort of anti-prompt, the contributors were asked only to bare in mind the basic architecture and function of a paragraph. The book contains a near even split of texts and visual works. Conceived and produced over the course of a month and released on the occasion of Kevin McNamee-Tweed's exhibition at Dutton in New York, the publication carries itself as an loving experiment, at once intimate, improvisational, it is a rowdy convergence.
Kevin McNamee-Tweed on Instagram: “Accompanying my show is this book called Pure Paragraphs I made with Bradley King. It collects paragraphs from 130 artists and writers. The first edition of 130 will be released at the opening this Thursday 5/25 and we’ll have a slew of low-key readings from really wonderful people. Some copies are secretly available at soniadutton.com too”
May 21, 2023
"Not For Sale" at Citygroup (104b Forsyth St.)
Closes Friday, 5/26 2-6pm
I‘ve yet made it out to the exhibit documenting organizing efforts by Coalition to Protect Chinatown & LES but will try my best to make it out before this week’s closing.
Citygroup on Instagram: “In solidarity with decades of community activism in Lower Manhattan, Art Against Displacement presents “Not For Sale: Material Traces of Protest in Chinatown & LES, 2002–Present” at @citygroupnyc. The exhibition will be on view through Friday, May 26th, with an opening reception on Saturday, May 13th, and related programming throughout the month. “Not For Sale” resurfaces protest signs and other ephemera associated with the organizing efforts of the Coalition to Protect Chinatown & LES, spanning from the immediate aftermath of 9/11 to the present day. As an active Coalition member, Art Against Displacement has participated in the production, dissemination, and deployment of protest ephemera since its inception in 2016. “Not For Sale” surveys the visual character and ingenuity of ad hoc, DIY signage in several defining campaigns of the past two decades: Beyond Ground Zero, the Chinatown Working Group Plan, and actions against luxury development in Two Bridges, the construction of a new jail on the site of the Manhattan Detention Complex (known as the Tombs), and the Museum of Chinese in America’s complicity in local displacement. As creative practitioners, Art Against Displacement recognizes the indispensability of mark-making to collective protest: accordingly, “Not For Sale” aims to lift up, assemble, and archive the material creations of anonymous artists, activists, and community members. “Not For Sale” will be accompanied by an offsite screening featuring the work of @crispy.teaaa, @zishunning, @lilyjshhh, @alvinwtsang, and @artistsiyanwong, as well as a teach-in about the Chinatown Working Group Plan. More details will be announced soon. Many thanks to @citygroupnyc, the Coalition to Protect Chinatown & LES, the Chinese Staff and Workers’ Association (CSWA), National Mobilization Against Sweatshops (NMASS), @fugitivematerials, and all New Yorkers who struggle for housing, labor, and land justice.” May 12, 2023