Kurt Allerslev, New York, NY

Secretary of the Board of Booklyn

Some Collections with my work
Some Exhibitions that showed my work
Some Books I've been involved with making - not a full Bibliography

Kurt and his dad talking tractors

Alchemist. Works mainly in the plant realm. Paints, collages, and keeps bees on a NYC rooftop. Father of a 2 kids! Phytochemist. Projects include the collaborative group Organik - some of that work can be found on the Monument site.

Once published art under bleed.inc.books. -- now primarily publishing under the Booklyn imprint or with the amazing Artichoke Yink Press.

In the lab, he works to identify potential anticancer agents from plants. Look for a series of handmade artist books detailing this work. He is also involved in an exciting collaboration with herbalist Kathleen Maier titled The Truth About Plants.

Ruby's first performance

Current Phytochemical Research

Some Collections with my work top

Bibliotheque Nacional de Luxembourg

Boston Athenaeum; Boston, MA

Boston Public Library, Rare Book Collection; Boston, MA

Brooklyn Museum of Art; Brooklyn, NY

Bucknell University; Lewisburg, PA

Corcoran Museum and School of Art Library; Washington D.C.

Dartmouth College Art Library; Hanover, NH

Deutsche Nationalbibliothek; Leipzig, Germany

Klingspoor Museum; Offenbach am Main, Germany

Lafayette College; Easton, PA

Library of Congress; Washington D.C.

Long Island University; Brooklyn, NY

Louisiana State University, Hill Memorial Library Special Collections; Baton Rouge, LA.

Marvin and Ruth Sackner Collection of Visual Poetry; Miami Beach, FL

Mills College Fine Art Library; Oakland, CA

Minneapolis College of Art and Design; Minneapolis, MN

New York Public Library, Spencer Collection; NYC, NY

Ohio State University; Columbus, OH

Phoenix Public Library, Rare Books Collection; Phoenix, AZ

San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; San Francisco, CA

San Francisco State University, J. Paul Leonard Library; San Francisco, CA

School for the Art Institute, Flaxman Library; Chicago, IL

Scripps College, Denison Library; Claremont, CA

Smith College, Hillyer Art Library; Northampton, MA

Smithsonian Institution; Washington D.C.

Staatliche Museen zu Berlin Kunstbibliothek, Germany

Temple University; Philadelphia, PA

University of California Art Library; Santa Barbara, CA

University of California; Irvine, CA

University of Kentucky; Lexington, KY

University of Minnesota, Elmer Adnerson Special Collections Library; Minneapolis, MN

University of South Hampton; London, England

University of Southern California; Los Angeles, CA

Victoria and Albert Museum of Fine Art; London, England

Yale University, Sterling Memorial Art Library; New Haven, CT

Some Exhibitions that showed my work top

Spice Cave. October 2007.
Editiones Despalles, Paris, France

Monument. April-May, 2007.
Lawrence Graham Gallery, London, England

Found In Translation.
November 3 to December 30th, 2007. Ellen Noël Art Museum; Odessa, Texas
January 27 to April 28, 2007. Minnesota Center for Book Arts; Minneapolis, MN.
September 29 to December 9, 2006. Center for the Bouk Arts; NYC, NY.
May 12 to July 21, 2006. San Francisco Center for the Book; San Francisco, CA.

Type, Paper, Scissors: the Book as Art Environment. October 2006.
Mary L. Nohl Galleries, Universiy of Wisconsin-Milwaukee

New Artists Books. January 2006.
Western Exhibitions, Chicago, IL

Snakes & Snatch. January 24 to March 31, 2005.
OneTen Gallery, Madison, Wisconsin.

Lost and Found. November 2003.
Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ

US=Them. Septemer 13-October 7, 2002.
33 1/3 Bookstore, Los Angeles, CA

Rare Books of the Future. January 25, 2002 to April 25, 2002.
Center for Book Arts, New York City, NY

Parallel Botany. January 29, 2002 to March 5, 2002.
Mariam Coffin Canaday Library, Bryn Mawr College, PA

Growing Books. April 29 to May 25, 2001.
W.E.B. DuBois Library, University of Massachusetts at Amherst

Artists Books. February 2000 to April 2000.
Brooklyn Museum of Art, Brooklyn, NY

I, Object. December 1998 to January 1999.
Gimbel Library, Parson's School of Design, NYC

Bookmobile. Winter 1998.
Nation-wide tour of book arts.

Seven New York Book Artists. Fall 1997.
93 South Gallery, Nyak, NY

Summer Solstice Specialists. June to July 1997.
Kohler Art Library, University of Wisconsin, Madison

VenusBody. August 1994.
Dreamtime Village, West Lima, Wisconsin

City Lights. Spring 1993.
University of Wisconsin, Madison.

Some Books I've been involved with making - not a full Bibliography top
For more recent works, please see the Artichoke Yink Press website.

kelp
2000
9" x 6"
A commentary on the ecological state of the North Atlantic kelp beds. Nine pages made from a single piece of kelp are sewn together and the covers are wrapped in nori seaweed.

468 West 153rd Street
2000
6 1/2" x 5 1/4"
A collage of rubbings made in and around my home in Harlem. Found patterns and images come from manhole covers, signs, graves, stone facades, and any other available surface.

Transect (2 vols.)
with Russtl Quinn
2000
7" x 7"
Two books made primarily in the kitchen. All paintings are made with natural dyes, food or plant parts, including beets, spirulina, chocolate

Don't Make Me Disappear
with Felice Tebbe, Marshall Weber and Christopher Wilde
2000

Nervous System
with Marshall Weber and Christopher Wilde
2000
8" x 10"
Multiply printed, overlaid, and reprinted with digital color printers, relief press, hand calligraphy, black and white photocopy machines, Nervous System smells of ink and sweat and screams of impossible marks. Lush dense compositions explore the interconnectedness of nerve form and letterform.

Balm: The Flower Folio
With Amanda Taylor, Christopher Wilde and Marshall Weber
1999

Hypotenuse
1999
7 1/2 " x 4"
48 pages
Beet juice, algae, turmeric, flower pigments, etc. mix with plant and seaweed particles to create lush underwater landscapes and starry nebulas. The tapes-bound book is a right triangle, bound along the hypotenuse, invoking Pythagoras and reinforcing the tension/relationship between chaos and simple mathematical harmonies.

With This Wind
1999
1 1/2" x 7 3/4
24 pgs.
A collage book exploring technology and its implications on place and time and mind and soul.

Nat Black Came Back
by Jane LeCroy
1999
Designed and published in association with Artichoke Yink Press.

1998 Planet Bzrk Calendar
1999 Planet Bzrk Calendar
11" x 8 1/2"
Collage images accompany each month.

Hypnogogicocgnosy
with Christopher Wilde
1999
2" x 3"
18 pages
Concerning the worldview of pre-dreaming hypnogogic visions in their natural and crude state. The diminutive size of this very unique volume belies its ingenuity and construction. Like a recurring dream, the narrative blends with the images to a magical consistency. Single object encased in a Purple Heart case. Edition of 10.

Neptune One
1998
8 1/2" x 11"
Collage zine, with handmade Indian saffron kadi paper covers.
Edition of 15.

I Can Dream
with Christopher Wilde
1997
3 1/2" x 6 3/4"
Collage book.
Single object and edition of six

Blackkat Media
Produced with Jason Blackkat
1995-1998 Continuous
5 1/2" x 8"
32 pgs.
Black and white anarchist zine detailing the injustice of the NYC's destruction of our home on the Lower East Side, underground music and pirate radio, drugs and dropout culture.

Planet Bzrk: India
1995
5 1/2" x 8"
24 pgs.
Collage book created while traveling in India during the winter of 1994-1995.
Single object.

Fancy Cock
Published with Christopher Wilde and Artichoke Yink Press
1995
2 3/4" x 3 34"
50 pgs.
Collage. A collection of matchbook covers from India.
Single object and edition of 12.

Driftless Dreamtime
1995
8 1/2" x 11"
12 pgs.
Collage zine, manipulated on black and white photocopy machine with text on the connection between the dreamstate, consciousness and knowledge.
Vellum covers.

Alchemie I
1993
8" x 6 1/2"
40 pgs.
Glass covers over pages made of exposed photographic film, treated to create color patterns, scratched, and sewn. Pages sewn onto cloth spine.
Single object.

Who was Jonathan Scofield?
1991
8 1/2" x 11"
76 pgs.
Novella written while living in India in 1990-1991.

The dragon fruit (Hilocereus undatus [Cactaceae]) from The Kampong in Coconut Grove, FL.

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