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Booklyn Booklyn artist Aaron Noble had a solo exhibition at Pavel Zoubok gallery from September 6 through October 6th. 2007 On Wednesday, February 14, 2007, Artists Television Access of San Francisco and the Booklyn Artists Alliance presented Talk, Talk, Talk, Talk, Talk, Talk, Talk, a night of spoken word, urban folk music, performance, and a hands on presentation of tough skinned artists books and drawings from Booklyn associates. The event featured: the premier reading of Bedtime for Bremer (a fable about the USA in Iraq) by Fred Rinne and Marshall Weber; a amazing ukelele accompanied musical rendition of Christine Shield's (Blue Hole Comix creator) new parallel universe fable "The Lonely Bear and Esmeralda Treecat" by Christine!; the premier recital of Dana Smith and Scott William's "Collect Call from the Spirit World" story. Hosts, Fred Rinne and company, Karen Switzer has a posse, and ringleader Marshall Weber (ATA and Booklyn co-founder) wowed the packed house and musical ambiance was provided by maestro trumpeteer Andy DiGiovanni and Bill. Needless to say it was an astounding evening, the first ATA/Booklyn event and a harbinger of more to come. 2006 From September 2006 through January 2007 Booklyn artists and staffmembers were well represented in the Brooklyn Museum of Art's Looking Back from Ground Zero exhibition. Major artworks by Maureen Cummins, Mac MaGill, Sheryl Oring, Sarah Parkel and Mark Wagner were all in the exhibition.
The 2k1 Discourse was first exhibited in its entirety at San Francisco's Center for the Book earlier this year, and will be installed in New York for the first time at The Center for Book Arts in Manhattan from September 29th to December 12th, 2006, as a part of the touring exhibition, Found in Translation. From November 3rd to December 15th, 2006 The Booklyn exhibition Evolution of Cut + Paste was installed at the Asheville Bookworks Originally mounted at the Parsons Gimbel Library in 2004, Evolution showcased the work and process of five zinesters as they became interested in handcrafts and bookmaking. The featured artists included: The opening (November 3) and closing (December 15) festivities were fabulous and informative! Asheville BookWorks is located at 428 1/2 Haywood Road in West Asheville. Questions? Please contact Bridget Elmer (former Booklyn President!) at 828-255-8444 or bridget@ashevillebookworks.com Asheville BookWorks offers a full spectrum of hands-on workshops including bookbinding, printmaking, papermaking and letterpress printing. Their instructors are mostly drawn from the immensely talented and growing book arts community in Western North Carolina, many who are nationally and internationally recognized. On April 4,, from 8 - 10 pm, as part of Booklyn's First Tuesday program artist Mac Premo presented a special evening with 'book', the book that four artists (including Mac) sent back and forth from Brooklyn to Belfast for 36 weeks until it congealed into a massive collage and painted book masterpiece. For a clue visit their website. 2005 On Thursday, January 27, 12 - 8 pm, over thirty bibliophiles, printers, collectors, and librarians attended the annual Biblio Week Booklyn Open House. The event included a "please touch the art" exhibition of contemporary artist books ranging from the photocopied and stapled to the letterpressed and handbound, along with bookbinding demonstrations, refreshments, and thrilling conversation with Booklyn artists and staff. BIBLIOGRAPHY WEEK happens each year at the end of January when the principal national organizations devoted to book history have their annual meetings. Other groups plan interesting events, too, since so many bibliophiles are in town. Some meetings and events are open to Grolier members only, but otherwise you are encouraged to show up everywhere: get a sense of what is going on in the book world, hear some interesting papers, schmooze over cocktails. Learn more about the Biblio Week schedule by visiting the Grolier Club website.
At 7:00PM on Wednesday, January 5, 2005, Booklyn presented Crazy Knowledge a hot show of Booklyn artists books accompanied by poetry and spoken word readings by NYC show-off Marshall Weber, local Es Ef anti-hero Fred Rinne, and revolutionary avatar Karen ("the only free press is your own press") Switzer. Oddly compelling musical backup by the Iconoclasts (featuring Andy DiGiovanni on horns and the mysterious Dana on percussion) made the event completely intriguing as was promised by event promotional material. A generous pick of the week (??!) listing in the local weekly rag The Bay Guardian and frantic sobbing last minute calls by Booklyn West producer Fred Rinne had the house packed to the gills with a diverse crowd ranging from youthful anarchist 'zinesters to octogenarian anitiquarian booklovers.
Its all went down at the The San Francisco Center for the Book, 300 DeHaro St, San Francisco, CA94103 415.565.0545 2004
From September 7 through December 10, 2004 the Retrospective Red Charming was an outstanding Booklyn exhibition at the Parsons School of Design's Gimbel Library. Red Charming, the name of Emily K. Larned’s production label, is an imaginary bad translation meaning an object or an aesthetic that combines the cute with the cerebral. Red Charming publications include artist books about revolutionary mathematicians, thrift stores, postindustrial America, the precise structure of things, the discrepancies of seeing & experience, and zines about everything else. Outside the cases, viewers were invited to handle copies of the actual books or facsimiles of them; inside the cases, the installation explores the processes (including letterpress, silkscreen, photography, photocopy) and ideas utilized in each book’s production. The closing reception on Friday, December 10, 2004, 6 - 8 pm, was a fabulous event, packed with freinds and relatives celebrating the artist's many crative triumphs. Visit the Gimbel library website for library hours (open 7 days a week with some exceptions) and visiting information. Gimbel Library, Parsons School of Design, 2 West 13th Street, 2nd Floor, New York City
Starting at sunrise on Tuesday August 31, 2004, at the Vietnam Veterans War Memorial Plaza, on 55 Water Street in downtown Manhattan, artist Marshall Weber did a non-stop marathon out loud reading (in English) of Homers entire Iliad and "Odyssey"; one of the most compelling anti-war and return of the 'hero' stories ever written. After completing the Iliad Weber walked to the Whitehall Ferry Terminal in Manhattan and read Homer's Odyssey while riding on the The entire performance took about 46 hours and had an audience (of various durations and attention spans) in the hundreds and received numerous national and local print and radio media attention. thus the concept of providing a larger historical and mythical context for the current US/Iraqui war was evoked with some attendant publicity for the New York City Vietnam Veterans Memorial. Listen to MT Karthiks exclusive KPFK Pacifica Radio (in Los Angeles, CA) interview with Weber about the performance. This event was sponsored by Booklyn and is part of the Imagine Festival of Arts, Issues & Ideas, a citywide cultural festival that inspired, instigated and supported civic engagement. From August 28-September 2 the Imagine Festival presented over 100 cultural events in 6 days, that included concerts, performances, forums, town meetings, exhibits, screenings, and other issue-based artworks. "...in a festival of what may well turn out to be 100 events, 'The NYC The Odyssey, started on Wednesday September 1, 2004, at (about 6:00AM) and ran till Thursday September 2, at 4:00AM (approximately 22 hours), on the Staten Island Ferry, running from Whitehall Ferry Terminal in Manhattan to Saint George Terminal on Staten Island. There was a lot of careening around the Terminal buldings as the ferry's were emptied at each stop. The event was free (the Staten Island Ferry is free) no tickets were necessary. Thanks to all the volunteers that assisted in the documentation, provision of security and the care of the performer during the performance. At 7:00PM on Tuesday, July 27 Booklyn presented California Screamin' ! - a presentation of Booklyn artist books that was free and open to the unsuspecting public at the:
It was a night of out loud and in your face (but in a nice way) presentations and readings of artists books and independent press by under-pavement Bay Area anarcho-delic art heroes Fred Rinne, Karen Switzer (of Kerbloom 'zine fame), stencil meister Scott Williams and other Booklyn artists. Hosted by motormouth Marshall Weber (ATA and Booklyn co-founder); Switzer read two powerful stories from her famed Kerbloom 'zine, Fred Rinne performed excerpts from his re-rocked opera Yanni, the Rock Opera a rewrite of the Who's Tommy which features the reall life of Yanni set to the original Who tunes. "Yanni can you hear me... is that my beer that's near you?". Fred was accompanied by maesto Andrew DeGiovanni on trumpet. Fred also read from Gemstone Fever his amazing collaboration with Scott Williams. A great time was had by all (including underground comix genuis Spain Rodriguez!) and twenty other artists books were out on the table for all to peruse.
Booklyn artists Marshall Weber, Christopher Wilde and Maria Yoon opened the Fair with a newly choreographed and video/music scored version of Booklyn's ongoing interdisciplinary performance art project ...even the birds were on fire.... (A description of the performance follows.) On June 4th, 2004, at 4:00PM (the opening afternoon of the Book Arts Fair) Marshall Weber and Maria Yoon performed ...even the birds were on fire... a four act butoh-like dance piece that used various costumes as if they were pages on the book of the human body and uses human skin as if it were a page to write upon. Delicate airplanes with evocative images flew through the air becoming gifts for the audience and giant ink brushes drew letters on the stage floor as Weber and Yoon evoked emotional landscapes of recent history. The dances were accompanied by a soundtrack of readings from various books of poetry by Booklyn poets mixed with original music by Booklyn artist and Revolocien Wreckidz composer Christopher Wilde. Live translation was provided. The piece was very well received and was reviewed on various Seoul television, radio and print media. In May of 2004 Booklyn artist and staffmember Christopher Wilde visited the birthplace of the Codex for the opening of the first First International Biennale for Hand Printed Artists' Books Exhibition at the Bibliotecha Alexandrina in Alexandia, Eygpt. Wilde, Maureen Cummins and other Booklyn artists exhibited in the Biennale, and Wilde hand delivered a stack of artists books donated to the Bibliotecha Alexandrina by group of five Booklyn artists. In its effort to create international artistic and creative encounters to bridge the gaps among different civilizations and to enhance dialogue between cultures, the Arts Center at the Bibliotheca Alexandrina hosted the First International Biennale for Hand Printed Artists' Books from 22 April and through May 15, 2004. The first round of the Biennale, entitled "Bibliotheca Alexandrina, Old and New; Dialogue and Bridges between Cultures", included artists, publishers and authors from Egypt, Africa and the world. Participants were invited to present diverse written texts, from the literary to the scientific and documentary. A beautiful catalog is available. The Evolution of Cut & Paste exhibit ran from January 26 through May 14 at the Parsons School of Design's Gimbel Library. The exhibit showcased the work of four zinemakers -- a designer, a writer, an artist, and an activist -- as they became interested in the processes of handcraft & bookmaking. Curated by Booklyn artist and Education Director Emily K. Larned this popular exhibit was part of Booklyn's ongoing programming at the Parsons School of Design's Gimbel Library, which is located at 2 West 13th Street, 2nd Floor, New York City, 212.229.5587 The featured artists were: A fabulous CLOSING RECEPTION was held on Friday, May 14, 2004, from 6 - 8 pm, with the even more fabulous projet Mobilivre/Bookmobile Project parked outside. Feb. 3rd's First Tuesday featured a presentation by Anna Moschovakis and Matvei Yankelevich of the Ugly Duckling Presse. The 'Ducks' quacked about their unique publications and other projects presenting over thirty brilliant books, 'zines and small text sculptures. An improptu reading of CTL-Press's magnificent book of Chinghiz Aitmatov's poem The Song of the Akyn in the original Russian and in German (by native speakers who also provided English translation) highlighted the evening. Biblio Week 2004 Open House. On Thursday, January 22, 2003 2002 2001 2000 1999 Victory and Peace 1998 Participation in Exhibitions
In June of 2005 Booklyn associated artist Scott Williams, a San Franciscan known for his innovative use of stencil and airbrush in artists’ books, murals and paintings, was chosen as the 2005 Adaline Kent Award artist by the San Francisco Art Institute Artists Committee. The award is named for SFAI alumna Adaline Kent and has been given annually to a California artist since 1959. Williams’s work involves complex layering and repetition of imagery appropriated from history and popular culture, including Communist icons, the American West, Hollywood, pulp fiction, marine life, advertising and comics. Williams received a cash award, a solo exhibit at SFAI (curated with the assistance of Marshall Weber from Booklyn's Collection Development Department). The catalog (featuring an expansive article on Scott's work by another Booklyn artist Aaron Noble) was available in time for the solo exhibition of Scott's work at Track 16 Gallery in Santa Monica. The Neo-Fake:Books and Paintings by San Francisco artist Scott Williams, which was up from October 15 to November 12, 2005. In the Autumn of 2005, with the production assistance of the Collection Development Department, associated artist Aaron Noble painted an original temporary wall mural at the Davis Museum and Cultural Center, at Wellesley College this September, the mural was on exhibit from September to December 2005. Check it out!
2004 Booklyn was proud to have fourteen artists included in the Making Meaning: The Artist Book exhibition at the Kansas City Art Institute H&R Block Artspace. Exhibited artists were Inge Bruggeman, Mark Wagner, Emily K. Larned, Karen Switzer, Clement Tobias Lange, Sara Parkel, Fred Rinne, Xu Bing, Eleanor Whitney, Alison E. Williams, Marshall Weber, Evil Twin, David Rees, and Jamie Munkatchy. The exhibition was curated by Heather Lustfeldt, Assistant Curator of the H&R Block Artspace at the Kansas City Art Institute, and Laura Berman, Assistant Professor of Printmaking at Kansas City Art Institute. In Heather's words, the exhibition included: works by students, visiting artists, established national artists, and many others. The exhibition will examine and explore how to "make meaning" from a wide range of ideas, practices, and approaches within the realm of the artist book, inviting viewers to conceive of various ways of approaching this task in an interactive environment. Making Meaning: The Artist Book ran from September 17 - December 1, 2004.
Photos courtesy of M/Studios, Matthew McFarland
With artworks by Booklyn artists: Kurt Allerslev, Doug Beube, Dave Hoyt, Eliana Perez, Fred Rinne, Robert The, Marshall Weber, Elena Wen, Christopher Wilde, Scott Williams, and others: Woojung Ahn, BB & PPINC, Kyle Bravo, Mariwyn Curtin, Margot Casstevens, Andrea Dezso, Kerry Downey, Sharon Gilbert, Coco Gordon, Robbie Guertin, Mary Hambleton, Denise Hawrysio, Alex Holden, Shane Ingersoll, Aya Kakeda, Stacey Kirby, Yunmee Kyong, Sean McElroy, Kurt Madison, Marisol Limon Martinez, Shelia Manion Artz, Yuki Maruyama, John Meagher, Leah Oates, Eliana Perez, Maddalena Polletta, Claire Rau, Maddy Rosenberg, Jessica Rosenkranz, Rebecca Rubin, Junko Shimizu, Samara Sussman Lisa Young, and Liz Zanis On October 24th Booklyn's Marshall Weber moderated a well attended panel at the gallery which discussed artist networking and the philosophies of artist bookmaking. The closing party on October 28th went into the wee hours with a diverse group of eccentric Manhattanites and Brooklyn and Queens hipsters reading and drinking into the night. From April 16 through August 15, 2004 Open House: Working in Brooklyn, an exhibition of work by 200 Brooklyn-based artists took place at the Brooklyn Museum of Art. The exhibit included artwork by Booklyn artists Artists' Books at the Workroom. Booklyn Artists Marshall Weber and Christopher Wilde had books on display at The Workroom in Dublin, Ireland. The show was currated by Alison Pilkington and was up from March 3rd till April 15. A review by Felicity Ford in the March issue of Circa Magazine quotes generously from Marshall Weber's article in the 2003/05 Artists' Book Yearbook . Artists' Books: Present Tense, at the Museum of Arts and Design, January 29, 2004, 6:00 PM. A panel of artists, curators and publishers presented by The Museum of Arts & Design, moderated by Ursula Ilse Neuman, curator of Corporal Identity-Body Language. Invited panelists included: Booklyn artists: Xu Bing (cancelled), Caren Heft, and Christopher Wilde, and Buzz Spector, Kate and Patrick Hambrecht, In front of a packed house the panel explored the present and future of the book as a form of cultural expression. The participants discussed their own work and offered diverse perspectives on issues regarding the relationship between books, libraries, linguistics, literature, and independent artists' publishing. 2003 9th Triennial, Booth at the Frankfurt Bookfair Booklyn at the Portland Zine Symposium 2002 2001 2000 Recent Acquisitions, Prints and Drawings This page is maintained by Marshall Weber. |
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