Thursday, December 23, 2010

Sunday, December 5, 2010

Thursday, November 25, 2010

TV Santa Claus Says...

...it's officially Christmas season.

Officially time to start figuring out this year's greeting card...

::diabolical laughter::

Wednesday, November 17, 2010

The BOOK, The EVERYMAN, The ESHERICK!

A package arrived in the mail yesterday, bearing a lovely hardcover book, bearing my EVERYMAN typeface, designed in 2008, set beautifully on the cover & throughout...

Inexplicable glee upon seeing these old friends and wonky characters alive in the world!


from Schiffer Books

An exploration of Wharton Esherick's artistic evolution during the early decades of the twentieth century. Based on the exhibition in the Kamin and Kroiz Galleries of the University of Pennsylvania, this work expands upon the exhibition's themes with well over 300 vibrant images and current research, including an essay by Paul Eisenhauer, Curator of the Wharton Esherick Museum. Esherick experimented with woodcarving and printmaking, laying the foundations for his emergence as an artist of remarkable range. He produced paintings and woodblock prints, set designs, sculpture, furniture, and architecture. He and his community of friends created an artistic circle in which arts and crafts were joined, and in which radical new ideas flourished, helping to shape the course of American Modernism. This book will be a treasure for all who appreciate twentieth-century modernism.

Tuesday, November 9, 2010

EWE + MEE + EN-WHY-CEE + ARTIEEEEE!



BYOB (Bring Your Own Beamer)
Friday, November 12, 2010, 6-10 PM
Spencer Brownstone Gallery,
39 Wooster St, New York City.

PARTICIPATING ARTISTS:

AGNES BOLT, ARTIE VIERKANT, BILLY RENNEKAMP, BRITTA THIE, CALLA HENKEL & MAX PITEGOFF, CHARLES BROSKOSKI, DAMON ZUCCONI, DUNCAN MALASHOCK, DANIEL CHEW, DENA YAGO, HAYLEY SILVERMAN, JEREMY BAILEY, JESSE ENGLAND, JOEL HOLMBERG, JOHN MICHAEL BOLING, JOYCE JORDAN, KARI ALTMANN, KRIST WOOD, MAI UEDA, MARLOUS BORM, MICHELLE CEJA, MIKE RUIZ, RENE ABYTHE, RILEY HARMON, RYDER RIPPS, SARAH WEIS & ARTURO CUBACUB, TOM MOODY, TRAVESS SMALLEY, TRAVIS HALLENBECK, WOJCIECH KOSMA.

Spencer Brownstone Gallery is pleased to present the New York edition of BYOB, a one-night-exhibition exploring the medium of projection. 25 artists are invited to bring their own projectors to create a collaborative happening of moving light, sound and performance.

An acronym for Bring Your Own Beamer, the evening will propose a glimpse of computing in the future. Today the internet is confined to screens. Tomorrow information will surround us, composing our surfaces, defining our spaces, enmeshing itself with the ether. No longer simply part-and-parcel of everyday life, it will become a medium in which the everyday exists.

Featuring a generation of artists that grew up behind the screen, BYOB will have an open and dynamic structure that not only allows for spontaneity and experimentation, but also places questions concerning the formalism and engagement of the exhibition directly in the hands in the artists. A moving image is never an object, and when it is coupled with the increased flexibility of portable projection, the realm of experience quickly expands. The individual works will often overlap and sometimes even merge, producing a total environment that is more than the sum of its parts. Ultimately, this loose, free form format will mirror the chaos of the internet. Gallery visitors will stroll in a forest of browser windows much in the same way one browses sites on the web.

Curated by Rafaël Rozendaal

Animated GIF by Travess Smalley

Wednesday, November 3, 2010

Wednesday, October 13, 2010

Indefatigable

THANK YOU to everyone who signed up for the Esherick/Letterpress Improv Workshop. Just heard that "enrollment" is now full! See youse-all on Saturday!

Thursday, October 7, 2010

Monday, October 4, 2010

Friday, September 24, 2010

Wednesday, September 22, 2010

Monday, September 20, 2010

Letterpress Improv Workshop: October 16, 1-4 pm

To download the full event brochure, CLICK HERE


Find out more about The Exhibition & Symposium...
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Here's what happens:

1. You sign up for this event by calling or emailing Andrea Gottschalk at 215.746.5824 or gottsch3@upenn.edu, and make a nominal donation of $10 to The Common Press for paper, ink, and supporting the creative respirator machine for fine letterpress printing in a digital age.

2. I fly down to Philadelphia with a sack full of wood type, which I will probably have to check (gah!).

3. You meet me at The Morgan Building (34th & Locust) on Saturday, October 16 at 1 pm.

4. You listen to me give a succinct and hopefully not terribly awkward talk on The History of Wood Type in America.

5. You receive some delicious reading material for at-home-consumption.

6. I walk you through setting wood type into a lockup, and then how to prepare, ink up, print with, and clean up a Vandercook Universal letterpress.

7. We pick random pieces of paper out of a bunch of little bags with instructions that dictate a free-form composition of wood type.

8. You go home with some CRAZY prints & ink stains under your fingernails that (don't worry) will come off in 3-4 days.

9. Your heart is full of sentimental typographic memories of our time together.

Getting Older Means Getting Sassier

Wednesday, September 15, 2010

List of Items for Serious Review in Contemplative Bath

1. Nicky Minaj




"We got tom-toms over here bigger than a monster."

2. Solidified Bacon Drippings


3. All Tomorrow's Parties