Projects
Occasionally, Printeresting is asked to leave our computer monitors behind and do a project in the “real world”. Check out our projects, listed from most to least recent, below.
Rum Riot Press
A Printeresting Curatorial Project
Space Gallery
538 Congress St.
Portland, ME 04101
July 20- August 20, 2012
Opening Reception July 26, 5-7 PM
Zine Workshop July 28, 12-6 PM
Read our posts about Rum Riot Press!
Printeresting is pleased to present Rum Riot Press, a small press exposition of artist’s publications this summer at Space Gallery in Portland, Maine. Including work from over sixty artists, designers, and publishers from around the world, this exhibition runs from July 20 – August 20, 2012. There will be an opening reception on the evening of July 26.Rum Riot Pressexplores how DIY and small press publishing can foster communication and offer an alternative to mainstream media sources. Our invitation to collaborate with Space Gallery coincides with a major resurgence in self-publication, which is a mode of communication that offers agency to anyone willing to participate. Given the current small press explosion, now seems like a good time to marry the mistakes of the past with the possibility of the present.
The title of the exhibition, Rum Riot Press, alludes to a brief period of civil unrest that occurred in Portland over a hundred and fifty years ago. The so-called “Rum Riots” were sparked by an effort to prohibit the distribution of alcohol. The unrest was perpetuated by cultural misunderstandings between new and established residents, and a general failure of communication. We chose this moniker for our exhibition because Rum Riot Press will serve not only as a site of small press exhibition, but also of localized production. Rum Riot Press will operate as a functioning small press production and distribution site for the duration of the exhibition. With ‘zine workshops, readings, and related events, we hope to engage the Portland community in a conversation about the role print can play at this unique moment in history.
Featured Contributors:
A5 Magazine, Adam Wolpa, Aimee Lusty, Alex Lukas, Alexander Egger, Andrew Kozlowski, Angela Early, Art Codex, Book Bombs, Broadsheet, CC Comics, Chad Kouri/Proximity Magazine, Craig Atkinson/Cafe Royal Books, Daniel Glendening, Daniel Maw, David Sandlin, Delia Kovac, Dina Kelberman, Dustin Hostetler/UPSO, ELK, Erin Womack, Gary Kachadourian, Greg Pizzoli, Heidi Nelson, Holly Holly Hobby Hobby (Anni Altshuler & Leah Mackin), Ingrid Burrington, Jason Kachadourian, Jing Yu, Kate Bingaman-Burt, Katie Haegele/The La La Theory, Lizz Hickey, Machete, Marc Snyder, Marissaland, Mark Price/Zine of the Month, Matt Hopson-Walker, Megawords Magazine, Museum Press, Paul Windle, Pipa Fax, Purgatory Pie Press, Rand Renfrow, Sara Cwynar, Temporary Services, Tim Devin, Vice Versa Press, Yes, Ma’am Press, and many more!
Contributors making original zines for Printeresting Guide Zines are:
Kyle Durrie, Kevin Haas, Adrienne Herman, Jon Lee, Marie Lorenz, Beauvais Lyons, Michael Menchaca, Yoonmi Nam, Christopher Wallace, Triple Candie, and the Matthew Higgs Society.
Printeresting Black
A Printeresting Project in collaboration with Gamblin Artists Colors
Read our posts about Printeresting Black!
Watch the Printeresting Black TRAILER!
To celebrate Printeresting’s fourth anniversary on April 24, 2012, we decided to get inky with our friends at Gamblin Artists Colors. We collaborated on a limited edition ink! We’re longtime fans of Gamblin’s Portland Black intaglio inks but we knew that Printeresting Black had to be something new and unique. After all, every printer knows that black is never just black. After numerous tests and experiments, late nights at our color mixing stations, various samples shipped all over the country, and multiple conference calls, we arrived at Printeresting Black. Of course, we can’t share our secret recipe, but we cantell you that it’s a rich, dark intaglio black with a blue-ish hue. Your plate tone will evoke the cool light of a computer monitor. It’s Printeresting Black!All fifty cans were given away to various printshops around the country.
The California Printmaker
A Printeresting Editorial Project
California Society of Printmakers
Read our posts about The California Printmaker!
Featured Artists & Writers:
Xavier Antin, Andrew Remington Bailey, Aleksandra Domanovic, Stephanie Dotson, Johanna Drucker, Bill Fick, Tate Foley, Julia V. Hendrickson, Paul Laidler, Alex Lukas, Joseph Lupo, Daniel Maw, Louise Naunton Morgan, Roja Najaf, John Pyper, Rand Renfrow, Jenny Schmid, Sonnenzimmer, Buzz Spector, Derek Stroup, Breanne Trammell, Whitney Trettien, & Joe Winter.
And a huge thanks to our summer intern Sarah Smith who put in so much hard work on this project.
Printeresting ventures into publications with the 2011 edition of The California Printmaker, the annual journal of the Californis Society of Printmakers. It’s a 32-page exploration of the relationship of print to internet with a long list of contributors. It’s got it all: original writing, original print-related comics, artist profiles! We should also mention that this is the first edition of The California Printmaker to be printed in color and to include an offset poster insert.
PAST PRESENT
A Printeresting Curatorial Project
St. Louis Artists’ Guild and Galleries
2 Oak Knoll Park
Clayton, MO 63105-3008
January 23 – March 25, 2011
Two Exhibition Receptions:
Sunday, January 23, 1-3 PM
Thursday, March 17, 6-8 PM
Featured Artists:
Peeter Allik (Estonia)
Rob Carter (USA)
Phyllis McGibbon (USA)
Thomas Neulinger (Austria)
Lothar Osterburg (USA)
Project Lambe-Lambe (Brazil)
Andrew Raftery (USA)
Printeresting’s Past Present will take place in conjunction with the 2011 Southern Graphics Council International conference, Equilibrium, at Washington University in St. Louis’ Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts. PAST PRESENTCuratorial StatementPast Presenthighlights the history of print as reflected in contemporary art practices. Why do some artists revel in history, when others choose to reject it? To understand the new, sometimes you have to look to the old. This exhibition features the work of six artists and one artist collaborative: Peeter Allik (Estonia), Rob Carter (USA), Phyllis McGibbon (USA),Thomas Neulinger(Austria), Lothar Osterburg (USA), Projeto Lambe-Lambe (Brazil), and Andrew Raftery (USA). These artists explore the language of the past to illuminate the present. Their investigations reveal the ways in which history continues to influence the contemporary discourse of print.To read more, click below:
Adobe PDF – Past Present Curatorial Statement (244 KB)
PLUS
A Printeresting Collaborative Project
November 26, 2010
Featured Artist:
Printeresting PLUS Curatorial Statement
Printeresting+ is the new publishing arm of Printeresting. Collaboration is at the core of Printeresting+. The idea is to team-up with various print shops around the country (and maybe even around the world) to produce works we believe in.
Our first collaborators are AS220 Printshop in Providence, RI, hence Printeresting+AS220! In keeping with AS220′s mission of accessibility, we offered an open call for submissions. Any artist had a fair shot at this opportunity, and we had a ton of great work to cull thorough. It wasn’t easy, but ultimately we decided that Clarke Curtis was the right match. You may recognize his work from this post we did back in March. Clarke usually deploys intaglio techniques to produce his print/collages, so we were excited at the possibility of translating his aesthetic into screenprinting.
4×4
A Printeresting Curatorial Project
2400 Chew Street
Allentown, PA
November 17- December 18, 2010
Opening November 17th 4-6PM
Featured Artists:
Gary Kachadourian
Rob Swainston
Eva Wylie
Space 1026
4X4 Curatorial Statement
For the 4×4 exhibition three artists and one art collective will occupy the four walls of the Martin Art Gallery. We saw the white cube of the gallery as an arena; each artist is given one very large white wall as a point of departure. Our intention is not to stage a reality show challenge for your attention, but to give these artists a chance to build a new reality as they might like to imagine it.
The artists in 4×4 all demolish the historical expectations of print. Each artist creates work that leaves one in a state of awe and wonder. Rob Swainston works with traditional print processes but he leaves frame behind as he uses print to construct startling paper monuments. Eva Wylie brings a fresh take on appropriation and collage with her amazing site specific installations. Gary Kachadourian’s art work can be described as simultaneously, mundane, delicate, outrageous and truly, monumental. And what has not been said before about Space 1026? They are a spaceship powered by a poly-vocal engine that runs on glee and leaves piles of art in its wake.
Four walls, four explosive print installations. What more can we say?
COPY JAM! 2: TEXT EDITION
A Printeresting Curatorial Project
The Luddington Building
1104 S. Wabash Ave
Chicago, IL
One Night Only!
FREE ADMISSION
Friday, July 30, 2010, 6-11PM
(makin’ copies from 6-9 PM)
Featured Artists:
Abra Ancliffe • Jesse Albrecht • Baltimore Print Studios • Christian Bok • Glen Baldridge Diana Behl • Kate Bingaman-Burt • Ingrid Burrington • Allison Cole • Bill Donovan Christa Donner • Johanna Drucker • Friends Make Prints (Nic Annette Miller & Emily Bunnell) • Tate Foley • FOUND Magazine Kenneth Goldsmith • Dusty Herbig • Adriane Herman • Dustin Amery Hostetler • Holly Holly Hobby Hobby (Leah Mackin & Anni Altshuler) • Rod Hunting • Dan Grzeca
JUDGE • Chad Kouri • Emily Larned • Jimmy Luu • Sean Kuhnke • Robin McDowell • Bill McRight • Leslie Mutchler • Matt Neff • Jena Osman • Adam Pendleton • Mark Price
Justin • Quinn • Favianna Rodriguez • Erik Ruin & Cindy Milstein • Julia Schwadron Jennifer Schmidt • Scott Sherk • Esther K. Smith • Sonnenzimmer • Ryan Standfest
Wendy Collin Sorin • Molly Springfield
SuperKonductor • Temporary Services • Brad Vetter • Cardon Copy/Cardon Webb • Brian Wiggins • Will Work for Good (Kevin O’ Neill & Karisa Senavitis)
COPY JAM! 2: Text EditionThis Summer, PRINTERESTING wants to meet our readers in the Windy City! On Friday July 30, we will host an encore performance of our Copy Jam! at the Printers’ Ball at Luddington Building in beautiful, downtown Chicago, IL. The Ball is co-sponsored by Poetrymagazine as well as the Center for Book and Paper Arts at Columbia College and the Student Affairs Offices at Columbia College. Because the Printers’ Ball has its roots in the literary world, we asked all participating artists to give us work that incorporates text in some way.”COPY JAM!” will be an interactive print event. During the party, fifty works by fifty artists will be displayed in a grid on the wall. Upon arrival, each guest will be handed a complimentary ticket that can be exchanged for one black & white photocopy of any work the guest chooses. There will be no sales; one ticket equals one copy. Copies will be made LIVE in the gallery for one night only from 6-9PM!All are welcome, and we hope to see you there.Additional information on Printeresting’s Copy Jam! is available HERE and more information regarding The Printers’ Ball is available HERE.
COPY JAM!
A Printeresting Curatorial Project
Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction
116 North Third Street
Philadelphia, PA 19106
One Night Only:
Thursday
March 25, 2010
6-9 PM
Read our posts about Copy Jam!
Featured Artists:
Abra Ancliffe • Jennifer D. Anderson • Diana Baumbach • Laura Berman • Kate Bingaman-Burt • Lisa Bulawsky • Allison Cole Stephanie Dotson • Joseph D’Uva • Bill Fick
Tate Foley • Gaia • Kenneth Goldsmith • Rona Green • Talia Greene • Kevin Haas • Nathan Haenlein • Adriane Herman • Hot Iron Press Holly Holly Hobby Hobby (Leah Mackin & Anni Altshuler) • Rod Hunting • Gary Kachadourian Andrew Kozlowski • Karen Lederer • Alex Lukas • Valerie Lueth • Little Friends of Printmaking • Janet Marcavage • Robin McDowell • Ben Moreau • Matt Neff • Greg Pizzoli • Mark Price • Justin • Quinn • Curt Readel • Paul Roden • Dora Lisa Rosenbaum Jennifer Schmidt • Esther K. Smith • Marc Snyder • Wendy Collin Sorin • Emily Sullivan Jon Swindler • Camilla Taylor • Will Work for Good (Kevin O’ Neill & Karisa Senevatis)
Kyle Van Horn • Aaron Wilson • Andy Moon Wilson • Imin Yeh • Michaela Colette Zacchilli
COPY JAM! This Spring, PRINTERESTING wants to meet our readers in the City of Brotherly Love! On Thursday March 25, we will host a reception at Philadelphia’s Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction. This event will coincide with Mark Remarque, the 2010 conference of SGC International, and the city-wide festival Philagrafika 2010.”COPY JAM!” will be an interactive print event. During the party, fifty works by fifty artists will be displayed in a grid on the wall. Upon arrival, each guest will be handed a complimentary ticket that can be exchanged for one black & white photocopy of any work the guest chooses. There will be no sales; one ticket equals one copy. Copies will be made LIVE in the gallery for one night only!All are welcome, and we hope to see you there.
Ephemera Swap
A Printeresting Event
The Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts
323 West 39th St., 2nd Floor
NY, New York 10018
1614 Latimer Street
Philadelphia, PA 19148
December 14, 2009
March 20, 2010
December 11, 2010
Swap History:
Our first Swap at the EFA
Our second Swap at The Print Center
Our third Swap at the EFA
Printeresting Ephemera Swap Statement
To date there have been three Printeresting Ephemera Swaps, two in New York and one in Philadelphia. Participants are invited to bring your prints, posters, photocopy art, zines, comix, buttons, t-shirts, stickers, chapbook, mail art and any other form of multiple that is ripe for distribution. The Swap is intended for creators to trade the stuff they’ve made with other creative-types (no sales, only trades) and embrace the gift economy made possible through mass production! Drop us a line if you’re interested in having us organize a swap in your city!
ONE EVERY DAY
A Printeresting Curatorial Project
The Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts
323 West 39th St., 2nd Floor
NY, New York 10018
November 5 – December 19, 2009
Opening Reception:
Saturday, November 7
6-9 PM
Featured Artists:
Glen Baldridge • Kate Bingaman-Burt • Colby Bird • Lydia Diemer • Geoff Hargadon • M. Ho Matthew Hopson-Walker • Packard Jennings Gary Kachadourian • Chad Kouri • Michael Krueger • MegaWords Magazine • Julian Montague • Carlos Motta • Leslie Mutchler Scott Nobles • Adam Pendleton • Post Typography • Evan Roth • Kim Rugg • Dexter Sinister • Stephanie Syjuco • Temporary Services • Rachel Perry Welty • Liz Zanis
One Every Day Curatorial Statement: It’s the detritus that we find tucked under our windshield, the debris we empty from our pockets at the end of the day. It’s the trading card from childhood that never appreciated in value, but we treasure nonetheless. It’s the gig-poster that begs to be removed from the telephone pole and squirreled away in a drawer. We could name many varieties of print ephemera, each with its own obscure origins. Regardless of physical form, all these things share three characteristics: fleeting function, low-cost means of production, and the fact that somebody out there loves them.To read more, click below:
Adobe PDF – One Every Day Curatorial Statement (552 KB)