Every single Pegacorn Press release (thus far) made it into this amazing show that Marshall Weber from
Booklyn helped curate in Beijing, China! The first show of it's kind there, I feel honored to have all this Riso work included:
Fag School #4 (listed as New Fiction under Pegacorn Press): Brontez Purnell
Burn Collector #16: Al Burian
Womanimalistic #1 +2: Caroline Paquita
Late Era Clash #24: Mike Taylor
Future Tense: Edie Fake, Jo Dery, Anna Haifisch, Mike Taylor, Sy Wagon, Roby Newton, Josh Bayer, Al Burian, James Turek, Kasey Henneman + Caroline Paquita
Big thanks to Marshall, as well as to the artists that I've worked with over this past year.
Printed matter is still alive and thriving, despite what you may have heard.
-----PEGACORN HAS GONE "PRO" AND IS NOW HOUSED IN AN ACTUAL STUDIO--------------------------BLASPHEMY!------------
Having a real studio is a wildly new experience for me, particularly after exclusively working out of my bedroom for years. (Honestly, it's odd to not have a Risograph, or two, in the kitchen anymore, WTF?!) The change is welcomed though, as it's been super nice to have a completely dedicated work-zone and to not have to manage living and working in the same space anymore. Makes one focus more while making art, and helps make a bedroom an actual place to relax- who knew what I was missing all these years?
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| Spirit duplicator+ stencil duplicator+ decade old laser printer= printmaking wingnut |
The new and petite print studio, located near the Brooklyn Navy Yard, has been GREAT. All my printing equipment has finally been moved in and it's only going to be a matter of weeks until some new material starts making it's way out of the machines and into the larger world. It's about time! After months of trying to get back on my feet after my dad passed away, the olde brain is starting to work again after being in total stasis. It's not in perfect shape, but it's doing something, luckily, just in time for the
Brooklyn Comics and Graphics Fest coming up on November 10th. Pegacorn Press will be tabling that, and more than likely, our favorite pal/partner in crime, Mike Taylor will be at the table too. The BCGF is always a great way to see new work and meet other comic/printing freaks, so definitely check it out cause it's, "super badass."
Ok- enough with the updates for now. More soon on what releases will actually be done by the BCGF, release events, etc, etc, etc...
Goodbye Glorious Summer, but hello Autumnal Equinox!
XOXO,
C.P.
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A bit about the show in China:
Booklyn Artists Alliance is pleased to announce the opening of
DIAMOND LEAVES: Artist Books from around the World. A collaboration
between the Booklyn Artists Alliance and the Central Academy of Fine
Arts Museum in Beijing, the exhibition is curated by Xu Bing, artist and
Vice-President of the CAFAM, and Marshall Weber, artist and Directing
Curator of Booklyn; it is the first major museum exhibition of
contemporary international Artist Books in China.
A decade in the making, the DIAMOND LEAVES exhibition showcases over
200 masterpieces of the Artist Book form created by more than 100 visual
artists, some well known and some emerging, who approach the creation
of Artist Books as an interdisciplinary and multi-media practice. Using
collage, drawing, painting, photography, printmaking, and digital and
social media, artists are creating books that provide us with
complicated aesthetic experiences and push the boundaries of book design
far beyond the limits of the conventional book’s form. Just as
photography liberated painting from its documentary function late in the
19th century, digital media has liberated the book from the burden of
operating as a vehicle for text and data, spurring the renaissance of
creative bookmaking celebrated by this exhibition.
Focusing on books created in the 21st century, the exhibit
demonstrates how an Artist Book can function as both fine art and as an
experimental laboratory for global visual language development. The
exhibition consists of conceptually, materially and structurally
ambitious hand-bound hardcover Artist Books published in limited
editions of under 100. Another component of the exhibit features a
reconstruction of a Brooklyn-style bookstore of inexpensive,
image-based, softcover, populist, intimate, and artist-produced Zines
and comic books published in editions of over 100. Other exhibits
components contain examples of the early 20th century Soviet
constructivist books that revolutionized book and typography design, and
a small exquisite selection of antique European and Asian illustrated
books that show the trajectory from older book forms to contemporary
Artist Books.
