ROY G BIV FUNDRAISER ON SEPTEMBER 27TH

I have a piece (of art, an art piece - a piece of artwork) entitled A Bunch of Dicks in an upcoming silent auction and fundraiser at Shadowbox Live for ROY G BIV Gallery on September 27th. 

Other participating artists include Mary Jo Bole, Molly Burke, Sidney Chafetz, AJ Fusco, Taylor Hawkins, Andrew Ina, John Malta, Shawn McBride, Erin McKenna, Larissa Mellor, Emily Moorhead, Jill Raymundo, Tim Rietenbach, Ian Ruffino, Boryana Rusenova, Aaron Troyer, and Ryan Walters. 

Come?

PARTY PICS

MARTIN HUGO: NOT GUILTY?

On August 31st at Skylab Gallery, Martin Hugo will be displaying his collection of O.J. Simpson-themed T-shirts that were made and sold before and during Simpson's criminal trial for the murder of Nicole Brown Simpson and Ronald Goldman.

Hugo has been searching these T-shirts out over the past few years, shirts that were originally sold on the street by unlicensed merchants, which have now become collectible commodities that often demand high prices on resale sites like eBay. The collection captures an array of aesthetically intriguing "naive" graphic design choices while serving as an inlet to the larger political and social narratives of 1990s America - an era that is currently mythologized as a time of peace and prosperity, which, in reality, was a time typified by bitter, fractious domestic politics. From Simpson's trial to the Unabomber, Oklahoma City to Waco, the Michigan militia to the Rodney King riots, the Amadou Diallo shooting to David Duke, 1990s America was a cauldron of social paranoia and racial hatred. Hugo's T-shirt collection perfectly articulates the role of the Simpson trial as an avatar for America's deep racial divisions and prompts insoluble questions about the nature of commerce and justice in the United States of America.

The exhibition will be accompanied by a print publication, which includes an essay by Dylan Taylor-Lehman entitled "Translating the Untranslatable, Expressing the Inexpressible."

CJ the DJ will be playing music during the opening.

Other News:

* ROY G BIV Gallery's Emerging Artist Series posts its 2012 Yearbook zine online. EAS's DIY Fest takes place at ROY on August 28th at 6:00 p.m.
* Columbus "Alive" covers John Malta's CCAD welcome week presentation.
* OSU Urban Outfitters Arts Space releases details on its upcoming Mark Beyer exhibit, Mark Beyer: With/Without Text, comprised of local art enthusiast Tom Wagner's extensive Beyer collection.
* Ricky Crano and Andrew Culp interview Claire Fontaine at Radical Philosophy.
* Vice.com's Nick Gazin reviews Universal Slime, a zine edited by John Malta that includes a few pieces I made.
* Real Pain: Future Dead Friends Tour 2012 comes to Skylab Gallery on September 27th, featuring Megan Boyle, Sam Pink, Jordan Castro, Mallory Whitten, Scott McCalahan, and many more readers.
* Video of Shaver performing "Mental Convict" in Pittsburgh, PA.
* Video of Vivian Xiaoshi Qin's piece "Joy" at ROY G BIV Gallery.

Party Pics

Other News:

* I featured Jack Ramunni on Beautiful/Decay.

* My Name is Mud's new issue has two poems of mine.

* On April 30th I'm reading with Tatyana Kagamas at the North Side Library in Pittsburgh, PA, as part of my residency at the Cyberpunk Apocalypse. 

* On May 5th I'm reading at Skylab Gallery with Die Kinder and Jeremy Ruggles.

Party Pics

New Snippets

I have been making art. Dear god. That means I've been looking in my scrap books and Xeroxing things. Some of these things appear in a new zine edited by NYC phenom John Malta called Universal Slime. The first issue includes work by Dustin Click, Michael DeForge, Dan(g) Olsen, J. Penry, Cassie Ramone, Matthew Volz, and many other real people that I am excited to be paginated up close to.

I also may have a show in May in Bloomington, Indiana, at The Owlery, a new restaurant instigated by Toby Foster and Ryan Woods. I believe it opens May 6th. 

There are two more snippets after the jump.

Unicorn Whores Zine

We Are Friends collaborative zine Unicorn Whores

I recently received my contributor copies of Unicorn Whores, a screen-printed zine produced by a collective of friends in Eau Claire, Wisconsin. It follows the zine Dragon Slutz, and the third in this fantasy series will be Robot Boners. Unicorn Whores is basically a series of poems and stories about unicorns and sex, accompanied by black and white illustrations. 

Michelle Chrzanowski and Ben Larson, who are the figureheads of We Are Friends, routinely make high-quality zines, including one entitled Oscillation with gorgeous 3-color interior screen prints and a zine entitled Mind Reader that isn't about Madonna.

Unicorn Whores and Dragon Slutz are currently in stock at Quimby's in Chicago, IL. One could also order a copy by emailing wearefriendsart@gmail.com.

I don't know who else contributed to Unicorn Whores since a listing isn't included, however, I can spot a John Malta drawing when I see one. See his illustration and my poem, 'Exchange Program,' after the jump. 

Delusion of Eating Exhibition and Essay

I wrote an essay for the Delusion of Eating exhibition catalogue entitled "People Eat so They Don't Die." You can read that essay after "the jump."

The opening of the exhibition happens October 7th from 6 - 9 p.m. at The Shelf on 57 E. Gay Street, Columbus, Ohio. The catalogue is limited to 75 copies and can be pre-ordered here. It includes writing by Eva Ball and Ian Ruffino (the curators), as well as Wes Flexner, Matt Morris, and myself. In addition to the writing, the catalogue has full color reproductions of the work in the show, including pieces by Grant LaValley, John Malta, Dan Olsen, Dina Sherman, and other Columbus-related artists.

The overview of the show goes as such:

"The Delusion of Eating exhibit presents a national array of artworks that eloquently use the marketed spectacle of eating as the material to explore how capitalism creates an isolating desire.Works include video, painting, photography, sculpture, performance, and text; all creating a discourse about our lives in the contemporary situation where ideologies about eating are shifting away from science-lab food products and into marketed desires for ‘natural’ ‘slow’ food stuffs, while for the majority of Americans these ‘local’ foods are out of the question due to geography and class."

The Delusion of Eating closes November 27, 2010. 
Lecture with the Curators: Thursday November 11 | 7 to 8pm

Delusion of Eating Performances: Friday, November 26 | 9 to 11pm

For more information go to the Vince Chocolate website or the Delusion of Eating’s Facebook.

Comic of my Future.

As Sara says:

"A collaborative pair depicting a potential future joy ride with beastie sexual undertones. (James and I are destined to have our genitals rub up on a cute tiger in the not so distant future.) Hastily scripted by Jeremy Tinder and Lucy Knisley of Trubble Club as a fortune telling celebration for Free Comic Book day at Quimby's."

Knisley's is on the left and Tinder's is on the right. I look like a 35 year-old Daniel Clowes character in Tinder's.

BTW: Tinder is part of a show called "What's the Big Idea" with Columbus's John Malta in San Francisco at the Double Punch gallery in June. I would go to that if that is available to you geographically. The flyer for it is after "The Jump."

Fucking Life

In June of 2008 I curated a show entitled Fucking Life for the Sporeprint Infoshop. Artists included Andy Hinton, David Leighty, John Malta, Andy Plank, Carlos Ruiz, Ben Scarbro, Stacie Sells, Nichole Senter and, in a fell swoop of narcissism, myself. Lisa Dorazewski, Sara Drake and Randy Hunter were supposed to participate and did not. Cars Can Be Blue, from Athens, Georgia, played music.

Wes Flexner blurbed about the show, which was also a release party for Punk Zine, on Donewaiting.

I remember constructing a fake wall with Ben for the show and it being laborious but "worthwhile" - a good learning experience. I was surprised by how nice everything looked together, which these photos hint at. I didn't document the event properly and apparently the only person that did was Kari Jorgensen. She just sent me these photos. The rest of them are after "The Jump" as is the flyer.

"PUNK ZINE"

This is the 'zine I made two years ago. It's about Columbus, Ohio and some of the "punk" bands and artists that have called it home. There are eight interviews - Geoff Hing from Defiance, Ohio, Matt Reber from New Bomb Turks, Andy Hinton from Vile Gash, Phonzie Davis of Left Handed Sophie fame, Jason Molinari who lived at The Neil House, Anne Elizabeth Moore of the book "Unmarketable," John Malta of Rattail Flyers, and Jimmy Buttons who lives at The Legion of Doom. There are articles about The Evens, Bike Punks, the comic "Snakepit," Delay, Tin Armor, the CMA show "Renoir's Women," a janitor's strike at OSU, a successful Clinton-Era protest against bombing Iraq, a Griot memoir of Defiance, Ohio reminiscence, and a review of Magic Flowers Droned by Psychedelic Horseshit. There are reprints of a Lantern article about The Neil House, an Other Paper article about The Legion of Doom, an Entertainment Weekly article about "Columbus, the next Seattle," and something originally published in MRR about the Gaunt/New Bomb Turks scene.

If you want to buy a physical, paper copy Microcosm Publishing probably still has it.

Here are some reviews the zine received.