Slave Labia: The Columbus Dispatch

I designed the artwork for the new Slave Labia EP The Columbus Dispatch - with the help of Bernardino Luini. The packaging was printed by Shout Out Loud Prints. You can order the The Columbus Dispatch by PayPaling Tatyana Kagamas $5.00 ($3.00 for cassette plus S/H) at kagamas@gmail.com. There are more images of the tape after the jump.

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.

New Paintings and Buttons

Poem at Haggard & Halloo

Haggard & Halloo, an Austin-based literary website and journal, recently published my poem '666etwood Mac.' The poem will be included in my upcoming collection on Monster House Press, Austerity Pleasures.

See below for a dummy of the Austerity Pleasures wraparound cover.

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Google Translate / Xerox Translate

Manners Flyer Monster House 9/22

I made this flyer yesterday for the show at The Monster House on September 22nd. 

Lori Waxman Reviews my Work as Part of 60 WRD/MIN

"Glitter and Xerox make an odd couple at first but not second glance. In James Payne’s Money Isn’t the Everything that Not Having It Is, 2009, conceptual and formal parallels abound between the two decidedly plebian mediums. Glitter, after all, is nothing if not cheap, accessible glamour. Xerox, after all, is nothing if not cheap, accessible printing. Money isn’t the anything of either of them, and in case the viewer doesn’t quite cotton to thinking about content through material, Payne provides the classic expression, “class war,” right smack in the middle of his print. Class party might have been a more apt turn of phrase, however, given the glitter and the Sex Pistols-esque aesthetic of collaged, black-and-white copied text. And what a party it is, down to the correspondence between rectangular pieces of silver glitter and the image fragmentation that results from blowing any image up over and over again on a photostat machine. It’s a getting at the heart of the matter old school style, not with digital pixilation but the flash of the copier. But why blow things up? To look closer at it, hoping that what gets lost in the expansion and repetition is replaced by revelation. If not, there’s always the pretty flash of glitter to make the emptiness of truisms ring anew."

                                                                                         —Lori Waxman

Full array of Waxman's Columbus reviews.

Ascent of the Behemoth Showing at SAIC

A poster I made for Cassandra Troyan's and Stacie Sell's "Ascent of the Behemoth." It's a three part video which is showing at the Flaxman Theater at The School of the Art Institute in Chicago on March 16th at 6:00 PM. The showing is free. See part of the film here.

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High School Bedroom!

CATSz & Thing