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Libros Abiertos - Rodrigo Arteaga
Alugar Gallery, Chile
“libros abiertos” (“open books”), is the first solo exhibition
of 20 artists’ books by Rodrigo Arteaga (1988, Chile), in
Alugar Gallery, Paulino Alfonso 371 Depto C, Santiago de
Chile. It opened Friday 24 August, and can also be visited
on Friday 7th September. www.alugar.cl
Coming Up at Proteus Gowanus: War of Words
Opening Reception Saturday, September 15, 7pm
War of Words, the first exhibition of our year-long theme
Battle, explores ideas of conflict as filtered through the notso-precise
lens of language.
It includes Yes or No, a collaborative work created by artists
sending responses to build a wall full of Yes or No artworks.
Proteus Gowanus
543 Union Street, #1C, Brooklyn, NY 11215, USA
http://proteusgowanus.org
The San Francisco Center for the Book’s 9th Annual
Roadworks: A Steamroller Printing Festival!
Saturday, September 22, 2012, 12-5pm on Rhode Island
Street between 16th and 17th Streets, San Francisco
The San Francisco Center for the Book’s annual Roadworks
Street Fair is a day-long public printmaking showcase
presented amid a selection of local food and fine craft
vendors. Using a three-ton construction steamroller and
an unlikely letterpress bed - Rhode Island Street - a team
of artists and printers print large-scale prints from threefoot-square
hand-carved linoleum blocks. Now in its 9th
year, Roadworks has become a casual, popular tradition in
the Potrero Hill neighbourhood, drawing printmaking and
book art enthusiasts as well as locals and families. Events for
children will be scheduled all day. Free tours of the Austin/
Burch Gallery, plus free letterpress, bookbinding, and other
mini-workshops will be offered at SFCB during the festival.
The gallery-quality steamroller prints will be for sale at
SFCB during a special preview hour prior to the event;
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limited quantities of the prints will be available at the event
itself. The steamroller prints are highly limited editions, so
if you are interested in the work of a specific featured artist,
please don’t hesitate to contact us at roadworks@sfcb.org
with inquiries.
Roadworks 2012 Featured Artists:
Anna Branning, Mike Kimball, Caitlin Mattisson
Rik Olson, Favianna Rodriquez
2012 Vendors Will Include:
3 Fish Studios, Blockhead Press, Boarding All Rows, Broken
Pigeon Productions, Coffee n Cream Press, Dandy Lion
Press, Dreampoint Press, Dutch Door Press, Mike Kimball,
Le Petit Elefant, Les Enfants Terribles, Caitlin Mattisson,
Meridian Press, Rik Olson, pickypockets, Recover Your
Thoughts, Studio And, Melissa West.
Let the good times roll!
http://sfcb.org/events/roadworks
natures mortes
s t i l l l i f e s
A series of 63 paper bags with texts by seekers of lice to be
distributed through galleries and bookshops.
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the rain stacks papers
books phone nails dust
amp coils shadow a mark
rug iron curtain rail
nail wind crumb breath
A selection from natures mortes s t i l l l i f e s will be
published in the next issue of ecco linguistics.
quandaries (Paper Bags series 1) were collected into a
book published by seekers of lice which is in several public
collections, including the collection of Artists’ Books at Tate
Britain.
The texts from LOUSE FACTORY (Paper Bags series 2) will
be included in a book of play scripts by seekers of lice, to be
published in the autumn by VerySmallKitchen.
Paper Bags series 3 - seekers of lice
Participating UK galleries include Banner Repeater,
Arnolfini Bristol and bookartbookshop Hoxton.