https://theprintmakersleft.org The Printmakers Left Tue, 15 Mar 2022 15:00:20 +0000 https://theprintmakersleft.org en https://theprintmakersleft.org/Home Fri, 15 Feb 2019 04:33:25 +0000 The Printmakers Left https://theprintmakersleft.org/Home https://theprintmakersleft.org/Work Fri, 15 Feb 2019 04:33:26 +0000 The Printmakers Left https://theprintmakersleft.org/Work https://theprintmakersleft.org/Catalog Tue, 15 Mar 2022 15:00:20 +0000 The Printmakers Left https://theprintmakersleft.org/Catalog CATALOG <img width="2100" height="1275" width_o="2100" height_o="1275" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/a0567e91afa8c4ddfc650b37ceee7199f77c0ab10e33a6c8f65130f185d06a42/Catalog---Galleria-Folia-page-001.jpg" data-mid="136399015" border="0" data-scale="100" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/a0567e91afa8c4ddfc650b37ceee7199f77c0ab10e33a6c8f65130f185d06a42/Catalog---Galleria-Folia-page-001.jpg" /> <img width="2100" height="1275" width_o="2100" height_o="1275" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/41c5e4b5b06c7865829f0485c5b6f3fe69a2f43411f4e266ab1cda930c409700/Catalog---Galleria-Folia-page-002.jpg" data-mid="136399098" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/41c5e4b5b06c7865829f0485c5b6f3fe69a2f43411f4e266ab1cda930c409700/Catalog---Galleria-Folia-page-002.jpg" /> A Catalog of the Radically Useless and the Usefully Radical When you take your cues from the market, you replicate its biases. ‘In the face of our predominantly utilitarian cul ture, I think art, at its best, is radically useless.&nbsp; The radical quality of art is that it has no use in a&nbsp; culture dominated by profit, loss and use value’.&nbsp; John Timberlake The catalog of the radically useless and the usefully radical will be an illustrated,&nbsp; indexical compendium of things not for sale, the illogical extension of the prototype.&nbsp; These will be mass produced imaginary products and speculative objects as well as&nbsp; alternative uses of the already tested and the non-existent. Taking it’s cues from the&nbsp; prevailing ethos of consumer culture and subverting the formats of its distribution&nbsp; and marketing in the name of liberation from “the ectoplasm of neo-liberalism”, The&nbsp; Catalog will be made up of images, texts, and ideas including and inspired by mail order catalogs real estate listings craigslist ads energetic aids&nbsp; home shopping networks repurposed tools woodstoves Spiritual tracts elixirs sale flyers protest paraphernalia signs and general resistance <img src="https://louisville.edu/art/exhibitions/images/catalog/2a_catalogjpg.jpg/@@images/60826263-c9a3-4a79-ae44-dab06e111384.jpeg"><img src="https://louisville.edu/art/exhibitions/images/catalog/2_catalog.jpg/@@images/01b19d6e-b162-4cf2-baba-67dee6db4956.jpeg"><img src="https://louisville.edu/art/exhibitions/images/catalog/1_catalog.jpg/@@images/51bc93d4-ef64-4b92-b4ac-0f55de3dffe9.jpeg"><img src="https://louisville.edu/art/exhibitions/images/catalog/3_catalog.jpg/@@images/65ae4eed-bffb-4ad8-a5a0-9a27c3c78ee5.jpeg"><img src="https://louisville.edu/art/exhibitions/images/catalog/4_catalog.jpg/@@images/51dc58d7-1225-42b5-a293-26e73d6d9702.jpeg"><img src="https://louisville.edu/art/exhibitions/images/catalog/6_catalog.jpg/@@images/7bca94ed-9eba-4ab7-b30f-f60bd2b5c0c0.jpeg"><img src="https://louisville.edu/art/exhibitions/images/catalog/5A_catalogjpg.jpg/@@images/e841dd77-3a1f-4914-90aa-9ad64a3b8297.jpeg"><img src="https://louisville.edu/art/exhibitions/images/catalog/7_catalog.jpg/@@images/75c93232-4da9-41cf-94e4-68f70426e061.jpeg"><img src="https://louisville.edu/art/exhibitions/images/catalog/5_catalog.jpg/@@images/595e6aa3-a9a4-46bc-8023-be2dc3435cd8.jpeg"> https://theprintmakersleft.org/Hinterlands Fri, 15 Feb 2019 04:33:26 +0000 The Printmakers Left https://theprintmakersleft.org/Hinterlands <img width="1512" height="1512" width_o="1512" height_o="1512" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/0f9ad096041a30d6b7641ed0eeba6ef12243e17f82118fac2d5c802632bf35e4/IMG_9205.jpg" data-mid="39839277" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/0f9ad096041a30d6b7641ed0eeba6ef12243e17f82118fac2d5c802632bf35e4/IMG_9205.jpg" /><img width="1366" height="1366" width_o="1366" height_o="1366" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/efe938c8229ce3ec43a39205fe0d3630f07e404e5a9255604f5bd9b04f1581e0/IMG_9183.jpg" data-mid="39839278" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/efe938c8229ce3ec43a39205fe0d3630f07e404e5a9255604f5bd9b04f1581e0/IMG_9183.jpg" /><img width="1512" height="1512" width_o="1512" height_o="1512" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/c17d86231e7b6bcf349a007bdde893e36d25223c080d2cc32eb1696c416f1fe4/IMG_9196.jpg" data-mid="39839281" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/c17d86231e7b6bcf349a007bdde893e36d25223c080d2cc32eb1696c416f1fe4/IMG_9196.jpg" /><img width="1500" height="1125" width_o="1500" height_o="1125" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/946e8198656197cbf40af13f991da923dbe6e47cd05d5367afd46c8aadeeeca0/IMG_1686_1500.JPG" data-mid="39841569" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/946e8198656197cbf40af13f991da923dbe6e47cd05d5367afd46c8aadeeeca0/IMG_1686_1500.JPG" /><img width="1500" height="1500" width_o="1500" height_o="1500" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/9b8d5e8c4c397aaf43f64bad956fa1017eb55e75d1939099d28f51230341c21a/IMG_1706_1500.JPG" data-mid="39841571" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/9b8d5e8c4c397aaf43f64bad956fa1017eb55e75d1939099d28f51230341c21a/IMG_1706_1500.JPG" /> Hinterlands 2015-2017 Risograph printed by Issue Press in Grand Rapids, Michigan. Perfect bound with heavy waxed paper cover, 8 x 5 inches closed, 96 pages, Edition of 300. Current Price $60 The Hinterlands of today contain both elements of the city and of the wilderness – a hybrid of wilderness and artifice: pivot irrigation systems, abandoned cul-de-sac developments, solar fields, spoil heaps, endless fields of glass houses – eccentric landscapes of technology infrastructure - vast yet strangely overlooked. Perhaps now we need to construct new mythologies, Future Folklore, instruments, prototypes that help us to both understand and occupy these landscapes…perhaps we just need to venture out there! A collection of maps, gear, tools, cultural anecdotes, tales of navigating the foreseeable ruins. Welcome to the Anthropocene, Homogocene, Capitalocene! Exhibition of Material Research: The New Walled Cities and Hinterlands, Models for Future Peri-urbanisms, Arena 1 Gallery, Santa Monica, CA, 2016. https://theprintmakersleft.org/Visionary-Workbook Thu, 11 Apr 2019 22:41:11 +0000 The Printmakers Left https://theprintmakersleft.org/Visionary-Workbook <img width="1278" height="1884" width_o="1278" height_o="1884" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/8a2b9846695765284133ca52f627a484b9541516c7e450b0bd1422571fdb3dd0/IMG_9140.jpg" data-mid="39839943" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/8a2b9846695765284133ca52f627a484b9541516c7e450b0bd1422571fdb3dd0/IMG_9140.jpg" /><img width="1280" height="960" width_o="1280" height_o="960" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/d7f586ddf6e085f3c2efe42657ad2e9eb1b55a4e8ee5d77ef8d5c11e64794e5c/IMG_3043.jpeg" data-mid="39840917" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/d7f586ddf6e085f3c2efe42657ad2e9eb1b55a4e8ee5d77ef8d5c11e64794e5c/IMG_3043.jpeg" />ex.hi Volume 3 Visionary Workbook <img width="1896" height="1512" width_o="1896" height_o="1512" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/f9e19d08aeb9ac8e21a790021422a4039602f2faee5998527f72b461349e4623/IMG_9144.jpg" data-mid="39839945" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/f9e19d08aeb9ac8e21a790021422a4039602f2faee5998527f72b461349e4623/IMG_9144.jpg" />ex.hi Volume 3 Visionary Workbook, 2013 26 individual pages, many folded, most printed recto and verso, primarily printed letterpress, but virtually all print media are represented, housed in a folded 2-ply box. VW also contains the blank workbook, 96 pages, perfect bound, printed letterpress. Edition of 500, 9.75 x 6 inches closed. Current Price $120 The third and final publication in the Exquisite History trilogy. The apparent paradox between the concepts visionary and workbook are here resolved by asking the uncomfortable question What do we love? Critique is futile; it is too late for cautionary tales. The workbook consists of the following chapters:&nbsp; Boundary, Fire, Food, Fulfillment, Unity, Resurrection, Freedom. Each chapter provides theoretical texts excerpted from N. O. Brown’s Love’s Body, followed by the appropriate workbook exercises. Blank pages are provided after each chapter heading so that one can fulfill the exercises. This project began with each participant completing their own VW, a year-long process. Those workbooks remain as the core archive of the project. Exhibitions of material research: Center Art Gallery, Calvin College, Grand Rapids MI, 2013; Ruffin Gallery, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, 2014; San Francisco State University, 2014; Burnside Farms, Detroit, 2014; Lost Coast Culture Machine, Fort Bragg, CA, 2014; Gatewood Gallery, University of North Carolina, Greensboro, 2015. <img width="960" height="720" width_o="960" height_o="720" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/df0d5af8de509684bf7ce9522cd31efe03911346042b21ce782101c074e87a14/1450304_916105694834_772120859_n.jpg" data-mid="39840415" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/960/i/df0d5af8de509684bf7ce9522cd31efe03911346042b21ce782101c074e87a14/1450304_916105694834_772120859_n.jpg" /><img width="960" height="720" width_o="960" height_o="720" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/e6269a160a1b2b9e8c8ade1018b0108243e55d991d00beb8330cafa8e84849fd/1450241_916113429334_430025028_n.jpg" data-mid="39840412" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/960/i/e6269a160a1b2b9e8c8ade1018b0108243e55d991d00beb8330cafa8e84849fd/1450241_916113429334_430025028_n.jpg" /><img width="960" height="720" width_o="960" height_o="720" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/1c41c65121577082e4105a9f2496062ce2db53dd8060412af366d6a35a70107c/1469920_916106872474_1924037981_n.jpg" data-mid="39840409" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/960/i/1c41c65121577082e4105a9f2496062ce2db53dd8060412af366d6a35a70107c/1469920_916106872474_1924037981_n.jpg" /> https://theprintmakersleft.org/Circular-Ruins Thu, 11 Apr 2019 23:07:26 +0000 The Printmakers Left https://theprintmakersleft.org/Circular-Ruins Circular Ruins 2002 <img width="1860" height="1512" width_o="1860" height_o="1512" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/db214a03a65cafd48ca12a53e52c584c0d3e1d48ea8bd7b1574c04692f7367ff/IMG_9149.jpg" data-mid="39840963" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/db214a03a65cafd48ca12a53e52c584c0d3e1d48ea8bd7b1574c04692f7367ff/IMG_9149.jpg" />Circular Ruins is a collaborative volume based on the Jorge Luis Borges story of the same name. Multiple different printed and painted and drawn images and texts overlap to dismantle &amp; recontruct the story. &nbsp;&nbsp; ed. 30, Accompanied by an exhibition at Edwin W. Zoller Gallery, Penn State University. &nbsp; <img width="1868" height="1512" width_o="1868" height_o="1512" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/539b3032d0c2d3100d5f379cd71206988cfae2fc7277bca99f5839191eb4d63e/IMG_9151.jpg" data-mid="39840961" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/539b3032d0c2d3100d5f379cd71206988cfae2fc7277bca99f5839191eb4d63e/IMG_9151.jpg" /> Sales through the website are not available at this time, please email theprintmakersleft@gmail.com for purchasing information