Category: Art
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Campaign for “Paul Jacoulet, Outsider Artist”
I created the strategy, website, and collateral for a campaign centered on expanding the conceptual understanding of Outsider art, specifically that Paul Jacoulet, a perpetually misunderstood and misclassified French artist working in Japan. The focus of the campaign was the Outsider Art Fair in New York, held this weekend.
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Paul Jacoulet, Outsider Artist
Today marks the publication of a new piece of art criticism I wrote. Subtitled “A reconsideration of Japanese Woodcut Art from a Parisian in Japan, 1934 – 1960”, the booklet has this central thesis: You can purchase here on Amazon:
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Appearance: “Lajuana Lampkins Presents: Ghetto Art (In Honor of Prince Akbar)”
Today marks the release of “Lajuana Lampkins Presents: Ghetto Art (In Honor of Prince Akbar)”, a video by Julia Mondschean and others about an art show last summer. Here’s some stills: Here’s the complete video:
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New Poster: My Opponent is Coronavirus
http://www.derivativeworks.com/2021/10/my-opponents-coronavirus-unofficial-collab-leon-thoughtsky-x-city-of-chicago-x-dxo-x-cdc.html
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Launch of Japanese Outsider Woodcuts
Today I helped launch Japanese Outsider Woodcuts (JOW), a new gallery created by Mark Boelhouwer, a longtime collector of woodblock prints created by untrained western artists mimicking and building upon the traditional Ukiyo-e style of Japanese woodcut artists. Here’s more: The gallery focuses on the work of Paul Jacoulet, a French national who lived in…
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Art: VOTE / Save the USPS Poster Installation
Today I installed a set of posters at the old RSVP location. I designed these posters off of the classic USPS Priority Mail sticker. Steve W of Screwball Press screenprinted them. I wrote the slogans and lettered them onto the posters.
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“My Mother Is An Artist” Clip
Today the creators of the “My Mother Is An Artist” film published a 2-minute clip from the footage they recorded at the May 2019 opening party for my book, Arte Agora: Art made, sold, or placed in the public way.
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Gift: 401 books of American poetry to the Poetry Foundation Library
Today Shawn-Laree and I donated the bulk of my poetry book collection to the Poetry Foundation Library. I built this collection over the last 30 years, with a focus on chapbooks and other vanity press editions of overlooked American poets. Here’s images of the covers of every book I donated:
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Interview: “Meet the Collectors” Series from Jennifer Lauren Gallery
Here’s an interview published today: DANIEL X O’ NEIL, CHICAGO – MEET THE COLLECTOR SERIES PART EIGHTEEN
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My First Slap: Nostalgia is Violence
Today I installed my first slap– Lexington north of 86th.