PARROT 5, 6 & 7

Parrot continues! Please refer to the posts PARROT 1 and PARROT 2, 3 & 4 for detailed descriptions of this ongoing poetry project I have been collaborating with Insert Press on.

The Futility of Making Salad

Insert Press describes the featured project:

Joseph Kosuth, in “Art and Its Public” defined an artist community as “...a community of artists who collectively, through individual effort, define what is meaningful at a particular historical moment concretely within the practice of their activity.” And comedian Stephen Fry, while viciously ripping into a head of lettuce, asks why making a salad (with no other motive other than love!) (and a decent desire!) is so frustratingly futile. We have invited a number of artists to address the question: is there such a thing as an artist community? Do they feel a part of one? What constitutes it? What would it mean to be able to collectively define meaning today, in a diverse and ever-changing art world?

Insert Press in collaboration with MATERIAL, an artist-run journal publishing and supporting the artist’s voice, has collected the responses to this question and created a publication of these texts that begin to describe our ‘particular moment.’ With cover design and screenprinting by Maggie White Lomeli and Insert Press, and interior layout design & typesetting by Daniel Lucas, The Futility of Making Salad features texts by the following artists: Harold Abramowitz, Stan Apps, Marcus Civin, Ginny Cook, Dorit Cypis, Robin Dicker, Bradney Evans, Nicholas Grider, Dan Hockenson, Peter Kirby, Elana Mann, Melanie Nakaue, Julie Orser, Adam Overton, Putting On Declan Rooney, Kim Schoen, Charlotte Smith, Jesper List Thompsen, Mathew Timmons, Jason Underhill.

You can purchase a copy of the publication at the event or order a copy online for $8 at insertpress.net or with this link: https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_s-xclick&hosted_button_id=HYXB7H6VH3N38.

All 100 cover copies were screenprinted in 2 colors.

Insert Press Prints--CREDIT

Insert Press' Mathew Timmons asked me to make these editions of prints that relate to his book CREDIT, published in Fall 2009.  The prints are an addition to Matt's most current project, CREDIT: Installation at Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions (LACE), from August 5-26.  These prints and the Parrot series, mentioned throughout this blog are available through Insert Press.

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Edition of 21 prints
15" x 11.5"
On Stonehenge gray rag paper
Made from all of the "page turners" in the book CREDIT

$$$ Cotton Candy

$$$ The Color of Money

Both are editions of 20 prints
2 colors each
22" x 15"
On Stonehenge Gray rag paper
Made from all of the dollar and cents signs found in the book CREDIT