Excerpts & Texts Archive
Curated portfolio of published texts, visual monographs, and archival supplements.
“... from a set of just under 200 paintings collectively titled House of Prince produced on the side between 2002 and 2004 in a room next to the artist’s main studio in Copenhagen, the paintings are never to be separated. Mutually dependent on one another they are only ever exhibited as a group...”
“... designs based on details from the book Computer Graphics published by Belvedere in 1989... a book of over 300 abstract designs and patterns created by Joan Amat (b.1947) on early art programs between 1985 and 1988... that would show readers how easy it is and encourage them to use their computers to create imagery themselves...”
“... Singular and haunting, Pecoraro’s felt tip drawings invoke a vivid sense of recollected fragments. Spectral figures emerge from a vaporous prismatic miasma. Amongst these luminously chromatic visions, primitive visages denote an underlying stratum of menace in Pecoraro’s work...”
Documenting the setup, ephemeral architecture, and underground skateboard & street art collectives in Paris. Featuring intimate portraits and candid visual documentation of studio practices.
Experimental typographic arrangements, monochrome silkscreen compositions, and modular layout studies interrogating the tactile properties of printed publications.
Photographic study documenting Tokyo urban subcultures, temporary communal spaces, and social interventions throughout Shibuya and Shinjuku.
A wide-ranging dialogue on performance art, independent spoken-word music, West Coast experimental culture, and the ethics of DIY distribution across America and Europe.
Visual documentation from studio sessions examining performance residue, conceptual choreography, and photographic evidence of improvised artistic actions.
Acrylic on paper (approx. 27.8 × 21.6 cm). Figurative observation of social consciousness, emotional geometry, and Bay Area Mission School ethos.
“... gallery, publisher, fashion label and shop. Trees Are So Special, similar to the moments of fleeting beauty that Chikashi Suzuki’s photographs capture and like the shadows in his photos of blooming flowers there’s a depth one can’t see the bottom of. To capture the beauty of Trees are so Special in words is difficult and what’s harder is to describe it exactly without ruining the magic that surrounds its 3 year existence...”
A four page zine-like periodical published by Portland-based artist Harrell Fletcher, of which 15 issues were published between 2002 and 2003. Included in Paperback Issue 1 is an authorized reprint of Issue 9, written and filled-in by Miranda July:
“... Well I watched an 8mm movie my Dad made in 1968. It had flowers, dandelions and bumblebees, cats mating, it was very fertile and psychedelic. Not that he was on drugs; he was just high on life. At one point I didn't know what I was looking at, it was obscured with purple paint and then gradually I realized it was my Dad's cock and then it cut to my mum's face with an expression I'd never seen before. She was nursing my brother...”