Thursday, September 4, 2014

Fall News

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Fall Book Fairs
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PUB FAIR

Saturday, September 13, 2014 Noon-7 pm
FREE and open to the public
Visual Studies Workshop
31 Prince Street, Rochester NY 

I'll be exhibiting at the second annual Pub Fair along with many other book artists, photographers, independent publishers, and DIYers. It takes place in the VSW auditorium, so it's a manageable size and has a relaxed pace for viewing work, talking to makers and other Fair goers. For more information, click here.

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New York Art Book Fair

September 25-28, 2014
Preview Thursday, September 25, 6-9 pm  
Friday, September 26, 12–7 pm  
Saturday, September 27, 11 am–9 pm  
Sunday, September 28, 11 am–7 pm

MoMA PS1
22-25 Jackson Avenue on 46th Avenue
Long Island City, NY

Skúta Helgason and I will be exhibiting as ScottatúkS again this year.  We're located on the second floor at table #R06.

*A super special note*
Bruce Silverstein Gallery is presenting Book by Book: 2nd Edition, an installation of Keith Smith's work. This is a featured exhibition at the Fair, so you won't want to miss it.
Click here for more info.


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Exhibitions
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personalpronouns

Opening Friday, September 5, 2014, 6-10 pm
Continues through October 19, 2014

Visual Studies Workshop
31 Prince Street
Rochester, NY 14607
Tuesday - Friday
10:00am - 4:00 pm

This fifteenth annual exhibition of ImageArt is dedicated to the concept of gender and gender identity. A deck of "gender cards" I designed especially for the show will be on display. The cards are also being issued as a boxed edition (see below).  ImageArt, a program of ImageOut, the Rochester Lesbian and Gay Film & VIdeo Festival, presents visual and literary arts events to promote awareness, foster dialogue and build community. Click here for more information.

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Transformational Imagemaking: Handmade Photography Since 1960

Opening Friday, September 19, 2014, 7 - 10 pm
continues through November 23, 2014

CEPA GALLERY
617 Main Street
Buffalo, NY 14203
Monday–Friday: 7 am – 9 pm
Saturday: 8:30 – 4:45 pm
Sunday: 10 am – 3 pm

"Transformational Imagemaking: Handmade Photography Since 1960, a companion exhibition to Robert Hirsch’s recently published book of the same title (Focal Press). This extraordinary exhibition features work by some of the most innovative photographers and imagemakers of the mid-20th century through today; artists who redefined the notion of photography as a medium and left an indelible mark on contemporary photographic practices." Click here for more information.


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New Books
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scraps

6 x 9 inches; 64 pages
Color cover, black & white on cream paper interior, perfect bound



scraps contains facsimiles of notes collected over the last decade and stored in a leaf-covered box. These seemingly random jottings on odds and ends of paper belie an interest in various forms of word play (anagrams, word squares, puns, malapropisms, portmanteau) as well as found and overheard texts. 

The notes in scraps are rendered typographically on the verso of the photographs — a back-to-back duel between photographer and typographer. Both sides are re-presented by digital media, (from camera and scanner to press) while the hand-written and the type-set stand their ground as hybrid word/images.



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The Gender Card Game

3.5 x 5.5 inches; 64 cards
HP Indigo prints loose in paperboard box

This deck of "gender cards" blurs that line between male and female with the distribution of words and images across the surfaces of 48 cards. Each of the cards is illustrated on one side with words describing feminine and masculine attributes. When arranged in a "proper" order, the verso of the cards form images of a male and female doll. However, the words are not strictly assigned to the image of their gender: some female attributes are printed on the verso of the male image, and vice versa. Conversly, when the terms are arranged by color and typeface, the images are not quite right.

The Gender Card Game was conceived for an exhibition entitled personalpronouns curated by ImageArt, the visual and literary arts component of ImageOut, the Rochester Lesbian and Gay Film and Video Festival.  


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T-SHIRTS

Designed & Bound by Scott McCarney, 2014
15 x 15 inches; 45 leaves
Silkscreen prints on cloth, stab bound

I've done a lot of design work for various arts and cultural organizations over the past thirty years, much of which has found its way onto the front and/or back of a t-shirt. This is a portfolio of sorts -- the pages being the printed designs cut out of the shirts and sewn together along one edge in book-like form. I'm utilizing the same idea on a related title, T-SHIRTS Collected & Bound by Scott McCarney, which gathers commemorative shirts of art related events I did not design.



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Publication
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afterimage Vol. 42, No. 1
I DO?! A Panel Discussion on Queer Cultural Activism


The transcript from an October, 2013 panel in conjunction with I DO?!, last years ImageArt exhibition organized around the theme of marriage equality. See the (late) Fall smARTnews entry below for a full brief on the exhibition and panel discussion. 

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Wednesday, March 12, 2014

Winter News


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Current Exhibitions
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Out of Print, an exhibition at Pine Hills public library curated by Judie Gilmore, was reviewed by the Albany Times Union. The exhibition is on view through the end of March. You can read the review here.


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Binding Desire: Unfolding Artists Books
Ben Maltz Gallery, Otis College of Art and Design
January 25 - March 30


A nice thing about making books is they end up in collections and then in exhibitions without you really knowing about it. Having a virtual mid-winter presence on the west coast is the next best thing to being there.


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VSW AUCTION
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Visual Studies Workshop Annual Benefit Auction and Social
Preview: April 4, 2014, 6 - 9 pm and by appointment
Silent Auction: April 11, 2014, 6 - 9 pm
31 Prince Street, Rochester NY 
(585) 442-8676

This is a major fundraiser for VSW and a lot of fun for the community. If you're in or near Rochester, come buy some art and support VSW programming! More information here.



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Publication
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Transformational Imagemaking: 
Handmade Photography since 1960
by Robert Hirsch 


" . . . a groundbreaking survey of significant work and ideas by imagemakers who have pushed beyond the boundaries of photography as a window on our material world."  

Bob included an interview with me and several illustrations of work in his latest book. It should be available soon. More info can be garnered here


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Lectures & Workshops
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School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
April 10-11

Bonnie Donohue invited Keith and me to participate in her "Four Photographers Lecture Series."  Chantal Zakari arranged for me to meet with students in the Graphic Arts area as well so it should be a busy couple of days in bean town. 

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University of Southern Maine, Portland
April 25-26


In 1994, I spent the spring semester as artist-in-residence at the University of Southern Maine. It was an extraordinary experience, both personally and professionally. I've kept in touch with many of the artists I met that year, including Rebecca Goodale who is now the program coordinator for the Kate Cheney Chappell '83 Center for Book Arts at USM. She has invited me to return in April for a lecture and workshop, a twenty-year reunion of sorts. 

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New Book
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WHITEBOARDS: Autobiography #8
5 x 7 inches; 30 pages
HP Indigo

WhiteBoards: Autobiography #8 presents drawings made in 2012–2013 while teaching classes in hand bookbinding. It is part of an ongoing series of books that illuminate different aspects of my life through ephemeral evidence of everyday actions. Other books in the series include: Things to Do, Rejection Slips, Pictures of Me with Famous and Important People, Homemade Maps, C(a[e{I}o]u)P, HELLO my name is SCOTT, and Google Vanitas.

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