OPENING MAY 26 @ OPEN SPACE, ON VIEW THROUGH JUNE 29
The Joanna Presents: Plastic Ono Banditos
In February of 2012, several members of Open Space Gallery in Baltimore migrated to Houston, Texas to install an art show that marked the first large scale collaborative project combining members’ personal work and projects. The gallery, known simply as The Joanna, is a DIY house gallery founded by Brian Rod and Cody Ledvina with the intention of opening up the community to a large variety of emerging work that Houston might not otherwise see.
It is now May of 2012 and the summer heat is upon us. As we prepare our grills and sleeveless shirts, Baltimore suddenly feels a little closer to Houston. It is on this occasion that The Joanna brings themselves in our direction to complete this gallery trade. Open Space and The Joanna function on separate levels both logistically and curatorial, yet the celebration of the meeting of these two galleries is what is presented through events such as BBQ’s, table tennis, dance parties, and video screenings.
In their words:
Projections of bodies gyrating, we didn’t start the fire, soccer fights, codeine mudslides, dad birthdays, mildew push ups, tyra banks bailout porn, richard serra getting heckled, sports cars, tres hombres, salad bar fights, an andalusian dog park, lists, desk assemblage, dupe tubes, george clooney’s hidden tattoo, wall text, and earthquakes, flavin headache, scroty led weiner, wet truck seats, longhorn nosebleed, one hitter, crumpled sheet of paper once belonging to eileen myles, sound check for the body electric, how does tom sawyer go? b-raters, kegerators, the ashes of yves klein, talkin that yang, barrington levee, pants with built in knee pad, b-rod, dog training mistakes, have you guys seen my phone? ray charles, once fisted, twice shy, frenetically fucked on found furniture, art resumes, water down the drain, tarkovsky costume design, live oak thunderclap, tacos al cabron, whats a funkadelic, skeet shoot tragedy, sharon cox, hegemonic power plays, some beckett, boat shoe cheese, what my mom thinks i do, trouble double dub, do you like paintings about drugs? wye oakleys?, chicharrones de chonis, baba-ism, teen program, Erikssophistication, red shoe diaries, lee iacoccas autobiography, written in light, a scar from a beer can so many years ago.
A reminder to everyone that this weekend (Saturday the 21st and Sunday the 22nd) Open Space will be open so that you can drop off books for the Books of Baltimore exhibition during the Publication and Multiples Fair.
Again, the books you choose to loan can be any type of book, magazine, publication (it can, but doesn’t have to be an “art book”). Also, the books will be displayed on shelves so that people attending the fair can look through them. If your book is valuable and/or you don’t want people touching it, we will have a vitrine for those books to be displayed under glass.Thanks so much for loaning a book. This will be a really nice and far out selection of people’s books from the community. We’re really excited to see what everyone brings!!
whatsnatural: Hot off the press!
Open Space is pleased to announce its Third Annual Publications and Multiples Fair on April 28th and 29th, 2012, from 12-6 pm. This annual event is a celebration and survey of artist publications, prints, objects in multiple and much more. Co-curated with Nicholas Gottlund of Gottlund Verlag in conjunction with his show, Baker’s Dozen, currently on view at Open Space, this year’s fair promises a wide variety of artist publications and multiples from Baltimore and abroad. Exhibiting artists and publishers include:
Chloe Maratta
Chris Day
Closed Caption Comics
Dylan Thadani
Friends Records
FUKT Magazine
Gary Kachadourian
Gottlund Verlag
Guest Spot
Half Letter Press
Important Comics
Jason Kachadourian
The Kingsboro Press
Noel Freibert
Nowork
OSO Press
Public Collectors
Real Guts
Schematic Quarterly
Spaces Corners
Suzanna Zak
Swill Children
Temporary Services
Video On Paper
Wtr Clr Records
This year’s fair also includes lectures by David Senior and Ed Panar.
David Senior is a Bibliographer for the Museum of Modern Art Library, where he manages the development of the library’s collection with a particular focus on artists’ publications and other experimental publications in the fields of modern and contemporary art and design. Senior will discuss contemporary artist books as well as some of the shows he has organized and curated, including Access to Tools: Publications from the Whole Earth Catalog, 1968-1974 and Millennium Magazines.
Ed Panar is a artist and photographer who often works with other artist publishers. Born in Johnstown, Pennsylvania during the funk era in 1976, he graduated from high school during the grunge era in 1994. He went on to receive his MFA from Cranbrook Academy of Art in 2005 during the middle of the Bush administration. His recent publications include Golden Palms (J&L, 2007), Same Difference (Gottlund Verlag, 2010), and Animals That Saw Me (The Ice Plant, 2011). His most recent book series Salad Days is being published by Gottlund Verlag. Ed currently lives and works among the forested hills and hollows of Pittsburgh.
Lectures will take place from 5-7pm on Saturday the 28th.
Open Space Baltimore is an artist run gallery space located in Remington in Baltimore City. Beginning as a collectively run art space in the fall of 2009, it has since hosted a wide variety of exhibitions and programming.
Open Space is located at 2720 Sisson Street, Baltimore, MD 21211.
Please email openspacebaltimore@gmail.com with any questions.
Comprised of thirteen aluminum plates traditionally used in offset lithography, Baker’s Dozen reflects on the materials and processes of commercial printing. The plates which are typically used to print from, in this case, are the work themselves. Objects such as paper, press sheets, film and cardboard are placed on their surfaces and exposed. Each plate is inked, leaving a visible copy of the original. There is a reflexive clarity to the effect each object has on the plate. The resulting thirteen works highlight perceptual variety; moving from monochrome flats to vibrating moirés. Baker’s Dozen poetically investigates the process of reproduction in a most literal way.
Nicholas Gottlund is an American artist and book publisher. In 2007 he founded the publishing house Gottlund Verlag which produces hand made limited edition artist books and multiples. He has exhibited widely; most recently at Foam Photography Museum in Amsterdam and the Contemporary Museum in Baltimore. He lives and works in Baltimore, Maryland.
Saturday March 24th
7-10 PM
At Open Space
COME ON OUT BALTIMORE!!!
Everybody should go to this tonight. Who doesn’t like a free movie?
Tonight! The last film in this series.
January 25th: Mystery Train (1989) dir. Jim Jarmusch @ The Windup Space
Poster designed by Chloe Maratta
Soundtrack Interpretation provided by The Sterling Sisters
(http:// spiralcinemapresents.bandca mp.com/album/ mystery-train-redux)
This “boozy and beautiful pilgrimage to an iconic American ghost town” shot as three different films is joined together by the central setting of Memphis, Tennessee and the Arcade Hotel. Featuring a Japanese couple that take a tour of Sun Studios, an Italian widow that sees the ghost of Elvis, and Joe Strummer holding up a liquor store, this film is directly related to the bar culture in which it is screened.
Attn: Baltimore
I’m assisting Open Space this year in organizing their annual publication & multiples fair which will be held Saturday April 28th and Sunday April 29th for 12 pm to 6 pm.
As part of the fair we would like to curate a selection of books to be on display in the library over the weekend. We are asking you, the Baltimore community to loan us your books for the weekend. The idea being to show those books that are most important to us…these are the books that you own. They can be artists books, art books, cook books, pornography, comics, novels, pamphlets, etc… It can literally be any book. It will, I imagine become a motley crew of books in different conditions, smells, shapes and sizes. In a town where there is a free “book thing”, this type of showcase seems especially fitting.
At this point we are only looking to find out who is into the idea and wants to participate. We don’t need your books until later in the spring. Carey Chiaia and I will do the final edit / selection. Each person will be asked to select one book to show. If your book is precious and you don’t want people touching it, we will have a long covered display case for housing those books. Otherwise, we will also have shelves installed so that people can look through the collection.
Please respond to me and / or Open Space as soon as possible, so that we can start to get a count of how many books will be included. The more the better. Feel free to email me with any questions. Please re-blog / email this to anyone you feel would be interested in loaning a book!!-N.G.
lemme see yr books, Baltimore!
Hey Everyone,
We’re working with Nick Gottlund to organize this year’s fair! Please contribute to this project. Its a wonderful opportunity to share your collection with others while enjoying other people’s collections!
THANKS!
Tonight Wednesday the 18th! 9pm (limited seating so get there early)
There will be a box of tissues for you to wipe your tears away. Also mulled cider.
Pls come through to Open Space this wednesday, Jan. 18 to see What Time Is It There? Playing at 9:00
(Source: mitchellgoodrich)
TOMORROW NIGHT! Second film in the second installment of Spiral Cinema:
January 11th: Two-Lane Blacktop (1971 dir. Monte Hilman) @ Open Space Gallery
All screenings in Spiral Cinema are free and open to the public (all ages). 9pm sharp.
Poster designed by James Bouché and Andrew Walters
Soundtrack Interpretation by Gem Vision
(http://spiralcinemapresents.bandcamp.com/track/two-lane-blacktop-mix)
Joining the likes of Easy Rider and Vanishing Point this film is known for its minimal dialogue and documentation of Route 66 culture in the early 70’s before the interstate hi-way systems conquered America. James Taylor and Dennis Wilson (also the drummer from The Beach Boys) star as two drag racers that make their living by challenging local residents to races. Along the way, they encounter a young girl hitchhiker and challenge another rich car driver to a race to Washington, DC.
