Collect this Catalogue :: Viva Editions!

11 November 2008

Riffing from Abbie Hoffman’s 1971 classic anti-establishment primer Steal This Book, Kelly Troester and Cary Leibowitz, Worldwide Directors of the Modern and Contemporary Editions urge you to Collect This Catalogue! by stamping the slogan on the forthcoming auction catalogue cover. The innovative November 2008 Editions catalogue itself becomes a collectible art book by including four original prints by four original artists. These unique works have been generously created for Phillips de Pury & Company.

Hilary Harkness, Big Chicken Dinner, 2008.

“Big Chicken Dinner” is navy slang for bad conduct discharge. This print shows the crew’s mess and galley of a WWII submarine. In the top scene, the chief strolls past the cavorting sailors, barely resisting the advances of her subordinate. In the bottom scene, we see that the chief has in fact been seduced by the seaman, who now regrets her conquest.

Hilary Harkness is a painter whose compositions are heavily condensed with details of her subjects, reminiscent of old masters. The figures are all women acting in settings stereotypical of men. Its almost as if the freedom flag of sex and power is about to be hoisted on the upper deck. More about Hilary

James Hyde, Build-out, 2008.

“This particular image is from a building under construction at 4th Ave. and 13th St. in Brooklyn. All over this city new towers are being built, but few will have the visual and structural delight when finished that they have in their various unfinished states. I wanted this print to have an architecture of complexity & contradiction. The question for me was how to unfinish the finished photograph of the unfinished building.”
www.jameshyde.com

William Pope.L, Three Signs, Plate 1, 2 & 3. 2008.

“Where there is a real estate there is a boat to put it in. This is the only way to see this work. For a signed catalog showing some of my recent activities, email me at: wpopel@bates.edu…”

“William Pope.L: The Friendliest Black Artist in America” is the 2002 book title produced in conjunction with his career retrospective titled “eRasism”, dealing with themes of social class and race. Pope.L is an artist who imbues humor in his performance, sculpture, painting and photography and famously crawled up up and away from downtown Manhattan north dressed in a Superman costume in a performance piece titled “The Great White Way”. The Black Factory

Kay Rosen, You Can Do Anything, 2008.

U can (and will) do anything to match.
Word. kayrosen.com