Publication Studio Vancouver

Whole Lotta Love Dave Allen Lotta Antonsson Brady Cranfield Myfanwy MacLeod April 12 to June 21, 2014 Closing Party Friday June 20 at 8pm Publication Studio Vancouver is pleased to present Whole Lotta Love, a group exhibition featuring the work of Dave Allen, Lotta Antonsson, Brady Cranfield and Myfanwy MacLeod. The exhibition looks at the relationship between art and publishing through the unlikely lens of rock and roll and in particular, the music of Led… read more Dave Allen, Lotta Antonsson, Brady Cranfield, Myfanwy MacLeod: Whole Lotta Love

ISBN 9781927385135 80pp 7.5″x9″ $15 The invocation of time in statistics is often meant to convey the urgency of a political or social cause, or at other times stun the reader with the temporal scale of a natural occurrence. Combined in this volume, the sequential incidents happening every second form a narrative that loops back from rhetoric to the everyday.  

Reading a 320-page PDF online can be awkward, especially if you want to make notes in the margins! The draft Local Area Plan for the Downtown Eastside — which encompasses Chinatown, where Publication Studio Vancouver is — goes to Vancouver City Council next Wednesday (March 12). We can print and bind copies (like the one in the picture), and are offering them for sale on a pay-what-you-can basis. The suggested price is $10 (cheap!), but… read more Bound copies of the DTES Area Plan now available, pay-what-you-can

  From the review: Digital technology is what enables the Publication Studio network, which extends across the United States, Canada, and Europe, to function. It is also what makes Some Woolly Buzz possible. Contributing artists sent PDFs to Higgins and Slade, who printed them and mounted them, unframed, on the walls. Slade points out that this inaugural exhibition harks back to the mail-art networks of the 1960s and ’70s. In the case of Some Woolly… read more Review of Some Woolly Buzz in the Georgia Straight

We hope everyone had a good holiday! We’re open again (afternoons Monday through Saturday), and we have just installed our new neon sign.

Kevin Killian Some Woolly Buzz, 2013 San Francisco poet, Kevin Killian wrote and illustrated this poem to be presented as a print especially for the exhibition. Kevin Killian is an American poet, author, editor and playwright of primarily LGBT literature. Killian co-founded the Poets Theater in San Francisco. His novel, Impossible Princess, won the 2010 Lambda Literary Award as the best gay erotic fiction work of 2009. Killian’s novel Spreadeagle is published by Publication Studio… read more Kevin Killian ‘Some Woolly Buzz’ for Some Woolly Buzz

Rodney Graham Lunch Break, 2013 Rodney Graham is one of Canada’s leading artists. The Globe and Mail called him ‘a national treasure’. 8.5 x 11 inches, published in an edition of 50

Fiona Banner Snoopy Versus the Red Baron, 2013 Fiona Banner presents a work that combines lyrics from the1966 song by the group The Guardsmen with an image of the von Richthofen family crest that has been altered by the edition of snoopy. Banner is an English artist, who was shortlisted for the Turner Prize in 2002. In 2010, she produced new work for a Duveen Hall commission at Tate Britain. She is one of the… read more Fiona Banner ‘Snoopy Versus the Red Baron’ for Some Woolly Buzz

Tim Lee Back to Black, 2013 In 1967, Ad Reinhardt produced the last of his “Ultimate paintings”. Created at a moment parallel with the nascent Black Power Movement in the United States, the two radical autonomies – one formal and abstract, the other political – are combined here. Tim Lee is an artist who lives in Vancouver. Working with photography, video, text and sculpture, his work both replicates and reimagines seminal moments in art history… read more Tim Lee ‘Back to Black’ for Some Woolly Buzz

Sonia Leimer and Nino Sekhnishvili Eins Zwei Drei, God Bless You Belgium, 2013 The collage shows an Austrian letter pigeon and the miniscule dot in the distance is planet Earth as seen from Voyager 1 in 1990. This work is made by Italian artist Sonia Leimer and Russian artist Nino Sekhnishvili and was originally shown at Sekhnishvili’s artist-run gallery in Tifilis. 11 x 8.5 inches, published in an edition of 50