EPHEMERA FOR THE EYES & EARS
A curated collection of editioned print and sound publications including artist books, zines, and vinyl projects.
ONGOING/BY APPOINTMENT
JUNE 10 – 11, 2023
FEATURED ARTISTS
Reuben Lorch-Miller, prints and sculpture
Radical Documents, limited edition vinyl
Land and Sea, artist books
ALSO ON VIEW
Earmark, selected works from the collection of artist editions
GUI/GOOEY, online group exhibition in our favorite browser :)
Laura Splan, selected works
Plexus Projects at Greenpoint Open Studios featured selected works by Greenpoint artist Reuben Lorch-Miller including sculpture, collage, and artist books. To accompany his artworks in the project space, Lorch-Miller curated a selection of limited edition vinyl releases by Radical Documents and editioned artist books published by Land and Sea.
Reuben Lorch-Miller is a Brooklyn, NY based artist, educator, and mental health counselor. His studio practice encompasses sculpture, collage, photography, artist books, music, and performance. He approaches his work from a perspective of curiosity and experimentation, understanding that meaning can be found within the process of doing. He has often exhibited at DIY art spaces, participated in artist-run residencies and produced multiple self-published zines and artist books.
Radical Documents was started in 2017 by artist Matthew Clifford Green. Originally based in Los Angeles, they moved to Chicago in the spring of 2021. The label focuses on unique, experimental, and obscure sounds from a wide range of artists spanning the globe. Land and Sea is a small press based in Oakland, California, run by Maria Otero and Chris Duncan. Land and Sea began in 2009 and has consistently been publishing small editions of books and records by artists from the Bay Area and beyond. Under the same moniker, Chris and Maria organize gatherings that celebrate the collectivity of the artistic and wider communities they are part of. In 2014, they opened a storefront studio in Oakland to host sound and art events, performances, art shows, and other happenings that combine visual, sonic, performance and literary arts, as well as pop-ups for other small publishers and cultural facilitators.
Earmark, is a curated collection of editioned print and sound publications including artist books, catalogs, zines, ephemera, and vinyl projects. The collection includes artists using a variety of printing processes ranging from laser cutting to Risograph to photocopy techniques. Artists in the collection include Katie Garth, Candace Williams, James Bascara, Jess Woods, Shane Smith, Brett Wallace, Dawn Light Blackman, Paul Shortt, Fritz Welch, De Kwok, Becca Albee, Chris Duncan, 57 Cell, Nathan Brown, Laura Splan, and others.
on view on a computer in the project space
Plexus Projects is pleased to present GUI/GOOEY the first in a series of online group exhibitions exploring technological representations of the biological world. The exhibition includes artworks that examine notions of “life” and “nature” with computational, digital, and virtual tools. The selected artists reflect a range of perspectives with international representation from thirteen countries. Together they simultaneously interrogate liminal sensations and materialities of membranes and interfaces, bits and bodies.
ARTISTS
Abraham Homer US; Alt23 MT; Andrea Mikyska DE; Anni Garza-Lau, Yunuen Vladimir, Hugo Escalpelo, Lilianha Dominguez MX; Brian Zegeer US; Cezar Mocan PT; Derzu Campos MX; Dexter Callender III US; Diana Scarborough UK; Dylan Rundle US; Elaine Whittaker CA; Electric Skin TR/FR/US/ES; Ellen Bjerborn SE; Finn Dugan US; James Bascara US; Jeff Thompson US; Josh Urban CA; Katina Bitsicas, Rachel Strickland US; Keaton Fox US; Kimberlee Koym-Murteira US; Lolo Ostia US; Lizz Thabet US; Mark Ramos, Ziyang Wu US/CN; Morgan Green, Andrew Bearnot US; Nina Sumarac CY; Reid Arowood US; Ryan Woodring US; Sarah Buckius US; Yousif Alzayed, Ben Glass, Yimei Zhu US
Laura Splan selected weavings, prints, and animations
EARMARK COLLECTION
Recent Addition: Best Laid Plans, 2020, risograph-printed, spiral-bound publication, 5 x 7 x 1 inches, text by the artist
Within a childhood story about my personal tendency for order, I consider the merits of planning, asking for what each of us may be preparing, and noting how familiar objects and mundane rituals provide their own enduring appeal. The narrative empathizes with the impulse for escapism while also examining what is lost by withdrawing into oneself. — Katie Garth
Katie Garth is a print-based artist in Philadelphia. Her interdisciplinary work explores tedium as a coping mechanism for uncertainty, and often reflects her interests in language and independent publication. Garth received her MFA in Printmaking from the Tyler School of Art and a BFA from the University of Wisconsin–Madison. She has exhibited nationally and internationally, and her work has appeared in the Washington Post and PRINT. She is Visiting Assistant Professor of Printmaking at Sarah Lawrence College and teaches at several Philadelphia area-universities.
Reuben Lorch-Miller, Susan Belle, Jess Woods, Shane Smith, Candace Williams, Brett Wallace, Claire Falkenberg and others
