John Lurie
Learn to Draw
Book Launch
Saturday, November 18, 2006, 3:00ת:00 PM
Jen DeNike
Seven Suns
Book Launch
Sunday, November 19, 2006, 3:00ת:00 PM
Printed Matter is pleased to present two book launches and signings as part of The New York Art Book Fair. John Lurie''s Learn to Draw will be launched on November 18, 2006 at 3:00 PM and Jen DeNike''s Seven Suns will be launched on November 19, 2006 at 3:00 PM. The New York Art Book Fair is located at 548 West 22nd Street, between 10th and 11th Avenue. Admission to the fair is free.
John Lurie''s Learn to Draw showcases 65 of the musician and actor''s surrealistic black and white line drawings. Although Lurie has been making these drawings for over 20 years, it wasn''t until 2004 that he began to exhibit them, to instant acclaim. In 2005, The New York Times critic Roberta Smith wrote, "music''s loss may turn out to be art''s gain." This is the first publication to focus solely on Lurie''s drawings.
John Lurie is an internationally acclaimed actor and musician. Over the course of the last thirty years he has had starring roles in the films Stranger than Paradise and Down by Law and appeared in films by Wim Wenders, Martin Scorsese, and David Lynch. Lurie is also active in the downtown music scene, recording over 22 albums and scoring over 20 films with the Lounge Lizards and The John Lurie National Orchestra''s Men with Sticks.
Seven Suns is an artists'' book by Jen DeNike in collaboration with Peter Coffin, Adam Helms, Amy Smith Stewart, Justin Lowe, Anat Ebgi, Aaron Young, and Mika Rottenberg. Inspired by Ed Ruscha''s Nine Swimming Pools and A Broken Glass, Seven Suns is a meditation on vernacular, nostalgia, repetition, vacancy, and mortality. True to Ruscha''s publication, Seven Suns proposes a structural format of images and blank pages, mirroring the same number of blank pages to images, from front to back, and in reverse, prompting a formal compositional rhythm.
Jen DeNike is a video artist who lives and works in New York City. Her work has been shown internationally and she recently had her first European solo exhibition at KW Institute of Contemporary Art Berlin. Her work has also been shown at PS1 (Queens), Tensta Konsta (Stockholm), Oliver Kamm Gallery (New York), 404 Contemporari (Naples), and CAHM Houston.
Learn to Draw by John Lurie is a soft cover, 136 page book with 65 black & white drawings. Published by Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther Koenig, Cologne, Learn to Draw retails for $40. Seven Suns by Jen DeNike is a soft cover, 84 page book with color, black & white images and text by the artists, in a numbered edition of 1000. Published by the NewCenter for Contemporary Art, Louisville,designed by Art Design Office Los Angeles, California. Seven Suns retails for $25
For more information on The NY Art Book Fair, please visit www.nyartbookfair.com.
For additional information, please contact James Hoff, Programming Coordinator, at 212-925-0325 or at jhoff @ printedmatter.org.
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Printed Matter, Inc. has received support, in part, through grants from the New York State Council on the Arts, the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, Altria Group, Inc, the Milton & Sally Avery Arts Foundation, the Canadian Consulate General and the Government of Canada, The Cowles Charitable Trust, the CRH Foundation, Foundation for Contemporary Arts, The Gladys Krieble Delmas Foundation, the Fifth Floor Foundation, The Horace W.Goldsmith Foundation, LEF Foundation, Materials for the Arts, The Peter S. Reed Foundation, the Schoenstadt Family Foundation, The Starry Night Fund, The Roy and Niuta Titus Foundation, The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, and private foundations and individuals worldwide.