Rita Ackermann
Under Pressure from 2006 – 2007
Book Launch
Saturday, November 15, 2008, 5:00 – 7:00 PM

Printed Matter, Inc. is pleased to announce the launch of Rita Ackermann’s Under Pressure from 2006 - 2007, a new collection of the multi-talented artist’s collages and installation work. Please join us along with the artist on Saturday, November 15, from 5:00 – 7:00 PM. Printed Matter is located at 195 Tenth Avenue (between 21st and 22nd Street).

Under Pressure from 2006 - 2007 is a forty page, full color collection of the artist’s mixed medium installations incorporating magazine/newspaper cut-outs, text, drawings, painting, and plexiglass (among others), which have become the artist’s signature style. Bound in a vertically over-sized publication, the full-bleed pages run together giving the reader the illusion of being lost in an endless and haunting world of the artist’s design.

Rita Ackermann was born in Budapest and lives and works in New York, where she has been showing her paintings since 1994 with Andrea Rosen Gallery in NY and Peter Kilchmann Gallery in Zurich.

Under Pressure from 2006 – 2007 is published by Nieves, an independent publishing house based in Zurich, Switzerland that was founded in 2001 to focus on publishing artist books and zines. In their seven-year history, they have published books and zines by Larry Clark, Kim Gordon, Chris Johanson, Ari Marcopoulos, Aaron Rose, and Ed Templeton, among many others. More information on their program can be found at www.nieves.ch. Under Pressure from 2006 – 2007 is distributed by Distributed Art Publishers (D.A.P.).

Under Pressure from 2006 – 2007 is 6 x 15.75 inches and is 40 color pages. The publication retails for $24.00 and is available at Printed Matter’s storefront and online at www.printedmatter.org.

For additional information, please contact Max Schumann at mschumann @ printedmatter.org.

Printed Matter, Inc. was founded in 1976 by a group of like-minded artists and art workers. Now entering its 32nd year, it is the world’s largest non-profit organization devoted to artists’ publications. Printed Matter offers some 15,000 titles by 5,000 artists at its Chelsea storefront, by mail order, and on its website www.printedmatter.org.

Printed Matter, Inc. has received support, in part, through grants from the National Endowment for the Arts, 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 Cowles Charitable Trust, the Foundation for Contemporary Arts, The Gladys Krieble Delmas Foundation, The Gesso Foundation, The Horace W. Goldsmith Foundation, the Schoenstadt Family Foundation, The Roy and Niuta Titus Foundation, The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, and individuals worldwide.