Cauleen Smith: Black Utopia LP - For the Fan

For the Fan

2 12" color swirl vinyl LPs
32 page booklet and hand silk-screened jackets in an obi wrap
edition of 100

Click here to view full track listing

PHONEBOOK 3

PHONEBOOK 3 is a directory of independent art spaces, programming, and projects throughout the United States and a collection of critical essays and practical information written by the people who run them. PHONEBOOK 3 includes artist-run spaces, public programming, unconventional residencies, alternative schools, and community resources; all of the projects that form and support art ecologies across the nation, as well as historical documents marking their past. Featuring essays and documents from Group Material, Renny Pritikin, Susan Sakash, FEAST Brooklyn, Ox-bow, Faheem Majed, Chances Dances, Paul Durica, Dara Greenwald, Amy Franceschini, Pilot TV, Jon Brumit and Sarah Wagner, PLAND, Andy Sturdevant, Robby Herbst and more. More information here

PHONEBOOK 3 is available for bulk purchase! Orders of 10 or more are only $15! We also have PDFs available for $10. Contact Lauren Basing at lauren (at) three-walls.org for more information.
 

Artists Run Chicago Digest

threewalls is pleased to announce to their latest publishing collaboration with The Green Lantern Press: The Artist’s Run Chicago Digest, a complimentary publication to the exhibition Artists Run Chicago (curated by Britton Bertran and Allison Peters Quinn) at the Hyde Park Art Center, May 10th-July 5th, 2009.

The ARC Digest is an archive of the activities of Chicago’s artist-run spaces between 1999-2009. It acts both as a companion to, appraisal of and extension for the initial project and exhibition. Included are essays by Lori Waxman, Mary Jane Jacob, The Pond, John Neff/Scott Speh, Abigail Satinsky, Allison Peters Quinn/Britton Bertan, and the editors, Shannon Stratton and Caroline Picard; a series of interviews between Dan Gunn and the over 30 spaces participating in the exhibition; and a CD with two audio interviews by Bad At Sports with artist-run media groups and Temporary Services.

Interviews, essays and conversations alongside floorplans, exhibition histories and other visuals presents a 10-year time period in Chicago’s artist-run culture while providing history, reflection, critique and dialog about artist-run culture, its importance, difficulties, sustainability and necessity as well as its specificity to a community and generation. 

The book will be published by threewalls and The Green Lantern Press, designed by JNL Design. Each copy includes an audio CD.

The is printed in an edition of 500; 50 copies feature a limited edition silk-screen cover by No Coast Collective and available at the launch for $30, post launch, $40.00.

New Girl Law

New Girl Law  was developed by Anne Elizabeth Moore with a group 32 of young women students in Cambodia. This book is a localized call-for-rights based on an 1863 Cambodian document called Chbap Srei/Girl Law or Rule which dictates traditional roles or proper social behavior for women in Cambodian culture. New Girl Law is a collaborative revision of that text that calls for basic human rights, gender equity, the eradication of corruption and funding for cultural production.

New Girl Law is a hand-printed and bound artist-book self-published by Moore with the assistance of the AS220 Community Print Shop in Providence, Rhode Island and partially funded by the InCUBATE Sunday Soup grant, City of Chicago Community Arts Assistance Program grant and the Illinois Arts Council.

New Girl Law Prints

New Girl Law Audio Book Only

An audio book component to the New Girl Law project that documents the process of creating the collaboratively written text New Girl Law. The audio includes conversations between Moore and her 32 female collaborators in Phom Pehn, Cambodia as well as conversations recorded in Providence about the themes raised by the New Girl Law project. "These audio recordings...when mixed with the original Cambodian recordings, create a unique all-girl vision of the international state of human rights."

New Girl Law w/Audio Book

A copy of the New Girl Law book with audio book included.

Debris Field

Heather Mekkelson

From Mekkelson's project Debris Field.
Exhibited at threewalls SOLO in 2008

Limited edition of 30.

Old Mirror Auctions L@@K

 Laura Mackin

Book compiled by Mackin from her collection of internet auction photography.

Mirrors and Screens

Laura Mackin

Since 2003, the artist Laura Mackin has downloaded thousands of pictures of mirrors photographed by US ebay sellers.  This book focuses on pictures with mirrors and screens--for televisions and computers.

Printed and bound by Blurb Inc.  March 2008

Davis

Davis: 80 Mirrors 214 Reflections 

Laura Mackin

The artist Laura Mackin has downloaded thousands of pictures of mirrors photographed by US eBay sellers. This book focuses on a particular seller, named Davis.

Published and bound by Blurb Inc. September 2008

SL Mode: One Size Fits All

Frau Fiber

Surviving Weimar Collection

Summer 2006

Sketches: Organizing Arts, Special Ed. Cover

Sketches with special edition hand-printed cover by Mat Daly

Sketches: Organizing Arts

In conjunction with the threewalls 2007 symposium, "Creating Context", Sketches...illustrates the process of arts administration through notes, budgets, writings and other ephemera by people who organize, produce, enable and administrate in the arts.

"Illustrating the process of turning an idea into something tangible."

Edited by Elizabeth Chodos & Kerry Schneider

Paper and Carriage #3

threewalls and The Green Lantern Press are proud to announce the release of the third issue of "Paper & Carriage" featuring images by Daniel Johnston, artist multiples include a CD of Mantras from Sherri Lynn Wood's Mantra Trailer tour and prints by Carmen Price, an artist centerfold curated by Brooke Anderson, in conjunction with the exhibit “DARGERism” at The American Folk Art Museum in New York. Letterpress covers by Dan S. Wang with an inventory list of objects in Darger's room, now installed at Intuit. Feat. writing by:Dan Beachy-Quick, Rolf Achilles, Juliana Driever, Kate Zambreno and Richard Stern, the third installment of "Hums" by Lilli Carre and excerpts from Henry Darger's "The History of My Life."

Paper and Carriage #2

threewalls and The Green Lantern Press are proud to announce the release of the second issue of "Paper & Carriage" featuring the writing of Colin Beattie, Dora Ishida, Erin Englebright, Britton Bertrand, Alex Javonovich and Moshe Zvi Marvit, with a curated centerfold by Deb Sokolow, screenprinted covers by Shawn Stucky and the second installment of "HUMS" series by Lili Carre.

Paper and Carriage #1

Paper and Carriage is a non-fiction journal printed in a slow-media style; the authentic handling and delivery of unique contemporary voices, text and genres is our primary goal. This premier issue features writing by Alexai Galavaiz-Budziszewsk, Kathleen Kelley, Peter Orner, and Sam Schwartz, accompanied by the first installment of graphic novelist Lilli Carre's year long contribution "HUMS" and artist centerfold project by Scott Patrick Wiener. Elissa Bogos supplies photographic work, while each cover is hand silk screened by Chicago printmaker Dan MacAdam of Crosshair.

Show room Limited Edition Print

Image from Show Room: Laura Davis, Carson Fisk-Vitorri and Julia Klein
photo by Carson Fisk-Vittori
c-print
edition of 10
 

Jesse McLean: JPEG Mountain (series 2)

threewalls editions commences in 2009 with the release of two multiples by SOLO artists Jesse McLean and Christa Donner.

McLean, whose exhibition Invisible Tracks ran May-June 2009, works with found digital imagery, manipulating it within a limited set of moves in Photoshop and other digital editing software revealing the ease at which the 'truth' of photography or documentation or the immediacy of web images can be altered or falsified, altering our perception of what is real or true.

JPEG Mountain, is a digital print on cintra in a signed and numbered edition of 8.

Size: 19" h x 3" w

Snow Ball Pint Glass

Ltd. Edition frosted pint glasses from threewalls annual holiday party, 2006 Snow Ball.

Available: Rich Mansfield and Lisa Caccioppoli.

Perfect for anything you can throw in it, an all-around great glass!

threewalls mugs

Ltd. Edition elf-ear mugs from threewalls annual holiday party, 2007 Cannon Ball

Available: New York based artist Frank Haines, resident artist in 2006.

A bargain at any price, get your beer drinking artist friends and family members a gift that truly says CHEERS!

Elijah Burgher

Bachelor Machine
$350

Acrylic painting on canvas drop cloth bearing a sigil, or magical emblem. Sigils encode a wish or desire by extracting the consonants from the written wish or desire and combining them into a new form. This sigil was produced using the five vowels, and relates to the movement of desire rather than a particular object of desire. The painting can be treated as a painting (hung on the wall) or serve as a platform for ritual actions. It can also be activated through the addition of new sigils. The painting is accompanied by a zine with an essay about sigil magick and this sigil in particular. 

ghostvomit.blogspot.com

Derek Chan

5 Elements for Trying People
$350

This artwork was born out of an interest in the five great elements found throughout many spiritual traditions. The elements are interpreted here and represented by the color-coded wood pieces, black–earth, blue–water, red–fire, yellow–air and white–void or aether. This piece is intended to be a playful exercise in balancing elements and their energy forces that influence our lived realities. These elements prove to be trying, or a challenge as we navigate through our day-to-day existence. Any number of arrangements can be made and repeated over time. To complete the piece, a photo, letter, or any object can be placed in the center for contemplation. Additionally, a holder for burning incense is conveniently incorporated into the piece. The piece is meant to be an open space for anyone to create his or her own personalized ritual if desired.

derekchan.info

Dan Devening

From L'Unité
$200

From L'Unité features a half-toned fragment of a black and white photograph I discovered and rephotographed in the lobby of Le Corbusier's 1958 Unités d'Habitation in Berlin. This icon of modern urban living was one of five “editioned” buildings—sometimes referred to as “residential factories”—that Le Corbusier offered the city during its post-war rebuilding efforts. The original photograph was dark and a bit depressing but was clearly intended as a marketing tool to sell these modular apartments. Found in almost every photograph of every room was the cylindrical vase holding a strange flower which inspired this piece. For my contribution to the 2012 CSA I decided to thank Le Corbusier for his efforts and cheer up the scene with my own version of a modernist ideal. Each print includes a unique improvised and collaged composition that riffs off the central image. 

dandevening.com

Carson Fisk-Vittori

Open source vase
$75

A two-dimensional image applied to a three-dimensional form, the white ceramic vase is combined with a stock photo. The reverse side reads, "high angle close-up of a teen girl holding a bouquet of flowers as her date puts a cd in the car stereo," the description of the image as sourced from the stock-photography website. Add your own dimension by arranging select flowers in the vase.

fisk-vittori.info

Dianna Frid

Words from Obituary #2 (NYT, Christopher Logue, 12/11/11)
$200

Dianna Frid’s ongoing series, Words from Obituaries, is a rejoinder to the biographical digests spawned by the obituary form. In Frid’s recapitulation of the genre, she trolls the content of an obituary to further compress and fragment a standout phrase. Each letter in the remaining sentence is embroidered on canvas that has been coated with graphite. The colors of the letters are loosely based on an idiosyncratic code that indicates the deceased’s line of work. Pinks, for instance, refer to the work of linguists, poets, translators and individuals who dedicated their life to working with words. Green is chosen for the broad category of explorers (a category that includes mountaineers, astronauts and scientists). In each panel, what remains is an open-ended distillation of syntax: a code that functions as a visual and textual remainder by which a lifework is memorialized.

Frid, an amateur archivist of obituaries, started this series in 2011 as a response to misreading the obituary of Allen Read by Douglas Martin, published in the New York Times in October 18, 2002. Words from Obituary 2 is based on Christopher Logue’s obituary published in the New York Times on December 10, 2011. Logue, a poet, translated or, rather, adapted The Iliad without knowing a word of Greek. Frid's project for CSA is a digital facsimile, and, as such, a translation.

www.diannafrid.net

Karolina Gnatowski

Feel Good/Good Feel Placemat
$350

Gnatowski's Hand knit then hand woven placemats require the diner to engage with the work by  placing the heavy plaster hands on their thighs while they eat or sliding their body between the dangling arms and entering the piece. Either way the user must negotiate their body around this textile to activate it. Dinner has never been so physically challenging.

karolinagnatowski.com

Kelly Kaczynski

Rock collection (from a mountain)
$350

These two objects are made by the hand and the body. In thinking about it, these objects are both antithetical to and aligned with the idea of the multiple; one is built, the other is molded. The first object is relaxing, an over and over gesture of crystallizing the space of a fist. The second object is tense, formed from the pressure of a hand into the spaces of a body. In the edition, no two objects are alike but they all come from the same action of the hand, a necessity of the physical. I think of this edition as an extended and dispersed body as well as a performance of geology. Pictured: Object 1 and Object 2 (right knee).

kellykaczynski.com

Betsy Odom

OBELISK
$150

As a maker of discreet sculptural objects, I have amassed a collection of materials and remnants left over from various projects.  OBELISK uses these scraps to examine the relationship of a multiple to its original.  I have divided the remnants into equal shares, and have cast them into short, stumpy obelisk forms. These materials—tube socks, strapping, reflective tape, cork, tarpoleum, etc.—began as elements of a vernacular within my work.  In dividing the remnants into homogenous shares, I have distilled the aesthetics of my practice into units that individually behave like souvenirs from my studio, but collectively speak to the impact of materials as cultural signifiers and as parts of a whole. 

www.betsyodom.com

John Preus

Bowls
$40 for a set of two

These bowls are modified or hybridized mass production stoneware found at Chicago thrift stores. The bowls were retired at Cone 6 to melt the glaze and fuse the pieces together or subtly alter the original shape.

johnpreus.com

Mindy Rose Schwartz

Fountain Cup
$150 for a set of two

The cups are hand built from high-fire porcelain clay, and formed by using a series of dowel rods in graduated sizes to hollow out the center.  The piece is a fountain that can be used as a cup. The user decides how to use it.  Either way it is both functioning and failing at the same time.

mindyroseschwartz.com

Christine Tarkowski

Plates
$150 for a set of four

Uniquely different each time, the plates clear with layers of colored epoxy resin dripped/drawn on the back-side.

www.christinetarkowski.com

Bernard Williams

Tire Prints
$200

Continuing an on going exploration of the automobile and the many roles it plays in our culture, my print is a process oriented work involving a simple act between my car and myself. I inked the tires of my car and created a series of impressions from the car's tires. The works suggest the intimate relationship many of us have with our cars, often a love/hate connection. The prints are simultaneously unique and different. For me, the prints humanize the machine and allow me to twist its role toward the dysfunctional.

bernardwilliamsart.com