Community Supported Art Spring 2012 Edition

threewalls is pleased to announce the next round of our popular Community Supported Art program, Spring 2012 edition, featuring editioned artwork by Elijah Burgher, Derek Chan, Dan Devening, Carson Fisk-Vittori, Dianna Frid, Kelly Kaczynski, Betsy Odom, and Bernard Williams.

To buy your CSA, please visit here to purchase. Our edition sizes are now smaller, and they sell-out fast!

How it works: The program offers a reasonably priced way to support Chicago artists and receive limited edition contemporary artist projects in return. This season, the edition size is more limited: 30 pieces only. Shares cost $400 for a single share of 4 artworks and $850 for a family-size share of 8 artworks, including 2 tickets to threewalls spring gala (value $200.00). Subscribers receive signed and numbered artworks at two release events in late May and late June. Shares are a curated mix of mediums, disciplines and conceptual projects, each one will be unique.

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schools, and community resources; all of the projects that form and support art ecologies across the nation, as well as historical documents marking their past.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.
 

Christa Donner: "Digest" apron

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

Donner's exhibition Re:Production was on view January 2009. Her graphic drawings and paper cut-out guaches and wall installations deal with issues of women's bodies, health and reproduction. Her apron, "Digest" is limited to 25 pieces. Hand-silk screened, unsigned.

One-size fits all.

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

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.