Picturebox News

May 13th, 2008, 7 pm - 8:30 pm:

Gary Panter Lecture and Slideshow (Introduction by Jonathan Lethem)

The Strand 828 Broadway, NYC

Saturday, May 10 6-8PM Gary Panter signs Gary Panter

A special instore signing with Gary Panter for his mammoth new 688-page, two volume monograph. Gary will be signing books from 6 to 8 pm.

PictureBox will also be offering a special onsite-only Gary-giveaway.

http://www.pictureboxinc.com/product/id/238/

New prints by C.F. and Mat Brinkman online now!

May 7, 6-8 pm

Eddie Martinez and Chuck Webster sign Eddie Martinez/Chuck Webster

PictureBox and ZieherSmith are pleased to announce Eddie Martinez/Chuck Webster, a two-volume hardcover set by the artists. Please join us for a reception in honor of the publication.

Martinez and Webster will be on hand to sign copies.

Check out the new PictureBox events calendar, rendered by our own Matthew Thurber.

Remember that Gary Panter’s fantastic show (co-curated by yours truly) is on view until May 10 at Clementine Gallery, NYC.

Rob Lowe signs Gyromancy!

Wednesday, April 30, 6-7 pm. PictureBox Departmental Store 121 3rd St. Brooklyn NY 11231

Thrill Jockey is proud to present Gyromancy, the latest in our series of limited edition book + CD packages. Following the release of Daniel A.I.U. Higgs’ Atomic Yggdrasil Tarot and Aki Tsuyuko’s Hokane, we have a new pocket-sized edition to the series. Gyromancy is a 4” x 6” soft cover perfect-bound book featuring artwork from Robert A.A. Lowe and Rose Lazar. Included with the book is a special 3” CD featuring the music of Robert A.A. Lowe; Gyromancy is offered in a limited edition of 1,000.

Robert A.A. Lowe was a member of the band 90 Day Men and formed Dreamweapon with members of Town and Country. He currently plays music under the name Lichens and as a member of Singer with Todd Rittman (US Maple) and Ben Vida (Town and Country). He is an absolute fixture in the Chicago music and arts community.

Rose Lazar runs and designs images for The Great Lakes Goods, a letter press company out of Chicago specializing in colorful hand made and printed greeting cards and stationary that are carried in independent book shops and boutiques across the US.

Gyromancy looks at future past, neo antiquity, ritual magic, and patterning. The book represents a dream walk through nature and all of it’s influences. Repetition of imagery keeps you aware of the cyclical patterns that nature presents us with. We get caught up in these patterns without noticing them, to the point that you have to stop and take a harder look. Gyromancy is an attempt at taking a harder look.

The accompanying music, titled “Psygning Off,” was composed to accompany the images in the book and to add yet another dimension to the world that inhabits it’s pages. The music was created at home through organic synthesis, which projects a science fiction aspect into the natural magical aesthetic, producing a familiar alien landscape.

The big one is out now. Gary Panter is in stores now! Signed and doodled-on copies are available at no extra charge direct from PictureBox.

Yes, there’s more. Sorry! A new book by Joe Brainard, some great clothes by Ruffeo Hearts Li’l Snotty and new prints by Leif Goldberg. Also, Galaktikrap is back in stock!

New in the store today: Six new prints by Mat Brinkman; Will Sweeney’s Tales from Greenfuzz 2, a Panter rarity in Large Witch Noses, and a gorgeous catalog of work by Bob Zoell.

New in store right now! A new Taylor McKimens masterpiece: Good Life and a whole slew of new blacklight prints by Paper Rad, Ara Peterson, Charles Burns, Melissa Brown, Rebecca Bird and Matthew Thurber, Gary Panter and Andrew Jeffrey Wright.

To celebrate the release of his new zine, The Good Life, Taylor McKimens will be signing at PictureBox Departmental Store on Sunday, April 6th, from 3 to 5 pm. Come out and see him!

Now Open in NYC! Gary Panter: Pictures from the Psychedelic Swamp: 1972-2001
April 4 to May 10, 2008

Clementine Gallery
623 West 27th St., New York City
http://www.clementine-gallery.com

April 4 to May 10, 2008
Opening Reception: April 4; 6 to 8 pm

Come join us for the opening reception of Gary Panter’s latest exhibition: a (very) mini-retrospective of three decades worth of paintings, drawings and sculpture in a complex and funky installation. The book that inspired the show, Gary Panter, will be available for sale at the gallery. Co-curated by Dan Nadel.

For this special all-dark-all-the-time art fair, PictureBox commissioned nine artists to create new images to print over vintage 1970s blacklight posters. This suite of eight prints will debut on Friday.

The artists are: Rebecca Bird & Matthew Thurber, Melissa Brown, Charles Burns, Jim Drain, Gary Panter, Paper Rad, Ara Peterson and Andrew Jeffrey Wright.

Also on view: three new handmade books by Brian Belott (assembled from shredded black light posters) and two collaborative black light paintings by Belott and Taylor McKimens. Finally, look out for mysterious illuminated masses by Sam Moyer.

Hours:

Opening Friday, March 28th, 6 pm - midnight Saturday, March 29th, 12 pm - 9pm

Swiss Institute 495 Broadway, 3rd Floor, NYC

See you soon.

About Dark Fair:

This subversive and experimental miniature art fair will take place without the use of natural or electric light. An international selection of galleries and artists will display work custom to these conditions, using candlelight, flashlights, oil lamps, work that glows in the dark, light sculpture, battery powered film and video, and unplugged performances. In this cavernous underworld of exchange, visitors will experience art in completely new ways: featuring shadowy bar booths, dimly lit VIP chill-out zones, peddle-powered film projectors and gramophone DJ’s.

Some nice Cold Heat action lately. A rave review of our new CH zines from Comics Reporterand a nice interview with Frank over on Comicon.com

We are opening a retail store in Brooklyn’s sunny and breezy Gowanus, Brooklyn on March 22nd, from 6-9 pm. The PictureBox Departmental Store will carry the full range of PictureBox publications as well as an international array of visual books, prints, editions, comics, clothing and stationary. It is a shopping experience you will never forget. Please join us on Saturday, March 22nd for the grand opening. Refreshments will be served.

Saturday, March 22nd 6 - 9 pm PictureBox Departmental Store 121 Third St. Brooklyn NY 11231

Eddie Martinez is opening a new show of paintings in New York this Thursday. PictureBox has published an accompanying catalog. The book is one part of a two-part set with Chuck Webster. The set will be available from ZieherSmith from Thursday night on, and from PictureBox starting in April.

Eddie Martinez
March 13th - April 12, 2008.
ZieherSmith
533 West 25th St. NYC

Some new Cold Heat in the store! Here we have the Cold Heat Special 3 by Frank Santoro and Dash Shaw and Frank’s own Castle Castle. Get your Cold Heat fix!

Some fine newbies in the store this week. From Paris, extreme drawing by C.F., Brinkman and others in Nazi Knife. And from the basement of Panter comes a recent reprinting of his 1980 masterpiece, The Asshole.

C.F.’s musical guise is Kites. He’s playing this weekend in NYC.

March 8th, 8 pm:

Club Midway 25 Avenue B, New York, NY 10009 212-253-2595

Halflings (playing first) Carlos Giffoni Kites Hair Police (Playing Last)

NOW AVAILABLE FOR PRE-ORDER. Everyone that orders Gary Panter before April 15 will pay just $85 (plus shipping) instead of the normal $95 AND will receive a signed and doodled-in copy. Sorry, we can’t personalize them. These copies will ship May 1.

Our other plans (not yet for sale; images and sales information to come in mid-March):

Deluxe Edition:

Book (signed and doodled) comes with a beautifully printed new 8 x 10 full color silkscreen print only available with the book. Edition of 50 (40 available).

Order before April 15: $300 Order after April 16: $350

Hot Burrito Deluxe Edition:

Signed and doodled book comes in a fully Gary-hand-painted (each painting will be unique) slipcase and with the silkscreen print, too. Edition of 10.

Order before April 15: $900 Order after April 15: $1000

Everything will be shipped out on May 1. Allow one or two weeks for shipping time.

As the Gary Panter explosion draws near I thought I should mirror our new post on garypanterbook.com. Here are various Gary events in the next few months:

March 9 - August 31 2008:

Gary Panter: Daydream Trap Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art 258 Main St Ridgefield, Connecticut 06877

April 3 - May 10, 2008:

Gary Panter Clementine Gallery 623 West 27th St. NYC

May 13th, 2008:

Gary Panter Lecture and Slideshow (Introduction by Jonathan Lethem) The Strand 828 Broadway, NYC

May 24th, 2008, 1 pm:

Gary Panter Booksigning, Lecture, Slideshow (Introduction by Chris Ware) Museum of Contemporary Art 220 E. Chicago Ave., Chicago

May 26th, 2008:

Gary Panter Signing and Film programming AND! Gary Panter and Devin Flynn: Live Performance Family 436 N. Fairfax Ave, Los Angeles

May 27th, 2008:

Gary Panter Signing, Lecture and Slideshow (Introduction by Matt Groening) Skylight Books 1818 N. Vermont Ave., Los Angeles

July 9th, 2008:

Gary Panter Signing and Multiples Exhibition Kong Mexico City, Mexico

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