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Sunday School at P.S. 1: Front 40 Press

By Peggy Roalf   Friday April 27, 2007

Doug Fogelson, a Chicago-based photographer and founder of Front Forty Press, takes a utopian approach to art making: collaboration. Extending the ethos to this week's installment of Fine Print: Alternative Media at P.S. 1, he will bring colleagues Dan De Los Monteros and David Castillo to the party. Many FFP artists and writers will also be on hand to give readings, and Yuri Lane, the Human Beatbox, will offer a round of sounds. The event begins at 3:00 pm, Sunday, April 29.

Among the books to be presented are Matt Volla's Unruly Drawings, so hot off the press the binding glue hasn't dried. Sonnateer, in which nine graphic designers layered their visions of the poetic form over photographs of the built environment, will be represented by Brooklyn artist Sebastien Derenoncourt, who visualized the poetic connections between infrastructure and the built environment.

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In Graffitecture, Fogelson shoots the moon in a project that imposes the most urban of art forms, graffiti, onto photographs of the country's first skyscraper city, Chicago. The forty most recognized graffiti artists in town were given super-sized digital prints to work on. They overpainted the prints every which way, and the results range from wilding messages on concrete walls to corporate interiors given a radical facelift - and a high-end hotel room looses its blandness under graffiti marks and message. Illustrations, above, from Graffitecture.

Previous editions of Fine Print: Alternative Media have featured Topic magazine, Clear Cut Press, and Cabinet magazine, to name a few.

The event is free with museum admission. Please check the P.S. 1 website for details.


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