Ofsource! Press

Visual ruminations on a new commons, contemporary art, social practice and affective objects.

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🏚️ Sex Can Reform🏚️

Eimear Walshe, The Land For The People, 3rd Edition, A5 print book. nationalsculpturefactory.com/programme/the-land-for-the-people-3rd-edition/

° Making the connection visible between 19th century land conflict and the current housing crisis visible, humorous and depressingly absurd.

° Design formatted around a work book or log book aesthetic, drawing a visual link to schools and education.

° Archive imagery of men or women within landscapes, houses and town environments. The gaze of the people is important, are they looking at you? What are they looking at?

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🌱beautifully enclosed🌱

Pleasant Place no. 1, ‘Enclosures’, 18 x 24 cm, 2022. pleasantplace.space/

° Pleasant Place is an art magazine exploring the profound beauty of gardening. It mixes practical advice and garden design offerings with photo essays, theory and artworks.

° Rich colours, through designed the graphics lift out elements from the cover and use them throughout to create a unified aesthetic. Captures the romantic ideal of the garden.

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🕊️a dream called Love🕊️

Jim Hodges, I dreamed a world and called it Love, 5,000 glass pieces, Grand Central Station, Installation view: Gladstone Gallery, New York, 2016. gladstonegallery.com/artist/jim-hodges/works

° Many coloured, reflective and layered pieces of glass flash and gleam as crowds pass by on the escalators and stairs. The camoflague shapes standing out, rather than blending in.

° The organic shapes of the pieces remind of contour lines of a map, or a planet seen from space. The colours are a muted rainbow, bright but not garish.

° There is swirling movement in the static peices, the mirrored effect of the glass adding to the sense of motion captured.

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🗐Printed Matter Comma Inc 🗐

The main location of art publishers and book shop in Chelsae, New York City. Odling 2023.

° Home to everything art book! Founded in 1976 by Lucy Lippard and Sol Le Witt Printed Matter is an essential hub for all kinds of paper publishing art excellence.

° The store houses wall to ceiling paper. With zines, monographs, pamphelts, hardcovers, softcovers, no covers, flickbooks, prints, boxes, posters, folders... infinite variety.

°All print techniques can be found from the hand drawn, to fine art reproduction and then to photocopy and laser print. Photobooks have their own huge section, as do commercially printed theory and philosophy works. Zines are encompassed in and around the larger works.

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⚗️paper alchemy⚗️

Hannah Chalew, Feedback LOOP, handmade ink from iron, oak galls, coal pollution runoff, found sheetrock, goldenrod, copper, indigo on paper made from sugarcane and shredded disposable plastic waste (“plasticane”), metal. 80” x 100” x 27”, 2022. hannahchalew.com/feedback-loop

° Coal pollution run off creates a matt, cold black colour. Oak Gall makes the warm brown. The intricate drawings invite closer inspection, where the eye then begins to pick out recognisable plastic pieces.

° Paper sits stiff, held out from wall. Not folded, but formed. Three dimensions held in a flat plane.

° As the composition is held with the weight of the drawing pull over to one side the pipes and the tree add a cyclical motion to the viewer.

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🏢office action🏢

Caroline Woolard, Ofcice = Action (Ceiling Tile Megaphone), paper, 23-7/8 x 23-7/8 x 3 inches, 2022. carolinewoolard.com/project/ceiling-tile-megaphone/

For curated and produced by the Curatorial Collective for Public Art and SUPERMARKT Berlin

° This disruptive object uses the international measurement standard and capitalist staple structure of the office ceiling tile. The paper form and open source CAD file is an offer to anyone wishing to interrupt banal bureaucratic routines.

° "What excites me is the possibility that an object can produce a shared meaning within the context of a gathering." Woolard

° Light, easily constructed and portable this megaphone reminds us that we have a voice, that playful interruption is still interruption, and even if this isn't appropriate, what might be?

° No video file of how effective a paper megaphone is? Does this matter, or is it the intention and affect of the object as distruption which is at the heart.

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🌷poly paper🌷

Nancy Gruskin, Don't Mind If I Fall Apart, hand dyed polyester paper, collage, 23" x 38", 2020. www.nancygruskin.com/

° Use of colour and space to create a stand alone collage, which sits out from the wall. Texture in marks and dyes on the adds to the flat panels of colour.

° Straight lines describe curves, visually relating to innocent collage made few details. Pieces lay on top of one another, connected in shapes which are continued, changed or mirrored elsewhere.

° Freeform piece, polyester paper gives structure so no flopping or sagging of paper.

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🧷time imprint🧷

Eva Alcántara, James The River, Risograph, Foil Stamp & Metal Spiral, 6" × 8" , 2021. penumbrafoundation.org/penumbra-store/eva-alcantara

° Single colour risograph print details photographs crisply, visible grain describing midtones with enough visual information to read layers of blurred water or skin.

° Metal spiral bound gives book a field note or practical scientific journal feel. There is an uncompromising structure to the binding that contrasts the soft imagery. Much like the poems on death, rabbits and guns.

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🍔plastic layers🍔

Louis Lanne, Bouffer les pissenlits par la racine, mixed technique on canvas, 100 x 120 cm, 2023. louislanne.com/

° cutaway view with a fantastical imagining of the plastic beneath our feet, but above the sunset dandelions still bloom and people make love.

° interesting perspective and sense of movement, strong colours and possible collage present depth. Mix of realism and pattern, representation and illusion.

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📐Autonomous Drive📐

Frieda Toranzo Jaeger, Autonomous Drive, MOMA PS1, September 22, 2022 – March 13, 2023. Odling 2023.

° Large mixed media artworks broken free of traditional rectilinear forms. The artworks dominate the room, with space to be read from a distance as well as close to.

° Hope The Air Conditioning Is On While Facing Global Warming (part 1) - this canvas piece is hinged in three places, forcing perspective and giving the viewer new planes and angles as they move.

° The pieces are self contained worlds, the shapes crisp and definite. They hold their own with no doubt from the viewer that they are independent works, relating to one another but distinct.

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🚧Stallings Recreation🚧

On the corner of St Claude and Lesseps is the Stallings Rec Centre. The basketball court is painted, artist unknown. Odling 2023.

° This large scale painte mural appears to have no connection to basketball.

° Describes the flat surface with a new, imagined topography.

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🎨Kremer Pigments NYC🎨

German company Kremer holds this facinating shop in Chesea, NYC. Alongside more standard powder, chemicals and mixing agents there are unique pigments and objects. Odling, 2023.

Home

° Wonderful names remind where colour comes from, prompting a curiosity in colour in other places found.

° Links to the physical, the grind, the movement and processing of colour.

° Tools are particular, formed for hands over time.

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🗐Printed Matter Comma Inc🗐

The St Marks location of art publishers and book shop in New York City. Odling 2023.

° Here you can find everything art book - zines, monographs, pamphelts, hardcovers, softcovers, no covers, flickbooks, prints, international and local works.

°This is the secondary location for Printed Matter. It in the same building as the Swiss Institute which hosts a programme of exhibitions as well as permanent installations.

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🏛️Empty-theatre🏛️

In the Northside of Cork city commonways and concrete corners sit latent. This overlooked public amphitheatre has potential, being sunny and sheltered hidden off the main drag. Odling, 2022.

° Urban hangovers, liminal spaces and inbetween ways. Courses, paths, corners and edges.

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🗻one thing on top of another🗻

Two colour Risograph tests in the studio. Red on Teal, Teal on Red. Odling 2022.

° Photograph of Gurranabraher commonway, concrete steps, lichen marks and moss.

° Colour space from two deep colours creates a narrow gamut. Clear difference in which order the colours are printed.

° Risograph in the studio needs a service. Warping in the master creates areas of denser ink coverage.

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🔍Looking Close🔍

Enlarged portions of an early four colour riso print test. Aqua, Fluro Pink, Yellow & Black. Odling 2022.

° Digital scale half tone rendering of pencil drawings. Gradients and textures described in a dense dot matrix.

° Colour bleeds, bright mixed and photo realistic. Recalls analog film photos, light leaks and chemical processing.