AUTUMN 2015 Say Something More
PLUMB NOTEBOOKS: BANISH THE BORING Welcome to the third season of Plumb, notebooks by and for individuals who appreciate a little flavor in their lives. The conservative black notebook has a had its day, and we’re here to vibrant alternative: virtuoso notebooks designed from the ground up by contemporary artists. Plumb notebooks come in shapes and sizes to suit any inclination, with a pop of color here and an unexpected detail there. We all find inspiration in just the right accessory or object. Plumb artist Liz Markus says, “I want people to feel cool because they have one of my notebooks. I feel that way about some things I own—an outfit, a watch, a purse. An object can be a catalyst, a spark that makes me more creative.” Plumb notebooks sit back enough for you to make them your own, but they conduct a conversation with you that you’ll never have with basic black. That’s because each Plumb notebook is thought through to the last detail, elevated by its artist’s spirit. And while
they start out beautiful, make no mistake: Plumb notebooks aren’t complete until you’ve filled them up. This season we’ve rounded up a masterful painter of pop-cultural beauty, a thoughtful photographer who captures e, and a the everyday and the madcap illustrator who transcends the comics of his youth. Liz Markus brings sumptuous materials, striking paintings, and fashion to her notebooks. Ed Panar lends his poetic photography to iconic blank book forms to create a perfect union between the two. Matt Furie’s explosion of psychedelic color and subversive imagery finds its way onto nostalgic back-to-school formats. In short, boring notebooks are the perfect place for boring ideas. Plumb provides a space for everything else. So make a splash. Fall in love. Bring your life into these blank pages. Because to be an individual, we’re pretty sure you’re going to want more colors than just black.
Perforated leatherette cover
Mint green dyed edges
Sumptuously illustrated endpapers
Fabulous Book From the perforated white leatherette cover to the mint green edges to the endpaper portraits of high-society women from the 1960s, this piece evokes a datebook that might have been used to keep track of an unimaginably glamorous life.
Liz Markus New Yorker Liz Markus’s large-scale paintings interpret pop-cultural phenomena such as rock and roll, hippies, socialites, and Star Wars. She uses bold strokes and color on unprimed canvases, a technique that allows her to achieve a unique combination of realism and abstraction. Markus’s work has appeared in the Huffington Post, Vogue, ArtForum, ARTSLANT New York, and Modern Painters, and she has exhibited extensively in New York as well as Europe. Born and raised in Buffalo, New York, she earned her bachelor of fine arts from the School of Visual Arts in New York City and her master of fine arts from Tyler School of Art at Temple University in Philadelphia. Markus enjoyed watching her work and aesthetic vision transform into physical objects for Plumb: “Not only do the notebooks incorporate actual images of my work, but the designs also came from the style of my painting, transformed into something physical. It was like working in a different medium.”
“ I want people to feel cool because they have one of my notebooks. I feel that way about some things I own— an outfit, a watch, a purse. An object can be a catalyst, a spark that makes me more creative.”
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LIZ MARKUS New Yorker Liz Markus’s large-scale interpret American paintings popular culture realism and abstraction with both in bold strokes and color.
PLUMB: How do you strike a balance between realism takes months and abstraction? to absorb and research the thing I want to paint. The LIZ: I use paint actual painting takes to stain an unprime a day or two, canvas, which d but it’s an intense time, allows me to walking a tightrop create someth ing that betwee n having e looks realistic and losing control. is still very painter but It’s exciting ly. Most bodies and intense of work start but it can make me nauseou out a little tight, s. but I keep making them, they loosen as New subject matter up. P LU M B : W h will make me y does it m tle trepidatious, a lita ke nauseou you and s? tighten up. Getting I’ll hit a wall and ally comes simply beyond that usuLIZ: If I make a mistake, by getting back I can’t just rub having fun in to it out. The canvas the studio again. is stained. I paint this way in order for these “mistake PLUMB: Your to happen and work often uses bring the painting s” familiar imagery, like place I couldn’t to a your series of have envision society women based ed, but in the process on iconic photos. of doing that, there’s a voice in my head saying, LIZ: My work “I really messed this one has a lot to up.” do desire. I became with fascinat ed by era and the women’ that PLUMB: How s fantastic style. do you keep I didn’t know going in that moment? exactly what the paintings would be, but I knew somethi interesting would ng LIZ: I stay open come from bringing to possibility. together these I’m probably making images of worldly a thousan d fection with the perdecisio ns a second —do stain techniqu I need to try e, perhaps bringing to control when one out the messier, color is bleedin deeper dimensions of g into another, or do these women. I let The way I paint is similar momen t is what it go? That risky to a method makes it a really actor. It great painting . plumbgoods.com Artwork © Liz Markus Plumb products © Who’s
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Interior pages transition from pale green to white and back Purple fauxsuede cover
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Yellow dyed edges
Glossy cover
Metallic edges
Hot Rod Journal
LA Glam sketchbook
Purple faux suede. Purple metallic edges. Hot rod muscle cars. Subtle interior fire. This journal is one hot item, created to be carried around—as artist Liz Markus describes, glamorous on the outside, tough on the inside, and betterlooking the more worn it becomes.
Liz Markus’s hippie paintings stand sentry on the covers, finished with highgloss rock-and-roll flair, testaments to Markus’s fascination with 1970s Laurel Canyon. The interior pages are a hypnotic flip-book of color, subtly transitioning from pale green to white and back.
Unlined pages shift subtly from light green to white and back again
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LIZ MARKUS LIZ MARKUS New Yorker Liz Markus’s large-scale American popular paintings interpret culture with both in bold strokes realism and abstraction and color.
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PLUMB: What do you want people notebooks you’ve to feel when they use the created? LIZ: I want them to feel cool because that way about they have one. certain things I feel I own—an outfit, a purse. The notion of cool a watch, and not cool studio for me. comes up in It’s a rich vein the I often tap into. making these The process notebooks gave of me more insight work. Sometim es an object into my own can be a type of spark that of catalyst, a starts sort studio or an amazingmaking me more creative —music in the image that inspired to experience me. I’d like people that kind of feeling through these notebooks. PLUMB: With the Hot Rod Journal, it’s such combination an interesting of things—the suede cover, the muscle cars. the metallic edges, LIZ: Totally. I imagine the girl from The around with Gradua te running a floppy suede journal, but the and race cars metallic color work in counter point to its being pie-like. The Ford GT channel simply hips a teenage brother. The boy, maybe my car paintings are bold and might even have a little reckless been a poster and in a 1970s boy’s room.
Dimensions: 4.75 x 6.75 inches Specs: Flexible faux-suede cover; 144 pages, unlined with orange gutters; illustrated endpapers; metallic purple edges; rounded corners; perforated card with artist interview
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New Yorker Liz Markus’s large-scale interpret American paintings popular culture realism and abstraction with both in bold strokes and color.
PLUMB: Your work has a lot of pop culture influenc e. Where does imagery come that from?
PLUMB: You can always feel the era in your paintings.
LIZ: I think LIZ: I’m glad that I’m probab ly that comes through always absorbi ng it—I because that , can’t help it. era is an elusive It must have started part of the work that when I keep in my mind in the late 1970s. I was a bored kid all the time. I’m always I hung out with thinking , how brother with my can I bring that out? nothing to do I grew up in the except watch TV, but 1970s and 1980s, so it was actually those periods a really nice time. I figure prominently was always in my very work. A lot of interested in clothes cultural signifier my and fashion. s spring from I’d see things in magazi those early years. nes I wanted couldn’ t have. but So I thought maybe I could draw PLUMB: Do you or paint them collect source and then own those things imagery for your painting in s? became fascinat some way. I also ed with WASP ture when I was culLIZ: Yes. I do in prep school. most of my so interesting It’s image researc h online. how a sense of longing I have a series develops. It folders on my of all looked better desktop—maybe somehow—b etter a hundred categor clothes , better ies—and I keep stuff, more fun than putting images into them. my own family. And in my studio wouldn ’t want Who also I have that? Dreami boxes of ng of being a rock and design ideas. magazine pages star is When I’m thinking feeling. My paintingthe same kind of about someth s are my way ing, achievin g those of stuff that inspires I hang up all the things, of living me in that direction desires. In the my . same way, I became enamored of the hippie culture pervaded the that air in painted it to experienthe 1970s, then I ce it.
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112 pages in crisp white, 16 in pale blue
Back-to-back color photos every 16 pages for daydreaming inspiration
Daydreaming sketchbook
Ed Panar Ed Panar picked up a camera in high school and has been obsessed with photography’s relationship to reality ever since. His work explores the uncanny nature of objects and creatures, illuminating a seemingly familiar yet often unseen parallel universe, a space at the periphery of human attention. Panar has published numerous photography books and his work has been exhibited internationally at the Museum of Contemporary Photography in Chicago, the Nofound Photofair in Paris, the New York Photo Festival, and the Cleveland Museum of Art. Panar lives and works among the forested hills and hollows of Pittsburgh and teaches at Carnegie Mellon University. He is cofounder of Spaces Corners, a photography book gallery. Panar sees his Plumb journals as a collaborative space. “I’ve always thought that viewers bring meaning, association, and their own feelings to my photos. I hope my Plumb journals can also function in that way, as a collaboration.”
“ I’ve always been a notebook fanatic. You feel like anything can happen and all your plots and plans and dreams have the possibility of emerging in those pages.”
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Creativity is about breaking down walls. To go inside this sketchbook’s touchable cloth cover, with its foilstamped brick wall, is the first step. Inside, curated pairings of meditative imagery appear every 16 pages, providing fodder for freely ranging thoughts. No. 9781601066961 Wholesale: £10.95
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in PLU MB: How muc especially h now with of your work is editi digital ng and tools? ED: I like sequ enci to ng, shooting, say it’s 50-5 0, but unfo 90 perc ent prod rtunately uction, PLUMB: post-prod it’s about 10 How muc perc uction, h do you and editi ent shoot in ng. ED: I don’ a week, mon t really Sinc e know—ma th, or year I start ed ? there’s shoo ting ybe 2,500 to still so mor e digit 5,000 phot muc diary or os a al, it’s snapping h that’s miss skyr ocke month? ed. Whe may have pictures, ted. ther we’r we high other thingonly been a e writing But light spec in a s are happ fraction of dox of a few minu ific instances enin trying to that tes while capture g. I’m always all thes think somethin PLUMB: e g you can’t ing about the What wen parareally capt t into choo ure. sing imag ED: The blank page es for this the phot notebook s relat os ? can focu are immersiv e to this idea e. Whe of just s on a n dazi texture, the phot you’re daydream ng off, and say, for os are. a split Most are wanted ing, your second, to crea pairings eye and te the othe a sens that’s wha e of the of obstacles r t and we dayd in a way that images was remi bouncing freedom. I ream , our thou nisce more rece from one ghts have nt of dayd ptive to to reaming. the unex a light When ness to pected. them . We’r e plum
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Striking photographic endpapers, different for front and back 20 of the 144 pages bear subtle black-andwhite photographs
Textured covers in three unique graining patterns
Cleverly recessed cloth spine
Set of three, portable enough for pockets
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Open Writing Journal From the inspiring cover photos to the unique recessed spine, this journal’s exterior sets the stage for a special merger of images and writing space. Creamy pages showcase Ed Panar’s black-and-white photos, sprinkled throughout for unexpected encounters.
Pocket Notebooks Gray book interior with horizontal lines
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Some journals are meant to stay put while others travel. These pieces are exactly what Ed Panar wants in his pockets during his day-long photography walks. Exterior graining, endpaper color imagery, and diversely lined pages elevate the grab-and-go notebook format. No. 9781601066985
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ED PANAR
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Photographer Ed Panar lives in Pittsburgh. both city streets Walking and nature, Panar wit, and wonder finds in everyday encounters stillness, .
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PLUMB: Why did you want to make notebooks?
ED: I’ve always been a notebo fanatic. It’s an ok importa nt part of my creative life. In those pages you feel like anything can happen and all your plots and plans and dreams have possibility of the emerging. I was particularly drawn to the idea of combini my interest ng in photogr aphy books, which already P LU M B : Yo have a lot of u’re also a blank space, with graphic designer. How the intentio n does that inform that that blank space photography your would work? challenge to think be filled in. It’s a about how the tos could remain phoED: When I edit and sequen open enough ce my to let someon e else’s photog raphs, it’s creative work exist there. also of piecing things a balanci ng act togethe r that essentia lly dispara are te but someho PLUMB: What have enough w were the dynamic of a thread that s you considered for activate and they achieving that? bounce around each other and create ED: I tried to a range of assocreate ciations . It’s an invisible scaffold ence, yet maintain a sense of coherthat makes it ing a sense of openhold togethe ness . . . to have r. Learning it two about design for me was I wanted to create ways, basically. learning about that process a sequen ce some structur with and being able e to it, but that to appreci ate would that it’s almost also function if you were invisible when it’s droppin g done well; it in at any momen become s embedded in t. I hoped the the work tographs could phobe a suggest like you can separate itself. It’s not ion but not an obstruc tion. Hopeful the thing. It become the design from ly, you’ll s what it is.
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almost forget there are images in the noteboo ks and then feel surprise like an unexpec d, ted to gravitate toward encounter. I tend creating and ting togethe putr imagery that emphasizes the mystery and ambigu ity the things I’m of photog raphing maybe even and of the photog raphs themselves.
Dimensions: 2.75 x 4 inches ED PANAR Pittsburgh photograph er Ed Panar finds stillness, wit, and everyday encounters. wonder in
I do a lot of my shooting wandering around on foot. My favorite times are when I can completely sink into t he momen t, with a long enough walk that a medita tion can occur. I’m more relaxed , not conscio usly seekin g photos . I also tend to have a better success rate when that happens. plumbgoods.com Photograph © Nathan Alexander Ward Plumb products © Who’s There LLC
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Nostalgic trifold binder
Interior subject dividers
Slightly subversive, totally psychedelic artwork
Matt Furie Matt Furie has been drawing crazy-looking creatures since he was a small child growing up in Ohio in the early 1980s. Now living in Los Angeles, Furie is known for psychedelic, comic book–inspired drawings that combine childlike enchantment, grown-up situations, and pop-culture nostalgia. Furie has exhibited all over the world and is the author of the teen-monster comic series Boy’s Club. He also created the well-loved children’s book Night Riders, a wordless story about a frog and rat who take an epic bike ride. Furie’s work has appeared in Juxtapoz, Giant Robot, Mean, and XLR8R, and in 2008 he was named Best Visual Artist by the San Francisco Bay Guardian. He also works collaboratively with Albert Reyes and Aiyana Udesen as Future Colors of America. Furie’s Plumb journals reflect his love of inexpensive school supplies: “I’ve always used those cheap, spiral-bound notebooks from the drugstore. There’s something about their less-precious nature.”
MATT FURIE Los Angeles artist Matt Furie describes psychedelic, comic his book–inspired “children’s book work as illustrations for adults.”
“ I want my Plumb notebooks to be reminiscent of going into that inner childhood place in your mind that everyone has, whether you’re a kid or you’re eighty.”
PLUMB: Were you constantly doodling that kid in class PLUMB: Your creatures? art seems to come from a very childlike space. MATT: I definitel y was—sometimes be taking notes, I’d MATT: My art but most of the has always been I was drawing time rooted in escapis m, strange creature going into a s and faces. But I could fantasy world. I’d hang still listen. To out at my grandm day. I listen to this house with my a’s books on tape brother and while I draw. I just finished cousins and we’d draw Moby-Dick. fruit-versus-veg etable wars. We were PLUMB: Do you all into imaginin g we have ideas for were Ninja Turtles, creatures before your or shape shifters, you draw them? or animals, or warriors. I try really hard to hold on to MATT: There’s that sense of no real rhyme wonder and the joy or reason. Sometim of drawing things es I’ll see someth claws, with scales, that inspires teeth, and eyeballs me and I’ll redraw ing . interpretation my of it. I try to lose PLUMB: Do people the initial reference limit themsel to make it my because they ves own but feel creativity keep the energy should be a serious endeav of drawing. I’m usually the original in the or, rather than doodling like just in this weird ’80s we did in class? or ’90s zone because those were my formative and MATT: Yeah. When most imaginat ive years. you’re a kid you’re I look at artists more open to who do cartoony the world around creature art, and days are longer, you, as the generat summer takes ions go by, I can see ever, you’re into forthat their referenc animals, you’re es are from their childhoo bugs, you’re into into ds. It’s this story the that’s being Everything seems wind in your hair. told over and so potent and over and over again, and want to find you I want to be a some way to part of that story. express that. As you get older, it slows down and you choose your own path.
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Monster Alien Binder Set When he was in school, artist Matt Furie was a master drawer, and this nostalgic trifold binder brings in-class doodling to a whole new level. Together with the section dividers and pencil pouch, this set reinterprets the utility of a classic with Furie’s weirdly fun creatures. No. 9781601066992 Wholesale: £14.95 Inner pack: 3
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Video game–inspired illustrations on cover and endpapers Colored spiral bindings
Subtle “above and below” configuration on interior pages, including 56 pages with grids
Set of four notepads, each with a unique interior
Unique horizontal format
Fluorescent pink edges
Killer Cat Spiral Notepads
’80s Video Game Sketchbook
Don’t underestimate the flair of whipping a killer-cat-covered notebook out of your back pocket. With this quartet, artist Matt Furie brings bite and color to one of his favorite formats, the traditional spiral-bound notebook—for cat lovers and haters alike.
The ’80s video game aesthetic has by now impacted three generations, giving us what artist Matt Furie calls an “inner video game world.” This unique format, with each page subtly divided horizontally, could be used to sketch one’s own video game fantasies—or anything else.
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No. 9781601067005 Wholesale: £8.95 Inner pack: 6 Dimensions: Notepads: 3 x 5 inches; Package: 6 x 5.75 inches Specs: 4-notepad set, paperback with colored spiral binding; 100 pages each with unique interiors (lined, grid, blank); perforated card with artist interview
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I’ve alway s used those cheap , spiral -boun notebooks from d the drugstore. There’s some thing about their less-precious nature. I enjoy drawing with the lines, the margins. Mayb just nostalgic. e it’s I use them until they’re filled and then move up on to the next. When I go back and look at them , there ’s a mixtu re of sketches and nice random notes , like giant creatu and directions res to restaurants. I did the drawin gs for these noteb ooks because even though I like cats, I find it disturbing how they’re alway s ready to pounc e on some bug, lizard , or my own pet rats. I thoug ht peop would be able le to relate to cats as a dominant force over smalle r creatures, like gum people or little bubblewhatever. I tried to make it playful but also weird . plumbgoods.c
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MATT FURIE Los Angeles artist Matt Furie describes inspired work his psychedelic as “children’s , comic book– book illustrations for adults.”
PLUMB: Did you
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MATT: Definite ly. All the classic ones. In fact, ing Super Mario I was just playBrothers the other came across this strange console day. My girlfriend and I old games. All that has bootleg of them were s of 88 a little Brothers was called Small Mario bit off—like, Super Mario that weird 8-bit or something. We revisited world through this video game device. resonates with you about those ’80s games? MATT: There’s something about them imprinte and I think on d on my mind, a lot of people in my generat plicity, and all ion—their simthe different strange bad guys I wanted to make and creatures. a sketchbook to inspire people their inner video game world. Because to get into game world, and I know other people I have an inner video do, too. PLUMB: Why are the pages divided into above and below? MATT: In a children ’s book I did frog and rat explore all these called The Night Riders, a zones and levels There’s somethi ng about breaking on bikes. above and below up the visual space into that’s interest Scarry’s books ing. I always liked Richard where you can see basement, the kitchen, and upstairs what’s happening in the all at the same time. PLUMB: What
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Los Angeles artist Matt Furie describes book–inspired his psychede work as “children lic, comic ’s book illustratio ns for adults.”
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TUCKER NICHOLS “ The notebook that I keep in my pocket—anything can happen in there. It feels like, ‘Yeah, you can be organized, you can do that here, but let’s not get too organized. You might miss something.’” Tucker Nichols is best known for his smartly funny drawings and large-scale gallery installations. He often takes inspiration from found objects and from the surroundings of his studio in the San Francisco Bay Area. Nichols’s work has been featured in museums and galleries around the country and in Europe, and his drawings have been published in McSweeney’s, The Thing Quarterly, and the opinion pages of the New York Times. As long as paper and pens exist in the world, Nichols plans to keep on creating.
Tangle Notebook No. 9781601065889 Wholesale: £12.95 Inner pack: 3 Dimensions: 7.5 x 9.75 inches Specs: Soft-bound cloth cover with matte foil stamping, 160 pages (96 lined, 64 unlined); head- and tailbands; 5 waterfall-tabbed sections; perforated card with artist interview
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Specs: Chipboard cover with matte foil stamping, 128 pages (64 lined, 64 unlined); 4 waterfalltabbed sections; elastic closure; gusseted pocket on inside back cover; perforated card with artist interview
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Sumi Ink Club “ If you arrive and the paper already has something on it, what a relief! You already have something to react to and build on, so it’s more like other human interactions. But just approaching a field of white is very daunting.” Sumi Ink Club is a participatory drawing project established in 2005 by Los Angeles–based artists Luke
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Fischbeck and Sarah Rara. At the club’s open meet-
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ings, everyone comes together to draw: young, old,
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people who are considered good at drawing, and
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people who think they can’t draw at all. Fischbeck’s
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and Rara’s work has been shown at the Whitney Museum of American Art and London’s Institute of Contemporary Arts. They also perform music as Lucky Dragons, an experimental band.
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SUMI ART BOX: Make + Share + Keep
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Specs: 3 paperback notebooks with starter drawings plus 1 Sumi Ink Club illustrated zine, 32 pages each; exposed stitched binding; perforated card with artist interview; shrinkwrapped with bellyband
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Katherine Bradford “ Notebooks play a big role in a visual artist’s practice. The whole idea of making a painting or work of art causes people to fail. But if you think you’re doing something private, you relax a little more, and better things happen.”
is known for evocative paintings that approach iconic
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images such as the Titanic and superheroes with a
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sense of playful, tender vulnerability. Bradford was a
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Katherine Bradford works in Brooklyn and Maine. She
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Arts and the Fashion Institute of Technology in New
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York. Her paintings are held in many private and public collections including the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Brooklyn Museum. Sample interior spreads
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Short Stack Journal
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Nathaniel Russell “ Some of my favorite art and music comes from so-called amateurs. It just hits me in a way that nothing else can. I think art and music are just too important to leave to so-called experts.” Indiana-based Nathaniel Russell makes humorously absurd art in a range of forms, including drawings,
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fake fliers, bad sculptures, shapes cut out of wood, and music. Russell’s work is regularly shown around
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the world in traditional galleries and informal spaces,
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usually surrounded by an expanding list of friends, col-
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laborators, and like-minded folk. He regularly posts his
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observations on life, new drawings, ideas, and photographs on his blog, Crooked Arm.
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Waking WAiting Walking
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Linda Geary “ As an artist, it’s about permission to follow an idea without knowing the outcome. Even if a work fails, it still leads to the next step. I never know how a painting will get resolved.” Linda Geary lives in Oakland and is chair of the painting/drawing program at California College of the Arts
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in San Francisco. Her abstract paintings and collages explore the relationships between color, texture,
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shape, space, and scale. In 2011, Geary visited 100 art-
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ists in their workspaces. The resulting conversations
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are collected in her book, Studio Visit. Geary has had
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numerous solo and group exhibitions in the US and Italy and is the recipient of an Elizabeth Foundation Grant, a Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant, and residencies at Omi International Arts Center and the Millay Colony for the Arts.
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Spiral Journal
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Jason Polan “ Maybe I shouldn’t even say this, but I’ve never had trouble with the blank page. I always want to draw, and I always want to draw more. I like blank pieces of paper.” Jason Polan is known for obsessively drawing the
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objects and people he encounters every day. Since 2008, he has been drawing every person in New York City. Polan’s work has been exhibited all over
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the United States, Europe, Africa, and Asia, and has
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been featured in the New York Times, ARTnews,
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McSweeney’s, The Believer, and The New Yorker.
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Polan, originally from Michigan, earned a dual degree in biological anthropology and drawing/painting from the University of Michigan. He is a founding member of the Taco Bell Drawing Club.
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Observation Notebook
The Collecting Book
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