EXHIBITION
The Publicsfear Archive
Printed Matter, Inc., Chelsea
May 31 – July 26, 2024
The archive of publicsfear is currently the subject of an exhibition at Printed Matter, Inc., the legendary non-profit organization dedicated to the dissemination, understanding and appreciation of artists’ books.
The exhibition, in the organization’s flagship Chelsea location, features production-related ephemera—including correspondence, mechanicals, mockups, to-do lists, and page layouts—as well as photographs of publicsfear events, original artworks, and collateral material designed by Tod Lippy over the course of the publication’s three issues. Also included are items related to a fourth issue of publicsfear that was never produced due to a lack of funding; these include submissions by Doug Aitken, Sophie Calle, Nan Goldin, Glenn Ligon, Lypsinka, Adrian Piper, and David Sedaris.
Historic titles and publicsfear issues are available for purchase, alongside issues from and titles related to the output of Esopus, the nonprofit arts publication founded by Lippy in 2003.
RELATED EVENT
An Evening with Publicsfear
Printed Matter, Inc., Chelsea
Thursday, June 20, 2024, 6 to 8 p.m.
An evening of readings and performances on the occasion of the related exhibition The Publicsfear Archive, featuring contributions from publicsfear contributors Sean Landers and Kerri Scharlin, along with an introduction by Tod Lippy.
Sean Landers is an American conceptual artist, best known for using his personal experience as public subject matter and for utilizing diverse styles and media in a performative manner. Through the use of painting, sculpture, photography, drawing, writing, video and audio, regardless of the medium, Landers reveals the process of artistic creation through humor and confession, gravity and pathos. Landers’ work is represented in numerous museum and public collections including the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; the Brooklyn Museum of Art; Los Angeles County Museum of Art; Hammer Museum, Los Angeles; Walker Art Center, Minneapolis; Denver Art Museum; Dallas Museum of Art; Seattle Art Museum; Tate Modern, London; Sammlung Hoffmann, Berlin; and Colección Jumex de Fundación Jumex Arte Conemporáneo, Mexico City.
Kerri Scharlin is an American artist who has shown nationally and internationally, including solo exhibitions at Postmasters, Wooster Gardens, Jose Freire, Kustera Tilton Gallery, and New Release in New York, as well as Schaper Sundberg Galleri, Stockholm. She was included in a three-person exhibition at David Zwirner, New York and other group shows at The Aldrich Museum of Art, Connecticut; The Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia; Galerie Herve Mikaeloff, Paris; and Momenta, 303 Gallery, and American Fine Arts, Co. in New York. She also curated the exhibition The Big Nothing or Le Presque Rien, at The New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York. Scharlin’s work has appeared in numerous international publications including The New York Times, Artforum, Frieze, Art in America, Vogue, Artnet, New York magazine, The Village Voice, Flash Art, and Purple.