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Opening November 23, 2008

"Lost In Your Eyes" - Curated by Dominic Mangila and Jon Cuyson
Le Roy Neiman Gallery, Columbia University, New York.

Exhibiting the drawing "Ghost" (collaboration with Paul Pfeiffer.)

The exhibition opens November 23 and runs until December 13,2008, and travels to London and Manila in 2009.

As October 2008 InCUBATE City resident, the Silver Galleon Press successfully launches into regular operations.  

Images can be found here

The residency saw a small number of public and private events including:

"The Silver Galleon Salon" is an informal social gathering intended to engage textual material and the communities they enliven through lively conversations and readings.  The event is inspired by the French literary and philosophical salons of the 17th century and 18th century and the 21st century custom of music listening parties. 

Visitors are encouraged to bring their own texts to share in physical or electronic forms and will have the opportunity to construct their own custom text compilation to take home. A scanning and printing station will be provided for visitors to share excerpts of their texts with others, as well as a finishing station complete with binding and cover making supplies. 

Silver Galleon Press at InCUBATE was a vehicle to experiment with various production and distribution models.  Part work-site part platform for discussion, the residency utilizes InCUBATE to house the Press before moving on to a more mobile practice. 

A screening presenting the work of a number of video artists engaging the notion of text and printed matter as a physical and structural material.  Deconstructing this material the artists explore textual form in a variety of ways, exhibiting the malleable nature of language and meaning.  Forcing a connection from Gutenberg to Lumiere, the works explore the possibilities of video to complicate the division between the solidity of books and ephemeral nature of the moving image.
Featuring the works of: Basma Al-Sharif, Eric Fleischauer, Drew Pavelchak, Steve Reinke, Michael Robinson and Todd Simeone.

Installation at the Arts Club of Chicago 2008

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