Publications

The Gift Shop by Matthew Offenbacher

Designed by David Knowles

Matthew Offenbacher’s The Gift Shop with orange risograph prints is layered on black and white images of work 2009-2010 multi-artist exhibition at the Henry Art Gallery’s former museum shop. Matthew Offenbacher asks the questions: What can an art exhibition do? How can artists work together? Who is the audience for an art exhibition? What responsibilities do artists have towards their audience? What responsibilites do audiences have? What is the relationship between artists and the institutions who support them? What can we learn from each other?

“Museum gift shops are fabulously liminal places. They sit in the middle of a complex web of transitional space, shifting methods of discourse, utopian and practical considerations, different understandings and misunderstanding of the purpose and function of art.”

The Gift Shop was published by Publication Studio.

$25 soft cover; $10 DRM-free ebook
92 pp.
8/5″ × 8.5″ × 0.25″
ISBN: 9781935662730

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Marks and Angles by Lucy Pullen

Designed by Jayme Yen

With visual art, philosophy, quantum physics, and the help of engineers and astrophysicists Lucy Pullen created The Cloud Chamber and The Spark Chamber. When a cosmic ray enters The Cloud Chamber a contrail is created and when a cosmic ray enters The Spark Chamber a spark is ignited. Marks and Angles is Lucy Pullen’s book created in conjunction with her 2009 exhibition The Cloud Chamber and Related Works published by Publication Studio. It is bound in reflective mirror dust paper and there is a hole punched through the entire book.

$40 soft cover; $10 DRM-free ebook
130 pp.
9″ × 7.75″ × 0.25″
ISBN: 9781935662686

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