EDITIONS | ARTISTS BOOK FAIR
http://www.eabfair.com/
The Altman Building
125 West 18th Street, NYC between Sixth and Seventh Avenue
New York City

General Admission: $15
Thursday to Saturday 11 AM to 7 PM
Sunday Noon to 5:30 PM

Split booth by ONSMITH/NUDD and MARK WAGNER

MARK WAGNER

Wagner’s current printmaking practice involves printing on dollar bills. Some hang individually; others are taped together into larger sheets. Coarsely pixelated pop imagery, overprinted grids, bar graphs, and Rorschach ink blobs accompany pop poetry texts of consumption and redemption. All together the drawings emphasize that the US dollar and country of its origin represent vastly different things to different people.

For the Editions | Artist Book fair, Western Exhibitions will present the new relief prints on dollar bills as well as Wagner’s meticulously made artist books and editioned sculptural work that include manipulated US currency.

Mark Wagner has been referred to as "the Michael Jordan of glue" and "the greatest living collage artist". His collage and artist books are collected by dozens of institutions. They have shown at Metropolitan Museum of Art, The National Portrait Gallery, The Getty, and The Walker Art Center. His monumental currency collage "Liberty" was on view at the Haggerty Museum in Milwaukee from August 22nd to December 22nd, 2012. Wagner recently relocated from Brooklyn to Lancaster, PA.

At left:

FIGURATIVE
2012
Relief print from rubber stamp drawing on overprinted US dollar bills, hinged with Filmoplast P paper tape. 27 bills per print
23 1⁄2” x 18 1⁄2”
Edition of 5
1 AP, 1 printer’s proof
Published by X-ing Art

ONSMITH/NUDD

Onsmith/Nudd is a Chicago-based collaborative printing team formed from Paul Nudd, a painter/video-artist/zine maker and Onsmith, a comic book artist and illustrator. Their collaborations meld two the artists’ signature styles into a cartoonish netherworld of darkly comic doom starring ice cream, buzzing flies, cow udders, double-tongues, fishing tackle, jarred brains, twisted limbs and floating heads.

Onsmith’s comics, prints, and illustrations have appeared in The Chicago Reader, The Portland Mercury, The Common Review, Oxford American Magazine, Hotwire Comics (Fantagraphics Books), Vice Magazine, Graphics Classics and both volumes of Anthology of Graphic Fiction, Cartoons & True Stories.

Paul Nudd's paintings, drawings and videos, carefully and meticulously composed portraits of filth and decay, have been included in shows at the Museum of Contemporary Art, and Hyde Park Art Center, both in Chicago and in a recent solo show at Bourouina Gallery in Berlin. His prodigious zine work can be found in several national artist book collections including the Museum of Modern Art, New York; Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago; Microsoft, Seattle; National Academy of Design, New York; Indiana University and School of the Art Institute of Chicago.

At left:
Behold the Moistened Bulge
2009
Screenprinting and relief plus hand-drawn elements on BFK Rives
15” x 11”
Edition of 10