Starcourt will be hosting their second ⓈⒺⒸⓄⓃⒹ ⓈⓊⓃⒹⒶⓎ ⓅⓄⓅ-ⓊⓅ ⓅⒶⓇⓉⓎ at Geer Street Garden on Sunday September 12th from 12pm-5pm. & Bringing you the best vintage finds and local maker goods from 9 vendors: @theconcernnewsstand, @dave_cantwell_drums_n_snacks , @dress_kit_vintage, @intentionally_found, @the_maison_rose, @pernos_eclectic_relics, @shethriftyapparel, and @spector_vintage.
Geer Street Garden is located at 644 Foster Street in Durham. This event will take place outside on the covered patio. Masks required.
The Concern Reading Series at Attic 506, August 13, 7pm
On Second Friday in August, join us for a poetry reading on the rooftop at 7pm sharp.
Organized by Dylan Angell (author of I Am My Own Imaginary Friend and Photo Never Taken), the reading includes poets from the Triangle area: Michelle Dove, Laura Jaramillo, Chanelle A. Bergeron and Minori Sanchiz-Fung (who has a solo show of painting at Slug Space at Attic 506 currently).
Artwork by Marc Kennedy on view at Attic 506
On view on the walls of The Concern Newsstand’s space at Attic 506 in Chapel Hill starting July 9 through September 4, digital collage prints by Marc Kennedy. Marc is an artist & musician living in Burlington, NC. We have Marc’s latest book self-published in the Summer of 2021, Big Crunch, in store. It is a lyric book illustrated with digital collage for his solo music project, Crumb Catcher. We also have Marc’s zine, Greasy Gambit in store.
Exhibition Catalogues Collection- Elsa Longhauser
Grateful & fortunate to now have a decades- long collection of exhibition catalogues from the private collection of Elsa Longhauser & her illustrious career as a Director of galleries & museums. Many of these catalogues were also designed by her husband William Longhauser.
Elsa Longhauser is the founding executive director of the Institute of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles (ICA LA), formerly the Santa Monica Museum of Art (SMMoA), where Longhauser served as director from 2000 until the museum ended operations in Bergamot Station in 2015. From 1983 until 2000, Longhauser served as director of the Goldie Paley Gallery at the Moore College of Art and Design in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
These catalogues will be available at Attic 506 in Chapel Hill & gradually added to the web store as well.
Here is a full list:
1984 It’s All Part of the Clay: Viola Frey (Goldie)
1986 The Basel School of Design and Its Philosophy: The Armin Hofmann Years, 1946-1986 (Goldie)
1987 Jackie Ferrara: Benches, Thrones and a Table
1988 Adolf Wolfli The Other Side of the Moon
1988 Univeral/ Unique (University of the Arts)
1989 Images of Desire (Goldie)
1990 Hanne Darboven Primitive Time/ Clock Time (Goldie)
1991 More Works by Ray Johnson (Goldie)
1991 Josef Hoffmann (Goldie)
1993 Dan Graham: Public/Private (Goldie)
1993 William Daley: Ceramic Works + Drawings
1993 Allaire du Pont: Works in Needlepoint (Goldie)
1996 Barbara Zucker: For Beauty’s Sake (Goldie)
1997 History for Sale: 2000 Paintings by Stephen Keene (Goldie)
1999 David Reed: Painting/ Vampire Study Center
2000 The Miracle Half-Mile: Ten Thousand Paintings by Stephen Keene (Santa Monica)
2006 Dark Places (Santa Monica)
2006 Enigma Variations: Philip Guston and Giorgio de Chirico (Santa Monica)
2007 William Pope.L Art After White People: Time Trees and Celluloid (Santa Monica)
2011 Beatrice Wood: Career Woman- Drawings, Paintings, Vessels, And Objects (Santa Monica)
2011 Al Taylor: Wire Instruments and Pet Stains (Santa Monica)
2017 Martin Ramirez: His Life in Pictures, Another Interpretation (ICA)
Poetry Reading at Attic 506, June 11, 7pm
On Second Friday in June, join us for a poetry reading on the rooftop at 7pm sharp.
Organized by Dylan Angell (author of I Am My Own Imaginary Friend), the reading includes poets from the Triangle area: Mark He, Susannah Simpson, Ian Lockey, Marta Núñez Pouzols, Dylan Angell.
Artwork by Mark He on view at Attic 506
On view on the walls of The Concern Newsstand’s space at Attic 506 in Chapel Hill starting May 15 through beginning of July, original art work in gouache & ink by Mark He. Mark is an artist & statistician living in Durham, NC. We have Mark’s latest book self-published in the Spring of 2021, Interstitial Superstitial, in store. It is a “a narrative, lookin’ at the world,” with poetry and artwork reflecting on the pandemic, Black Lives Matter & the strange year of 2020. We also have Mark’s zine, ‘The Dreams Part 1’, self-published in the fall of 2019. Mark has also contributed poetry & illustration to The Concern magazine issues 2 and 3. We are happy to have Mark’s artwork on the walls, as well as prints of his, for sale in the flat file at our space at Attic 506.
Mixed Media drawings by Skully Gustafson, on view at Attic 506
Debuting this second Friday of March (March 12 6-9pm) at our space at Attic 506 : Two mixed media works by artist Skully Gustafson ‘Ride on Butterfly’ and ‘Connectors’ which both appear in The Concern magazine issue 3, out now. These works will be up through the end of April.
Skully is currently based in Chapel Hill.
“My current work is centered on paintings that mix figuration and abstraction as a way to represent identity and the fluctuation of the self. I juxtapose images, symbols, and figures to show the way individuals are influenced, fortified, or defined by meanings outside themselves. The identities in the work shift from ideas of public presentation and private constructions, the way an individual is many different and overlapping people and performs, distorts, and shifts between personas.” - Skully Gustafson
Printed Matter Virtual Art Book Fair February 24-28, 2021
The Concern Newsstand will be participating in Printed Matter’s Virtual Art Book Fair in 2021 with a ‘virtual booth’: theconcernnewsstand.pmvabf.org
Printed Matter’s Virtual Art Book Fair
February 24–28, 2021
Opening, Wednesday, February 24
Printed Matter’s Virtual Art Book Fair, will take place on February 24–28, 2021 (Opening February 24).
Since the first NY Art Book Fair in 2005, Printed Matter’s Art Book Fairs have been among the leading international gatherings for fostering the distribution, understanding, and celebration of artists’ books and art related publishing. In 2021, the NY Art Book Fair and LA Art Book Fair will be produced as a combined online event—Printed Matter’s Virtual Art Book Fair—safely bringing the artists’ book community together for a fun and experimental new Fair.
Stockist: The Improbable from Siglio Press
Happy to be a stockist of The Improbable, second issue from @sigliopress / a free newspaper investigating the rich & varied space between art & literature. In this issue: pieces by Nicole Rudick (on Niki de Saint Phalle), Anaïs Duplan (on the Black Avant-Garde), Shiv Kotecha (on Nicholas Moufarrege), J. Mae Barizo (on colonialism & archives), Douglas Kearney (on sonic & visual frequencies), Amaranth Borsuk (on Barbara Stauffacher Solomon), Clive Phillpot (on the Flat Time House), & Rachel Valinsky (on Chantal Ackerman & Hanne Darboven). A stack soon at @lump_raleigh too / shipping out free with web orders !
This is America, by Sasha Huber
On view at The Concern Newsstand’s space at Attic 506, starting Friday, November 13, with 2nd Friday opening reception from 6-9pm
‘This is America’ 2018 (metal staples on cotton & bulletproof vest panel) artwork by Sasha Huber, 15.3 x 18.3 x 1.7 inch, Series 1: Edition 1/6
This work was exhibited in “Healing Garden” exhibition at the Newhouse Centre for Contemporary Art in 2019 and was also featured in The Concern, a magazine, issue 2, 2019/20.
poetry books in the age of corona : a conversation
UNC LSP presents:
‘poetry books in the age of corona: a conversation’ (with emilio taiveaho peláez, josé felipe alvergue & orvokki crosby). The discussion will include reading from ‘landskips,’ a new book of poetry by emilio taiveaho peláez, available soon through our store.
30 september 2020, 5pm eastern time live on zoom
email or message for zoom link
Open Call for Submissions: The Concern. a magazine issue 3, 2020/2021
Now accepting submissions for The Concern. a magazine issue 3. Email hi res jpegs or pdfs of image based work, word docs (preferred) of text based work to: theconcernnewsstand (@) gmail by October 1, 2020. The magazine will be 8.5” x 11” in size.
This year has proven our concerns are through the roof, there are too many to count. What are you concerned about, it can be a societal issue, a personal issue, small, big, general, detailed? It is open ended.
Submissions will be curated into the magazine; unfortunately not all will be able to make it. Those who have a piece in the final issue, will receive a free copy mailed to them, plus a generous discount on multiple copies.
See Issue 2 for more details.
Space Case: Making a Case for Artist-Run Spaces at LABspace
Space Case: Making a case for artist-run spaces
Opening Reception: Sunday February 16th, 3-5
On view February 16 - March 29, 2020
Saturdays and Sundays 1-5pm & by appt
LABspace
2642 NY Route 23, Hillsdale NY
Please join us for this journey through artist-run spaces of Chapel Hill and Raleigh NC, Chattanooga and Nashville TN... with a detour through Charlottesville VA!
We’ve (Curators: Julie Torres & Ellen Letcher) culled this show from our visits with artists who have founded and/or run uniquely situated and inventively programmed labors of love, exhibiting the work of fellow artists in attics, basements, sheds, faculty offices, former meat packing plants... and traditional white boxes, too.
Also on view are works from Drawing and Painting majors at the University of TN, Chattanooga who we met through Christina Renfer Vogel’s curatorial project Office Space, in which Vogel installs exhibitions in her faculty office and hallways. This initiative has inspired her students to devise their own artist-run projects and plans, so we’ve jumped at the chance to fan those flames.
LABspace was founded by artist Susan Jennings in 2014, and we took the reins in 2018. We met SJ in 2015 at DIY anti-fair ARTIST-RUN at Satellite Art Show in Miami (curated by Tiger Strikes Asteroid). Without TSA’s ARTIST-RUN project, we would not have met SJ or her wonderful space, which is now our curatorial home. We are so indebted to our own local community of artists who show, promote, and support fellow artists. Please come celebrate this necessary and enduring tradition!
Space Case at LABspace
UNIVERSITY OF TN, CHATTANOOGA:
Christina Renfer Vogel
Amanda Nolan Booker
Larkin Cook
Claudia Hoffer
Caitlin Kelley
Shannon McAllister
Hilary McWilliams
Dionna Moore
Victoria Sauer
Olivia Tawzer
Summer Tomes
VERSA, CHATTANOOGA:
Mirel Crumb
Dana Ortega
Chloë Shupe
Stephanie Loggans
Dylan Pew
Kirby Miles
STOVE WORKS, CHATTANOOGA:
Mike Calway-Fagen
LOG, CHAPEL HILL:
Maria Britton
April Childers
MY ROOM, CHAPEL HILL//LUMP, RALEIGH:
Amanda Barr
John Bowman
DRAWING ROOM/LUMP, RALEIGH:
Bill Thelen
ACID RAIN, CHAPEL HILL:
Jerstin Crosby
THE CONCERN NEWSSTAND, RALEIGH & CHAPEL HILL:
Orvokki Crosby
BASEMENT, CHAPEL HILL:
Laura Little
Mike Keaveney
Sarah Elizabeth Cornejo
Chieko Murasugi
John DeKemper II
ONEONEONE, CHAPEL HILL/GUTTER BOX, RALEIGH:
Louis Watts
LUMP/THE CONCERN NEWSSTAND VOLUNTEER:
Critter
UNREQUITED LEISURE, NASHVILLE:
Chalet Comellas-Baker
Clinton Sleeper
ELECTRIC SHED, NASHVILLE:
David Onri Anderson
DADU, NASHVILLE:
Jodi Hays
DAVID LUSK GALLERY, NASHVILLE:
Ameila Briggs
MITTEN, HARRISONBURG VA/FORMER TEAM LUMP, RALEIGH/CURRENTLY CHARLOTTESVILLE VA:
Allyson Mellberg Taylor
Jeremy Taylor
Local Distributor for Slingshot
Finally & proudly now a local distributor for Slingshot, the independent, radical & free quarterly newspaper from the East Bay in California. In operation since 1988, the newspaper is still created with a hand-done layout method by the Slingshot Collective, a loose group of volunteer members. Slingshot is also well-known for the pocket calendar called The Organizer they come out with every year since 1995. Slingshot issues will be available while supplies last for free at Lump in Raleigh and at Attic 506.
I'm With Earth sticker by Lydia Moyer
Another giveaway by artist Lydia Moyer (Charlottesville, VA), this time a 3” x 3” sticker ‘I’m With Earth’ while supplies last will be sent free with web orders or in store purchases at Lump Gallery & Attic 506.
Previously we’ve distributed her newsprint posters -> “Make America an Endless Expanse of Old-Growth Forest With No Certain Borders Again’ (designed with Tero Juuti) and two-sided poster ‘Melt Your Guns, Melt Your Sons’.
Mini Printed Matter Fest - Supergraphic Warehouse
Taking part in the Mini Printed Matter Fest at Supergraphic’s new warehouse space in Durham (see address on flyer) on Thursday, December 19, 6-8:30pm. Other participants include Matthew Tauch & Utilities Included.
Art Basil
Join us December 8 for Art Basil, a Holiday Bazaar at Attic 506 (506 W. Franklin Street, 2nd floor), 4-7pm!
Get some holiday shopping done-> locally made art, crafts, ceramics, cards (Max Huffman, Amanda Barr, Jerstin Crosby, Lindsay Metivier, Vanessa Murray), vintage clothing (Dress Kit Vintage) and books & magazines courtesy of us. Flyer below by Max Huffman, whose comics we sell in store.
Zine Making workshop/ Duke Create at Rubinstein Arts Center
I will be teaching a Zine Making Workshop on Saturday, November 23, 2-4pm in conjunction with Duke Create. Free for Duke students & staff, it will take place in the Makerspace at the Rubinstein Arts Center.
In the course, we will look at a collection of zines from the past & present and then create a zine together, which will be available for pick up at a later date.
Zine Machine, Durham, October 13, 2019
We will be tabling at Zine Machine, Durham’s Printed Matter Festival on Sunday, October 13, 11am- 6pm. It will take place at the Durham Armory, 212 Foster St, Durham, NC 27701.
Come by!
Lydia Moyer Poster back in stock for a limited time/ OUT OF STOCK
The all star newsprint poster “Make America an Endless Expanse of Old-Growth Forest With No Certain Borders Again,” by artist Lydia Moyer (Charlottesville, VA) is back in stock for a limited time. (now out of stock)
Shipping out free with orders while supplies last. Will update this blog post when they are no longer available!
