Joyce Pomeroy Schwartz’s landmark memoir and survey of the field was included in ArtNet’s list of nineten best artbooks of 2023 as well as Art&Object’s end-of-year Three Art Books for Your Winter Reading Pleasure.
GREENBOX@WHITEBOX LOGO
Branding WBX’s delightful little urban garden.
BACK TO WHITEBOX
Having taken a break from designing WHITEBOX’s publicity since its move to Alphabet City last year, JID was asked to come up with materials for an upcoming show of Chinese conceptualist master Liu Xuguang.
JANE GENNARO WEBSITE
Recently we conceived and designed a narrative-style website for the formidably talented and super-productive artist and storyteller Jane Gennaro. Check out her own remarkable story at janegennaro.com.
KEN CRO-KEN AT WHITEBOX
Catalogue for “Alchemical Cartographies”, a WHITEBOX show of the work of New York artist Ken Cro-Ken (1957-2020), modelled on a beautiful Hayward Gallery catalogue for Roger Hilton, which I’ve had in my possession for about thirty years. I updated the look-and-feel but adopted the original design concept, which suited Cro-Ken’s remarkable three-dimensional earth-based paintings inspired by Ralph Waldo Emerson’s writings on nature.
BERKSHARES GOES DIGITAL
JID-designed BerkShares User Guide published in conjunction with launch of new BerkShares app.
FANCY ESSENTIALS
K C Wiley, who runs River Pilates in Hudson and holds healing retreats across the world, has launched a new line of complex blends of essential oils, with added CBD and crystals. JID designed the final branding.
THE PERFECT COFFEE SPOON
JID designed the perfect spoon for a cafetière (French press) — plastic not metal (as prescribed), perfectly formed and balanced to extract coffee from packaging and to stir. We registered the design in the EU and pitched it to Bodum (world’s largest manufacturer of cafetières), along with 3-D prototypes and packaging ideas, but Mr. Bodum himself explained that all their design is done in-house. We’ll give it a shot elsewhere.
BERKSHARES: NICE TRIBUTE
Today marks the 200th anniversary of the birth of Herman Melville.
“Since their launch in 2006, BerkShares have become a point of pride for our region. These beautiful bills designed by John Isaacs also feature artwork by local artists on the reverse. As they pass from hand to hand, we are reminded that BerkShares act as a tool for community education and empowerment in the Berkshires, while celebrating our landscape, heroes and artists. Here's to Herman Melville and all our local heroes!” —Rachel Moriarty, Executive Director, BerkShares
MORE CURATORIAL PANACHE AT WBXHARLEM
Curator Lara Pan writes: “Olga Titus draws from her Malaysian and Swiss background, combining it with clever references to social media and pop culture. In an idiosyncratic and thoroughly personal way, the artist romanticizes her cultural heritage through symbolical imagery. Her approach to video art promises to transport the viewer into her world and experience that “magic”moment, one that will be imprinted indelibly in the memory.” (Promotional materials by JID.)
WhiteBox’s most glamorous show ever
A major exhibition, curated by Kyoko Sato at WhiteBox, explores the intersection of art and fashion in the astonishingly innovative work of Hiroko Koshino. JID was responsible for branding the project and for all associated publicity, including a double-page spread in ArtForum (above). Until December 1.
Website for the Crandell Theatre and Film Columbia
JID designed and built a custom WordPress-based website for this unique restored cinema in Chatham NY and its associated annual film festival, offering live trailers and a vast amount of easily accessible information. Highly automated posting and ticketing functions make it a cinch to update. crandelltheatre.org
Book jacket design for The New Press
Peter Biskind’s latest, The Sky is Falling, is a highly provocative tour de force of cultural analysis. The New Press commissioned JID to create the jacket design, in which we featured a nightmarish LA landscape with the requisite apocalyptic typography.
Peter Biskind website
Best-selling cultural critic and film historian, Peter Biskind, was editor-in-chief of American Film magazine from 1981 to 1986, and executive editor of Premiere magazine from 1986 to 1996. His writing has appeared in scores of national publications, including the New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, Rolling Stone, The Nation, Newsweek, Vanity Fair, the Washington Post, as well as film journals such as Sight and Sound and Film Quarterly. He has published eight books, most of which have been translated into several languages. peterbiskind.com
Acclaimed Japanese painter at WBX
Atsuki Settangeli was encouraged in his “Samurai Series” by Yoko Ono. Conspicuously, for Settangeli’s exhibition at WhiteBox and at the insistence of curator Kyoko Sato, in the ‘Me Too” moment, the artist has created his first paintings of female Samurai based on true legends.
Website for Karen Halverson
Karen Halverson is a Columbia County-based landscape photographer whose work, focused on the American West though spanning continents, has been widely exhibited and is archived at the Beinecke Library at Yale University. JID employed a Squarespace template, substantially modified, to create this site, saving the client what would otherwise have been significant development and coding costs, and allowing her to update it herself.
Next up at WBX: Zinaïda
This show looks like it will be intriguing. Zinaïda is a Ukrainian artist/videographer focused on feminist issues within a spiritual context. Her handsome website, zinaida.studio, is rich and evocative. We whipped out this publicity in ten minutes (it’s always last minute at WhiteBox).
What will art become in the 21st century?
As the world of print is increasingly digitized, the music business already fully so, and the movie business almost entirely (where that leaves the other performing arts, we’ll have to see), it’s Biliana K’s expectation—perhaps vision—that the visual arts will in due course, or are even soon to be subject to the same total dematerialization process. The work of Geneva-based, Bulgarian-born artist Biliana K Voden Aboutaam resides on the cusp of this revolution. Long an astute riffer on cultural transformation, her upcoming show at WhiteBox promises to address the trend provocatively (and fully in line with the gallery’s consistently off-kilter approach to curation).
Paul Harbutt’s Songline
Paul Harbutt is a Claverack-based British painter with remarkable virtuosity and an international reputation. His most recent project, executed over some three years, is a series of 50+ paintings that document the family history of a pioneer settler in Papua New Guinea, who went on to make a fortune. The entire work, embracing a vast range of styles and references, is collected in a soon-to-be-published large-format catalogue to which John Isaacs contributed two extended essays – one on the family, and one on Harbutt – as well as the book design.
A Colossal World @ WhiteBox
As WhiteBox marks its 20th anniversary, the Lower East Side alternative art space has scheduled a series of four exhibitions celebrating the spirit of international collaboration that has guided its programming for the past two decades. “EXODUS: Émigré Artists and the New York Vanguard” will showcase the contributions of artists from four countries/regions — Japan, China, Latin America, and the former Yugoslavia — who have immigrated to New York City in search of new artistic communities, freedom of expression, exchange of ideas, and greater visibility. The series will explore the role of these artists in changing the city’s cultural landscape and course of artistic expression. The first exhibition of the series, “A Colossal World: Japanese Artists and New York 1950s—Present”, curated by Kyoko Sato, opens on March 6. JID is responsible for graphics for the entire EXODUS series.