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Please join us for the launch of ASMR4 vol.7 this Friday January 10th 6-8pm.

Penumbra Foundation 36 East 30th street New York, NY10016

ASMR4 is a small run publication co-edited by Katie Murray, Victoria Sambunaris, Dan Torop, and Adam Putnam. The first four volumes served as both conversation and message. The current series focuses on the strange and forgotten. The latest issue is v.7, Icebergs: floating chunks of rock and snow; from the Hudson’s Bay Company Archives and the Ralph Stockman Tarr expeditions.

In 1997, I had a scheme. I would travel north.  There would be  no hurry. From New England into Canada, toward upper Quebec and the Hudson Bay. I would stop at rural airstrips and mosquito-ridden streams. It would take months, even years, to make my way north. I thought that there would always be a chill and sparsely peopled north into which to journey.

This journey never happened, but images have accumulated.

— Dan Torop

for more information or to order online:

https://asmr4.square.site

also available:

Petzel Bookstore 456 w 18th street, NYC

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Happy to have contributed to Essex Flowers Festival @ Essex Flowers Gallery. Opening Reception Sunday August 11, 7p.m. #EatBloodyPussy: A Community Garden.

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So happy to be a part of this project! Books are available at http://asmr4.net/

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ASMR4, Vol. 5 – Alfred Cook: Archival Photographs from The Frick Collection/Frick Art Reference Library

Please join us for the release of ASMR4, Vol. 5 – Alfred Cook: Archival Photographs from The Frick Collection/Frick Art Reference Library – Tuesday Dec. 18, 6-8pm The Penumbra Foundation, 36 E 30th Street, New York, NY

ASMR4 is a small run, quarterly publication co-edited by Katie Murray, Victoria Sambunaris, Dan Torop, and Adam Putnam. While the first 4 volumes served as both conversation and message, the upcoming series will focus on the strange and forgotten.  

Twenty years ago, while working as a book conservator at the Frick Art Reference Library, I was given the job of cleaning and preserving a series of photo albums, artifacts from when the Frick residence was being rebuilt as a library and museum. The albums contained original photographs taken by Alfred Cook, a footman to the Frick family. His images reveal a lexicon of strange and curious subjects: dark hallways, empty rooms, and most notably, light fixtures. The images reproduced in this book were made between 1933 and 1935.                                                                                  — Adam Putnam

ASMR4 v.2-4 are available for online purchase via Paypal to sales@asmr4.net. Send $10 per book plus $3 US shipping. Subscribe to v.5-8 by sending $40 (US shipping included). Send an email to sales@asmr4.net regarding paying by check or international shipping.

ASMR4 v.1-4 are available for purchase at Spoonbill & Sugartown in Bushwick (99 Montrose Ave., Brooklyn, NY).

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ASMR4 is pleased to announce the release of its fourth volume, Ordinary Matter, by photographer Katie Murray. The title Ordinary Matter, scientifically speaking, alludes to all that is seen and knowable. Making use of visual alliteration and an aesthetic rhythm the work in this volume considers the mysterious nature of familiarity. Murray’s collection of images exist somewhere between the mythic and the mundane, reflecting a reality that is both rooted in and removed from our own.

To celebrate the release of Ordinary Matter, Spoonbill Studios (99 Montrose Ave. in Brooklyn) will host a gathering Thursday, September 13, 7-9PM. Please stop by! Volumes 1-4 of ASMR4 will be on sale.

ASMR4 is a collaboration between Katie Murray, Victoria Sambunaris, Dan Torop, and Adam Putnam. Each volume serves as a conversation and message.

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Happy to have contributed an essay and images to Dear Dave Magazine, Issue 26.Thank you to Stephen Frailey for your support and the challenge of writing! #deardavemag, #DD26, #allthequeensmen

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New York friends, please join us for the launch of ASMR4 v.2, Victoria Sambunaris’s Trafficking, at Spoonbill Studios, 99 Montrose Avenue, Brooklyn, Thursday, January 25, 7PM-9PM.

ASMR4 is a small-run conversation. A conversation between 4 photographers in the form of a book. 16 page signatures. 16 page late night conversations at a bar. The second volume features a selection of images by Victoria Sambunaris from her project Trafficking. The work addresses the petrochemical and industrial cargo trades and the effect they have on marine habitats. Sambunaris is a project-based photographer who organizes her life around annual road trips across the American West, equipped with nothing but a 5x7 wooden field camera, camping gear, and a few months supply of canned sardines and crackers. The large-scale photos of the contemporary American landscape tell a conflicted story in geographic, economic and cultural terms. The current work stems from Sambunaris’ invitation to the Galveston Artist Residency and her collaboration with National Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration marine biologist Kristopher Benson in 2015. The collaboration allows a more comprehensive scientific perspective and alludes to the expansion of global markets and the intensification of consumption worldwide.

ASMR4 v.1, Reclaimed Empire, and v.2, Trafficking, are available for purchase at Spoonbill & Sugartown in Bushwick (99 Montrose Ave., Brooklyn, NY). Or send a note to asmr4@asmr4.net. Price is $10 and shipping.

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Very Excited to announce the launch of ASMR4! 

ASMR4 is a small-run conversation. A conversation between 4 photographers in the form of a book. 16 page signatures. 16 page late night conversations at a bar. The first volume of this experiment is a sequence taken from Adam Putnam’s film project Reclaimed Empire (Deep Edit) 2008-2016, an ongoing series comprised of over 80 fragments and short video works. The title, initially an overt nod to Warhol’s Empire, speaks less about homage, and more to the notion of a constant return to repeated subject matter - a gaze that never leaves, that stares un-blinkingly – mechanically - at the same subject. “This was my Empire, comprised of whatever was on hand in my studio, sculptural fragments, broken mirrors, architectural models and other detritus…”

ASMR4 is co-edited by Katie Murray, Adam Putnam, Vicky Sambunaris and Dan Torop.

New York friends, please join us for the launch of ASMR4 vol. 1, Adam Putnam’s Reclaimed Empire, at Spoonbill Studios, 99 Montrose Avenue, Brooklyn, Sunday, September 10, 7PM.

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Tongue Tide Exhibition at Flux Factory opens tonight 6-9

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Tongue Tide Exhibition

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Long Island City Flux Factory is pleased to present its next 2017 Major Exhibition, Tongue Tide, opening Thursday, July 6 from 6-9PM. The exhibition will be on view through Sunday, July 30 with gallery hours on Saturdays & Sundays from 1-6PM, and by appointment. Inspired by Flux Factory’s location in Queens, NY -- the most language-dense area in the world-- Tongue Tide explores the multitude of ways in which artists engage with language, addressing both its tide-like ebb and flow as well as its limitations. Investigating the ways in which we experience, use and understand words, the projects will take many forms including: games, performances, photography, installation, neon sign, nomadic library, opera, karaoke booth, artists books, online dictionary, video installation, walks, conversations over meals, visual storytelling workshops and more.

Public Events:Opening Reception, July 6th, 6-9PM  Featuring The Blue Bus Project, and performances by Irene Chan, JeviJoe Vitug, and Martha Wilson.Flux Thursday, July 13, 5:30PM Artist walk by Bibi Calderaro, followed by a potluck with performances by Maribel Placencia and Purgatory Pie Press.Cinema Flux, July 26, 8PM organized by J Triangular.

Closing Reception, July 30th, 2-6PMPerformances by Amela Parcic with Marija Draskic, an opera by Michal Dzitko, and a potluck dinner organized by Masoom Moitra.Participating 

Artists:Amela Parcic & Marija Draskic, Amira Hanafi, The Blue Bus Project, Bibi Calderaro, Carlos Salas, Eugenio De Giovanni Pizzorno, Graciela Cassel, Grayson Earle, Heather Kapplow & Ernie Kim, Helen Lee, Irene Chan, Jean Barberis & Daupo, Jevijoe Vitug, J Triangular, Katie Murray, Kristin McIver, Magali Duzant, Masoom Moitra, Maribel Plasencia, Martha Wilson, Michal Dzitko, Nina Ross, P A L / Pilipinx American Library, Patricia Silva, Purgatory Pie Press,  Rashedul Deepon & Dan Silverman, and Xenia Diente  

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That Shadow, My Likeness catalogue has been added to the MOMA Library Collection.

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Tops Gallery install images

That Shadow, My Likeness

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 An install image from Tops Gallery

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Katie Murray That Shadow, My Likeness Tops Gallery

400 South Front StreetMemphis, TN 38104

February 24th - April 2nd

Tops Gallery is pleased to announce Katie Murray: That Shadow, My Likeness, the twenty-fifth show at the gallery.

That Shadow, My Likeness, a title borrowed from Walt Whitman'sLeaves of Grass, engages sight, sound, and the passing of time. Murray's intimate color portraits, still lifes, and audibly dense video,Slaying, consider sequential, cyclical, and repetitive nature.

Through a controlled use of color, form, and repetition Murray creates a mysterious metre from her familiar subjects. Her work in the show at Tops includes a portrait of her son with his arm in a red cast, posing sans shirt, against a red wall and a still life of that same cast, cast aside, coolly shot in bright winter light. Other portraits describe a young boy displaying his hand as it casts an abstracted shadow across his torso, while another shows a woman gazing intently, "waiting for Pope Francis", as she cradles her weathered hands in sober anticipation. The video, Slaying, depicts the artist's husband, drummer Ed Klinger, rehearsing the Slayer song "disciple" with vigorous concentration. This work echoes through the anteroom gallery into the main gallery mirroring qualities shared in the photographs.

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“Gazelle” is now on view until October 15 in the exhibition BODY at the European Capital of Culture 2016 Wroclaw, Poland

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All The Queens Men is now on view through July 31 at the Benaki Museum in Athens Greece.