Book Design
LaToya Ruby Frazier: The Last Cruze
This book includes more than sixty black-and-white photographs and documentation of LaToya Ruby Frazier: The Last Cruze at the Renaissance Society as well as five in-depth discussions, each led by Frazier: dialogues with union leaders from UAW Local 1112 and members of its Women’s Committee, and conversations with economic geographer David Harvey; Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Lynn Nottage; and Oscar-winning documentary filmmaker Julia Reichert and Ohio Senator Sherrod Brown. Providing greater context, the book also includes new art-historical essays by Coco Fusco, Benjamin J. Young, and exhibition co-curators Karsten Lund and Solveig Øvstebø, as well as a detailed timeline compiled by Frazier and UAW members tracking the history of unionism in the US, from the 1930s onward. The volume closes with a reflection by Werner Lange, a sociologist who staged a 45-day roadside vigil in solidarity. Text by the Renaissance Society.
Published in 2020; 392 pages, 12 x 9 inches, hardcover; The Renaissance Society; Distributed by the University of Chicago Press; Recognized as TIME’s 20 Best Photobooks of 2021
Photos: Useful Art Services. Courtesy of the Renaissance Society.
Signage and Environmental Graphics
vanessa german: At the end of this reality there is a bridge—the bridge is inside of you but not inside of your body. Take this bridge to get to the next _______, all of your friends are there; death is not real and we are all DJs.
Featuring a new body of monumental rose quartz and precious gemstone sculptures as part of a multi-disciplinary installation developed during vanessa german's Gray Center Fellowship supported by the Joyce Foundation, the exhibition enacts various spells both intended for and composed by the living breathing people encountered during her residency. Created over the course of several months, the works on view embody the site of Chicago as an energetic locus for production—foregrounding the interpersonal linkages formed through art as a form of social healing, meditations on the political histories and methodologies of magic, and spiritual activations that embrace love as an original and infinite human technology. Text by Logan Center Exhibitions.
Artwork by vanessa german. Photos: BOB. Courtesy of Logan Center Exhibitions.
Book Design
Matthew Metzger: Heirloom
Published in 2022; 224 pages, 7 x 10 inches, softcover with flaps; The Renaissance Society; Distributed by the University of Chicago Press
Photos: Useful Art Services. Courtesy of the Renaissance Society.
Signage and Environmental Graphics
DISARM: Everyday Violence, Every Day
Artwork by Carlos Javier Ortiz. Photo: Evan Jenkins. Courtesy of Weinberg/Newton Gallery.
Signage and Environmental Graphics
CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts
Photo: Nicholas Bruno. Courtesy of CCA Wattis Institute.
Book Design
LaToya Ruby Frazier: The Last Cruze
This book includes more than sixty black-and-white photographs and documentation of LaToya Ruby Frazier: The Last Cruze at the Renaissance Society as well as five in-depth discussions, each led by Frazier: dialogues with union leaders from UAW Local 1112 and members of its Women’s Committee, and conversations with economic geographer David Harvey; Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Lynn Nottage; and Oscar-winning documentary filmmaker Julia Reichert and Ohio Senator Sherrod Brown. Providing greater context, the book also includes new art-historical essays by Coco Fusco, Benjamin J. Young, and exhibition co-curators Karsten Lund and Solveig Øvstebø, as well as a detailed timeline compiled by Frazier and UAW members tracking the history of unionism in the US, from the 1930s onward. The volume closes with a reflection by Werner Lange, a sociologist who staged a 45-day roadside vigil in solidarity. Text by the Renaissance Society.
Published in 2020; 392 pages, 12 x 9 inches, hardcover; The Renaissance Society; Distributed by the University of Chicago Press; Recognized as TIME’s 20 Best Photobooks of 2021
Photos: Useful Art Services. Courtesy of the Renaissance Society.
Signage and Environmental Graphics
vanessa german: At the end of this reality there is a bridge—the bridge is inside of you but not inside of your body. Take this bridge to get to the next _______, all of your friends are there; death is not real and we are all DJs.
Featuring a new body of monumental rose quartz and precious gemstone sculptures as part of a multi-disciplinary installation developed during vanessa german's Gray Center Fellowship supported by the Joyce Foundation, the exhibition enacts various spells both intended for and composed by the living breathing people encountered during her residency. Created over the course of several months, the works on view embody the site of Chicago as an energetic locus for production—foregrounding the interpersonal linkages formed through art as a form of social healing, meditations on the political histories and methodologies of magic, and spiritual activations that embrace love as an original and infinite human technology. Text by Logan Center Exhibitions.
Artwork by vanessa german. Photo: BOB. Courtesy of Logan Center Exhibitions.
Book Design
Matthew Metzger: Heirloom
Published in 2022; 224 pages, 7 x 10 inches, softcover with flaps; The Renaissance Society; Distributed by the University of Chicago Press
Photos: Useful Art Services. Courtesy of the Renaissance Society.
Signage and Environmental Graphics
DISARM: Everyday Violence, Every Day
Artwork by Carlos Javier Ortiz. Photo: Evan Jenkins. Courtesy of Weinberg/Newton Gallery.
Signage and Environmental Graphics
CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts
Photo: Nicholas Bruno. Courtesy of CCA Wattis Institute.
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