February 2022 Newsletter
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Congrats to the Bride and Groom!
We’re so grateful to have seen no shortage of projects coming through the studio this month! In between painstakingly separating files for screen printing, color matching, and getting stationery projects out the door, owner and founder, Ingrid Schindall, has been putting final touches on her own wedding; set for this coming Tuesday, the 22nd! Naturally, Ingrid designed and printed her own stunning and playfully colorful Key Largo-inspired wedding suite - sure to make a splash on the Nocturnal Press Instagram and website very soon.
The IS Projects team wants to wish Ingrid and Johnny Zhang, IS Project’s go-to photographer and videographer extraordinaire, the best on this new exciting chapter of their lives. Johnny has been diligently working behind the scenes for years now, filming our virtual workshops and virtual gallery tours at the height of the pandemic, documenting Ingrid’s independent projects, and leveling up our website and marketing photos. Expect to see many more collaborations between these two over the coming years!
With that said, we will be closed Tuesday, February 22nd and Wednesday February 23rd and will resume normal hours the 24th. As our big move approaches, we cannot take on any more book or screenprinting projects until we get settled. We still have limited availability for letterpress projects and assisted studio time so be sure to reach out with those inquires as soon as possible.
It’s hard to believe we only have another month of classes at this address! Check out our class discount and offerings below.
IN THE GALLERY
Lexicon of Longing by Golnar Adili
On View Until March 1, 2022
Closing Reception: Feb 26th, 6-10pm
Lexicon of Longing is a solo exhibition of artists' books and prints by Golnar Adili which grapple with deconstructing and reconstructing past traumas. Born in Virginia to activist parents fighting against the shah, Adili’s family migrated to Iran in the wake of the revolution. Growing up in post-1979 Tehran, in the face of seismic geopolitical shifts, Adili experienced uprooting and disconnection. Only two years after their resettlement in Iran, Iraq’s sudden attack on Iran tightened the Islamic Republic’s grip on any political opposition, catalyzing Adili’s father’s eventual escape back to the United States. Adili’s father was never able to return. This separation split Adili’s family for many years, ending only when she moved to the states to attend college. In her work, Adili is compelled to decode the ways in which these events have marked her.
As a visual thinker, Adili is interested in learning through comparison; making connections between similar shapes and events from varied contexts as the foundation upon which she builds her vast internal library of the world. Inspired by how her own child observes and archives information, Adili has infused her practice with play, using family photographs and language to reshape memory, experiences of displacement and identity. Forgetting and relearning both English and Persian multiple times has made language a fascinating reference in Adili's work. Persian poetry, as well as biographical text investigating a landscape of longing, have provided a valuable context for examining language formally. These investigations include physically building words and letters with a multitude of materials. In doing so, Adili uses architecture, book arts, and installation to distort and blur the lines between design, craft, and fine art.
Golnar Adili is a mixed media artist, educator, and designer with a focus on diasporic identity. She holds a master's degree in architecture from the University of Michigan and has attended residencies at the Rockefeller Foundation for the Arts (Bellagio, Italy), Center for Book Arts (NYC), Smack Mellon (Brooklyn, NY), Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown (MA), MacDowell Colony (NYC), Ucross Foundation for the Arts (Clearmont, WY), Lower East Side Printshop (NYC), Women’s Studio Workshop (Rosendale, NY), and Lower Manhattan Cultural Council Workspace (NYC), among others. Adili has shown her work internationally; venues include: the Victoria and Albert Museum (London, UK), NURTUREart (Brooklyn, NY), Craft and Folk Art Museum (Los Angeles, CA), and International Print Center New York (NYC). She has received several grants, including the Pollock-Krasner Foundation grant, NYFA Fellowship in Printmaking/Drawing/Artists Books, and the Jerome Hill Finalist Grant. Adili is a Jameel Prize finalist. Her artist books are in several collections, including the Library of Congress, Rutgers University, Yale University, and University of Michigan.
COMING SOON:
Land of Sunshine by Angelica Clyman
VISIT US AT ARTWALK
We invite you to the studio for the FATVillage Artwalk this Saturday, February 26th from 6-10pm. We will have our retail space open and the opening reception for our new exhibition up in the gallery!
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