HARD TO LOOK AT: FAVORITES & RARITIES BY ZACKARY DRUCKER

Zackary Drucker with Flawless Sabrina, At Least You Know You Exist, 16mm film transferred to digital video, 15:51, 2011

HARD TO LOOK AT: FAVORITES & RARITIES BY ZACKARY DRUCKER
REDCAT | DTLA
SUNDAY, JULY 8, 2018
3PM | RECEPTION IN THE REDCAT LOUNGE TO FOLLOW
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The first-ever survey of short films and performance documentation by Zackary Drucker (b. 1983) and her collaborators, exploring 12 years in the career of a groundbreaking American transgender multimedia artist, LGBT activist, actress, and producer of the award-winning television show, Transparent. A conversation with Drucker and USC Professor in Art and Design and Vice Dean of Critical Studies Amelia Jones will follow the screening. Curated by Darin Klein for DIRTY LOOKS: ON LOCATION. 

Zackary Drucker’s photographs, films, and performances have been presented at institutions, venues and festivals internationally and across the US, and at local venues including the Hammer Museum, Luis De Jesus Los Angeles, MOCA, and REDCAT. Her work has been reviewed in publications including Los Angeles Times, The New York Times, and Art in America.

This program is a centerpiece screening for DIRTY LOOKS: ON LOCATION, a sweeping, month-long film and performance festival presenting art in thriving queer community spaces or locales with hidden queer pasts. Taking the summer in stride, this truly experimental time-based arts festival aims to better blend the social with the cultural, engaging city venues to bring to light the complex relationships between sexuality, culture, gentrification, and forgotten or suppressed queer histories in unlikely and affective ways. Full schedule at www.dirtylooksla.org 

Darin Klein & Friends at Printed Matter's LA Art Book Fair 2017

Bullhorn Press, Darin Klein & Friends, and Printed Matter present: Box of Books, Vol. X

The final iteration of this 10-year annual project features 20 one-page, letterpressed artists’ books housed in handmade Baltic birch boxes in an unnumbered edition of 150.

Featuring Amy Von Harrington, Ania Diakoff, Bettina Hubby with Steven Rimlinger, Christeene, Christopher Russell, Edie Fake, Gelare Khoshgozaran, Hazel Meyer, Iris Porter, CUUNT (Jaye Fishel), Jeffrey Cheung, Johanna Jackson & Chris Johanson, Julien Poirier, Keith Corollo, Leah Hayes, Math Bass, Onya Hogan-Finlay & Kim Kelly, Sonya Sombreuil Cohen, Tyler Matthew Oyer, and Zackary Drucker. 

Printed Matter’s LA ART BOOK FAIR 2017

February 24 – February 26, 2017
Preview: Thursday, February 23, 2017, 6–9 pm

The Geffen Contemporary at MOCA
Friday February 24, 1pm-7pm
Saturday February 25, 11am-7pm
Sunday February 26, 11am-6pm
152 North Central Avenue
Los Angeles, CA 90012
(213) 626-6222
moca.org

Also on view with Darin Klein & Friends: Work by Box of Books, Vol. X participating artist Tyler Matthew Oyer.

Chapters: Book Arts in Southern California

Chapters: Book Arts in Southern California
January 29 - May 7, 2017
Craft and Folk Art Museum
5814 Wilshire Boulevard
Los Angeles, CA 90036

Featuring a selection of Darin Klein's collaborative publications:

Box of Books, Vol. X
Amy Von Harrington, Ania Diakoff, Bettina Hubby with Steven Rimlinger, Christeene, Christopher Russell, Edie Fake, Gelare Khoshgozaran, Hazel Meyer, Iris Porter, CUUNT (Jaye Fishel), Jeffrey Cheung, Johanna Jackson & Chris Johanson, Julien Poirier, Keith Corollo, Leah Hayes, Math Bass, Onya Hogan-Finlay & Kim Kelly, Sonya Sombreuil Cohen, Tyler Matthew Oyer, and Zackary Drucker.

3 Pack-Jack
The (W)hole Story: Noel Alumit, R. Daniel Foster, Gavy Kessler, Christopher Lung, Ian MacKinnon, and Martin Matamoros; Cum As You Are: John Cantwell, Ben Cuevas, Keith Hunter, Pip Lilly, Ian MacKinnon, Brenden Shucart, and Rich Yap; CockTales: Torrie Gregor, Ian MacKinnon, Jonny McGovern, Wes Would; Photography: Matt Baume; Book design and production: Christopher Kardambikis, Darin Klein, and Steven Reigns

Tagged: Variations on a Theme by Kevin Killian
Rob Halpern, Kevin Killian and Raymond Pettibon. Deluxe edition includes artwork by Elijah Burger. Publisher: Gravity and Trajectory; Book design and production: Christopher Kardambikis, Darin Klein, and Louis M Schmidt.

21st Century Queer Artists Identify Themselves #2
Ron Abram, Brandon Andrew, Artist Curated Projects, Cody Bayne, Alex Black & Samuel White w/ Closetboy, Lindsay Brant, Timothy Cummings, Cathy de la Cruz, Nathalie Dierickx, Deanna Erdmann, Fag Punk, Ella Gant, Sam Gordon, Jeremiah Gregory, Nicholas Grider, Lia Halloran, Jim Hanson, Hi Fashion, Onya Hogan-Finlay, David Humphrey, Larissa Brantner James, Jonesy, David King, Anthony Lepore, Joe Mama-Nitzberg & Marc Swanson, Kirk Maxson, Lucas Michael, Zac Monday, Leon Mostovoy, Erwin Ong, Paul Pescador, Clifford Landon Pun, Christopher Russell, Steven Reigns, Christopher Schulz, Ethan Shoshan, Max Steele, Doug Stockstill, Sweaterqueens, Margaret Tedesco, Philip Tomaru, Chris Vargas & Greg Youmans, Rob Williams, Marty Windahl, Charles Herman Wurmfeld, Joe Yorty and Austin Young.

Bitches Rule cycle 2
bodega vendetta, Dino Dinco, Zackary Drucker, Brian Gainey, Lucas Michael, DJ Natureboy AKA Brandy Champagne AKA She-Nanigans!!!, and prvtdncr.

Bitches Rule cycle 3
Brandon Andrew, John Arsenault, Jesse Bern, Juan Martin Del Campo, Enrique Castrejon, Zackary Drucker, Brian Gainey, Paul Gellman, Duane Paul, prvtdncr, David Rasmussen, bodega vendetta, and a found artwork by an unknown artist.

Box of Books, Vol. X, 2017

Collaborative queer zines, 2008-2015

Box of Books, Vol. IX Release Party!

In case you missed us at LA Art Book Fair, come on down to the release party on Saturday, March 5, 2016. 6-10pm. 1821 3rd Ave, LA CA 90019. See you there!

https://m.facebook.com/events/550932868415331/

Recap: LA Art Book Fair 2016

Loving LAABF 2016! Artworks by Box of Books, Vol. IX participant Christopher Russell (background).

Box of Books, Vol. IX - Tiny Splendor + Darin Klein & Friends; 2 Bag Pile-Up - Darin Klein/Louis M Schmidt; 3-Pack Jack - Christopher Kardambikis, Darin Klein, Steven Reigns.

Artworks by Box of Books, Vol. IX participants Christopher Russell (left) and Elijah Burgher (right).

LAABF 2016 attendees.

LAABF 2016 attendees.

Another fabulous, busy, exciting and successful LAABF! Thanks to everyone who stopped by my table to peruse my latest zine projects! - Darin

Box of Books + more @ LA Art Book Fair 2016

IPlease come see us in the zine section of the LA Art Book Fair! Hot off the press is Box of Books, Vol. IX, a collaboration between Tiny Splendor and Darin Klein & Friends. Also available will be 2 Bag Pile-Up, a split photo zine by Darin Klein and Louis M Schmidt, and 3-Pack Jack, a collaborative set of three zines documenting a recent series of queer performance nights at the Akbar in LA.

Box of Books, VOl. IX 

Artwork and 2-color screen print on pink pastry boxes by Kenneth Srivijittakar

Box of Books, Vol. IX

Insert card with artists' names by Saana Khan

Snapshot: Christopher Russell's backside

Also on view at Darin Klein & Friends' booth at LAABF:
Christopher Russell
Aftermath #22, 2014

Pigment print scratched with razor, spray paint, OP3 plexiglas scratched with razor

16 x 20 inches

 Snapshot: Louis M Schmidt's backside

Snapshot: sweaterqueens' backside

Snapshot: Caroline Paquita

Snapshot: Elijah Burgher

Also on view at Darin Klein & Friends' booth at LAABF:

Elijah Burgher

BotD (black), 2015

Acrylic on canvas dropcloth

102 x 69 inches

Box of Books, Vol. IX @ LA Art Book Fair 2016

Tiny Splendor + Darin Klein & Friends present
Box of Books, Vol. IX
LA Art Book Fair 2016

Imagine a small book (sometimes expanding to reveal something more…) cut and folded from a single sheet of paper! In Box of Books, Vol. IX, participants use this format to unique ends. Tiny Splendor + Darin Klein & Friends have teamed up to present a limited edition set of 20 Risograph printed books packed in pink pastry boxes. Featuring work by Devendra Banhart, Heather Benjamin, Elijah Burgher & Jonathan Carreon, Jeffrey Cheung, Edie Fake, Christopher Kardambikis, Dorian Katz, Sanaa Khan, Cynthia Navarro, Johnny Negron, Night Diver Press, Caroline Paquita, Christopher Russell, Nathaniel Russell, Louis M Schmidt, Danny Shimoda, Kenneth Srivijittakar, Max Stadnik, sweaterqueens = prvtdncr & bodega vendetta, and Cahill Wessel.

Come check it out!

Printed Matter’s LA ART BOOK FAIR 2016
February 12 – February 14, 2016
Preview: Thursday, February 11, 2016, 6–9 pm
The Geffen Contemporary at MOCA

 

Free and open to the public, Printed Matter’s LA Art Book Fair is a unique event for artists’ books, art catalogs, monographs, periodicals, and zines presented by over 250 international presses, booksellers, antiquarians, artists, and independent publishers. Printed Matter’s LA Art Book Fair 2015 saw over 34,700 visitors over the course of three and a half days.

 

Hours and Location

Preview: Thursday, February 11, 6–9 pm

Printed Matter’s LA ART BOOK FAIR, free and open to the public:
Friday February 12, 1pm-6pm
Saturday February 13, 11am-7pm
Sunday February 14, 11am-6pm

 

The Geffen Contemporary at MOCA
152 North Central Avenue
Los Angeles, CA 90012
(213) 626-6222
moca.org (map)