Good News, Bad News and Silver Linings

Stephen Andrews Forecast, 2006 ($2)

Stephen Andrews (Toronto) will hold a public conversation on art and HIV/AIDS activism with writer Gregg Bordowitz and Visual AIDS Director Nelson Santos at the upcoming New York Art Book Fair.  The event marks the publication of the first volume of Duets, a series initiated by Visual AIDS to foster dialogue between artists, writers and activists about their creative process and issues around HIV/AIDS. 
NYABF at MoMA PS1 Events & Visual AIDS Duets

Eloisa Aquino, The Life and Times of Butch Dykes:  Audre Lorde 2013 ($6)

The Institute for Gender, Race, Sexuality and Social Justice at the University of British Columbia will present the Vancouver premiere of Audre Lorde: The Berlin Years followed by a Q&A with filmmaker Dagmar Schultz and Dr. Annette Henry (UBC)

Audre Lorde Fall Festival

247 Main until September 20th!

Committee Books' short run with Joda Clement at 247 Main has come to an end. He is moving on to other ventures and avenues and I will become Committee Projects and return from Toronto and the New York Art Book Fair with new artist print- and sound-based publications for you all. And once I have a space to put them in, you are all invited. Can't wait to see you again.

Stephen Andrews Editioned Ephemera

The 1st Part of the 2nd Half (2001)

Untitled (1999)

Forecast (2006)

Hoi Polloi (1998)

Stephen Andrews, various ephemera, 1998-2006
Unnumbered Editions of 1000 with artist's embossed signature

$2 each

Each work was published to accompany one of the artist's exhibitions. These tabloid-format newsprint editions are printed on both sides. 

The theme of mediated spectatorship connects all of these works. 

The 1st Part of the 2nd Half (2001) based on Andrews' 2002 exhibition of the same name. The artist investigates the visual boundary between the self and the social, the component and the whole by representing a zoom sequence as it tracks back from a detail of individuals to the moment when they dissolve into the crowd.

Forecast (2006) is based on Andrews’ 2005 work Friendly Fire. A video sequence translated into simulations of four-colour separation prints comprise a few chaotic frames from a war-correspondent's news footage that documents the moment when an unseen, but injured cameraman bleeds onto his lens. Through Andrews' formal decisions and the content of the newsclip, we are reminded of the many layers of conceptual and technological mediation as well as the physical bodies that exist between us and our window to the day's 'Breaking News.'

Untitled (1999) reprints the artist's rendering of a medium shot of crowds as a collage of faces which Andrews' reveals through cut-outs is also a collage of pen and paper.

Hoi Polloi (1998) based on Andrews' work of the same name are drawings simulating long shots of crowds of spectators captured on surveillance tapes. The artist implies that we are caught in a loop in which our view, is another viewer's view of viewers.

 Born in Sarnia, Ontario, Andrews lives and works in Toronto. He exhibits his work regularly and travels extensively.

 Stephen Andrews profile page on the Centre for Contemporary Canadian Art site