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Artist Statement
Using stereotypically Californian or "surf culture" imagery has become an exciting way for me to investigate perception, judgement, and tension. Using this imagery does have veiled personal meaning, but is also a loaded and exciting set of images to inherit culturally. In gathering, re-printing, and re-organizing imagery and visual hierarchy I can manipulate narratives and redundancies. It is in gaps and awkward visual pauses where there is a some kind of new "void," a place where judgement is suspended and images go beyond words.
The Kingsboro Press is an independent publishing press I started in 2007 with my friends and collaborators Dan Wagner and Jordan Awan. Considering the nature of manufacturing, circulation, and production is a central part of creating Kingsboro. Having another avenue to think about issues of repetition, print, circulation, and materiality via publishing has greatly affected my own personal work as well.
Using stereotypically Californian or "surf culture" imagery has become an exciting way for me to investigate perception, judgement, and tension. Using this imagery does have veiled personal meaning, but is also a loaded and exciting set of images to inherit culturally. In gathering, re-printing, and re-organizing imagery and visual hierarchy I can manipulate narratives and redundancies. It is in gaps and awkward visual pauses where there is a some kind of new "void," a place where judgement is suspended and images go beyond words.
The Kingsboro Press is an independent publishing press I started in 2007 with my friends and collaborators Dan Wagner and Jordan Awan. Considering the nature of manufacturing, circulation, and production is a central part of creating Kingsboro. Having another avenue to think about issues of repetition, print, circulation, and materiality via publishing has greatly affected my own personal work as well.
CV
MEGAN PLUNKETT
b. 1985, Los Angeles.
Lives and works in Brooklyn, NY.
EDUCATION
2008
BFA, Printmaking, Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NY.
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS
2010
Woof Eyes (performance), Artscape, Baltimore, MD.
QVNOXW//, 86 Forsyth, NY, NY, New York, NY.
2009
New York Stories, Light Industries, New York, NY.
Medium Rare, Golden Age, Chicago, IL.
NDP Benefit, White Columns, NY.
I Don’t Care About the Rest of the Year, Golden Age, Chicago, IL.
Untitled (video), No Soul for Sale, X Initiative, New York, NY.
2008
NADA Art Fair 2008 (under the auspices of Golden Age,) The Ice Palace, Miami, FL.
Art Swap Meet, High Desert Test Sites, Joshua Tree, CA.
One Size Fits All, Printed Matter, New York, NY.
Poster Market International, Angstrom Gallery, Los Angeles, CA.
Milwaukee International Art Fair, The Polish Falcon Bowl, Milwaukee, WI.
The Dark Fair, Swiss Institute, New York, NY.
PROJECTS AND CURATORIAL INITIATIVES
2010
Publications and Multiples Fair, Open Space. Baltimore, MD.
-co-founded annual event at Open Space Gallery in Baltimore, a showcase of independent art publishers and record labels.
2008
The Convergence Center: 23 Portraits of 22 Year Olds (in collaboration with Matt Keegan and Alex Gartenfeld,) The Armory, New York, NY
-curated and organized a project for Creative Time's "Democracy Now" exhibition in collaboration with Keegan and Gartenfeld.
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2007-Present
Co-founder, The Kingsboro Press
BIBLIOGRAPHY
2010
The Kingsboro Press, ANP Quarterly, January 2010
"Dynasty Zines," Celeste Magazine, June 2010
2009
“Recession Era Publishing,” BOMB Magazine, October 2009
Nothing, Nada, The Void, Zero, Solo artists' book published by Medium Rare Press
Wenzel, Erik, “Beach Culture,” ARTslant Worldwide
Younger Than Jesus: Artist Directory, Phaidon Press
2008
Brehmer, Noah, “The Dark Fair”, SusceptibletoImages.com
MEGAN PLUNKETT
b. 1985, Los Angeles.
Lives and works in Brooklyn, NY.
EDUCATION
2008
BFA, Printmaking, Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NY.
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS
2010
Woof Eyes (performance), Artscape, Baltimore, MD.
QVNOXW//, 86 Forsyth, NY, NY, New York, NY.
2009
New York Stories, Light Industries, New York, NY.
Medium Rare, Golden Age, Chicago, IL.
NDP Benefit, White Columns, NY.
I Don’t Care About the Rest of the Year, Golden Age, Chicago, IL.
Untitled (video), No Soul for Sale, X Initiative, New York, NY.
2008
NADA Art Fair 2008 (under the auspices of Golden Age,) The Ice Palace, Miami, FL.
Art Swap Meet, High Desert Test Sites, Joshua Tree, CA.
One Size Fits All, Printed Matter, New York, NY.
Poster Market International, Angstrom Gallery, Los Angeles, CA.
Milwaukee International Art Fair, The Polish Falcon Bowl, Milwaukee, WI.
The Dark Fair, Swiss Institute, New York, NY.
PROJECTS AND CURATORIAL INITIATIVES
2010
Publications and Multiples Fair, Open Space. Baltimore, MD.
-co-founded annual event at Open Space Gallery in Baltimore, a showcase of independent art publishers and record labels.
2008
The Convergence Center: 23 Portraits of 22 Year Olds (in collaboration with Matt Keegan and Alex Gartenfeld,) The Armory, New York, NY
-curated and organized a project for Creative Time's "Democracy Now" exhibition in collaboration with Keegan and Gartenfeld.
.
2007-Present
Co-founder, The Kingsboro Press
BIBLIOGRAPHY
2010
The Kingsboro Press, ANP Quarterly, January 2010
"Dynasty Zines," Celeste Magazine, June 2010
2009
“Recession Era Publishing,” BOMB Magazine, October 2009
Nothing, Nada, The Void, Zero, Solo artists' book published by Medium Rare Press
Wenzel, Erik, “Beach Culture,” ARTslant Worldwide
Younger Than Jesus: Artist Directory, Phaidon Press
2008
Brehmer, Noah, “The Dark Fair”, SusceptibletoImages.com
Golden Age Installation2009
Neoprene, wood, digital prints
Dimensions variable
Kingsboro Issue 62010
Risograph on paper
8.5 x 11 in.
Kingsboro Issue 62010
Risograph on paper
8.5 x 11 in.
Totally Pitted Installation2010
Digital prints on paper
Dimensions variable
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Untitled2009
Hand dyed fabric in box frame
24 x 36 in.
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Untitled2009
Hand dyed fabric in box frame
24 x 36 in.
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Untitled2009
Risograph on paper
8.5 x 11 in.
In collaboration with Max Krivitzky
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Nothing, Nada, the Void Zero 12009
Xerox print on paper, from the series Nothing, Nada, the Void, Zero
9 x 12 in.
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Nothing, Nada, the Void, Zero 22009
Xerox print on paper, from the series Nothing, Nada, the Void, Zero
9 x 12 in.
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Nothing, Nada, the Void, Zero 32009
Xerox print on paper, from the series Nothing, Nada, the Void, Zero
9 x 12 in.
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Untitled2010
Digital print on canvas
18 x 24 in.
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Untitled2010
Digital print on canvas
18 x 24 in.
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Untitled2010
Digital print on canvas
18 x 24 in.
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Untitled (Totally Pitted 1)2010
Digital print and xerox transfer on paper
36 x 46 in.
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Untitled (Totally Pitted 2)2010
Digital print and xerox transfer on paper
36 x 46 in.
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Untitled (Totally Pitted 3)2010
Digital print and xerox transfer on paper
36 x 46 in.
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Untitled (Totally Pitted 4)2010
Digital print and xerox transfer on paper
36 x 46 in.
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Untitled2010
Bleach and xerox on fax paper
9 x 12 in.