NYC BASED CURATOR A COLOR GREEN AND EMERGING BOOK PUBLISHER ENDLESS EDITIONS TEAM FOR NEVER BLUE RELEASE AND GALLERY SHOW ON MARCH 27TH.
Following up on artist and curator A COLOR GREEN’s hybrid streetartbook release, The A Color Green Zine Vol. 1 “In Black and White” (2015), Never Blue (2016) picks up from where Green left off, curating a selection of some of New York’s finest up and coming independent, underground artists working in street art and illustration today. Available directly by Green and in store at Printed Matter, INC.’s original storefront, the first and only edition of Black and White sold out in just a few months prior to amassing a few thousand downloads on BitTorrent.
When Never Blue came around, what was originally planned as a simple follow up to Vol. 1 eventually hit a stale, all too ironic halt. A COLOR GREEN and his team of artists disconnected working on different projects, films, murals, art shows of their own. Intermittently, A COLOR GREEN along with a band of illustrators and a few familiar names released the Green Carpet Zine, a short and slick look at celebrity image and satire of everyone’s favorite faces.
Never Blue combines the experience and talents of Green’s last few years. Formally copublished by Endless Editions and premiering exclusively in store alongside all blue gallery exhibition at Con Artist NYC on March 27th for one night only. Featuring artwork by:
A Color Green Joe Capon Abe Lincoln, Jr. Joe Egan Akiko Justin Crawford Anna Lindel Kristy Elena Anna D. Williams Lauren Asta Baily Crawford Leaf 8k Brolga Maori Maori CEEZ Miriam Carruthers Chiar Murrz Chris RWK Nyssa Frank City Kitty Street Art Ostertag Damian Rivera Seth Laupus David Weiss SL Graphic Design Frank Ape Stephen Faillace Haus Riot Tripp Jakovich Imamaker Victoria Montes Jason Longo Xbstrxct Jcorp ™ Zero Productivity
1 “AN EDITOR’S NOTE TO NEVER BLUE should be written with little time and not too much care. Like time is fleeting, a distant drum from the past plowing forward, propelling you into this all new and often blue landscape, layered with a weak footing and an ever increasing weight of the everyday life.
The ironic beauty that comes along with something like a freshly tagged NYC wall, a silent street block on a late night or the first snow storm of the year is forever plagued by the city itself aggressive, anxiousness, unapologetic. Everyday life just gets us fucking down some days, but then there are others where a little fuel to the flame gets the creative juices flowing. A COLOR GREEN and this zine collection is forever indebted, meant for New York City, all the gritty, good or bad and stripping it down this time with a mask of all blue for the winter 2016 season.
Never Blue features a selection of my favorite up and coming artists from NYC to St. Petersburg and also includes a few guest spots from Artists, Characters such as Chris RWK or Frank Ape who really inspired me to continue developing Mr. Green two years ago. A selection of street artists, illustrators and more, Never Blue is a reflection of Mr. Green’s paradoxical Picasso period, winter doldrums and depressed dreams.” A COLOR GREEN
EVENT DETAILS:
3/27/16 at Con Artist Collective, 119 Ludlow St., New York, NY.
Featuring A Color Green and participating artists in attendance.
Gallery show including work from Con Artist Collective members & surprise guests.
All proceeds directly benefit future independent publishing of A COLOR GREEN, Endless Editions and New York based artists.
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ABOUT ENDLESS EDITIONS
Since January of 2014 Endless Editions has exhibited and hosted events at the NY and LA Art Book Fairs at MoMA PS1 and The Geffen Contemporary respectively, Con Artist Collective, Court Tree Collective, Printed Matter, INC., Trestle Gallery, The Metropolitan Museum of Fine Art, and 80WSE Gallery. Endless Editions books have been on display at Mixed Greens Gallery, Walker Art Center, Carolina Nitszche Gallery, Ooga Booga Bookstore, and The Sculpture Center via Desert Island Comics. Endless Editions operates out of the Robert Blackburn Printmaking Workshop, and The Gateway Project in Newark, NJ. Find Endless editions products at Printed Matter, INC, McNally Jackson, Art Metrople, MoMA Library, Newark Public Library, New York Public Library, and Artbook at MoMA PS1.
ABOUT CON ARTIST COLLECTIVE
Con Artist is an art collective consisting of a gallery and shared workspace, started in early 2010. All items available for sale are either made or curated by members of the collective. An active community of creatives, curating group shows & social events, encouraging collaboration & inspiring imagination.
ABOUT A COLOR GREEN
A COLOR GREEN is a New York based artist, curator and collaborator; a hybrid collective of film, illustration, animation and street art often under the guise of “Mr. Green”. Known for a “Black & White”, often basic and bare bones aesthetic, Green connects his work with a crudeelement, subtle independent face of criticism popping up on your neighbor's front door or on the 3rd Avenue subway line. When Green isn’t curating and publishing books, drawing on walls or slapping stickers, he’s busy working on films, like his upcoming “meditativehorror” short about a tonguechopping madman named MUTE. Never Blue is A Color Green’s third zine to date and first gallery show under his own orchestration.
PLEASE DIRECT ALL PRESS INQUIRIES TO: [email protected]
www.acolorgreen.com @acolorgreen @a_color_green
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