Missouri-based writer Matthew Ballou just published a review of the final release of 2014 from Kelly’s Cove Press, Richard Diebenkorn: Still Lifes and Landscapes. Check it out at the Neoteric Art website.
This third Richard Diebenkorn release from Kelly’s Cove Press features many previously unavailable images, all courtesy of The Richard Diebenkorn Foundation. Still Lifes and Landscapes is currently available a discounted rate. Please see our 2014 year end offer page for more details.
Squeak Carnwath: Works on Paper, an exhibition at the College of Marin 9/22 – 10/16, features pieces from the recently published Kelly’s Cove Press title Horizon On Fire, a retrospective on the Oakland-based artist. Carnwath’s works also appeared in the Kelly’s Cove title Occupy and Other Love Stories, released in 2012.
Kelly’s Cove is pleased to announce the release of Hollywood Digs by Ken LaZebnik, on April 1, 2014.
We have just published a new version of A Raid On The Oyster Pirates, a short story by Jack London, with original artwork from William T. Wiley. Read more in this Press Democrat online slots feature: Jack London Still Making News
Evan Karp
July 25, 2013
As Bart Schneider was publishing Genine Lentine’s remarkable book “Poses,” a collection of writings (instead of drawings) from live models, he decided he wanted to include figure drawings.
“I figured, might as well start with the master,” he said via e-mail, and approached the Diebenkorn Foundation. Receptive, and pleased with the way “Poses” came out, the foundation agreed to let Schneider do a book of Richard Diebenkorn’s work on paper.
“When I realized how much magnificent work there was – the foundation estimates that 4,000 of RD’s 5,000 known works are on paper – I decided it needed to be two books: ‘Abstractions on Paper’ and ‘From the Model,’ ” he e-mails.
The timing couldn’t have been better: With the de Young’s current exhibit “Richard Diebenkorn: The Berkeley Years, 1953-1966,” interest in the painter’s work is high. “I suppose the reason we got to publish so many of these works for the first time,” Schneider says, “is that people weren’t aware of what treasures the foundation holds.
“My goal is to make small, inexpensive art books, which offer viewers a direct and intimate experience of the artists’ work, without the interference of scholarly essays and analysis. Our Diebenkorn books have been flying off the shelves, which suggests that people’s direct response to the work doesn’t depend on having a specialist guide them.”
Friday night, as part of their Friday Nights at the de Young series and in conjunction with the exhibit, the museum hosts a special performance by the legendary, luminously oddball poet Michael McClure in concert with jazz improv masters George Brooks and Rob Wasserman. McClure was among those who went to watch Diebenkorn paint at California College of Arts and Crafts (now the California College of the Arts) circa 1960. Over the phone, he said Diebenkorn was a big influence on his own work.
“He was a hero of mine. … I particularly like his early work, his middle work and his later work,” McClure said, laughing. “All of it.” Though he says, “His early (Berkeley) work I will probably always think is the most beautiful because it’s what I grew up with.
“But then again he was an improvisational painter at that time, and I’m working with two of the really great improvisational musicians George Brooks and Rob Wasserman – two enormously gifted people – and I think together it will be a real celebration of what he has done for us.”
In fact, McClure was in a band with Brooks and Wasserman, along with the Doors’ Ray Manzarek, called Big Mix, and part of the evening will be a tribute to Manzarek, who died in May. McClure says one of the poems they’ll perform will be “Maybe Mama Lion,” for which McClure wrote the words and Manzarek the music.
Both “Richard Diebenkorn: Abstractions on Paper” and “Richard Diebenkorn: From the Model” are available at the de Young. The exhibition at the de Young runs through Sept. 29.
Jazz and Poetry: 5 p.m. Friday. Free. de Young Museum, 50 Hagiwara Tea Garden Drive, S.F. (415) 750-3600. http://bit.ly/12Yp1uh.
Evan Karp is a freelance writer and the founder of Quiet Lightning. E-mail: 96hours@sfchronicle.com Twitter: @Litseen
Pre-order Richard Diebenkorn’s From the Model and Abstractions on Paper by June 15 for a discount.
Sunday, Feb. 17, 2:00 PM — Daniel Coshnear, author of Occupy and Other Love Stories, and Genine Lentine, author of Poses: An Essay Drawn from the Model will be reading at Bird & Beckett Books and Records in San Francisco.
Join us in celebrating the press, writers and artists that have created these books.
Don’t forget about our sale on all 2011 titles, through the holidays. Visit this page and select the discounted price on the drop-down menu.
New press for Genine Lentine’s book release celebration in the SF Chronicle’s Thursday Pink section “Ovation: 96 Hours.”
Click here for full the article on poetry readings this weekend. Or read below:
For the past 10 years, Genine Lentine has attended drawing groups and written from the model. “When I was drawing one day, I was just, like, ‘I’m thinking about way too much stuff to even be in this room,’ so I started to write, but almost more just survival, you know, to clear my mind,” she says.
She says she found the limitations of the process – timed poses, the immediacy of the model, writing in pencil on a large sheet of paper – to be engaging, “to slow down thought enough for writing to keep up.”
The groups have given Lentine something rare for writers: “With other people drawing,” she says, “it felt kind of grounding, a sense of we’re all doing this thing together.”
She will celebrate the publication of a full collection of these writings, titled “Poses: An Essay Drawn From the Model,” on Friday. The book contains drawings by Richard Diebenkorn and a foreword by Mark Doty, who writes: ” ‘Poses’ is something we haven’t seen.” In addition to readings by Lentine, Frances Richard and Alix Lambert, who will also screen some film, there will be a drawing session with Chester Arnold and Co. (materials provided), and an oracular reading by Farnoosh Fathi.
Presented by Green Arcade Books, and in conjunction with the series Mattress Talks: Interviews With Artists & Poets on Discomfort, the event will be on the second-floor loft of the McRoskey Mattress Co. (7 p.m. 1687 Market St., S.F. Free-$5. bit.ly/Qm3DxI)
Evan Karp is a freelance writer. E-mail: 96hours@sfchronicle.com Twitter: @Litseen
Read more: http://www.sfgate.com/books/article/Poet-Alice-Notley-to-read-in-Bay-Area-4074978.php#ixzz2Df59H1F1
Our final title for the year has finally arrived. A shipment of Poses: An Essay Drawn from the Model is here and the books look absolutely beautiful.
