Residency Program
Artist’s Publications
2021
We are excited to share the work of our 2021 MUUS Collection and Penumbra Foundation Risograph Print & Publication Residents. Please consider purchasing a book, and supporting the continued growth of this new program into the future.
Limited quantities of all publications will be available directly from Penumbra at the book launch:
Thursday, September 9th, 6pm, at Penumbra Foundation (in person, limited capacity): RSVP
James, The River
Eva Alcántara
James the River is a story about getting older–among other things of course. I think about the times in my childhood where a month seemed so long, almost like an eternity. The older I get, the faster everything seems to go. But even then (because I am still very young) I look back to the beginning of last year and I say to myself: oh my God… So much has happened. I floated down a river for about two hours one day, my cousin drove me there–to the river. I was carrying one of those black tubes I would see in old movies a lot. I saw time passing, organisms dying and growing. I had to make a book about it.
Pages: 120
Binding: Spiral
Paper: Mohawk Superfine, Mohawk Keaycolour, Evolon AP
Size: 6" × 8"
Edition: 60
Printing: Risograph, Foil Stamp (cover)
Price: $65
The Weight of Slumber
Ryan Frigillana
The Weight of Slumber is an exploration of grief as it unfolded during the unprecedented events of 2020. From the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic and ensuing lockdown, my grief and loneliness were immeasurably compounded by the abrupt end of a near-six-year relationship. Quarantined and faced with the sudden loss of intimacy and physical contact, I began forming a connection with—and harboring an attuned sensitivity to—the immediate spaces and objects around my home. From the smallest insects to the chorus of rain marching down my gutters, from the snow blowing in through my window living and dying on my bed, to the found photographs I obsessively collected—everything seemed to whisper with weighted words. Sought in the heart of all things: a prayer, a song, an embrace. Deep in the vacuum of isolation, I yearned for the familiarity of touch, of love and comfort. These images served as vehicles for reconciliation and escape—a simultaneous mirror and compass through grief. Meditations on space, proximity, surface, and ephemerality, recreate the mental landscape of loss and longing I struggled to navigate.
Pages: 68
Binding: Perfect
Paper: Mohawk Superfine, Mohawk Loop
Size: 10" × 12.25"
Edition: 60
Printing: Risograph, Screenprint (cover)
Price: $65
They Name a Street After Him
Erik Hagen
They Name a Street After Him are photographs made during the six years I drove a taxi in Los Angeles. Many of these images were made while driving, others on foot or at home. Together they are a lonely meditation on a sprawling metropolis; film noir visions of an everyday working life that reveal neither beauty nor glamour but rather an endless sprawl of concrete and an unending battle with nature. Interspersed with the images are a number of short text vignettes. These stories are fictionalized first-person accounts of experiences, conversations, and observations from my time behind the wheel; they introduce the tempo of language and fill in the shadows of the pictures.
Pages: 64
Binding: Wire-O
Paper: Mohawk Superfine, Mohawk Carnival
Size: 14" × 9.5"
Edition: 60
Printing: Risograph, Screenprint (cover)
Price: $65
Of The Night, By the City
Alex Mctigue
The space between is the site where photography works, absence is the site of desire. Of the Night, By the City looks to found language embedded within the streets of New York City as a site of overlap between the past and the present.
This book consists of 36 gelatin silver contact prints, made by using a cast from a single New York City sidewalk. To make this work I created a one-to-one indexical impression using a transparent urethane silicone mold. The mold becomes a negative in and of itself. Bringing this negative into the darkroom, the larger singular image is exposed and fragmented according to industry standard paper sizes. This found language suspended in the sidewalk is a codex of the city. Through the photographic reliance on both time and perspective, memory’s image is dissected, skewed and re-ordered. Some call this the language of the night, others simply find presence in the absence.
Pages: 40
Binding: Perfect, with pocket pages
Paper: Mohawk Superfine, Arches
Size: 10" × 12"
Edition: 54
Printing: Risograph, with embossed cover, and one silver gelatin print.
Price: $65
Sponsor
The MUUS Collection / Penumbra Foundation Risograph Print & Publication Residency is supported by a generous gift from the MUUS Collection, an organization with a mission to make visible their photography collection and archives through exhibitions, scholarship, donations, licensing, and the printing of images and books.