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Marshall Weber
BIOGRAPHY
Marshall Weber, b. 1960, Syosset, New York, lives in Brooklyn, NY
I am represented by and I’m a curator for Booklyn, Inc. and have created significant bodies of work in: artists’ books, collage, poetry, photography, video, and performance art. My enigmatic unique artists’ books and my provocative collaborations with major artists’ book makers such as Veronika Schaepers, Xu Bing, Stephen Dupont, Cuba, Fred Rinne, Dana Smith, Felice Tebbe, and the Organik art group are collected and exhibited internationally by over one hundred institutions and collectors. There are substantial collections of my books and archives at: Library of Congress, New York Public Library, Stanford University, Boston Athenaeum, University of Minnesota, Herzog August Library, Klingspor Museum, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, St. Olafs College, Florida Atlantic University, State Library of Queensland, Smith College and the German National Library.
I received my MFA at the San Francisco Art Institute in 1981, and in 1983 I co-founded Artists Television Access in San Francisco, one of the longest and still running alternative media art centers in the USA. In 1999 I co-founded Booklyn, an artists run NGO that publishes and distributes artists’ books, works on paper and programming that furthers social justice causes. Upon occasion I have been told that I am considered one of the primary experts in the international contemporary artists’ book world, in part, because I have curated dozens of major exhibitions of artists’ books including co-curating (with Xu Bing) the paradigm shifting first “Diamond Leaves” Triennial exhibition at the Central Academy of Fine Arts Museum in Beijing, China in 2012. This was the first major exhibition of artists’ books at a Chinese museum and the first major exhibition of Zines in China. >
As a writer and editor I have co-published some major critical texts regarding artists’ books in the 21st Century including the “Diamond Leaves” exhibition catalog (Guangxi Normal University Press, 2013) and “Freedom of the Presses” (Booklyn, 2018), a textbook which contextualizes and prioritizes artists’ books as a social practice. I was an Interdisciplinary Arts Fellow of both the New York Foundation for the Arts and the McKnight Foundation and I have received grants from the National Endowment for the Arts, Art Matters and others.
I am the consumate wandering Jew, and in that capacity I have lectured, lead numerous workshops and staff trainings, and have consulted on collection and curriculum development for hundreds of art organizations, libraries, museums, and universities internationally. I am proud of and well known for my advocacy for activist artists who work outside of the mainstream art world, for my support of diversity and equity in academia and the artists’ book world, and my pioneering educational and fundraising publishing projects with social justice organizations including: CultureStrike, the Gonzalo Grillo Bus project, Interference Archive, Iraq Veterans Against the War (now called About Face: Veterans Against the War), Justseeds, La Escuela de Cultura Popular Revolucionaria Mártires del 68, Sublevarte Collectivo, Librarians and Archivists with Palestine, and the Occuprint project of Occupy Wall Street. I am thrilled to now be co-curating two new major box set archive projects with: Voces de la Frontera and their artbuild affinity group, Voces del las Artistas; and with Nicolas Lampert, activist artist, Justseeds Print Collective member and editor of “A People's Art History of the United States”.
I also co-manage, with Booklyn archivist zinester Richard Lee, Booklyn’s Alternative Archives Resue Program, which assists artists and organizations in organizing and placing their archives in educational institutions. The program recently placed the archives of radical San Francisco Chicano curator René Yañez at the University of California, Berkeley, and the archives of V. Vale’s punk publications “Search and Destroy” and “RE:Search” at the University of California, Los Angeles.
ARTIST STATEMENT
The Veldt’s Grammar
Finally
alone in the heat
sun high
all is quiet
she exhales a hot sigh
and looks deep
into the dark cool cave
watching the stick figures
on the walls dance
into mutating letters
she thinks about thinking
about the golden horse
galloping in her head
slowly turning to look at the veldt
she sees the herds writing
across the line of the horizon
she feels the wind
paging the leaves
over and over again
as the storm’s lightning
traces future alphabets
ARTIST'S WORK
“Maple”, 2017, unique codex, ink, cured maple leaves, 12.0 in W x 18.0 in H x 0.5 in D, collection of the La Jolla Athenaeum, a poem to catalyze comprehension of the sentience of trees and the shifting perceptions of time in grand scales.
http://booklyn.org/archive/index.php/Detail/Object/Show/object_id/2030
“On Evaluating Black Privilege”, 2016, with Cuba, Crystal Valentine, unique accordion fold, collage, etching, ink, mono-print, paint marker, rubbing, screen print, 15.0 in W x 21.0 in H x 1.0 in D, (a 25 foot long accordion fold), collection of the University of Colorado, Boulder. Crystal’s provocative poem about white supremacy and African American resilience is illuminated by S.F. graffiti godfather Cuba with prints by weber forming a background palimpsest.
http://booklyn.org/archive/index.php/Detail/Object/Show/object_id/2031
“If I Can’t Dance It’s Not My Revolution”, 2017, unique codex with multiple variant gatefolds,binding by Sara Parkel, collage, etching, ink, mono-print, paint marker, rubbing, 15.0 in W x 20.0 in H, collection of Skidmore College. Issues of gender and racial justice and inequity are passionately evoked by a stories of progressive victories in the November 17, 2017 elections.
http://booklyn.org/archive/index.php/Detail/Object/Show/object_id/2073
“If I Can’t Dance It’s Not My Revolution”, 2017, unique codex with multiple variant gatefolds, binding by Sara Parkel, collage, etching, ink, mono-print, paint marker, rubbing, 15.0 in W x 20.0 in H, collection of Skidmore College
http://booklyn.org/archive/index.php/Detail/Object/Show/object_id/2073
“Wounded Knees” 2017, unique codex, with Tim Page, Ian Couzzens, Isabelle Weber, binding by Sara Parkel, collage, etching, ink, ink jet, mono-print, paint marker, rubbing, screen print, 13.0 in W x 18.0 in H x 0.8 in D, collection of the Library of Congress. A poetry/visual concrete exploring the global intersectionality of indigenous peoples’ struggles to resist current colonization efforts and to recover the trans-generational trauma of past oppression.
http://booklyn.org/archive/index.php/Detail/Object/Show/object_id/1983
“One New Value”, 2018, unique accordion fold, with Raimie Weber, Iggy Pop, silver gelatin prints, scratching, 8.0 in W x 10.0 in H x 1.5 in D, collection of St. Olafs College
http://booklyn.org/archive/index.php/Detail/Object/Show/object_id/2103
Raimie Weber’s previously unpublished photos of Iggy Pop during a 1979 performance at the Michigan Theater in Ann Arbor Michigan are punkt with the lyrics of his song “New Values”.
"Spectrum Theory/Fractal Biology”, 2017, unique, folded book, 22.0 in W x 18.0 in H x 0.5 in D, (folds out to 10 by 4 feet), collage, ink jet, paint marker, collection of the University of Minnesota, Minneapolis
http://booklyn.org/archive/index.php/Detail/Object/Show/object_id/2068
A rumination on the unraveling of the patriarchal and static concept of binary male/female gender.
“Prisoners of War”, 2016, unique accordion fold, with Stephen Dupont, photography, rubbing, ink,12.0 in W x 12.1 in H, collection of the Boston Athenaeum.
http://booklyn.org/archive/index.php/Detail/Object/Show/object_id/1908
Over the course of a year Weber carried Dupont’s photo’s of the war in Afghanistan around the world and framed the images with collaged rubbings from military monuments and historical markers.
http://booklyn.org/archive/index.php/Detail/Entity/Show/entity_id/792
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