We have an exciting new curatorial project to share with you, this time taking form as a book: Entanglements: A curated collection of contemporary culture is a 126 page, full color print production featuring:
Artworks by Shari Arai DeBoer, José Arenas, Ellen Bepp, Harlan Crowder, C.K. Itamura, Bodil Fox and Larnie Fox, Reiko Fujii, Kathy Fujii-Oka, Elizabeth Gómez, Richard Lang, Cynthia A. Osborne, Linda MacDonald, Melissa Pagluica, Agnes Pelton, Na Omi Judy Shintani, and Minoosh Zomorodinia.
Essays by Katherine Bazak, Lyn Bishop, Richard Lang, and Jan Rindfleisch.
Interviews with Kathleen Canrinus, Elizabeth Gómez, Jane Reichhold, and Minoosh Zomorodinia.
Poetry by Georgina Marie Guardado, Lauren Lin, Jane Reichhold and Anonymous.
Helen Gibbons interviewed Palo Alto author Kathleen Canrinus specifically for Entanglements. You can read this insightful conversation online in Whirligig.
With the exception of the interviews posted online in Whirligig, Entanglements is a print only publication. Find out more.
With environmental stewardship close to our hearts, we are pleased to be participating in EXTRACTION: Art on the Edge of the Abyss a multimedia, multi-venue, cross-border art intervention which seeks to provoke societal change by exposing and interrogating the negative social and environmental consequences of industrialized natural resource extraction.
New projects addressing extraction issues include:
Kent Manske & Nanette Wylde, From this Earth, 2020
From this Earth is a collaborative artist’s book written, and produced while sheltering-in-place during the 2020 pandemic and while wildfires raged across California. It is a story of transformation. An individual journeys through a devastated landscape seeking relief, motivated by an inner impetus. Text by Nanette Wylde.
We are honored to have work selected for this California Society of Printmaker’s exhibition.
Searching for Meaning in our Changing World Environment April 3—May 9, 2021 Gallery Route One, Point Reyes Station, California
Kent Manske, I, You, Me, We, Us, 2021
New Books
Six of our new trade edition books are available through Hunger Button Books. Trade edition books provide us opportunity to reach a wider audience than our limited-edition and one-of-a-kind handmade books.
Election Countdown 2020, Kent Manske and change became, Don Drake & Kent Manske Thomas from Delaware, Nanette Wylde From this Earth, Kent Manske & Nanette Wylde Redacted Babar: ABC Free, Nanette Wylde Diverse Paths, Nanette Wylde (a flip book, what could be more fun!)
Book Arts
We are pleased to have Foodies showing in: C O N T E N T: an Artist Books Exhibition April 2—May 1, 2021 The Artery Gallery, Davis, California
detail You are the Tree, paper pulp from local craft industries’ byproducts.
Happy New Year! We look forward to seeing you with wide open eyes in 2020.
Save the Date For the last four months, we have been working with over 30 local Redwood City craft industries collecting and making paper pulp out of their byproducts. Our conceptual and sculptural installation, You are the Tree opens February 1, 2020 in Downtown Redwood City.
Please join us for this community celebration of art, history and local labor.
You are the Tree Opening Reception February 1, 2020, 4 – 6pm
Redwood City Art Kiosk 2208 Broadway, Courthouse Square Downtown Redwood City
You are the Tree was commissioned by Fung Collaborative Projects in collaboration with Redwood City Improvement Association for the Redwood City Art Kiosk in 2020.
Artists’ Holiday Open Studios
December 2 & 3, noon – 5 pm
• 11 locations in Redwood City & San Carlos
• 100+ Artists
Join us here at PreNeo Press for two enjoyable afternoons of art, conversation and libations. We are featuring local artists, printers, writers, poets and photographers: Ann Baldwin, David Edward Beres, Ever Rodriguez and Nora Raggio. This is a great opportunity to see behind the scenes of a local print & book arts studio engaged in book binding, screen printing, monoprinting, etching, relief printing, letterpress, digital and hybrid media.
Poop Alert
Nanette got tired of seeing dog poop bags left on the trail, so she intervened on this poopy problem. I left my dog poop bag on the trail
Thankful
This Thanksgiving, we are particularly thankful for the biodiversity of our planet with an understanding that diversity is critical to our survival. We appreciate individuals who take action to protect and preserve our natural world.
Two years in the kitchen and we are salivating to serve up Foodies at Codex February 5 – 8.
Foodies: Seven West Coast Foodie Vignettes is a portfolio of seven letterpress printed folios, each with wood type printed cover, two color interior screen print illustration, and original story which explores the diversity of meaning in food related language. Foodies is housed in a letterpress printed portfolio.
The print work for this project includes 46 press runs of 25 colors. The stories are by Nanette Wylde. Illustrations and design by Kent Manske.
PreNeo Press is dancing in the streets and putting on the Ritz with the launch of CSI: Las Vegas.
CSI = Cultural Spectacle Investigation.
CSI: Las Vegas is the second in a series of urban photographic explorations which result in full color, print-on-demand, artists’ books. CSI: Las Vegas was created by Kent Manske and Nanette Wylde. It is published by Hunger Button Books.
To receive your personal invitation to the costume extravaganza launch party, scheduled for Saturday, October 26, 2013 at PreNeo Press in Redwood City, California, email to: csiparty@preneo.org.
PreNeo Press is focusing in on creative strategies with a new online project: Focus Generator.
Focus Generator is a tool for artists who enjoy the challenge of randomly set project parameters; and for those who find that preset parameters help them to focus their creative energies into projects beyond their previous imaginings.
Focus Generator comes in three flavors: Focus Generator, is the primary engine and provides the highest level of challenge for the contemporary creative. Focus Light is a mid level machine for those who know their media yet enjoy the challenge of content triggers. Custom Focus provides the the highest level of individuation as it allows Participants to custom select from four areas of randomly generated stimuli.
Take the Focus Generator Challenge and check out the creative work of Focus Generator Participants: http://focusgenerator.net
Karen Chew and Nanette Wylde are meowing up a storm over the completion of their new book Hello Catty!
Hello Catty! is a light-hearted, yet poignant play on catty behaviors couched by a feline perspective and inspired by the meanness of others.
Designed as a movable board book, it consists of five two-page spreads. Each spread contains user interactive elements: wheels, pop-ups, pulls, spinners, windows, flaps, a game and ephemera.
A Hello Catty! celebration event is scheduled for late April. Contact either Karen or Nanette to be included in the guest list. Space is limited.
Meaning MakerAcademic Conference Edition is published in Visual Communication Quarterly. This special edition of Visual Communication Quarterly is focused on Analog Interactivity and is guest edited by xtine. Volume 16, Number 3, July – September 2009.
Family Gathering Edition is included in the Minnesota Center for the Book Arts democratic assemblage project None of the Above. More at: Minnesota Center for the Book Arts.
Periodic Personal Evaluation Edition will be included inFLAT Journal, an annually released, journal-shaped, mobile art gallery comprised of original, editioned works.
And new Meaning Maker editions are on the horizon!