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Open Satellite Publications

We are pleased to announce the launch of Open Satellite Publications, a co-publishing partnership with Publication Studio, an experiment in sustainable publication based in Portland, Ore.

Publication #1, Meiro Koizumi was made on the occassion of Koizumi's exhibition, The Corner of Sweet and Bitter. It includes drawings from the artist's sketchbooks and new essays by Robin Held, chief curator and director of exhibitions at the Frye Art Museum, Jen Graves, visual art critic for The Stranger, and Yoko Ott, director of Open Satellite. It is available in softcover for $30.

Publication #2, Heather and Ivan Morison is the companion publication to their sculpture Frost King. The image-filled reader includes the Morisons' newest novella Frost King, a vividly pungent tale stitching together fact, fiction and graphic post-apocalyptic visions of the future, an interview by Jen Graves, and a critical response by Eric Fredericksen. The first 100 copies are sold as a limited edition and contain a unique frottage taken from the installation. $35, softcover.

To purchase email info@opensatellite.org or call (425)454-7355. Meiro Koizumi and the non-limited edition softcover of Heather and Ivan Morison can also be purchased on demand at publicationstudio.biz.

Open Satellite Editions

Open Satellite's edition program features work created by artists-in-residence as well as four Northwest artists selected annually. Proceeds from edition sales support Open Satellite's residency program. No guidelines are set on edition materials or size.

New work will be added to the site regularly, so continue to check back in. Please call (425) 454-7355 or email yoko@opensatellite.org with sales or other inquiries.

Zoe Strauss

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Philadelphia-based photographer and installation artist Zoe Strauss focused her camera on the transitional Factoria neighborhood of Bellevue, citing the district's ambitious, yet unfulfilled, intentions—suggested by its name—to become an industrial manufacturing hub. Her edition, Works In Progress, is a postcard book consisting of eight images, seven taken by Strauss and one installation view of her exhibition of the same title at Open Satellite in 2007. There are three covers to select from. Edition of 100.
Works In Progress, 2010 (Image 1)
Suite of eight postcards, ed. 100
4 in x 6 in
$35
Works In Progress, 2010 (Image 2)
Cover option 1
Works In Progress, 2010 (Image 3)
Cover option 2
Works In Progress, 2010 (Image 4)
Cover option 3

Works In Progress, 2010 (Image 5)
Works In Progress, 2010 (Image 6)
Works In Progress, 2010 (Image 7)
Works In Progress, 2010 (Image 8)

Meiro Koizumi

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For his edition Meiro Koizumi drew inspiration from the history of Mount Rainier and Mount Fuji’s connection as official sister mountains. The resulting hand-drawn works on paper comprising the set of multiples titled Tacoma Fuji are beautifully manipulated original Japanese woodblock prints of idyllic landscapes depicting Mount Fuji. Directly marking existing prints, bucolic mountainside towns are altered by the conflation of Mount Rainier and Mount Fuji and incorporation of Northwest symbols of urbanity drawn from the artist’s memory of time spent in Bellevue during his residency. Each work on paper in this set of five is unique.
Tacoma Fuji 1, 2009
Paper, paint and ink
13 x 19 inches
$800
Tacoma Fuji 2, 2009
Paper, paint and ink
13 x 19 inches
$800
Tacoma Fuji 3, 2009
Paper, paint and ink
13 x 19 inches
$800
Tacoma Fuji 4, 2009
Paper, paint and ink
13 x 19 inches
$800
Tacoma Fuji 5, 2009
Paper, paint and ink
13 x 19 inches
$800

Dan Webb

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Dial It In, 2009 (Image 1)
Cast plastic, metal, plywood, Ed. 5
20 x 8 x 8 in.
$1,000
Dial It In, 2009 (Image 2)

Greg Lundgren

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The Success of an Artist Can Be Measured By How Much Money They Make, 2009
Cast glass, Ed. 12 + 3 AP
7 x 3 x 1.5 in.
$250

Jeffry Mitchell

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Elephant Snowflake Lamp, 2009
Wood, paper, paint, ed. 10
18 x 16 x 8 in.
$500

Gretchen Bennett

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Dying Fawn, 2009 (Image 1)
Porcelain, ed. 10
14.5 x 13 x 2.5 in.
$700

Courtesy of Howard House.
Gretchen would like to thank Saya Moriyasu for her assistance in realizing this work.
Dying Fawn, 2009 (Image 2)

Seth Kinmont

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Cash Out / Cash In is one in a series of “kits” designed to help make transparent the working process of the Colossus Fund—to make a million dollars through a combination of producing and selling art editions and playing the stock market. Kinmont’s edition, a carbon copy tracking system that includes line items such as, materials, labor, crating, item descriptions, sales and receipts for bookkeeping, is an investment in a series of interconnecting “kits” that build on and examine the transitional states of ideas and objects. Cash Out / Cash In is an edition of five.
Cash Out / Cash In, 2009 (Image 1)
Paper, ink and carbon, ed. 5
8.5 in x 11 in x .5 in
$2000 each
Cash Out / Cash In, 2009 (Image 2)