Curator Walk-Through with Curator Joseph del Pesco

Black Market Type & Print Shop

Joseph del Pesco, curator of Black Market Type & Print Shop, will lead a curator walk-through of the Feldman Gallery + Project Space.

Ticket info: Free and open to the publc.

The Black Market Type & Print Shop

Curated by Joseph del Pesco

The Black Market Type & Print Shop starts with a collection of 30 type-fonts extracted from the artwork of well-known of artists. Scanned and converted into working computer fonts, these letter forms are available for use by visitors to the exhibition via a free print shop. To take advantage of the free printing services, visitors are obliged to use the types in at least part of their design. Through this process, the visual language of contemporary art is subtly distributed beyond the gallery through street-level ephemera such as rock-show flyers and for-sale notices. Other material produced in previous iterations of the BMT&PS project include personal letters, out-of-order signs and ‘free kittens to a good home’ posters.

Utilizing the Black Market Type, a group of 15 artists have been invited to make a text-only poster, to be posted in the public areas surrounding the gallery. These include a small line of text at the bottom that quietly points back to the gallery. In the gallery these posters serve to incite the imagination of the visitor, offering possible formats and outcomes for their own ideas to take shape in the print shop.

Artist types included in the project: John Baldessari, Jean-Michel Basquiat, Mel Bochner, R. Crumb, John Cage, Henry Darger, Julie Doucet, Jimmie Durham, Marcel Dzama, Tracey Emin, General Idea, Thomas Hirschhorn, Chris Johanson, Jasper Johns, Ray Johnson, Mike Kelley, Margaret Kilgallen, Kathe Kollwitz, Annette Messanger, Duane Michals, Chris Ofili, Laura Owens, Gary Panter, Raymond Pettibon, Adrian Piper, William Pope.L, Richard Prince, Ad Reinhardt, Dieter Roth, David Shrigley

Artists who’ve interpreted the type archive::
Michael Arcega, Jan Estep, Aurélien Froment, Stanislao Di Giugno, Amanda Ross Ho, Matt Keegan, Arnold Kemp, Germaine Koh, Michael Mandiberg, Marisa Olson, Daniel Seiple, Chris Sollars, Gareth Spor, Randall Szott, Anne Walsh, Lee Walton

Ticket info: Free and open to the public.

BFA Thesis Exhibition

Seniors complete a semester-long thesis project before graduating from PNCA and receiving the Bachelor of Fine Arts degree. The thesis project is the culmination of a four-year course of study, and represents a significant body of independent creative work within a self-defined area.

Ticket info: Free and open to the public.