JOAN LINDER

Produced on the occasion of “Joan Linder: Belly”, on view at Rivalry from January 12-February 23, 2024.

This limited-run publication features original scholarship by Allison Unruh, and is supported by Rivalry Projects and the University at Buffalo Department of Art.

Images courtesy of the artist and Rivalry Projects, Buffalo, NY. Images by Rivalry Projects. Design by Jamison Wright. Printed by Zenger Group, Buffalo, NY.

NANDO ALVAREZ-PEREZ

Produced on the occasion of “Nando Alvarez-Perez: Signs of Autumn”, on view at Rivalry from September 1 - October 20, 2023.

The publication includes an excerpt from ‘Signs of Autumn’, an essay commissioned for the exhibition, by Kelsey Sucena, Assistant Professor of Photography at Alfred University.

Images courtesy of the artist and Rivalry Projects, Buffalo, NY. Images by Rivalry Projects.

Risograph printed in an edition of 50 at Alfred University, Alfred, NY.

SHARON HARPER

Sunset-Sunrise (Halsnøy, Norway), Summer Solstice, June 2012 portfolio

Rivalry Projects is proud to announce our first publication! Produced in partnership with Sharon Harper, the Sunset-Sunrise (Halsnøy, Norway), Summer Solstice, June 2012 portfolio is on sale now exclusively through Rivalry Projects.  

The five photographs within the Sunset-Sunrise (Halsnøy, Norway) portfolio were made on consecutive nights during the week of the summer solstice, a time known as white nights in Norway. On each night, a pinhole camera loaded with a sheet of 4x5 transparency film was exposed to the sky from sunset to sunrise, gathering dusky light for the duration of the night. These photographs measure the night in terms of light rather than darkness. 

A limited edition of Harper’s Sunset-Sunrise (Halsnøy, Norway) portfolio is also available; each includes an archival inkjet print of Sharon Harper’s Sunset (Middlesex, Vermont), 2012 on Canson Infinity Platine Fibre Rag Art Paper. Limited edition of 100. Artist signed title page.

Portfolio produced by Eastwood Litho, Syracuse, NY

Limited edition print produced by Light Work, Syracuse, NY

Designed by Emily Sheffer, 2021

Portfolio sheets + limited edition print measure 9.25” w x 11.5” h

Some Observations on Movements of the Earth, 2014-2021

PHOTOGRAPHS AND AN ESSAY

A set of soft cover publications. 45 pages each digitally printed. Includes photographs + essay from Sharon Harper’s series Some Observations on Movements of the Earth, 2014-2021.

Some Observations on Movements of the Earth, 2014 - invites one to read movements of the earth. Implicit within the work is a call to shape our lives in dialogue with the dynamic changes of the living environment. The project records phenomena that form within a geological time-frame, as well as faster processes such as earthquakes, monsoons, landslides, forest fires and coastal erosion. Phenomena that shape the land often happen off stage. What one is left with to contemplate is its aftermath—carved canyons, strewn boulders, desert washes that leave tangled debris behind. Photographs within this series are grouped and titled according to the phenomena that shaped them, such as Rockfalls and River Canyons, and The Desert Wash. In the midst of climate change, this record asks that we consider living proactively in tune with the environment, respecting the risks it presents.

Some Observations on Movements of the Earth, 2014 - includes:

Native Fruit Cairns and Offerings, The Big Island, Hawaii
Rockfalls and River Canyons Yosemite and Kings Canyon, California
Rainforests and Redwoods
Rewilding the Elwah, Washington State, Olympic National Park
Glacial Retreat Exit Glacier, Seward, Alaska
Petrified Forest, Arizona
Nurse Plants, Sonoran Desert, Arizona
Rockfalls and River Canyons, Zion National Park, Utah

Rapid Change within the Living Environment, 2017-2019
Tubbs Fire, October 9, 2017 Coffey Park Neighborhood, Santa Rosa, California, Photographed December 27, 2017
Debris Flow February 16, 2017, San Gabriel Mountains, Pasadena, California, Photographed June 8, 2017
Hurricane Harvey, August 25, 2017, Port Arthur, Texas, Photographed September 17, 2017
Hurricane Irma, September 10, 2017 Key Largo, Florida, Photographed September 29, 2017
Camp Fire, November 8, 2018, Paradise, California, Photographed May 30, 2019
Chimney Tops 2 Fire, November 23, 2016, Great Smoky Mountains, Tennessee, Re-growth Photographed June 23, 2017
Hurricanes Irma and Maria, September 2017, El Yunque National Park, Puerto Rico Canopy Regeneration photographed July 2019 (Looking up through the canopy)
Isabela, Puerto Rico, Fossilized Sand Dunes and Dune Restoration, Photographed July 2019

Designed by Emily Sheffer, 2021

Tabitha Soren’s project Surface Tension is made by shooting the grime and debris that accumulates on her iPad. The background images are appropriated from her various devices through social media, images texted to her and from her web history. Soren creates the images about digital culture with an analogue large format view camera. The vigorous and expressive gestures on the surface of the image reflect the conflict between reality and fiction and between our embodied lives and our online, mediated lives. The photographs put in sharp focus what we normally try to look past and ignore on our screens. The images show the dystopian outside world swirling with the fingerprints and greasy smears of our embodied selves. The human markings are seemingly at odds with the chilly detachment and objectivity of the information that flows towards us, unrelentingly. In this project, the viewer is forced to see an everyday object in a way they usually don’t. The book is accompanied by an essay by Jia Tolentino, a staff writer for the New Yorker and the author of the essay collection Trick Mirror: Reflections on Self-Delusion.

• Hard cover

• 22,4 x 34 cm (8,82 x 13,49 inches)

• 64 pages

• 41 colour photographs

• Essay by Jia Tolentino

• Publication date : september 2021

Published by RVB Books (Paris)

Steve Locke, Homage to the Auction Block, 2020

Steve Locke, Homage to the Auction Block catalog, produced by LaMontagne Gallery, on the occasion of the exhibition: “Homage to the Auction Block: New Painting by Steve Locke, July 15 - August 14, 2020.” In the new series the artist brings color theory to his ongoing dialogue on images of racial exploitation in American history including the conflicted past Locke explored in the Auction Block Hall Proposal and the Three Deliberate Grays for Freddie at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum.

From the artist:

“The work posits that the basic Modernist form is indeed the slave auction block. With the discovery of that form, all the other forms became possible.

In Homage to the Auction Block, I want to convey a sense of mapping and surveying into each painting. As such, each of these works retain some residue of their creation and conception. In the beginning, I used tape to get clean edges but my research into the work of Josef Albers lead me to abandon a taped line for a painted one. It gives the paintings a sense of humanity necessary to their conceptual underpinnings.

The application of flat color, the use of the grid, and the reliance on “primary structures” have art historical meanings central to Western Modernism-and its notion that form could be separated from its content. The works retain some residue of their and conception with guided and gridlines at times visible in the hand painted surface.  Proportion and chromatic relationships are explored to varying visual effect. The use of the “auction block” motif literally organizes these modernist relations around the central symbol of chattel slavery in the Americas. The work reframes the work of modernism around the shape that made it possible. 

My continued exploration of Josef Albers and his impact as a theorist, educator, and artist is a catalyst and an affirmation.”

- Steve Locke

Hardcover publication produced by LaMontagne Gallery on the occasion of the exhibition: “Homage to the Auction Block: New Painting by Steve Locke, July 15 - August 14, 2020”. With essays by Lynne Tilllman and Steve Locke. Design by Elizabeth Morlock. Printed in South Korea. 84 pages.

GONZO: Photographs by Hunter S. Thompson, #1278 of 3000 Limited Edition, AMMO Books.

Book never opened, in original wrapper.

Title: Gonzo(Limited Edition)

Publisher: Ammo Books

Publication Date: 2006

Binding: Hardcover

Book Condition: New / Excellent

Dust Jacket Condition: New / Bottom left corner of exterior cardboard packaging show signs of impact.

This boxed book was issued by Ammo Books in 2006. It is the ultimate must-have for any Hunter S. Thompson fan. For the first time, Thompson’s photographs and archives have been collected into a visual biography worthy of his literary legacy. With a heartfelt introduction by close friend Johnny Depp, GONZO captures a man whose life was as legendary as his writing. A limited edition self-portrait photograph of HST in Big Sur, CA is also included. Exterior original factory outer package measures: 17.5 length by 13 across. The item “GONZO-Photographs by Hunter S. Thompson, #1278/3000 Limited Edition, AMMO Books”

From the Publisher:

AMMO Books is pleased to announce its debut title: GONZO by famed American author and journalist Hunter S. Thompson. GONZO presents a rare look into the life of Thompson, whose groundbreaking style of "gonzo" journalism made him one of the greatest writers of his generation. Now, for the first time, his photographs and archives have been collected into a visual biography worthy of his literary legacy. With a heartfelt introduction by close friend Johnny Depp, GONZO captures a man whose life was as legendary as his writing.

AMMO Books presents this impressive limited edition title, featuring hundreds of personal photographs--many taken by Thompson himself and never before published. Accompanied by writing and memorabilia, this visual history gives insight into the literary icon's life. GONZO chronicles Thompson's numerous adventures, including his early days as a foreign correspondent in Puerto Rico, living in Big Sur in the sixties, time on the road with the Hell's Angels, running for Sheriff of Pitkin County in 1970, and many personal moments with friends and family throughout the years.

This one-of-a-kind book is the ultimate tribute to the Good Doctor, and a must-have for any Thompson fan. Lovingly edited and designed, and lavishly printed, this extraordinary package includes a specially designed box that contains the book and a limited edition gallery-quality photograph by Thompson. This is an exclusive offering of only three thousand individually numbered copies available worldwide, destined to become a treasured part of your personal library.