Farewell Books

02/10/2017

These are the FINAL DAYS to purchase FORMATIVE WORLD work through the Farewell Books web store: www.farewellbookstore.com
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* 'FORGIVE ME' by Jonny Negron
gouache on paper, 2016, 18 x 24" : $750

01/27/2017

4 years ago we opened this shop. This week we close it. TODAY IS OUR LAST DAY, & EVERYTHING IS 30% OFF. Come down today and help us with this transition. Join us tonight from 7 to 9 for a closing reception of our exhibition FORMATIVE WORLD, & our shop (SEE HERE: Farewell).
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Thank you to everyone for your love, support, and participation over the years. If you ever found a new favorite book, author, or artist here we did this for you 💙

01/24/2017

* ART SALE *
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This is Farewell's last week in operation out of our 913 address that we have occupied for the past 4 years. To help us with this transition we are working with our current exhibiting artist and friend JONNY NEGRON to offer you the chance to own one of his pieces from FORMATIVE WORLD at a serious discount of 25%. This sale will last 1 week. If you can not come by in person works are available and priced accordingly through our website: www.farewellbookstore.com
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These are Negron's first exhibited paintings, working with gouache and sharing them for the first time. Join us Friday for a storewide sale on books during the day culminating in our closing reception from 7 to 9 PM: Farewell --- * 'NO MOON AT ALL' 2016, gouache on paper 18 x 24 inches, by Jonny Negron: $900 and AVAILABLE ✌🏼✌🏾

01/24/2017

“YouTube, feelings, the movie 3 Women, illness, shapes, Clarice Lispector and snacks”
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Nice little s/o to Farewell Books' current exhibiting artist MAREN KARLSON. Stop by this week to see these pieces and more in our current group show FORMATIVE WORLD. The work is also available for view and purchase thru our website: www.farewellbookstore.com

Welcome to the witchy world of illustrator Maren Karlson. Maren’s drawings tell fairytales straight out of _The Brothers Grimm_, all pointed eyes, buckled boots and bubbling cauldrons. The illustrator’s precisely executed dreamscapes are made remarkable for the ease with which they convey stories, a...

12/22/2016

All remaining works from Maren Karlson, Matt Lock, & Jonny Negron's show FORMATIVE WORLD are now up and available for purchase through our website -- have a look!
www.farewellbookstore.com
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HOLIDAY HOURS
XMAS EVE - Sat, Dec. 24 - CLOSED
XMAS DAY - Sun, Dec. 25 - CLOSED
NYE - Sat, Dec. 31 - CLOSED
NYE DAY - SUN, Jan. 1 - CLOSED
*Normal hours all other days*

12/01/2016

The vision of Farewell Books has been to provide a space for people in our community to have a direct & physical relationship with the arts, literature and ideas. Farewell worked hard to bring art and books to the space that we believe to be stimulating, inspiring, little known and challenging, but always interesting. Farewell believes that it is imperative to provide spaces where creatives can meet, read, organize and share. We believe bookshops, galleries and art events spaces are a necessary ingredient to the lifeblood of any major city. We have been so lucky to exist and facilitate these contributions in Austin, Texas over the last 4 years as Farewell Books.

We believe there is something invaluable that happens when you connect with a book, a painting, a film, a piece of music or another artist that you had not previously known existed. When we have a relationship in the real world to each other and to the arts in this way it works to transform us as individuals and to bring us together as a community.

Making a bookshop and art gallery work in 2016 is no easy task. We are beyond grateful to have had your support in making it a reality from the beginning, and for sustaining it over years. With the Austin landscape changing rapidly it has become that much more challenging. The 913 Building has been our passion, our place of work, and much like a second home since our time working at Domy Books. We are sad to announce that January 2017 will be Farewell's last month at 913 East Cesar Chavez Street. However, we are happy to announce that Las Cruxes, our sister store and a business with whom we have had a wonderful working relationship since 2013, will be maintaining the 913 collective and in doing so will be keeping Sister Coffee and Vegan Nom here for you. We know that they will continue to do great things, and we commend them for weathering the changes.

Farewell Books is not going away, only underground, briefly. We will continue to update the website with new books, we will keep you posted on events & openings that we will be tabling and we will keep you updated on potential new spaces for Farewell.

Please join us for our last exhibition opening at the space that’s been our home this Saturday, December 3rd at 7 PM, for a group show with artists & friends Jonny Negron, Maren Karlson & Matt Lock.

THANK YOU for all of your support. Thank you to everyone that believed in Farewell & appreciated us – near and far. Farewell Books has been made possible by all of you.

MUCH LOVE,

Mikaylah & Travis

11/29/2016

'STAGE FRIGHT' a drawing by MATT LOCK -- Join us this Saturday evening for the opening reception of recent work by MAREN KARLSON, MATT LOCK, & JONNY NEGRON
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INFORMATION / RSVP
Formative World — A Group Show

11/24/2016

Farewell is closed today. Please take this day to consider what you have, and what you have to share

11/20/2016

LESS THAN AN HOUR FROM NOW we will be dismantling JIM DINE's 'HOUSE OF WORDS' as a public deinstall performance. Anyone in attendance will be invited to remove the work from the space and take a piece with them. If you would like a piece by JIM DINE join us at 4 PM and we will hand one to you. Free & open to the public -- first come first serve

October 21 – November 20, 2016

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From October 21st to November 20th, renowned artist Jim Dine will transform the Farewell Books gallery space into 'A HOUSE OF WORDS' – a new-collaged installation of graphic works and painted words. Hung like Chinese scroll paintings, Dine’s short episodes of text breakdown a distinction between passive art viewer and active reader.

JIM DINE is an internationally renowned artist, first recognized for staging Happenings in New York City in 1959 and 1960 alongside Allan Kaprow and Claes Oldenburg. He has been composing, publishing, and performing poetry as long as he has been making objects. An early proponent of pop art, Dine made painting more permeable by incorporating mundane objects and applying simple words and phrases to his canvases. The use of text in painting is a natural extension of Dine’s writing practice. A creator of paintings, assemblages, sculptures, drawings, and prints, Dine has also authored more than 12 books of poetry.

Since his first solo exhibition in 1960, Dine’s paintings, sculptures, photography, and prints have been the subject of nearly 300 solo exhibitions worldwide. In 1970 the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, organised a major retrospective of his work, and in 1978 the Museum of Modern Art, New York, presented a retrospective of his etchings. Dine lives and works in Paris, New York and Walla Walla, Washington.

11/19/2016

TONIGHT!
'TO HEAR THE WORLD WITH NEW EYES'
Thomas Bey William Bailey
A book release + Q&A
Saturday November 19 / 5 - 7 PM
Free & open to the public

"Synesthesia, a word derived from the Greek term meaning "unity of the senses," is a neurological condition that involves perceiving multiple forms of sensory information from one sensory input, such as "hearing colors" or "tasting sounds." Though only extant in a tiny portion of the whole human population, its influence upon the arts has been considerable, and this influence has increased exponentially as more accessible and powerful technological means have offered more convincing portrayals of the synesthetic state. Meanwhile, an uptick in the amount of serious neurological research on the subject has raised questions about the essentiality of synesthesia to the evolution of the human species, causing many to understand the synesthetic condition as a vestigial remnant that could sufficiently explain the development of all human expression. Unsurprisingly, synesthetic research has become one of the more reliable points of collaboration between artistic and scientific disciplines."

EVENT PAGE: http://bit.ly/2fbmI3L

11/16/2016

ROE ETHRIDGE's great new book NEIGHBORS published in 2016 by Mack Books is now available in the shop, filled with moons, livestock, & more :o)

11/09/2016

Farewell Books & the 913 Family will be closed tomorrow Wednesday November 9th 2016, in solidarity with our Muslim, POC, LGBTQ and female community to let them know that we stand with them and are sharing our love and condolences. We invite all small business owners to join.