Volatile redux Art & Books

08/02/2025

GIG Fund makes grants of up to $15,000 for nonprofit organizations to bring professional artists into their community.

08/01/2025

Cat Nip...

04/18/2025

Flux It [and the Usual Suspects]
A list of Fluxus, ReFlux and Multiples by European, Asian and American artists including Joseph Beuys, Colette Justine, Geoffrey Hendricks, Dick Higgins, Geoffrey Hendricks, Martin Kippenberger, John Lennon, George Maciunas, Larry Miller, Yoko Ono, Carolee Schneemann, Klaus Staeck, Ben Vautier, Yosi Wada, May Wilson, mIELAL aND and Elizabeth Was, Emmett Williams and others.

Link to Flux It list
https://volatilebooks.com/books-and-editions

Peter Huttinger
Volatile [redux]
5038 Gray Road
Cincinnati, Ohio 45232 USA
513-321-0100
[email protected]
www.volatilebooks.com

04/15/2025

Jenny Holzer
Inflammatory Essay
Offset printed poster, black inkon yellow paper, 17x17 inches. Self-published, NYC, 1979-82

01/11/2025

And so, it begins...

Republican lawmakers called for an investigation into her portraits of her n**e children, which a right-wing publication equated with child po*******hy.

01/01/2025

Fred Ellenberger, Seven Virtues, t-shirt

10/28/2024

Blank Generation: Downtown New York 1970s–80s
Michael Lowe Gallery with Alternate Projects
Extended hours Friday, November 1 and Saturday November 2, noon to 4pm.
Michael Lowe Gallery
905 Vine St.
Cincinnati, OH 45202

Blank Generation presents a panoramic visual survey of the tectonically shifting arts culture of the 1970s–80s in downtown New York City, and the raw and dynamic new ideas in music, film, art, literature, graffiti, fashion, q***r culture, and performance that it spawned. The bleak and bankrupt NYC of Travis Bickle and Ratso Rizzo felt like a city teetering on the verge of collapse, but in the dive bars, abandoned buildings, and squats of the grimiest neighborhoods, a cultural renaissance was taking place.
The iconoclastic writers, musicians, scenesters, performers, outsiders, and other creators whose life and work energized this underground world had a profound and continuing impact on mainstream global culture. The exhibition features photography, film, and photo-based work by influential artists living and creating in that petri dish of inspiration, as well as documentary photography and ephemeral material including posters, fliers, and publications.
The diverse New York underground community was populated by people who needed to create—for whom ideas, authenticity, and innovation were far more important than aesthetics or commercial success. Hence the works in Blank Generation are layered, delving into significant and often uncomfortable social issues, new ways of communication, and cultural touchpoints. In many cases, the image is not the end game, but rather a means to visually communicate an often-complex underlying story or idea.
In conjunction with Blank Generation, Alternate Projects presents a pop-up shop featuring a curated selection of rare artist publications, ephemera, artwork, and photographs.
Artists: Charlie Ahearn, Roberta Bayley, Jimmy DeSana, Darrel Ellis, Barbara Ess, Allen Frame, Godlis, Nan Goldin, Bob Gruen, Richard Hambleton, Keith Haring, Peter Hujar, Richard Kern, Marcus Leatherdale, Judy Linn, Robert Mapplethorpe, Ari Marcopoulos, Gordon Matta-Clark, Peter Moore, Mark Morrisroe, Jamie Nares, Franc Palaia, Steven Parrino, Jack Pierson, Ricky Powell, Mick Rock, Tabboo!, Gail Thacker, Alan Vega, John Waters, David Wojnarowicz, Russell Young
Curator: George Kurz, Independent Curator; and Michael Lowe, Founder of Michael Lowe Gallery

09/08/2024

Vicki and I will be back at the Cincinnati Artist Book Fair again today.
September 8, 2024, Noon to 6 pm
The Carnegie
1028 Scott St, Covington, KY 41011