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Archives of American Art | Smithsonian Institution Acquires the Papers of Devon Dikeou Studio, zingmagazine, and Dikeou Collection

That old box of postcards, those yellowed clippings, envelopes with notes that were not to be forgotten. The sketched and scribbled detritus of day to day life is so easy to discard, but when saved and accrued over time, these little bits create a picture of one’s life just as rich as any painting and as real as any photograph. As an artist, publisher, curator, and collector, Devon Dikeou has had many of these materials pass through her fingertips, much of which she has thoughtfully saved and preserved. Possessing the intuitive nature to keep the paper trail of her career since the early 1990s and integrate the conceptual nuance of archiving into the wider scope of her art practice, Devon has accumulated an in-depth archive that has a culturally broad and deeply personal history within the contemporary art landscape. On September 8, 2022, Devon signed a pledge to have the papers pertaining to her studio practice, zingmagazine, and Dikeou Collection donated to the Smithsonian Institution’s Archives of American Art where they will be preserved for posterity and made available for public access and research. This important pledge capped off a special event at Dikeou Collection, Archive Live with Josh T. Franco, Head of Collecting at the Archives of American Art, where incredible documents and treasures were uncovered and revealing stories shared in front of a live audience.

Conceptualized by Josh Franco, Archive Live is an event where an artist sorts through their archival holdings with an archivist in an organic “unboxing” presentation so the public can experience the spontaneous discovery and conversation that transpires when a unique item is pulled from a box, folder, or drawer. There are dozens (and dozens) of boxes that hold the 30-years history of Devon’s artwork, zingmagazine, and Dikeou Collection files, so we made a point of bringing out a select few to present at the event.    

The first document discussed was not found in Devon’s archives but one that already exists in the Archives of American Art, and that was her original letter of interest to apply as an intern at Tibor de Nagy Gallery and the subsequent correspondence for acceptance in 1985. These letters represent the early beginnings of a remarkable life in the arts and Devon’s prescient appearance in the Smithsonian’s archives. From there the boxes revealed one-of-a-kind wonders like the late Dan Asher’s handwritten artist statement for his work in the Dikeou Collection, Wade Guyton’s installation drawings for “The Room Moved, the Way Blocked,” Leon Fuller’s original notebook of TV Drawings from zingmagazine issue 13, glossy fashion photos by As FOUR, keys from Devon’s “What’s Love Got to Do with It” series taped in a folder (an archival no-no), and endearing and often hilarious notes from the many artists that populate Devon’s circle over the years.

The talk ended with the announcement of the Archives of American Art’s acquisition of Devon’s papers. This moment was made official with Devon’s signature of the promised gift agreements via autopen - a throwback to her D.C. days as an intern for Colorado Senator Gary Hart. The task of sorting and preparing the papers for their move to the nation’s capitol will be like reliving Archive Live over and over again, with approximately 150 linear feet of boxes full of groovy gems waiting to be found and made available for those who seek them. 

- Hayley Richardson

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Things to Do for Free in Denver This Week, November 8-14, 2021

It’s another big week for arts and entertainment in the Mile High City, with Denver Arts Week continuing through November 13, the Denver Film Festival rolling through November 14, and holiday happenings just beginning. Keep reading for twelve of the best free events in Denver this weekend. click to enlarge Time to start shopping! Courtesy of A Paris Street Market Rue de Noel, a Paris Street…

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A Visit With Mary Obering

Mary Obering in her studio

On a recent visit to Mary Obering's home and studio, it felt like I was stepping into a movie set of another era, an era when artists occupied Soho’s industrial loft spaces to ply their trade and exchange ideas.

Mary's loft is a sprawling space with large plants and plenty of natural light, picture perfect in its representation of what I imagined life to be in 1970s and 1980s Soho. And that is perfectly fitting, as Mary Obering was in the thick of the scene in the 1970s, rubbing elbows and offering critique at dinners and studio gatherings with the now famous minimalist and conceptual artists who she also counted as neighbors.

I was invited to visit the artist within her domain to discuss her career and the current show on view at Marisa Newman Projects in Koreatown, “Mary Obering: Selected Works 1983-1987.”

The artist greeted me warmly in true southern style but with an openness that seemed to betray the behavior of a woman who was born in 1937 and bred into upper class southern society in Shreveport, Louisiana.

Mary found her way to Soho in the 1970s via Denver, Colorado where Carl Andre first saw her work in a group exhibition and suggested that with her talent she belonged in New York City. In this new environment, Obering embarked on a path of pure abstraction, influenced not only by painters such as Mark Rothko and Josef Albers, but also by what was happening around her - close friendships with Mary Hafif "she's a great painter," and Donald Judd “I really miss Don,” and other giants of this time.

In graduate school at Harvard, she studied Behavioral Psychology under B.F. Skinner. The scientific mindset and curiosity developed under Skinner later led to her interest in physics. While living an artist's life in Soho, she would also attend lectures on the subject and studied textbooks by Richard Feynman who created a widely adopted pictorial representation system for the mathematical expressions representing the behavior of subatomic particles, also known as Feynman diagrams.

Mary Obering, Analog, 1983

“Influenced by the movements of geometry and abstraction” these diagrams also caught Obering’s artist eye: “I was interested in that field and did a good bit of reading about it. I didn’t participate that actively in the area. But it interested me as an abstract and somewhat geometric art-maker, and those diagrams inspired me to do those works," "those works" being her “Event” paintings - two of which are included in the exhibition at Marisa Newman Projects, “Event, October” (1987) and “Muon Maker” (1987).

It seems natural for an abstract painter to find an affinity with scientific diagrams - each are distilling complex information into simpler forms for the sake of communication. These paintings of Obering’s, along with another series depicting abstract forms of the sun and moon, were part of a new development in the 1980s of engaging in the natural world. From the macrocosmic cycles of sun and moon, Obering goes beyond micro into the realms of the natural that are no longer observable without the assistance of highly sophisticated technology. To a realm where abstract schematics are necessary for human comprehension. This being right in her wheelhouse, Obering picks up on the formal nature of these abstract diagrams and with her painterly concerns elevates this mode of communication to high art, using her sense of color and training in gold-leafing to accentuate the action of molecular collision. The end results are honorific abstract paintings in homage to the fabric of life itself.

Mary Obering, Frasi Lunari I, 2004

Later on, after finishing in the studio, we traverse to the bedroom hallway where Obering shows me a series of paintings on paper from the early 2000s featuring the rising moon as observed from her kitchen window in Puglia, Italy (where she spends part of her year). It seems that her fascination with the natural world continues.

With a final farewell, and kind invitation from Obering to return again for a glass of wine, I’m off back onto the cobblestones of Wooster Street, head full of cosmic wonder and imagined scenarios from Mary’s extraordinary life in that loft.

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BABZ Fair (formerly known at the Bushwick Art Book & Zine Fair) is a weekend long event that features small press art and poetry publishers, and individual artist projects, alongside a program of performance, readings, and workshops.

The 5th annual BABZ Fair, the first at Knockdown Center, will be taking place Friday, June 2 through Sunday, June 4, 2017.

Over the years the BABZ Fair has grown dramatically and this year the fair will feature art books and zines by over 100 publishers and artists from across the country.

This year we are collaborating with artist Andrea Arrubla to produce the weekend programming. The full program schedule, including a new expanded program series, and workshop series, will be announced shortly.

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FAIR DATES & TIMES: Friday, June 2, 7–9PM: by invitation only Saturday, June 3, 1–7PM: free & open to the public Sunday, June 4, 1–7PM: free & open to the public

LOCATION: Knockdown Center 52-19 Flushing Ave Queens, New York 11378

Knockdown Center is an art center and performance space dedicated to unusual projects and collaborations.

Directions: 15 minutes walk from Jefferson L Stop Nearby buses Q59, Q54, B57, B38 Shuttle runs every 15 minutes from the Jefferson L Stop

Food and beverages will be available for purchase throughout the weekend Hyperallergic is the official media sponsor for BABZ FAIR 2017

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#Blkgrlswurld ZINE, New York, NY 3 Dot Zine, Brooklyn, NY 10x10photobooks, New York, NY A Women’s Thing, New York, NY Adult Punk, Denver, CO Allison Shea Phillips & Mikey Cote, Brooklyn, NY April Malig, Ridgewood, NY, USA Authorized to Work in the US, Brooklyn, NY Black Cat Journal, Brooklyn, NY BODYWORKBODYWORK, Los Angeles, CA Boo-Hooray, New York, NY Books for All, New York, NY Brain Washing from Phone Towers, Brooklyn, NY Brownbook, Dubai, United Arab Emirates Capricious, New York, NY Celeste Fichter, Brooklyn, NY Christopher Kardambikis, Alexandria, VA Coin-Op Books, Brooklyn, NY CompOne, Flushing, NY Ctrl+P, Baltimore, NY Dancing Foxes Press, Brooklyn, NY Desert Island, Brooklyn, NY Directangle Press // Bitmap Press, Manchester, NH Dispersed Holdings, Brooklyn, NY Draw Down Books, Guilford, CT Edge of Arabia, New York, NY Endless Editions, New York, NY F Magazine, Los Angeles, CA Flat Fix, Brooklyn, NY Fully Booked, Brooklyn, NY Fuse Works: Multiples & Editions, Brooklyn, NY Futurepoem Books, New York, NY Ginger, Brooklyn, NY Glass Press, Amherst, MA Got a Girl Crush Magazine, Brooklyn, NY GRAVEL PROJECTS, Detroit, MI Growth and Culture, Brooklyn, NY Hassla, New York, NY Inpatient Press, Brooklyn, NY Inventory Press, New York, NY Jeremy Nguyen and Tony Wolf, Brooklyn, NY Kayrock Screenprinting, Brooklyn, NY La Liga Zine Litmus Press / Belladonna Series, New York, NY Little Pharma, Ridgewood, NY LOLA PISTOLA, Brooklyn, NY Lorelei Ramirez and Birgit Rathsmann, Brooklyn, NY Maga Books, Brooklyn, NY Marley Freeman and Jamie Chan, New York, NY Matthew Scott Gualco MATH Magazine, Brooklyn, NY Matthew Spiegelman / Secret Office, Brooklyn, NY Megan Piontkowski, Brooklyn, NY Miniature Garden, New York, NY Molasses Books, Brooklyn, NY Monster House Press, Bloomington, IN Montez Press, London, UK & New York, NY mooreartpress209, Brooklyn, NY mozzarella, Brooklyn, NY New Documents / Fillip, Los Angeles, CA Nontsikelelo Mutiti, Brooklyn, NY Open Projects Press, New York, NY PAL / The Pilipino American Library, Queens, NY Parsons Fine Arts MFA, New York, NY Passenger Pigeon Press, New York, NY Pegacorn Press, Brooklyn, NY Peradam, Brooklyn, NY Pioneer Works Press, Brooklyn, NY Press Press, Baltimore, MD Primary Information, Brooklyn, NY Publication Studio Hudson, Troy, NY Pyrite Press RATSAPATSA, Brooklyn, NY REALITY BEACH, Albany/New York, NY Schwib Data, New York, NY Secretary Press, New York, NY Selfish Magazine, Brooklyn, NY Shifter, Brooklyn, NY Shortt Editions: Paul Shortt, Washington, DC Siglio, Catskill, NY Slow Youth, Brooklyn, NY Small Editions, Brooklyn, NY Soberscove Press, Chicago, IL Social Malpractice Publishing, Brooklyn, NY Soft City Printing, Brooklyn, NY Sorry Archive, Brooklyn, NY Soumya Dhulekar & Nicole Rodrigues, Philadelphia, PA Stephanie Rodriguez, Brooklyn, NY STILL Magazine, New York, NY SWAG PURGATORY, Philadelphia, PA T-N-T, East Northport, NY Tang Museum, Saratoga Springs, NY TARWUK, Brooklyn, NY The Bettys The Song Cave, New York, NY Thee Almighty & Insane, Brooklyn, NY Topos Press, Ridgewood, NY TXTbooks, Brooklyn, NY Ugly Duckling Presse, Brooklyn, NY Ulises, Philadelphia, PA Unknown Unknowns, Jackson Heights, NY Upon, Brooklyn, NY Vice Versa Press, Chicago, IL We’re Hir We’re Queer, Brooklyn, NY Wendy’s Subway, Brooklyn, NY White Columns, New York, NY Wing Club / Wilt Press, Portland, Maine Wonder / Troll Thread, New York, NY Zingmagazine, New York, NY Check out a few images from BABZ Fair 2016 at Signal, Brooklyn

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Dikeou Superstars Monthly Roundup

Joshua Abelow’s solo exhibition “Barnett Abelow” is now open at H.G.Chicago.

Anya Kielar’s solo exhibition “Shadow Box” is on view at Pioneer Works through December 11.

Devon Dikeou has officially pledged to have the papers of her artist studio, zingmagazine, and Dikeou Collection entered into the Smithsonian Institution’s Archives of American Art where they will be preserved for posterity and made available for public access and research.

Lizzi Bougatsos created a lens cloth and keepsake poster for her homegirl Chloë Sevigny’s latest collaboration with Baby Parker. She also recently walked in Maryam Nassir Zadeh’s fall 2022 runway show.

Inspiration from Marcel Dzama was seen on the runway via BORAASKSU’s spring 2023 collection presented at London Fashion Week.

Anicka Yi spoke on the Community Panel, moderated by Thelma Golden, at the recent Sky High Farm Symposium at Judd Foundation. She was joined by Father Mike Lopez and Tremain Emory. She was also recently featured on an episode of A brush with. . . podcast

Mycophile Agathe Snow’s sculpture practice has evolved to now include her passion for mushroom farming. She and her partner Anthony Holbrooke run Mattituck Mushrooms in the North Fork region. “The real truth to it is that we’re both sculptors. There’s nothing like a mushroom,” she said. “[Discarded materials] we’re collecting for making sculpture also go into making growing boxes for the mushrooms.”

Sebastiaan Bremer’s current exhibition at Edwynn Houk Gallery was recently reviewed in VMan Magazine.

Paul Ramírez Jonas was honored at the recent Socrates Sculpture Park Benefit.

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Artist: Devon Dikeou

Venue: James Fuentes, New York

Exhibition Title: HERE IS NEW YORK (E.B. WHITE)

Date: September 8 – October 7, 2018

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Full gallery of images, press release and link available after the jump.

Images:

Images courtesy of James Fuentes, New York

Press Release:

“There are roughly three New Yorks. There is, first, the New York of the man or woman who was born here, who takes the city for granted and accepts its size and its turbulence as natural and inevitable. Second, there is the New York of the commuter—the city that is devoured by locusts each day and spat out each night. Third, there is the New York of the person who was born somewhere else and came to New York in quest of something [. . .] Commuters give the city its tidal restlessness; natives give it solidity and continuity; but the settlers give it passion.”

—E. B. White, Here is New York

James Fuentes is pleased to announce Devon Dikeou’s forthcoming solo exhibition HERE IS NEW YORK (E.B. WHITE) this will be the artists second exhibition at the gallery.

Artists statement;

In 1988 I moved from the West Village to Soho. 508 Broadway to be precise. In that in-between phase of staying in one apartment and signing a lease for another—my first studio—I walked back and forth, Village to Soho, Soho to Village. The meandering route eventually led to Broadway, and what a route. It’s truly an urban canyon and originally an Indian path from the Upper West Side to Wall Street—which was an actual wall BTW . . . protecting those settlers from the hostile unknown. Walking those various, well-patterned routes, at different times of day, the urban landscape changed, evening to morning, with the solace of afternoon in between. Businesses and residences open or closed, were protected or vulnerable, or maybe neither. I began to recognize these facades as individuals, but more than that, not really as barriers, which is what they are designed for, and rather resting moments, almost modernist paintings or sculptures that culture crafted. Their nuances were studied and recorded in those three weeks of in between of the Village and Soho. And that record became the first body of work out of the “gate” as an aspiring young MFA graduate. I always thought of them as an “in-between,” a segue, not a security system. Rather than a blocking mechanism, the gates were something that held the space for just a while. These gates’ compositions were based on real situations, measured and replicated. No locks were shown, the gates were closed, but left open as if you could raise the gate and see the white cube of Art Oz behind. Some people did. Especially with the kiosk. So these three gates revisit that time, and sorta all the different faces of New Yorkers that E. B. White describes. One home grown, another the day trader, and one the transplanted permanent fixture. Three New Yorkers, three gates from 1989/1990.

Devon Dikeou (b. 1963, Denver, CO) lives and works in Austin, Denver, and New York City. Recent solo exhibitions include “Tricia Nixon: Summer of 1973,” Futura, Prague (2018); “‘Pray For Me’—Pope Francis I,” James Fuentes, New York City (2017); “Please,” Outcasts Incorporated, Paris (2015); “Between the Acts: Virginia Woolf,” Nada Art Fair, Miami (2014); “Pray For Me,” Nada Art Fair, New York City (2014); and “Please”, The Contemporary, Austin (2013). Recent group exhibitions include “Group Exhibition,” James Fuentes LLC, New York City (2017); “Foundation Barbin Presents Redeux (Sort of),” Kai Matsumiya, New York City (2016); “Inhabiting Ten Eyck,” Storefront Ten Eyck, New York City (2014); “Game Changer,” Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art, Boulder, CO (2014); and “NYC 1993: Experimental Jet Set, Trash, and No Star” at New Museum, New York City (2013). Her retrospective “Mid-Career Smear,” curated by Cortney Lane Stell, at Dikeou Collection is forthcoming in 2019. Devon Dikeou is the founder, editor and publisher of zingmagazine, and a co-founder and curator of The Dikeou Collection in Downtown Denver.

Link: Devon Dikeou at James Fuentes

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DEJA ZING: Evil Camouflage

A snapshot: Kevin is sitting under a Christmas tree in Munich holding a framed postcard. The Heinrich Hoffmann photo shows Adolf Hitler in profile looking into the light of candles enflamed on a Christmas tree. Intended as a contribution to gay and festive celebrations, the card is entitled "Deutsche Weihnacht". This man staring into open fire with relaxed features, just about to crack into a smile is an entirely cynical concept and in this sense the perfect ready made illustration for “Evil Camouflage.”

"Psychologists discover everything to be camouflage. It is then made clear how little these experts know of tanks." For the passage from France to England, Caesar invented the little green men, later in Scotland, at Birnam, the woods were taken for a walk, in short, human mimicry practiced in a terrain of military significance has had many literary and historical predecessors. Nevertheless, the technique of camouflage, as we know it, is a 20th century contribution to the history of warfare. It is the strategy of obscuring objects with the intention of deceiving the enemy. These objects can be subjected to the attempt to render them invisible within their given surrounding, or to make them appear as something, they are in fact not. Its invention is closely linked to Modernism. Seemingly, military camouflage, its patterns provided by Cubism, Vorticism, or Futurism applied, often in quite a dazzling way, is nothing but modern art put to use and practice.

As such, "Evil Camouflage" is yet another example of the abuse of warlike techniques for peacetime pastime activities. The artworks assembled for this project, as diverse in style and context as they may be, all employ some strategy of disguise, obscurity or deceit in their technique of communication. Against the background of the viewer's expectations, the appearance of an image or the nature of the presented topic might read as harmless or as pleasant. A closer look reveals that the story told has taken rather unexpected turns. In such a manner, "Evil Camouflage" gives room to trick and twist and make ironic. In its finest examples it offers a forum for the challenged states of mind or serves as a technique for insight and critique.

This project also takes into account the natural existence of camouflage. Even in nature, no one is safe. "There are predators everywhere. The possibility of discovery and of subsequent death provides the arena for the evolution of deceptive strategies." In the course of the following investigation into contemporary evolutionary practice, four arenas will be entered. "The Female" introduces mean kids, evil mothers and sexual desires. "The Body" is subject to mutations and mutilations. "Objects" will be introduced as the anticipation of casualties. And some "Suspicious Minds" reflect upon attitudes and politics.

—Adriaan von der Have & Rafael von Uslar

View the rest of this project in issue #9 here.