Offset-printed, soft-cover otabind with spine-attached gatefold cover jacket / Pages: 96 / Size: 200 x 260 mm (7.87 x 10.23 in.) / Print run: First edition printing of 500 / Papers: Umka Color GD2 300gsm (cover); Artic Paper—Amber Graphic 170gsm (jacket); Artic Paper—Amber Graphic 170gsm (pages) / ISBN: 979-8-9992952-1-7
$40 + S/H
Cook’s painted worlds are often accompanied by curious and often fuzzy storyboard-like vignettes and overlaid imagery that hover across the paintings. In response, the book’s margins and gutters are activated by their own overlaid images that converse with and offer playful glimpses into Cook’s themes, research, and trove of visual references that she has collected throughout the years.
Featured prominently within Cook’s works are the unmistakable depictions of the landscapes and signifiers of a past era of the American agricultural Midwest. Within these vast depictions, acting as a visual archaeology of a nation steeped in expansionist drive, Cook pieces together certain defining myths of America.
London-based art gallery Public wrote of Cook’s work for her 2025 solo-exhibition, stating: “Cook explores with systemic precision how accelerated capitalism and industrialization cast shadows across rural America. Her works serve as an archive, or perhaps a tombstone, blending speculative fiction with her Minnesota upbringing, to capture the no man’s land of the American mid-west—a hybridization of its mythical past and forgotten future—while advancing the contemporary genre of landscape painting.”
Project support provided by the Visual Arts Fund, administered by Midway Contemporary Art with generous funding from The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, New York.
Thread-stitched, softcover artist book by Ryan Gerald Nelson / Pages: 48 / Size: 200 x 280 mm (7.87 x 11 in.) / Print run: First edition printing of 75 / Printing: 3-color silkscreen, printed by hand (covers); 1-color black, sheet-fed printed on an HP LaserJet 5000n (pages) / Papers: French Paper Chipboard Kraft, 100lb cover (covers); Munken Print White 15, 80gsm (pages) / Binding: 3-hole pamphlet stitch with white thread
$25 + S/H
Gaze Palais merges “Displaced Gaze” (a text first published by Ryan Gerald Nelson in 2015) and Nelson’s ongoing project titled Peripheries (2014–present).
american argicultural midwest
america’s mythical past
an amorphous solid state
astronomical bodies
aura
defixio
dense fog
diffraction
displaced gaze
distancing effect
geodetic marks
impact of american expansionism
landscape painting
leaving the movie theater
lost in the engulfing mirror
objet petit a
printed ephemera
serigrafie
soft burn
the graven image
the image becomes a veil
the image field
the interstice
the periphery
ventifact
visual archaeology
etc
et al
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