the concern. reading series: a year of poetry on the attic 506 rooftop, june 2021-june 2022, the book

Now in print: a book dedicated to the past year of poetry readings at Attic 506, including poems by 24 of the writers who shared their work on the rooftop. Thanks to Dylan Angell for curating & emcee-ing, as well as the Orange County Arts Commission for the project support. All participants in the book will receive a free copy of the book. It will be sold to the public for $4 a copy starting Friday, June 9 at the reading itself. The writers included in this book are: Dylan Angell, Susannah Simpson, Marta Núñez Pouzols, Minori Sanchiz-Fung, Laura Jaramillo, emilio Taiveaho Pelaez, Loan Tran, Olivia Gone, Sam Lineberger, Nina Oteria, Aimee (Harrison) Wright Clow, Fred Joiner, Chris Catanese, Skylar Gudasz, Joe Fletcher, Amanda Bennett, Max McDonough, Ted Rees, Lauren Hunter, Riley Ratcliff, Michael Cavuto, Travis Smith, Ryan Eckes.

New Publication-> Awkward Life: Photographs by Ludovic Raymondo

This is the second in a series of publications produced by Jerstin Crosby in partnership with The Concern in collaboration with an artist that has suffered a life changing injury after a period of artistic output or study. The first was ‘What He Say? They Say It To Him? Drawings by Elliot Feltner, published in July 2020.

Awkward Life is a collection of photographs by Long Island- based artist Ludovic Raymondo. Ludovic studied art & design and was involved in the NY skate community. After college, he suffered a traumatic brain injury that led down a long road of recovery. These candid photos are snapshots of his life and his developing sense of personal creative output conducted prior to the accident. Ludovic’s recovery is ongoing but he collaborated fully with the production of this publication.

The Concern Reading Series pamphlets

Beginning with the reading that took place in October, we are now publishing a tri-fold pamphlet with a poem or writing piece from each writer taking part. For the October 8 reading that took place at Attic 506 in Chapel Hill, the readers were emilio Taiveaho Peláez, Loan Tran, Olivia Gone and Sam Lineberger, line up curated by Dylan Angell Pamphlets are available at the Attic 506 location when open and also shipping free with web orders while supplies last. This project was funded in part by the Orange County Commission.

Artwork by Marc Kennedy on view at Attic 506

On view on the walls of The Concern Newsstand’s space at Attic 506 in Chapel Hill starting July 9 through September 4, digital collage prints by Marc Kennedy. Marc is an artist & musician living in Burlington, NC. We have Marc’s latest book self-published in the Summer of 2021, Big Crunch, in store. It is a lyric book illustrated with digital collage for his solo music project, Crumb Catcher. We also have Marc’s zine, Greasy Gambit in store.

Exhibition Catalogues Collection- Elsa Longhauser

Grateful & fortunate to now have a decades- long collection of exhibition catalogues from the private collection of Elsa Longhauser & her illustrious career as a Director of galleries & museums. Many of these catalogues were also designed by her husband William Longhauser.

Elsa Longhauser is the founding executive director of the Institute of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles (ICA LA), formerly the Santa Monica Museum of Art (SMMoA), where Longhauser served as director from 2000 until the museum ended operations in Bergamot Station in 2015. From 1983 until 2000, Longhauser served as director of the Goldie Paley Gallery at the Moore College of Art and Design in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

These catalogues will be available at Attic 506 in Chapel Hill & gradually added to the web store as well.

Here is a full list:
1984   It’s All Part of the Clay: Viola Frey (Goldie)

1986  The Basel School of Design and Its Philosophy: The Armin Hofmann Years, 1946-1986 (Goldie)

1987  Jackie Ferrara: Benches, Thrones and a Table 

1988  Adolf Wolfli The Other Side of the Moon

1988  Univeral/ Unique (University of the Arts)

1989  Images of Desire (Goldie)

1990  Hanne Darboven  Primitive Time/ Clock Time (Goldie)

1991  More Works by Ray Johnson  (Goldie)

1991  Josef Hoffmann (Goldie)

1993  Dan Graham: Public/Private  (Goldie)

1993  William Daley: Ceramic Works + Drawings

1993  Allaire du Pont: Works in Needlepoint (Goldie)

1996  Barbara Zucker: For Beauty’s Sake (Goldie)

1997  History for Sale: 2000 Paintings by Stephen Keene (Goldie)

1999  David Reed: Painting/ Vampire Study Center

2000  The Miracle Half-Mile: Ten Thousand Paintings by Stephen Keene (Santa Monica)

2006  Dark Places (Santa Monica)

2006 Enigma Variations: Philip Guston and Giorgio de Chirico (Santa Monica)

2007  William Pope.L  Art After White People: Time Trees and Celluloid (Santa Monica)

2011  Beatrice Wood: Career Woman- Drawings, Paintings, Vessels, And Objects (Santa Monica)

2011  Al Taylor: Wire Instruments and Pet Stains (Santa Monica)

2017  Martin Ramirez: His Life in Pictures, Another Interpretation (ICA)

Stockist: The Improbable from Siglio Press

Happy to be a stockist of The Improbable, second issue from @sigliopress / a free newspaper investigating the rich & varied space between art & literature. In this issue: pieces by Nicole Rudick (on Niki de Saint Phalle), Anaïs Duplan (on the Black Avant-Garde), Shiv Kotecha (on Nicholas Moufarrege), J. Mae Barizo (on colonialism & archives), Douglas Kearney (on sonic & visual frequencies), Amaranth Borsuk (on Barbara Stauffacher Solomon), Clive Phillpot (on the Flat Time House), & Rachel Valinsky (on Chantal Ackerman & Hanne Darboven). A stack soon at @lump_raleigh too / shipping out free with web orders !

Local Distributor for Slingshot

Finally & proudly now a local distributor for Slingshot, the independent, radical & free quarterly newspaper from the East Bay in California. In operation since 1988, the newspaper is still created with a hand-done layout method by the Slingshot Collective, a loose group of volunteer members. Slingshot is also well-known for the pocket calendar called The Organizer they come out with every year since 1995. Slingshot issues will be available while supplies last for free at Lump in Raleigh and at Attic 506.

Jason S. Wright 'I Am Here for You' Newsprint Poster (Giveaway)

We are excited to announce our first ‘giveaway’ produced exclusively by The Concern Newsstand.

Artist Jason S. Wright created artwork, titled ‘I am here for you’, for a 22.5” x 28” newsprint poster which will be shipping free with web orders & free with all purchases made at our back room bookstore at Lump Gallery in Raleigh and at our Chapel Hill showroom.

Jason S. Wright is currently based in Richmond, VA and shows his drawings & art works internationally. He is prolific in zine/ book producing & in one of a kind shirts with his writings & illustration. He is a founder of Udli Editions, producing such sellables, based in Boone, NC. We have several of his publications in store, including Heads Magazine 6, Heads Magazine 4, a book of drawings Angels Forever and a book of photographs, Scar Lover in a Red Halter.

New Poster Giveaway by Lydia Moyer

Artist, Lydia Moyer has created a new poster, as a follow up to her much talked about: "Make America an Endless Expanse of Old Growth Forest with no Certain Borders Again," (which have all been dispersed).  This new one, also newsprint, is two-sided with the words 'Melt Your Guns' on one side and 'Melt Your Sons' on the other.  We are lucky to be giving them away with orders while supplies last.

Here is what Lydia had to say about this one:

" I live in Charlottesville where this year, on the anniversary of the Unite The Right rally which brought hundreds of gun-wielding young male white supremacists to town in 2017, there were checkpoints around the city where the police could take your knives and bats and paintball guns and water guns and pellet guns away but not your AK47 because open carry is legal in Virginia."

Note from the artist: If you don't want to hang them up, "they are also excellent fire-starters : )"

Dog-Ear Bookmark Magazine, Issue 09- FREE

We received the newest issue of Dog-Ear, a "community interest" bookmark magazine published in the UK.  We are lucky to be able to give this issue for free with web orders and purchases at Lump Gallery.  The bookmark includes poetry, illustration & even a crossword puzzle.  Contributors include Olivia Spidel, Charlie Methven, John Ros, Neil Laurenson, Mansour Chow, Vicki Johnson, Rebecca Field, Nathan Fidler & cover art by Tomoko Tsukiuda.  In this issue, they even give The Concern Newsstand a shoutout as one of their few state-side stockists.  Dog-Ear relies on donations, as in this issue from people like author Margaret Atwood (!).

"It’s a bookmark. It’s a magazine. It’s open to everyone.  It believes in the benefits of playful creativity, especially reading, writing and drawing.  You’ll find it lurking in libraries and bookshops, or nestled between pages of other magazines.  Submissions are collected and posted online. Every three months-ish, we pick our top nine and print an issue."

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Make America... newsprint poster by Lydia Moyer & Tero Juuti

While supplies last, we are giving away this special, limited run- newsprint poster with every purchase made online or at our Lump Gallery location in Raleigh.  It was the idea of Charlottesville, VA- based artist Lydia Moyer as a spin off of what she sees America should be, mocking Trump's 'Make America Great Again' slogan:  "Make America An Endless Expanse of Old-Growth Forest With No Certain Borders Again."  Moyer enlisted the help of Finnish designer Tero Juuti to recreate the MAGA hat typography -look into this newsprint poster.  The result is, as someone pointed out to Moyer after the fact: "some irony in the whole project since newsprint is tied to deforestation."  22.75" x 27.5"

Only US stockist for Dog-Ear bookmark magazine from the UK

Happy to currently be the only stockist in the US for Dog-Ear, a bookmark shaped folding magazine from the UK.  It includes poems, witticisms & illustrations.  "It believes in the benefits of playful creativity, especially reading, writing and drawing. It's open to everyone."  And in that way, it's free!  Every purchase from The Concern will receive a Dog-Ear Issue 8 while supplies last, you can also grab one at our new corner outpost at Lump Gallery starting in February.

Dog-Ear is a 'Community Interest Company', meaning all of their profits go back to their business, back issues can be purchased on their website.