A + D Gallery
619 S Wabash Ave
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Mike Houston, Kekayaan.
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Opens Thursday Jan 19 (5–8pm)
Jan 5 – Feb 11
Tuesdays–Wednesdays (11am–5pm)
Thursdays (11am–8pm)
Fridays–Sundays (11am–5pm)
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“It's a total freak show at Columbia College's A + D Gallery, where Cannonball Press is exhibiting a series of prints featuring the denizens of the carnival's sideshow. Both humorous and bizarre, the prints feature a man toting a teddy bear larger than he is under a caption, "Win giant crap you don't need," along with the bearded lady, among other performers. Veering from the dominant carnival theme is the Press' "Party No. 1," a large-scale work featuring vignettes from a party devolving into total debauchery, as a conga line at the top ends in a sprawled, passed-out partier at the bottom.”
Abraham Ritchie, Flavorpill
Since 1999, Brooklyn based artists Martin Mazorra and Mike Houston have been producing high quality, affordable letterpress, relief, and screen prints under the moniker Cannonball Press. More recently they have expanded their repertoire to include large scale, collaborative, print-infested sculptures, and installations using bold graphics formed from minute detail and a surrealist-punk vision. Such work has taken them around the world and back again while adding a new chapter to the rich history of printmaking, namely the scruffy, musky, pirated hillbilly chapter. Along with making their own prints, Cannonball Press has editioned work by over 50 artists.
