{"id":2557,"date":"2011-05-18T18:14:26","date_gmt":"2011-05-18T22:14:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thebookbeat.com\/backroom\/?p=2557"},"modified":"2020-05-07T13:32:49","modified_gmt":"2020-05-07T17:32:49","slug":"morose-delectation-exhibition-book-beat-gallery-sunday-june-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thebookbeat.com\/backroom\/2011\/05\/18\/morose-delectation-exhibition-book-beat-gallery-sunday-june-5\/","title":{"rendered":"MOROSE DELECTATION exhibition @ Book Beat Gallery, Sunday June 5"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>ON Sunday, June 5,<\/strong> Book Beat<\/strong> will be hosting an exhibition, MOROSE DELECTATION<\/strong>, <\/em>in conjunction with Ryan Standfest’s new drawing and comic collection, Black Eye:<\/strong> Graphic Transmissions To Cause Ocular Hypertension. <\/strong><\/em><\/a>A talk with curator\/editor\/artist Ryan Standfest will begin at 3 PM. He will be joined with several of the featured artists. The Book Beat is located at 26010 Greenfield in Oak Park. Our hours Sunday are 12-5 PM.<\/p>\n

The first scheduled event to coincide with the publication of BLACK EYE 1: Graphic Transmissions to Cause Ocular Hypertension<\/em>, will be a companion exhibition of works by ten of the book\u2019s contributors. However, the work included in MOROSE DELECTATION<\/em> will not be drawn from that in BLACK EYE<\/em>, but will be work that has been newly-created for the exhibition as well as older, unpublished works. The following is the press release:<\/p>\n

MOROSE DELECTATION<\/em><\/p>\n

An Exhibition of Works on Paper, Occasioned by the Release of<\/p>\n

BLACK EYE 1: Graphic Transmissions to Cause Ocular Hypertension<\/em><\/p>\n

A New Comics Anthology of Black and Absurdist Humor by 41 International Artists and Writers, Edited by Ryan Standfest and Published by Rotland Press + Comic Works, Detroit, Michigan<\/a>.<\/p>\n

WHERE: Book Beat Bookstore & Gallery, 26010 Greenfield Road \/ Oak Park, MI \/ 48237-1050 \/ (248) 968-1190<\/p>\n

WHEN: JUNE 5th \u2013 AUGUST 5th<\/sup>, 2011; OPENING EVENT with discussion and signing on June 5th<\/sup>, from 3 to 5 PM.<\/p>\n

“Its good to know that comics are still being confiscated today” – Chris Ware<\/p>\n

The exhibition will include work by:<\/p>\n

Max Clotfelter<\/a> (Seattle, Washington)<\/p>\n

Andy Gabrysiak <\/a>(Plymouth, Michigan)<\/p>\n

Ian Huebert <\/a>(San Francisco, California)<\/p>\n

Kaz<\/a> (Hollywood, California)<\/p>\n

James Moore<\/a> (Brooklyn, New York)<\/p>\n

Tom Neely <\/a>(Los Angeles, California)<\/p>\n

Paul Nudd<\/a> (Chicago, Illinois)<\/p>\n

Onsmith<\/a> (Chicago, Illinois)<\/p>\n

David Paleo <\/a>(Buenos Aires, Argentina)<\/p>\n

Stephen Schudlich<\/a> (Dearborn, Michigan)<\/p>\n

Curated by Cary Loren and Ryan Standfest<\/p>\n

This exhibition, held at the Book Beat Gallery, showcases works on paper by ten artists who are contributors to the comics anthology BLACK EYE No. 1<\/em>. The exhibition is meant to be a companion to the anthology, and the work presented here reflects a continuation of the sensibility presented in the pages of BLACK EYE<\/em>, namely a focus on black and absurdist humor that sits uneasily on the border between what is funny and what is not.<\/p>\n

The exhibition will have an OPENING EVENT ON SUNDAY, JUNE 5th<\/sup>, from 3 to 5pm, during which there will be a discussion concerning BLACK EYE<\/em> and the nature of black humor, as well as a signing with some of the contributing artists present. A limited edition letterpress print by the artists Onsmith & Nudd will be available for purchase and for signing, along with copies of BLACK EYE<\/em>.<\/p>\n

Further information about BLACK EYE<\/em> can be found at the Rotland Press + Comic Works site: http:\/\/rotlandpress.wordpress.com\/<\/a><\/p>\n

Black Eye<\/em><\/strong> was the subject of international controversy recently after the book was confiscated by Canadian border agents.\u00a0 Copies of the collection were being taken to a comics convention in Canada and agents considered it obscene material.\u00a0 Here is a link to the incident on the Comics Journal <\/a>website.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

ON Sunday, June 5, Book Beat will be hosting an exhibition, MOROSE DELECTATION, in conjunction with Ryan Standfest’s new drawing and comic collection, Black Eye: Graphic Transmissions To Cause Ocular Hypertension. A talk with curator\/editor\/artist Ryan Standfest will begin at 3 PM. He will be joined with several of the featured artists. The Book Beat […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,27,17,33],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2557","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art","category-comics","category-detroit","category-psychedelia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thebookbeat.com\/backroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2557","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thebookbeat.com\/backroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thebookbeat.com\/backroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thebookbeat.com\/backroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thebookbeat.com\/backroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2557"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.thebookbeat.com\/backroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2557\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thebookbeat.com\/backroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2557"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thebookbeat.com\/backroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2557"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thebookbeat.com\/backroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2557"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}