tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-39794695307621112462024-02-18T18:30:44.752-08:00Matt RunkleMatt Runklehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06445231507262755675noreply@blogger.comBlogger247125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3979469530762111246.post-28644431722017532172017-01-08T08:40:00.002-08:002017-01-08T08:40:58.480-08:00<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhzhK0jL1JuaFJ0UKU970kYcq76og7yY0SUnYU2hanirAwpWxODDp9W7tl63YNMpQxkbjtjKnZhLPh6kCjGDplx8AH4_G7agSIxHERXsAvt2TVXxsz_Owo3H9V6r_HSEyh4bdy_MJqp5nmo/s1600/12331833_1531878107124530_72609126_a.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhzhK0jL1JuaFJ0UKU970kYcq76og7yY0SUnYU2hanirAwpWxODDp9W7tl63YNMpQxkbjtjKnZhLPh6kCjGDplx8AH4_G7agSIxHERXsAvt2TVXxsz_Owo3H9V6r_HSEyh4bdy_MJqp5nmo/s1600/12331833_1531878107124530_72609126_a.jpg" /></a>While I'm not posting on here for now, you can follow me at <a href="https://www.instagram.com/matt.runkle/">@matt.runkle</a> over at <a href="https://www.instagram.com/matt.runkle/" target="_blank">Instagram</a>!Matt Runklehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06445231507262755675noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3979469530762111246.post-14174894290292783302016-07-27T07:39:00.001-07:002016-07-27T07:39:13.398-07:0020/20 Vision<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">
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The San Francisco Center for the Book celebrates its first 20 years by looking ahead. <a href="https://sfcb.org/20-20-Vision" target="_blank">20/20 Vision</a> introduces 20 emerging book artists from around the country, representing a diverse generation that will help define, and redefine, the artist's book in decades to come.<br />
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Opening Reception: July 30, 2016 from 6–8 pm<br />
375 Rhode Island Street, San FranciscoMatt Runklehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06445231507262755675noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3979469530762111246.post-42053538925748027082016-06-23T07:29:00.003-07:002016-06-23T07:29:58.494-07:00Framed by Thumbs<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj2nwI40wePQRl-o3choWyQnxHa2bqP_JF83Lr3pOmeeHbVQbSg3JIG9iCJTMbOXUiVVEHejAM2K11HTaH6L4JDGaF_Il0_9rMCod4eAqVmUOm0kc765vYoRY2gl7mIZ9SJfD-Cl-oRL2SE/s1600/openings1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj2nwI40wePQRl-o3choWyQnxHa2bqP_JF83Lr3pOmeeHbVQbSg3JIG9iCJTMbOXUiVVEHejAM2K11HTaH6L4JDGaF_Il0_9rMCod4eAqVmUOm0kc765vYoRY2gl7mIZ9SJfD-Cl-oRL2SE/s1600/openings1.jpg" /></a>I have an article in the latest issue of <i>Openings: Studies in Book Art</i>, which is now open access and available to read <a href="http://journals.sfu.ca/cbaa/index.php/jcbaa" target="_blank">here</a>. Titled 'Framed by Thumbs: Reading Raymond Pettibon', the article looks at drawings from the artist's early zines and places them in their original sequential context. Aspects of the book form continue to haunt Pettibon's work, even as they appear in a variety of settings.<br />
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Just came across a thoughtful review of <i>The Story of How All Animals Are Equal & Other Tales</i> in <i><a href="http://www.pleiadesmag.com/issues/" target="_blank">The Pleiades Book Review</a>. </i><b>Jared Wolfe </b>writes, ‘Runkle proves to be a fearless proponent of imaginative power and willingness to push boundaries.’ Buy the book from <a href="http://www.brooklynartspress.com/portfolio/the-story-of-how-all-animals-are-equal-other-tales/" target="_blank">Brooklyn Arts Press</a>!Matt Runklehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06445231507262755675noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3979469530762111246.post-34751262001084077442016-04-23T14:57:00.001-07:002016-04-23T14:57:31.338-07:00Prince among the angels<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">
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<br />Matt Runklehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06445231507262755675noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3979469530762111246.post-71673826480337240872016-04-20T14:34:00.003-07:002016-04-20T14:35:23.724-07:00Artist talk at USF<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj330ClvEgKF2aCBJrVaYLCOhyMJX8cd83T_EpDvtvM-zytrp03F8HMIU7Gx8R6OB6PqYt1bar1n3CAWLh9UjECd385rJXCG9Zw7sBOzSylx1F4rvedJvynO457r9gvpT8DO8Sz-bkqdj15/s1600/artisttalk_bodyofwork.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="235" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj330ClvEgKF2aCBJrVaYLCOhyMJX8cd83T_EpDvtvM-zytrp03F8HMIU7Gx8R6OB6PqYt1bar1n3CAWLh9UjECd385rJXCG9Zw7sBOzSylx1F4rvedJvynO457r9gvpT8DO8Sz-bkqdj15/s320/artisttalk_bodyofwork.jpg" width="320" /></a>I'm preparing to give an artist talk tomorrow as a guest lecturer in a Publication Design class at the <a href="https://www.usfca.edu/" target="_blank">University of San Francisco</a>, where I'll discuss my body of work and how my love of narrative, sequence, and collage draw me toward the book as an art form. I'll also give students some tips on attaching covers to an accordion structure for their final projects. I had a lot of fun a couple weeks ago giving a workshop on creating a perfect binding in a case for two other sections of the class.Matt Runklehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06445231507262755675noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3979469530762111246.post-54529945726068908332016-04-17T15:47:00.001-07:002016-04-17T15:47:46.260-07:00Plans<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">
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<b><a href="https://sfcb.org/civicrm/event/info?reset=1&id=2210" target="_blank">Story Box: Creating Narrative with Relief Collage</a></b> is happening at San Francisco Center for the Book next Saturday, April 16! We'll be making story boxes, shallow boxes with partitions that tell three-panel stories using 3-D collage (think <b>Joseph Cornell</b>!). Whether or not you're new to the book arts, if you're interested in boxmaking, visual narrative, sequential art, or collage, this workshop will be a lot of fun! Click <b><a href="https://sfcb.org/civicrm/event/info?reset=1&id=2210" target="_blank">HERE</a></b> to register.Matt Runklehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06445231507262755675noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3979469530762111246.post-29907001741598204732016-03-14T12:49:00.001-07:002016-03-14T12:51:20.891-07:00Build a Story Box at SFCB this April 16<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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This April 16, I'll be teaching <a href="https://sfcb.org/civicrm/event/info?reset=1&id=2210" target="_blank">Story Box: Creating Narrative with Relief Collage</a>, a daylong workshop at San Francisco Center for the Book. In this workshop, we'll use bookboard to build a shallow box with three collaged compartments. Participants will receive instruction in 3D collage, layout, and sequence, and will leave with the fundamentals of building, covering, and dimensionally decorating a compartmented box. This will be a a lot of fun—learn more <b><a href="https://sfcb.org/civicrm/event/info?reset=1&id=2210" target="_blank">HERE</a></b>!Matt Runklehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06445231507262755675noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3979469530762111246.post-81956765095864271202016-02-28T16:31:00.002-08:002016-03-01T09:19:33.265-08:00The Tyrant Bride<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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'The Tyrant Bride' is a letterpress printed pamphlet that is now available at <a href="http://mattrunkle.bigcartel.com/product/the-tyrant-bride" target="_blank">Big Cartel</a>. It's one book of ten in an ongoing wedding-themed material novel called <i>The Hitch: An Agamist Manifesto</i>. While the ten books are thematically and often narratively related, each contains its own visual and textural theme, and the prose shifts in genre, from fiction to experimental memoir to lifestyle magazine feature to dramatic script.</div>
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Matt Runklehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06445231507262755675noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3979469530762111246.post-37502821483450537522016-02-08T17:09:00.001-08:002016-02-09T09:59:52.536-08:00'Artifice and authenticity ...'<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgMWk7lvs06XumOHWR-3MD6xU85rG5YZ8Wa4lc9dMOkc9ehAJE0grUbxl8IOMjM6StqLLPtZFaB8CjGwyMSRkBiGG0ouiiCnPB6O4XsTO4GcCm2RadE1aAY1nTPM88PYN1aQcrP6il8u8AI/s1600/bap_book_thumbnail_smaller.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgMWk7lvs06XumOHWR-3MD6xU85rG5YZ8Wa4lc9dMOkc9ehAJE0grUbxl8IOMjM6StqLLPtZFaB8CjGwyMSRkBiGG0ouiiCnPB6O4XsTO4GcCm2RadE1aAY1nTPM88PYN1aQcrP6il8u8AI/s200/bap_book_thumbnail_smaller.jpg" width="140" /></a>'Artifice and authenticity are central themes tying together Matt Runkle's eclectic debut short story collection,' writes <b>Pedro Ponce</b> in a great writeup of <i>The Story of How All Animals Are Equal & Other Tales</i> in the <i><a href="http://losangelesreview.org/" target="_blank">LA Review</a></i>. 'While artifice is everywhere in these stories,' he continues, 'it is not a source of cynicism or despair; rather, artifice is elemental—a material both resistant and pliable, with which characters map and navigate reality.' Order a copy <a href="http://www.spdbooks.org/Producte/9781936767267/the-story-of-how-all-animals-are-equal--other-tales.aspx" target="_blank">HERE</a>!Matt Runklehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06445231507262755675noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3979469530762111246.post-43686097632649824922016-02-04T12:23:00.001-08:002016-02-06T17:34:40.627-08:00Printing The Hitch at Kala<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">
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Matt Runklehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06445231507262755675noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3979469530762111246.post-90821716572639430372016-01-17T09:52:00.000-08:002016-02-09T10:00:58.680-08:00'... animals out of humans ...'<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<b>Zachary Kocanda</b> at the <a href="http://casit.bgsu.edu/midamericanreview/" style="font-style: italic;" target="_blank">Mid-American Review</a> wrote a really thoughtful and thorough review of <i>The Story of How All Animals Are Equal & Other Tales</i>. He says the book '... makes animals out of humans, showing them at both their best and worst. It strips what makes us all one confused, messy yet beautiful species.' Get the book from <a href="http://www.spdbooks.org/Producte/9781936767267/the-story-of-how-all-animals-are-equal--other-tales.aspx" target="_blank">Small Press Distribution</a>!Matt Runklehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06445231507262755675noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3979469530762111246.post-77222656269711927202016-01-05T12:57:00.001-08:002016-01-05T12:57:11.495-08:00How Many Muses?<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: right;">
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Here's the title slide for an artist talk I'm giving this weekend at the biennial <a href="http://www.collegebookart.org/page-1860664" target="_blank">College Book Art Association conference</a> in Nashville. It looks at the production methods of medieval European manuscripts and twentieth-century mainstream American comics, and talks about how they inspired my artist's book, <i><a href="http://matt-runkle.com/catholics.html" target="_blank">Catholics</a></i>.Matt Runklehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06445231507262755675noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3979469530762111246.post-15096088198494366132015-11-27T12:15:00.001-08:002016-04-20T09:40:49.971-07:00Writing the Visual at Southwestern College<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<br />Matt Runklehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06445231507262755675noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3979469530762111246.post-11889783660300370492015-11-05T16:49:00.002-08:002015-11-05T16:51:10.698-08:00Catholics featured in 23 Sandy exhibition<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Matt Runklehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06445231507262755675noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3979469530762111246.post-37654109360923195512015-10-30T18:38:00.000-07:002015-10-30T18:38:02.219-07:00Seven Deadly PrintsI just finished a 4-flap enclosure to house this suite of prints I made as a companion to <i><a href="http://matt-runkle.com/catholics.html" target="_blank">Catholics</a></i>. Each of the seven images is centered around a communion wafer/solar cross, which was printed with heavy impression from photopolymer plates. Surrounding this central image is a <b>Bruce Rogers</b>–inspired frame printed from metal typographic ornaments that alchemically shifts from print to print. The wafers/solar crosses animate a sequence that comments on narrative threads included in the artist's book, while also operating as an independent group. The suite was printed in an edition of ten, and is available either individually or paired with the book in a deluxe edition.<br />
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Matt Runklehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06445231507262755675noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3979469530762111246.post-32888931372553844192015-10-15T17:53:00.000-07:002015-10-15T17:53:08.899-07:00DPC @ VA/BF<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEje23vNnlKOveQHKMeVCEPRZ8tRa_HerLH8TyHfRHVVMkWG_HY4CGnC5yfI0002QnzTz-mYXKfb8Y8KiNA4EYEpTFQbtzrLxF0y9utCrp6LeOlnN0ndr574d-vQIGlTHreQEOiYB2qdtg-T/s1600/acatholicapproach12.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="155" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEje23vNnlKOveQHKMeVCEPRZ8tRa_HerLH8TyHfRHVVMkWG_HY4CGnC5yfI0002QnzTz-mYXKfb8Y8KiNA4EYEpTFQbtzrLxF0y9utCrp6LeOlnN0ndr574d-vQIGlTHreQEOiYB2qdtg-T/s320/acatholicapproach12.jpg" width="320" /></a>The <a href="http://driftplain.com/" target="_blank">Drift Plain Collective</a> is representing once again this weekend, as they bring a bunch of chapbooks, zines, broadsides, and prints to the <a href="http://2015.vancouverartbookfair.com/" target="_blank">2015 Vancouver Art/Book Fair</a>. They'll have copies of <a href="http://matt-runkle.com/runxtales.html" target="_blank"><i>RUNX TALES</i></a> and <i><a href="http://matt-runkle.com/catholics.html" target="_blank">Catholics</a></i> on hand, as well as some spectacular books and ephemera by <b>Elizabeth Boyne</b>, <b>Karen Carcia</b>, <b>Cody Gieselman</b>, <b>Kimberly Maher</b>, <b>Elizabeth Munger</b>, <b>Kalmia Strong</b>, and more. A culmination of Vancouver's <a href="http://2014.vancouverartbookfair.com/artistsbooksweek/" target="_blank">Artists' Book Week</a>, the Vancouver Art/Book Fair is hosted October 17–18 by <a href="http://projectspace.ca/" target="_blank">Project Space</a>, and is free and open to the public.Matt Runklehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06445231507262755675noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3979469530762111246.post-6806353105784325402015-10-07T10:12:00.000-07:002015-10-07T10:12:19.883-07:00October shows featuring Catholics<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<i>Catholics</i> is included in two artist's book exhibitions this month: the Sheffield International Artist's Book Exhibition in the UK and words|matter in Chicago. <a href="http://www.wordsmattershow.org/" target="_blank">words|matter</a>, an artist's book library, is hosted by Arts on Elston through October 29 and is dedicated to facilitating hands on interactions with books by over 70 artists. And the <a href="http://artistsbookprize.co.uk/" target="_blank">Sheffield International Artist's Book Exhibition</a> takes place at Bank Street Arts through October 30 and features over 200 books. To find out more about <i>Catholics</i>, a limited-edition memoir told through text + image, click <a href="http://matt-runkle.com/catholics.html" target="_blank">here</a>.Matt Runklehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06445231507262755675noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3979469530762111246.post-18644662888225289142015-09-24T16:48:00.000-07:002015-09-24T16:48:17.949-07:00Drift Plain Collective at St. Louis Small Press Expo<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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I'm excited to have work included among the fantastic roster of artists represented by the <a href="http://driftplain.com/" target="_blank">Drift Plain Collective</a>! The DPC will be tabling this Saturday, September 26th at the <a href="http://www.stlouissmallpressexpo.com/#about" target="_blank">St. Louis Small Press Expo</a>, taking place at the public library's Central Branch. From the DPC's website:<br />
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Matt Runklehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06445231507262755675noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3979469530762111246.post-70291875090874173722015-09-14T17:41:00.000-07:002015-09-14T17:43:56.522-07:00Relationships as Collage<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<b>Anna Mebel</b> wrote a new review of <i>The Story of How All Animals Are Equal & Other Tales</i> for <i><a href="http://pankmagazine.com/2015/08/20/review-the-story-of-how-all-animals-are-equal-other-tales-by-matt-runkle/" target="_blank">PANK</a></i>. About the two main characters in the titular story, Mebel says, ‘Runkle finds the tragedy and beauty in such mismatches—he treats relationships as collage.’ She also writes, ‘Runkle mixes fairy tales, love stories, satire, dystopia, prose poems, and careful observations of the ordinary.... The stories in the collection are driven by unfulfilled desire and the weight of unexplained, mysterious pasts.’ You can find the book over at <a href="http://www.spdbooks.org/Producte/9781936767267/the-story-of-how-all-animals-are-equal--other-tales.aspx" target="_blank">Small Press Distribution</a>.Matt Runklehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06445231507262755675noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3979469530762111246.post-34117663398466929022015-09-10T17:05:00.000-07:002015-09-10T17:05:33.455-07:00Fragmentation is the rule<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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For an artist's book, <i><a href="http://matt-runkle.com/catholics.html" target="_blank">Catholics</a></i> is unusually prose heavy. While I’m fascinated by the endless possibilities created by the interaction of text and image, I find unbroken blocks of prose equally compelling. Prose builds the meditative and transportive experience a reader undergoes when surrendering to story. A trance happens, one dependent on content more than form (as long as the typography has the grace to let you past). At the same time, despite its pathological tendency to wander into dense blocks of prose, I also think of <i>Catholics</i> as a graphic novel. The book’s images fill roles equal to its prose: <a href="http://matt-runkle.blogspot.com/2015/08/quincunx-recap.html" target="_blank">drawings</a>, <a href="http://matt-runkle.blogspot.com/2015/05/catholic-souvenirs.html" target="_blank">collage</a>, and <a href="http://matt-runkle.blogspot.com/2015/03/typographic-transfiguration.html" target="_blank">images built from typographic ornaments</a> serve as thematic counterpoints to the text.<br />
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But still, they remain separate, text on one page, image on another. There is a power, though, in turning that page and seeing the other side of the coin. Haptic agency connects two divergent ways of receiving information. My zine-making background causes me to privilege the chimerical results of collage: no matter how certain it seems that two scraps belong together, tactile cues identify them as separate entities. The places in between (between pages, between scraps) are where things get really exciting, where you can peer into the gaps between artifact and story. Fragmentation is the rule—a dictate that’s not so radical, really: the separation of text and image characterizes what is often dismissed as that most conventional genre, the livre d’artiste.<br />
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The eight prose sections included in <i>Catholics</i> are both anecdotal and informational. Their design is a nod to twentieth-century trade publications—books, but also periodicals. In these sections, magazines and newspapers recur as central objects, and the tell-all nature of the book’s subject matter often feels worthy of the scandal sheets. Because of this, I’ve drawn inspiration from the designers, compositors, and printers who once worked to produce mass-market ephemera. The prose sections are letterpress printed from The Times New Roman type, cast and set by <a href="http://www.arionpress.com/mandh/" target="_blank">M & H Type</a>. Their titles and folios are printed from handset Spartan Heavy type selected from the <a href="http://book.grad.uiowa.edu/" target="_blank">University of Iowa Center for the Book</a>’s Type Lab collection.<br />
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjSxKuRGy4jhtHiUtYEeZIPuWOr64yLh0tycIXypQQEUXYXqVYIbx2rmoKzBENCGJP_830oknhxQGRBP60vnZwSYW1sab7LAjnaAnHFl9L0V5NegpNoMHJfGxJIYucBtqwhUDkRUGBzmCs7/s1600/acatholicapproach4.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjSxKuRGy4jhtHiUtYEeZIPuWOr64yLh0tycIXypQQEUXYXqVYIbx2rmoKzBENCGJP_830oknhxQGRBP60vnZwSYW1sab7LAjnaAnHFl9L0V5NegpNoMHJfGxJIYucBtqwhUDkRUGBzmCs7/s640/acatholicapproach4.jpg" width="372" /></a>The book's prose sections are the origin points for exploring a range of subjects including Catholic-Masonic tensions, the fervency of converts, the legacy of the Legion of Decency, and the spiritual significance of revelatory shrouds. They relate my religious upbringing as they join with the book’s images to braid several themes: Church history, pre-Christian mythology, and the places where such spiritualities resonate with twentieth-century pop culture. In <i>Catholics</i>, text and image, the sacred and profane, the humorous and tragic, the zine and literary fine-press all end up as strange bedfellows in desperate need of confession.<br />
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You can learn more about <i>Catholics</i> <a href="http://matt-runkle.com/catholics.html" target="_blank">here</a>!Matt Runklehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06445231507262755675noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3979469530762111246.post-85190737844012506042015-08-28T18:59:00.000-07:002016-04-20T09:41:34.397-07:00Writing the Visual | Story Box | Speculative Studio Archeology<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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I've posted three new workshop proposals on my <a href="http://matt-runkle.com/workshop_proposals.html" target="_blank">website</a>. They all engage with visual narrative, sequence, and collage as they incorporate elements of both creative writing and the book arts. They are adapted from classes I've taught at Mills College, the University of Iowa Center for the Book, and Iowa City Poetry's monthly Free Generative Writing Workshop. Click <a href="http://matt-runkle.com/workshop_proposals.html" target="_blank"><b>HERE</b></a> to learn more!Matt Runklehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06445231507262755675noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3979469530762111246.post-48165187279594437552015-08-20T18:42:00.000-07:002015-08-30T13:28:51.949-07:00State of the Art<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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I finally got around to updating my artist statement! The new version talks more about my efforts in the past few years to synthesize several different modes of working: letterpress typography, comics, zines, collage, and illustration. I copied it below—or you can click <a href="http://matt-runkle.com/artiststatement.html" target="_blank">here</a> to read it on my website.</div>
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Although I work in several different media, I see them all as modes of writing. And when I say writing, I mean the building of narratives through assemblage of fragments. And when I say fragments, I mean the physical, the detritus that combines to form a collage. But I also mean the conceptual, the attempted capture of a thought on a scrap of paper to be put in a drawer for later. When coming across that scrap again, how has its function evolved? It is a contextual challenge. What kind of story does this thought want to build? Or rather what kind of story will welcome it? Or rather what kind of story will, through sheer juxtapositional force, accept this thought against better judgment and, as result of such counter-intuitiveness, flourish? </blockquote>
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Because this process involves layering, tactility is important. Also, depth, or rather the illusion of depth, or rather the spaces that confuse dimensions. The book form, then, is ideal: the second dimension gives way to the third with each turn of the page, and the reader’s experience from start to finish takes place in the temporal fourth. And because my process relies on the scraps of narratives past (as is inherent in the process of collaging, of constructing memoir, of altering books), a tension forms between the transitory and the permanent. </blockquote>
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Things begin to feel cluttered, though, don’t they? Thus the containment and constraint of prose. There are endless possibilities offered by the interaction of text and image, yet still those typographic fields created by unbroken word-flow keep calling me. And while bearing in mind the sculptural and temporal effects of a book’s structure, I want to remember a parallel power it holds: the meditative and transportive experience a reader undergoes when surrendering to story. A power dependent on content more than form (as long as the typography has the grace to let you past), it’s one I’m intent on investigating further, while also exploring the many kinds of conversations a text block can have with an image, both within a book’s pages and beyond. I was instrumental in the commercial book design of <a href="http://matt-runkle.com/thestoryofhowallanimalsareequal.html" target="_blank"><i>The Story of How All Animals Are Equal & Other Tales</i></a> (Brooklyn Arts Press, 2014), while also creating companion images for many of the collection’s stories. Taking the form of collages and letterpress-printed broadsides, these visual pieces partner with the written word, breaking their trance (or perhaps re-casting it) to build extra-textual narratives. And now things grow cluttered again.</blockquote>
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I’m digging through drawers of scraps, though—it’s unavoidable. And as I dig, I pull from multiple mediums and genres: comics, zines, literary fine press printing, collage, memoir, fiction, illustration. The places in between these are where things get really exciting, where we see the infinite possibilities of what can happen in the gaps between artifact and story. Synthesis is an ongoing challenge. What formula of mortar will make things cohere (even if just barely)? I’m currently researching historical, commercially motivated, collaborative modes of text + image book production, such as medieval scriptoria and twentieth-century mainstream American comics publishers. As I work to integrate a wide variety of techniques and traditions, I draw inspiration from circumstances where a number of artists (copyists, illuminators, rubricators, pencillers, inkers, letterers, colorists) have allied to do the same. </blockquote>
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<a href="http://matt-runkle.com/catholics.html" target="_blank"><i>Catholics</i></a> is an artist’s book, a limited-edition memoir that makes use of illustration, collage, and letterpress-printed typography to explore the psychic cathedral built by my Catholic traditionalist upbringing. <a href="http://matt-runkle.com/thehitch.html" target="_blank"><i>The Hitch: An Agamist Manifesto</i></a> is an ongoing wedding-themed project that will eventually consist of ten chapbooks of various literary genres creating a variety of visual, tactile, and intertextual patterns. I think of both, by default, as graphic novels, despite their tendencies to wander into dense blocks of prose. They are evolutionary extensions of my autobiographical comic, <a href="http://matt-runkle.com/runxtales.html" target="_blank"><i>RUNX TALES</i></a>, which creates depth and texture through layering, engages with the space between the linguistic and the visual, and experiments with style and layout according to content. As in all my work, I hope the reader feels her way around like I do, that her experience is like my writing process: dimensional, textured, with clues pointing forward, yet shaped by a fragmentary past.</blockquote>
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