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This book highlights Other’s artwork from walls and trains all over the world.

Other: The Artwork of Troy Lovegates is a book of photographs showcasing the artist’s work and experiences along the way. From oil stick characters on the side of trains, wheat pasted posters, large scale murals and snapshot photographs.

• 5″x7″
• 72 Full Colour Pages
• Acid Free – Heavy Weight Matte Paper
• Hand Printed – Art Stamped Title Page

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Artist Information:

Canadian Troy Lovegates aka Derek Mehaffey aka Other began painting on the streets around 1988 after noticing graffiti on the buildings in Toronto that would magically appear overnight. Also around this time he developed a love for rail travel, therefore it was natural for him to begin displaying his art on trains. His rail work became part of a nomadic culture that stretches as far back as the 1800s. Transients, train workers, and soldiers originally developed the tradition of inscribing their names on the trains they used to roam around the country. Many of the tags that remain on trains still in use today, but now new forms of art have been added to the boxcar walls as well. Troy Lovegates’ train work consists mainly of black and white outline portraits with exaggerated facial features. Some of the more complex pieces resemble his street murals which are large-scale, multimedia paste-ups created in his studio and then adhered to outdoor surfaces under the guise of nighttime. His train pieces are influenced by many uncontrollable factors, all of which add to the urgency of the art form. Often times there are people working in the train yards which makes it difficult to focus on one piece for too long.

In order to fund his train work, Troy Lovegates exhibits his art in galleries. To date, he has painted pieces and had art shows in Taipei, Tokyo, Paris, Dublin, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Austin, Detroit, Montreal, Toronto, Dublin, Barcelona, Lima and many more cities around the world. His international work has occupied many canvases, from gallery walls to a projection on the side of the Romanian Palace of the Parliament, the largest building in Europe.

LONG DROP: THE PAINTINGS OF DIL HILDEBRAND.

A book featuring Hildebrand’s paintings from 2006-2009

In only a few years since Hildebrand has emerged onto the Canadian art scene, he has produced an impressive oeuvre of paintings and drawings, composed of complex spatial environments and nods to historical painting, including trompe l’oeil, romantic landscape painting and surrealism.

Dil Hildebrand received his Master of Fine Arts from Concordia University, Montréal in 2008, won the Royal Bank of Canada Painting competition in 2006, and is now represented by Pierre-François Ouellette Art Contemporain in Montreal. He currently lives and works in Montréal.

This lavishly illustrated book represents the first comprehensive survey of Hildebrand’s oeuvre, including works from 2006-present. Featuring an introduction by Richard Rhodes, editor of Canadian Art Magazine, a critical essay by Louise Déry from Galerie de l’UQAM, and an interview with Dil Hildebrand by Christine Redfern.

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The book showcases a random selection of double exposure photographs taken by the artist since 1997.

Thompson’s photographic process explores a technique similar to collage using traditional film and multiple in camera exposures. Often using found typography and cultural icons the artist creates chance alignments of multiple images. The book has a gritty aesthetic due to the printing method. First photo prints were made from the original film. These prints were then photocopied then scanned in on a Risograph duplicator which created the final output. The book was then collated and perfect-bound by hand.

Book Info
• 5″x7.5″
• 72 pages
• Acid Free Paper
• Limited Edition of 100

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The book contains seven works of fiction illustrated by Shawn O’Keefe aka Trust 36 also member of Woodpile Collective.

Lying on the sidewalk - Book Cover Unfolded Showing French Flaps

Lying on the Sidewalk is a collection of short stories with the overriding theme of what to do with the runaway train that is the world of daydreams. Stories of overactive imaginations, and the situations where those imaginations lose control. Rich tales of almost dying, bewildering loss, being completely hung over, and watching as life goes absolutely AWOL.

Story Titles:
Naked Cold Bed
Footsteps
The Storm Their Father
My Mom Was Crying
Jump
The River Always Seems To Be Overflowing

Book Info
• 6″x9″ + French Flaps
• 70pg
• 100% Post Consumer Recycled Paper

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Author Bio:
Scott Radnidge is an artist and writer out of Vancouver Canada. Besides being married and raising two insanely awesome daughters, he writes about and draws the things around him, as well as being constantly sidetracked by stupid things like airplanes landing and watching the space shuttle crossing the nighttime summer sky…Scott just finished his second novel, and is currently working on his third.

Sample Illustration by Shawn O’Keefe

Anteism will have a new title for sale at this years Anarchist Book Fair in Montréal. Dean Garlick, author of “The Fish” will have a table and will be signing books. The Fish explores currents of contemporary existence in a realm where the brutality of history is ever-present and the will to exist is the only thing keeping a person from fading into nothingness. The book’s 17 amazing illustrations by Erik Volet beautifully co-narrate the story.

MAY 29-30, 10am-5pm
at the CEDA, 2515 rue Delisle
(a short walk from Lionel-Groulx metro)
FREE. Welcome to all!

The Montreal Anarchist Bookfair — and month-long Festival of Anarchy — bring together anarchist ideas and practice, through words, images, music, theatre and day-to-day struggles for justice, dignity and collective liberation. The Bookfair is for people who don’t necessarily consider themselves anarchists, but are curious about anarchism, as well as a space for anarchists to meet, network and share in a spirit of respect and solidarity. All are welcome.

The Bookfair is organized in a spirit of openness towards the different traditions, visions, and practices of anarchism. Together we share a commitment to promoting anarchism through the values of mutual aid, grassroots democracy, direct action, autonomy and solidarity, while opposing oppression in all its forms.

The Bookfair and Festival of Anarchy provide an important gathering and reference point for anti-authoritarian ideas and practice in North America. -> What Happens at the Montreal Anarchist Bookfair? Read more here: http://www.anarchistbookfair.ca/about/what-happens-at-the-bookfair

Anteism is excited to have a selection of our zines in an art book exhibition in Rennes, France. The exhibition is called Kaugummi & Friends and is curated by Bartolomé Sanson for Kaugummi Books. The exhibition is part of the ninth edition of Periscopages festival and will be shown in a number of other galleries later this year.

James Kirkpatrick & Peter Thompson’s collaborative zine is part of the Art Gallery of York Universities Artist Book Exhibition.

Anteism’s artist book / zine Canadian Haircut Cut ( by Peter Thompson and James Kirkpatrick ) has been shortlisted for the “Artist’s Book of the Moment” by the Art Gallery of York University. The AGYU has a list of all the books submitted to the exhibition.

Pick up a copy of the zine for $6 in our shop.

Troy Lovegates and Erik Burke will create a documentary of the art making journey.

Artist “Other”  aka Troy Lovegates and film maker Erik Burke are producing a documentary of a bicycle journey from Portugal to Denmark. The journey will include art making along the way and a final exhibition at MOHS Gallery in Denmark. Please support the project if you can. Link at bottom of the page..

Hello travel lovers, bicycle addicts, street art supporters, flickr friends, and on and on… Beginning April 1st I will join the prolific artist Other as he travels from Lisbon, Portugal to his exhibition in Copenhagen, Denmark. This trip is complicated by the fact that we are traveling by bicycle and all the work for the exhibition will be made along the way!!!

The project I’m seeking funding for begins April 1 and covers 2000+ miles of travel expenses related to sustenance, survival, and the creation of work. We’ll be living as much as possible off the land so your support will go to direct needs like replacing and fixing bike parts, film, art supplies, and postage. Any level of support is greatly supported and those of you helping out will receive goods along the way.

The product of our travels will be the content of an exhibition at the MOHS Gallery in Copenhagen. As the road trip functions as a catalyst for our creative process, I will document the artist’s influence over his environment with his detailed oil bar portraits on abandoned and defunct structures. Simultaneously I will capture the environment’s influence over the artist. This documentation will also help to tie many of the loose ends and ambiguity created by Other’s work in the exhibition.

I completed a similar project in 2006 where I bicycled across America to meet a mythic graffiti artist. Entitled Road To Colossus, the film documented my close friend as we bicycled from Reno, NV to Gurdon, Arkansas in hopes of meeting a retired railroad worker, grandfather, and artist extraordinaire. Completing the film gave me the confidence and experience to improve upon my last efforts and excel in this next, challenging endeavor. ( the above video is an excerpt of Road To Colossus)

We will let supporters know where to go to follow up-to-date reports from the trip. Thank you for listening and hope to show you some great work!

Sincerely, Erik Burke + Troy Lovegates

Kickstarter is a great site for project fundraising. Support “Other Travels” project and get handmade postcards, letters and a copy of the limited edition DVD.

Come for an evening of wine, music and reading at the Drawn and Quarterly to launch The Fish, the new illustrated novel by Dean Garlick (illustrations by Erik Volet), published by Anteism. Musical guests include Erin Lang and the Foundlings, along with myself, singing two songs from the book. I look forward to seeing all who can attend!

About the book:
Patrick Kaye thinks he?s taking a harmless Caribbean cruise, a well-earned escape from his day-to-day life as an addictions counsellor. What he gets instead is a near-death experience that lands him in the belly of a mythological beast?the very same creature that swallowed Jonah. Inside, he encounters a confounding world populated by a host of colourful residents: a 19th-century British gentleman, a pre-Christian Icelandic shaman, a survivor of the biblical flood, a Ukrainian prostitute, an Asian American stock market analyst, a Maori warrior and a sadistic little girl, to list a few. The Fish explores currents of contemporary existence in a realm where the brutality of history is ever-present and the will to exist is the only thing keeping a person from fading into nothingness. Can Patrick accept this new reality? Can he right the wrongs he sees around him? Or will the call of the outside world offer enough hope to send him searching for a way home? The Fish is lavishly illustrated with engaging B&W illustrations by artist Erik Volet.

About the Author:
Dean Garlick is an educator and writer living in Montreal. Fantastical permutations of reality abound in his work as a response to his characters’ frustrations with the absurdity and struggle of everyday existence, but they have nothing whatsoever to do with his real life. Nothing. He is excited by the possibilities presented by illustrated fiction, especially the potential to explore multiple, non-parallel modes of narrative within a single piece.