Wife Drawing Two: Still Wife

As Winter draws in and the cold nights threaten to consume us, I bring you exciting news about what we at 38b are up to. Good going us!

For those of you who don't know, 38b is an onging series of exhibitions, projects and publications curated and facilitated by myself and Eva Rowson. It started as a series of shows in our living room and has since begun to take us onto other places and ventures. The living room shows still take place, it's just sometimes nice to get out of the house. 

The first bit of news is we finally have a website, 38bprojects.com, that documents all we have done so far including images and text about each show. It also contains information on our latest project, Wife Drawing Two: Still Wife. 

Following on from the exhibition Wife Drawing in 2010 at 38b Peckham Rye, which showcased 28 artists who address the idea of an expanded drawing practice in their work, this sequel will take the form of a 12 page, newsprint publication (edition of 120), that will be part of  the second anniversary shindig for arts listings and magazine Art Licks at the ICA, London, on 20 October 2012. Here's a sneaky peek at Sonnenzimmer's (Nick Butcher and Nadine Nakanishi)  contribution, Handplant:

The night will also play host to a mix of performances, work, readings, interventions, films and artist DJs as well as being the official launch for the most recent editon of Art Licks magazine which, coincidentally, also features an interview with me in it. So there you go.

More info on the Art Licks event can be foound on Facebook HERE or on the ICA website HERE. 

For those of you that can't be at the event and therefore miss out on getting a publication, we should have a comprehensive set of images from the magazine on our site  following the ICA show.

In the meantime, if you have any shows, exhibitions or events that you would like 38b to contribute to, please get in touch.

That's it for now. All the best! Luke

Coxon, Coxoff

Hello all, sorry for the title of this blog post, but I am juvenile and couldn't resist

I have now returned from a jaunt in Germania that took in the sites, sounds and smells of Hamburg's Reeperbahn Festival for Flatstock Europe 8, as well as the fun and frolics of the wonderful city of Dresden for Colored Gigs 4. Both were great so a big thank you to all who came, bought prints, and weren't put off by my odd behaviour. Germany brings out the weird in me. Anyway, as is my want, I have no photos to show you from this trip, but I assure you it was real and not like that other trip I thought I took but didn't...those were Dark Days.

Now I have returned it also means I have new prints for sale. Bam! First up we have the Graham Coxon print from his show at Reeperbahn Festival. It features either one long boat stretching round the world or three boats racing, depending on your brain-preference. I prefer the former. Either way, it seemed fitting for Grahams Hamburg show. It can be purchased HERE and looks like this:

I also finally have some copies of my Yo La Tengo print. Inspired by American cityscapes and Mondrian's 'Composition in Grey, Pink & Blue', I hope it captures some of the complexities and sensibilities of the bands music. It can be purchased HERE and looks like this: 

Right, I'm off to finish off another poster. It's for a band I love so I better not fuck it up.

Ta-ra, Luke