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(Original Multiples) The story so far + a print on Just Seeds dot org

2008-01-04T15:24:54Z

So it's been six months or so since Original Multiples sent out an email. Many of you have never gotten one. But now it's been a year of Original Multiples in its new look and for half that time it's said "summer vacation." So I thought for the new year I'd explain.

In January of 2007, I went out to Los Angeles to help David Ellis with an installation. He asked what had happened to Original Multiples, encouraged me to end the three-year hiatus, take a pile of prints from his flat files and see what could be done to trickle them out into the world. Ideally, we'd make enough for his studio rent and mine, since mine is free. It was worth buying flat files myself, registering with the city, and making a website. Vest of all my housemates were printmakers and we had fun evenings Gocco printing business cards.

About the middle of the year, I was curating small shows at a community space. In the course of a month driving a van up and down the east coast, I moved to New York. Round-trip turned into a one-way. A couple weeks later, I drove back to Virginia, packed the OM inventory, repainted my house, rented it to a radical teacher and a landscape architecture student, locked my studio, and headed north again.

Around October, Swoon handed me a pile of prints and told me to raise money for her summer boat project, the Miss Rockaway Armada. In December she took me to Bethlehem to see the Santa's Ghetto shop that Pictures on Walls put together. The whole web part of OM had been a conceptual lark to curate something like what they do, but in ways that play with copies and originals, shipping and sales.

We at OM don't want a thousand emails about prints. We want to make goofy things that are sweet and small and sincere. We like wrapping presents and city walks to the post office. Meeting the mailman.

So, today there's a new, small Swoon print up, but it's on justseeds.org The money from this one will go towards starting a free school in Pennsylvania. The print are selling is one half of the edition. The other half is also printed two color and also coffee-stained and also in an edition of 250, but the main color is Orange instead of Blue. It will be on Just Seeds soon, once these are sold and shipped out.

Finally, let me suggest that if you go no to justseeds.org and are making a purchase and jetfuel is burned to deliver you one thing which may or may not bring you long-held happiness and good fortune that you take a look at the grossly under-priced prints by Kristine Virsis, new edition prints by Stain, and the very articulate books and writings and blogs of Josh McPhee.

Thank you,

Max / OM
originalmultiples.com / 434 336 4381

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(Original Multiples) We make typos when we send mail at night.

2007-05-28T22:51:22Z

It is worth pointing out that our address in the previous email was incorrect:

om@originalmultiples.com is correct.

And, since we're bothering you anyway, we'll add that jasonpolan.com has an altogether different pricing scheme for giraffes that may be to your advantage if you're looking for a large quantity of giraffes on a single sheet. We want to be very clear about these things.

Remember: individual giraffes make very good gifts for significant loved ones and executives who have everything but drawings of giraffes.

Thanks and apologies and highest hopes to hear from you soon,

Max Fenton / Original Multiples

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(Original Multiples) One dollar giraffes by Jason Polan, while they last

2007-05-28T21:58:56Z

Hello.

Jason Polan came to Charlottesville, Virginia with one thousand drawings of giraffes, each inked freehand on an index card.

We hung the show in a few Friday hours and took it down two days later and after flooding the local giraffe market, we still have a small handful of the stray giraffes for one dollar each plus 50 cents to ship as many giraffes as you like.

There is also one larger (15" x 19.5"), framed drawing of approximately 69 giraffes for $169. Kindly contact us for more information.

If you're curious about those or any of our other artist-made editions, just write to om@originamultiples.com

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New things on Original Multiples.

2007-04-12T22:42:54Z

Hello all,

There are new things on Original Multiples. Some are in scant quantities (1 or 2) and some in larger quantities ("infinite").
That's what happens when you ask good artists to make clever things of or about copies.

But first, a thank you to each of you for putting your name and address in our hat and taking a ticket for the OM adventure.
We appreciate your support dearly.

EDITIONS (Pictures and prices and links to other things are all on originalmultiples.com)

Jeremy Taylor (former gallery owner, full-time art teacher, member of Team Lump) has made two sets of ten prints but only given us 2 or 3 copies each. But we snagged the two-color test-prints and have those at a lower price, since they've got fewer colors. All-natural screenprint inks, hand-made walnut ink, nice paper, totally beautiful tiny art for SPRING.

Greg Antrim Kelly spent the day at the copy shop mis-matching photos paper and color xerox machines and the large cutting tables to manufacture true-to-life editions of five delicate/violent character studies from his upcoming book Pigeon. They're beautiful things and only five dollars each, post-paid. We would like you to order them for other people as gifts. If you do the paypal thing, just send us an email or use our contact form to let us know to whom/where they should be sent. Note: they are not 8.5x11 as originally advertised but something closer to 6x9.

There are sixteen of twenty one-off prints by Dustin Hostetler remaining. A drawing of a hand and pen, printed twenty times on orange paper, each trailing a phrase in cursive from the artist's hand making each a one of a kind. Dustin is smart about this Original Multiples business.

Finally, we have two prints by David Eliis, founder of The Barnstormers. They're beautiful prints that one would have wound up at Pictures on Walls (thereby selling out in minutes) if David weren't an integral and majestically supportive force for Original Multiples. We have them. No one else does. Most people don't know they exist. Which allows us all to be a little calmer and more patient.

Which is, some might say, what art is good for.

All our best,

Original Multiples
/ om@originalmultiples.com
/ aim:originalmultiple

(Artists interested in proposing and producing
works that explore the line between originals
and copies should feel free to write any time.)

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