See more of his work and collaborative prints here.
The couple, who produce art books, installations, paintings and prints, have long blurred the line between commercial graphic design and other forms of art, and will be showcasing a series of collaborative prints, posters and art books during their brief L.A. sojourn. 1 to 4 p.m. Saturday, 5627 N. Figueroa St., Highland Park, Los Angeles, thequietlife.com.com
"A number of major metropolitan newspapers produced significant investigative work during 2010, and for the first time there were some truly noteworthy collaborative projects across print, television, radio and the Internet," said John Darnton, curator of the Polk Awards, which honor work in the tradition of George W. Polk, a CBS correspondent killed covering the civil war in Greece in 1948.
Andrei Monastyrski, who founded the collaborative group Collective Actions, flew banners printed with absurdist phrases in and around Moscow, baiting censors but giving them nothing solid to latch onto.
It has also become an innovation leader in such diverse areas as product financing platforms (Kickstarter, Quirky, See.Me), 3D printing (Makerbot, Shapeways) and collaborative workspaces (WeWork).
The show is presenting these works, as well as editioned objects and prints, ready-mades and collaborative designs.
Beginning in the 1980s, a new set of scholarly editions have been printed under the series title "The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle: A Collaborative Edition".
It also has a print component, the work of the puckish publishing collaborative Dexter Sinister.
Though created under her supervision, the paintings and prints produced by the Illumination Atelier reflect a collaborative spirit, she said: "The interns participate in research, concept development, design and execution".
Prints came in a variety of sizes and were collaborative in nature.
