Join us for the public opening of Paper Cuts, a new exhibition examining twenty-five years of independent publishing in the US through more than 600 zines and small-press publications. Drawn from a decade of research by Christopher Kardambikis, the collection reflects extensive travel, studio visits, and sustained conversations with artists and publishers across the country, documenting a distributed, largely self-organized field of artistic production operating outside commercial and institutional publishing structures.
The exhibition pairs a focused selection from the collection with a large-scale visual installation capturing the breadth and density of the archive. Three guest curators, publishers working within distinct communities, have developed thematic reading tables offering interpretive frameworks shaped by queer publishing, Black-led editorial platforms, and DIY print networks. Together, these perspectives situate individual works within broader systems of production, exchange, and circulation that have defined independent publishing in the early twenty-first century.
Come see the exhibition, browse the reading tables, and stop by our newly launched bookshop.
Free and Open to the public. RSVP requested.