Monday, October 5, 2009

Friday, October 2, 2009

Book release slated for March-ish 2010

http://www.jandlbooks.org/MWMR.html



MARK WEST and MOLLY ROSE
by Jeff Barnett-Winsby

160 pages, color and b&w, paperback
edition of 1000
ISBN 978-0-9799188-6-5

release date: Spring 2010

Artist Jeff Barnett-Winsby had been photographing in Lansing Prison for a year, when he found out that an inmate, John Maynard, had escaped with the help of a social worker, Toby Young. Maynard and Young, under the aliases Mark West and Molly Rose, were captured two weeks later in Tennessee. This book is a collection of Barnett-Winsby’s photographs and correspondence with the two lovers, both before and after the escape.

Jeff Barnett-Winsby was born in Wichita, Kansas in 1979 and currently
lives and works in Wassaic, NY where he is a co-director at the
Wassaic Project, a community based arts and music organization. He
received a BA from Washburn University in 2002 and a MFA from the
Rhode Island School of Design in 2006. He has taught in the graduate
and undergraduate programs at the Rhode Island School of Design as
well as the University of Rhode Island. Most recently he has shown at
Broadway Gallery in NYC

Where can I buy J&L books?

Performance at P.S.1 !!!

October 2-4, 2009

NY Art Book Fair
at P.S.1
22-25 Jackson Ave., Queens


Don't miss the J&L VARIETY SHOW,
organized by Jason Fulford, on Saturday, Oct 3rd at 1pm.

Acts will include:
Corin Hewitt
Andrew Lampert
David Reinfurt
Michael Schmelling
Amy O'Neill
Nick Kass-Johnson and Phil Kennedy
Tim Barber
Adam Sternbergh
Steve Featherstone
Harrell Fletcher
Jeff Barnett-Winsby
Tamara Shopsin

Monday, July 6, 2009

Been working with Bowie on the Wassaic Project


Everyone should come to the free festival that we are working towards! It is August 13th-16th in Wassaic NY. It is free and awesome. Photo below is Bowie in front of the Elevator where the show is!