An excerpt from A Tree Grows in Queens was published this week on the website The Nature of Cities. The excerpt pulls from two chapters, Pink Dogwood and American Elm, and includes an introduction to the origins of the project. The piece can be read at the following link: https://www.thenatureofcities.com/2024/10/30/a-tree-grows-in-queens/
La vie is like that LensCulture Book Review
Liz Sales wrote a wonderful review of La vie is like that for the photography website LensCulture.
Link to her deeply considered review here: https://www.lensculture.com/articles/magali-duzant-la-vie-is-like-that
Press Print: Risograph Photobooks @ Penumbra Foundation, July 25 - November 1, 2024
Very excited to have La vie is like that included in the exhibition Press Print : Risograph Photobooks opening this week at Penumbra Foundation. If you’re in NY do stop by! The show runs through November 1st. More details at: https://www.penumbrafoundation.org/press-print
SF Art Book Fair July 18-21
This weekend in San Francisco I’ll have books at both Conveyor Editions and Seaton Street Press. If you’re in town swing by!
Volumes mini fair in Zurich - June 8th!
If you’re in Zurich early June come say hi at the one day Volumes mini fair! I’ll be tabling for Conveyor Editions with a handful of my own books (including copies of The Dry Garden) and next to Seaton Street Press who will have copies of La vie is like that!
June 8th, 12 - 8 on the Löwenbräu Rampe.
PKB new distributor in the UK and the EU!
The lovely folks over at Public Knowledge Books (PKB) are now distributing Conveyor Editions titles as well as copies of my book The Dry Garden. They currently have The Dry Garden in stock as well as copies of The Moon & Stars Can Be Yours. Later this summer, A Tree Grows in Queens will also be available.
A Tree Grows in Queens, new publication with Conveyor Editions!
My newest publication with Conveyor Editions, designed by Christina Labey, is being released in time for the NYABF and Arbor Day. A Tree Grows in Queens reflects on the many ways in which trees manifest into other things - myths, memes, monuments and more. Telling the stories of ten trees found in NYC (from the Harlem Wishing Tree to a Tulip tree considered the city’s oldest) the book explores topics from climate catastrophe and zombie capitalism to the radical power of touch and the place of memory making. Book available through Conveyor Editions here.
I Looked & Looked Hardcover edition launch at Printed Matter 9/28
On Thursday, September 28th, a hardcover edition of I Looked & Looked will launch at Printed Matter to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the lunar-themed love letters that inspired the project.
Franklin Furnace Archive
Light Blue Desire has been acquired by the Franklin Furnace Archive. The book is currently on view in the exhibition, Shared Storytelling: New Acquisitions from Franklin Furnace Archive, 2018-2022 at the ISC Building at Pratt Institute in Brooklyn. The exhibition is on view until April 6, 2023.
Studio Verde Residency
In October I had the immense pleasure of being in residence at Studio Verde in Umbria. I was able to focus on field work and writing time for my next book project, A Tree Grows in Queens, to be published in Fall 2022. image credit Maisie McNeice
PM Art Book Fair Studio Visit
Conveyor Editions. Studio Visit: Magali Duzant.
Join us for a preview of Magali's new zine, A Tree Grows in Queens, and learn about her process of working with image, text, and archives in the book format. Link coming soon via the Printed Matter Virtual Art Book Fair. February 27, 2021, 2pm EST. Zoom link : https://zoom.us/j/98165630053
Image, Text, Ephemera class at Penumbra Foundation
This spring, I’ll be teaching the course Descriptive Systems : Image, Text, & Ephemera at Penumbra Foundation. The class runs on Saturdays from April 17 - May 22 from 2 - 5PM EST and is open to anyone, anywhere as we’ll be online! More info here : https://www.penumbrafoundation.org/imagetext
Imprimé | Intimé | Collection at Galerie UQO
The Moon and Stars Can Be Yours is on view in the exhibition, Imprimé / Intimé / Collection curated by Collectif Blanc at Galerie UQO in Canada.
The Exhibition Imprimé / Intimé / Collection organized by Collectif Blanc presents itself as an immersive library where mini-collections of publications and objects are displayed, courtesy of around fifty publishers, designers, authors and artists. The device is augmented by the works of four visual artists who approach, in turn, the personal and encyclopedic archive (Celia Perrin Sidarous), the assembly of the book and the collection (Derek Sullivan), as well as the material qualities and of the print (Marie-Michelle Deschamps and Bryan-K. Lamonde).
The Moon and Stars Can Be Yours : Notes On Subway Psychics Book Launch // Printed Matter 10.24.19
October 24th , 6-8 pm Printed Matter will host the official launch for The Moon & Stars Can be Yours.
Book available for purchase here.
Launch link : https://www.printedmatter.org/programs/events/982
The Moon and Stars Can Be Yours is a freewheeling, far-roaming investigation into the contemporary world of spiritualism that began with Duzant’s obsessive collection of psychic fliers on the New York City subway system combined with ephemera from the NYPL Pictures Collection. In an age of increasing uncertainty, the wave of modern mysticism is always present, eagerly waiting to fill the void created by our digital lives. Duzant weaves together research-based writing with anecdotal stories, inviting the reader along for her ritualistic search for meaning, following the path of the Spiritualist and New Age movements.
The Moon and Stars Can Be Yours is playfully designed, the holographic foil and neon paper stocks are inspired by the fliers found on the subway. In the back of each book, a scratch off fortune card awaits the reader. The Moon and Stars Can Be Yours is the third book by Magali Duzant published by Conveyor Editions. Her previous books Light Blue Desire and I Looked & Looked, will also be available at the launch.
Edizioni Del Frisco
Lovely review of Light Blue Desire on Edizioni Del Frisco’s website.
Offprint London
AIPAD / Book Signing April 7th
Artists For Puerto Rico
I'm taking over the instagram account of Artists For Puerto Rico this week, the 6 month anniversary of Hurricane Maria. I'll be posting some studio work. Follow along @artistsforpuertorico and if you're looking for a way to help, consider purchasing some art - proceeds go to Unidos Por Puerto Rico to aid in their relief efforts.
Non-Fiction Reading Series / 3.5.18
March 5th I'll be reading from Light Blue Desire at Elyssa Goodman's Miss Manhattan Non-Fiction Reading Series at Niagara Bar at 7:45 alongside a roster of deep talent ( come - it's free! )
Once In A Blue Moon Book Launch is an Artnet Editors' Pick!
Editors' Pick for this week, see here
Thursday, February 1
8. “Once in a Blue Moon” at Printed Matter, Inc.
A book launch and reading celebrating the release of Magali Duzant’s Light Blue Desire: A Manual to the Color Blue, aptly taking place on the evening of the astronomical phenomenon of a blue moon. The book is an investigation into the connection between language and form, specifically the color blue and how it functions as a metaphor and an idiom in the broad cultural landscape.
Location: Printed Matter, Inc., 231 11th Avenue
Price: Free
Time: Book launch & reading: 6 p.m.–8 p.m.
—Caroline Goldstein
https://news.artnet.com/art-world/editors-picks-january-29-1201628