aceartinc. Books

Ace Art Books was conceived as a program to facilitate the transition of artists' production into an agile medium -- bookworks, cassettes, digital media, "multiples" -- for circulation to a wider audience outside the context of a regular exhibition or event. Their design aims for multiplicity and portability. Over the past four years, the gallery has functioned as a production/presentation facility, providing varying degrees of technical, conceptual and editorial assistance. The publications are produced by a variety of means, with artists incorporating handmade, mechanical and digital techniques. A permanent display / reading / perusing area has been created as part of the aceartinc. Resource Centre and the bookworks are available for purchase at the gallery.

What follows is a brief list of Books:

Annual Publications

PaperWait volume 7, 2004/2005

2005

press run of 1000
ISSN 1497-8776
$10.00


PaperWait volume 6, 2003/2004

2004

press run of 1000
ISSN 1497-8776
$10.00


PaperWait volume 5, 2002/2003

2003

press run of 1000
ISSN 1497-8776
$10.00


Twitch

2003

edition of 1000
isbn 0-9696265-9-2
$10.00

Curated and edited by Risa Horowitz Catalogue essayists and panelists: Steve Dietz and Jennifer Woodbury Artists: David Rokeby, Garnet Hertz, Nicholas Steadman, Kevin Yates, Erika Lincoln

Catalogue of an exhibition held at aceartinc., featuring interactive work. Catalogue includes bibliographical references.

PaperWait volume 4, 2001/2002

2002

press run of 1000
ISBN 0-9696265-8-4
$10.00


PaperWait volume 3, 2000/2001

2001

press run of 1000
ISBN 0-9696265-6-8
$10.00


PaperWait volume 2, 1999/2000

2000

press run of 1000
ISBN 0-9696265-5-X
$10.00


PaperWait volume 1, 1998/1999

1999

press run of 1000
ISBN 0-9696265-3-3
$10.00


A relatively small collection

1999

press run of 1000
ISBN 0-9696265-1-7
$5.00

Curators: Michael Dumontier and Tom Elliott. Artists: Ian Birse, Judy Bowyer, Joanne Bristol, Gail Brown, Hank Bull, Michael Drew Campbell, Elaine Carol, Cause and Effect, Shawna Dempsey/Lorri Millan, Michael Dumontier/T.R. Elliott, Marcel Dzama, Neil Farber, Michael Fernandes, Ken Gregory, Kip Jackson, Drue Langlois, Erika Lincoln, Todd Martin, Rita McKeough, Jennie O’Keefe, Jocelyn Robert, Adrian Shalom Williams, Kathleen Yearwood.

Published to accompany the cassette exhibition/lending library a relatively small collection, this publication features entries by the 24 participating artists as well as images from the exhibition and an essay by the curators.

How to Make Work

1999

edition ongoing
ISBN 0-9696265-2-5
$20.00
Artists: Brenna George, Al Rushton, Richard Dyck

Published to accompany the group exhibition Working Space, How to Make Work is an interactive publication that requires audience participation and production, i.e., the “kit” require assembly through interaction with each of the works.

Draw

1999

press run of 1000
ISBN 0-9696265-4-1
$15.00

Artists: Judy Bowyer, Dena Decter, Lois Klassen, Jean Klimack, Catherine MacDonald, and Vida Simon; Curator: Marian Butler; Additional Publication contributors: Sylvia Legris, Angela Somerset.

Draw resulted from in/habit, a residency and exhibition (presented at aceartinc. in May/June 1999) that looked at issues of isolation and/or solitude, and the location and impact of artists’ production within various communities. Now in the collection of the Victoria and Albert Museum, London.

Crows

1999

limited edition of 13

Curated by Marian Butler. With artists works by JoAnne Bristol, Dagmar Dahle, Candace Savage, Sheila Spence, Susan Mills, Karilee Fuglem, April Hickox. Designed by Angela Somerset. Critical Distance With Crow Energy by Jen Loewen.

Light/Shadow/Dark

1998

press run of 500
$5.00

Artists: Ron Gorsline; Curator: Jennifer Woodbury.

Black and white and color reproductions of Ron Gorsline’s paintings and drawings along with a curatorial essay by Jennifer Woodbury are brought together in this publication in response to the exhibition Light/Shadow/Dark by Ron Gorsline.

Aqua Aëris

1998

edition of 3
$75.00
Artist’s book by Lori Rogers and curator Jennifer Woodbury.

Functioning as both objet and text, this piece distills some of the issues of desire and loss begun in the installation Captive and Absent (aceartinc., 1997). Authorship in the creation of this work is indistinct, as both artist and curator interlay their creative output within the thought and sensibilities of the other.

Sally Slipper

1998

edition of 200
$20.00

Artist’s book by June Boyd. Co-Facilitators: Marian Butler, Angela Somerset

This book was made through a laborious process of excavation and creation involving photo reenactments of journal excerpts, assemblage of found/retrieved objects, installed situations, drawings and texts. The synthesis of this project (an artist’s book/residency) translates the place where June works and lives into a mobile and tangible form: a documentation /book /installation. Now in the collection of the Victoria and Albert Museum, London.

Off the Beaten Track

1998

$5.00

Artists: Eleanor Bond, Sheila Butler, Aganetha Dyck, Larry Glawson, Wanda Koop, Kim Ouellette, Esther Warkov, Diane Whitehouse, Jack Butler, Doug Melnyk, Rosalie Bellefontaine, Michael Drabot, Grant Guy, John Gurdebeked, Chrisine Hawks, Karen Hoeberg, Vern Hume, Alex Poruchnyk, Leon Johnson, Grace Martini, Maureen Margaret, Paula Newman, Susan Peterson. (exhibition)

Artists in smaller centers “off the beaten track” like Winnipeg, join forces with artists in Edinburgh in producing authentic art coming not from the “centre” such as Toronto , but from geographically marginalized areas.

Flashpoint

1998

handmade multiples
made-to-order
$60.00

Artist’s book by Helene Dyck

In Flashpoint, a site-specific installation, Helene Dyck continued to reclaim materials from domestic environments, which metaphorically relate to qualities of endurance and renewal in the formation of identity. Helene drew on the layering of the various components in the installation, including plywood for the book’s cover, for this limited edition, handmade artist’s book.

Not What We Are: An Archive of Identities

1997

Artist: Susan Turner

Essay: Andrea Philip

Name This Bird: Winnipeg Beach

1997

handmade multiples
made-to-order
$250.00
Artist’s book by Susan Chafe and Donnelly Smallwood.

Observing journeys to the beaches and rivers as places of reflection where time expands into history, the artists have created Name This Bird - Winnipeg Beach, an image/text ‘notebook’ comprised of a poetic thread of impressions about language and memory.

To sow

1997

edition of 200
Artist’s book by Jake Moore

Moore’s to sow was originally presented as an off-site exhibition in September 1996 at 284 William Ave. Moore used an unbound book format comprised of images and texts to convey the relationship between culture and environment and the precarious artifice of history, identity and economics. Now in the collection of the Victoria and Albert Museum, London.

Max and Ruby’s Fortune

1997

press run of 200
$20.00
Artist’s book by Brenna George.

Drawing on the lives of two manic depressive people, the artist explores the effects that personality/mood swings have on others and the environment around them. Now in the collection of the Victoria and Albert Museum, London.

While some songs; the settling drifts

1997

press run of 200
$20.00
Artist’s book by Tom Elliott.

This work has emerged from Tom’s insterest in making and recording music. The bookwork brings together images, texts and musical notation as means of negotiating particular ‘landscapes’ and what one might encounter in these places.

At the end of my rope: breathing room

1996

press run of 200
Artist’s book by Angela Somerset to sow A six month living/art making residency in rural Manitoba community provided both the context and content for an installation entitled navigating by falling stars and this bookwork, presented at aceartinc. Now in the collection of the Victoria and Albert Museum, London.

Edge Manitoba

1992

ISBN 0-9696265-0-9
$10.00

Artists: Sharon Alward, Shirley Brown, Amy Beuhler, Susan Chafe, Shawna Dempsey and Lorri Millan, Jeff Gillman, Ron Gorsline, Steve Gouthro, Ken Gregory, Gilles Hebert, Doug Melnyk, M.A. Peers, Reva Stone; Essays by: Shirley Madill, Leesa Steifler, Gerry Kisil, and Robert Labossiere.

This is a catalogue of an exhibition held simultaneously at aceartinc., Plug-In ICA, and the Winnipeg Art Gallery, July 3 - August 1, 1992. The works address the social and political climate of the artist’s immediate environment.

Beyond Winnipeg: East

1991

Catalogue

Design and Illustration: David Ashcroft
Artists: Margarita Popova, Choon Wha Shim, Derek Own, Guye Strobel, Ruth McKibben. (exhibition)

Food in Art

Before 1984

Design: Donna Jones, Illustration: S. Lee, Typing: Yvone Jones and Donna Jones

A collection of tasty recipes from local Winnipeg artists.

 

 

 

 

Artists' Books

Twitch

2003

edition of 1000
isbn 0-9696265-9-2
$10.00

Curated and edited by Risa Horowitz Catalogue essayists and panelists: Steve Dietz and Jennifer Woodbury Artists: David Rokeby, Garnet Hertz, Nicholas Steadman, Kevin Yates, Erika Lincoln

Catalogue of an exhibition held at aceartinc., featuring interactive work. Catalogue includes bibliographical references.

A relatively small collection

1999

press run of 1000
ISBN 0-9696265-1-7
$5.00

Curators: Michael Dumontier and Tom Elliott. Artists: Ian Birse, Judy Bowyer, Joanne Bristol, Gail Brown, Hank Bull, Michael Drew Campbell, Elaine Carol, Cause and Effect, Shawna Dempsey/Lorri Millan, Michael Dumontier/T.R. Elliott, Marcel Dzama, Neil Farber, Michael Fernandes, Ken Gregory, Kip Jackson, Drue Langlois, Erika Lincoln, Todd Martin, Rita McKeough, Jennie O’Keefe, Jocelyn Robert, Adrian Shalom Williams, Kathleen Yearwood.

Published to accompany the cassette exhibition/lending library a relatively small collection, this publication features entries by the 24 participating artists as well as images from the exhibition and an essay by the curators.

How to Make Work

1999

edition ongoing
ISBN 0-9696265-2-5
$20.00
Artists: Brenna George, Al Rushton, Richard Dyck

Published to accompany the group exhibition Working Space, How to Make Work is an interactive publication that requires audience participation and production, i.e., the “kit” require assembly through interaction with each of the works.

Draw

1999

press run of 1000
ISBN 0-9696265-4-1
$15.00

Artists: Judy Bowyer, Dena Decter, Lois Klassen, Jean Klimack, Catherine MacDonald, and Vida Simon; Curator: Marian Butler; Additional Publication contributors: Sylvia Legris, Angela Somerset.

Draw resulted from in/habit, a residency and exhibition (presented at aceartinc. in May/June 1999) that looked at issues of isolation and/or solitude, and the location and impact of artists’ production within various communities. Now in the collection of the Victoria and Albert Museum, London.

Crows

1999

limited edition of 13

Curated by Marian Butler. With artists works by JoAnne Bristol, Dagmar Dahle, Candace Savage, Sheila Spence, Susan Mills, Karilee Fuglem, April Hickox. Designed by Angela Somerset. Critical Distance With Crow Energy by Jen Loewen.

Light/Shadow/Dark

1998

press run of 500
$5.00

Artists: Ron Gorsline; Curator: Jennifer Woodbury.

Black and white and color reproductions of Ron Gorsline’s paintings and drawings along with a curatorial essay by Jennifer Woodbury are brought together in this publication in response to the exhibition Light/Shadow/Dark by Ron Gorsline.

Aqua Aëris

1998

edition of 3
$75.00
Artist’s book by Lori Rogers and curator Jennifer Woodbury.

Functioning as both objet and text, this piece distills some of the issues of desire and loss begun in the installation Captive and Absent (aceartinc., 1997). Authorship in the creation of this work is indistinct, as both artist and curator interlay their creative output within the thought and sensibilities of the other.

Sally Slipper

1998

edition of 200
$20.00

Artist’s book by June Boyd. Co-Facilitators: Marian Butler, Angela Somerset

This book was made through a laborious process of excavation and creation involving photo reenactments of journal excerpts, assemblage of found/retrieved objects, installed situations, drawings and texts. The synthesis of this project (an artist’s book/residency) translates the place where June works and lives into a mobile and tangible form: a documentation /book /installation. Now in the collection of the Victoria and Albert Museum, London.

Off the Beaten Track

1998

$5.00

Artists: Eleanor Bond, Sheila Butler, Aganetha Dyck, Larry Glawson, Wanda Koop, Kim Ouellette, Esther Warkov, Diane Whitehouse, Jack Butler, Doug Melnyk, Rosalie Bellefontaine, Michael Drabot, Grant Guy, John Gurdebeked, Chrisine Hawks, Karen Hoeberg, Vern Hume, Alex Poruchnyk, Leon Johnson, Grace Martini, Maureen Margaret, Paula Newman, Susan Peterson. (exhibition)

Artists in smaller centers “off the beaten track” like Winnipeg, join forces with artists in Edinburgh in producing authentic art coming not from the “centre” such as Toronto , but from geographically marginalized areas.

Flashpoint

1998

handmade multiples
made-to-order
$60.00

Artist’s book by Helene Dyck

In Flashpoint, a site-specific installation, Helene Dyck continued to reclaim materials from domestic environments, which metaphorically relate to qualities of endurance and renewal in the formation of identity. Helene drew on the layering of the various components in the installation, including plywood for the book’s cover, for this limited edition, handmade artist’s book.

Not What We Are: An Archive of Identities

1997

Artist: Susan Turner

Essay: Andrea Philip

Name This Bird: Winnipeg Beach

1997

handmade multiples
made-to-order
$250.00
Artist’s book by Susan Chafe and Donnelly Smallwood.

Observing journeys to the beaches and rivers as places of reflection where time expands into history, the artists have created Name This Bird - Winnipeg Beach, an image/text ‘notebook’ comprised of a poetic thread of impressions about language and memory.

To sow

1997

edition of 200
Artist’s book by Jake Moore

Moore’s to sow was originally presented as an off-site exhibition in September 1996 at 284 William Ave. Moore used an unbound book format comprised of images and texts to convey the relationship between culture and environment and the precarious artifice of history, identity and economics. Now in the collection of the Victoria and Albert Museum, London.

Max and Ruby’s Fortune

1997

press run of 200
$20.00
Artist’s book by Brenna George.

Drawing on the lives of two manic depressive people, the artist explores the effects that personality/mood swings have on others and the environment around them. Now in the collection of the Victoria and Albert Museum, London.

While some songs; the settling drifts

1997

press run of 200
$20.00
Artist’s book by Tom Elliott.

This work has emerged from Tom’s insterest in making and recording music. The bookwork brings together images, texts and musical notation as means of negotiating particular ‘landscapes’ and what one might encounter in these places.

At the end of my rope: breathing room

1996

press run of 200
Artist’s book by Angela Somerset to sow A six month living/art making residency in rural Manitoba community provided both the context and content for an installation entitled navigating by falling stars and this bookwork, presented at aceartinc. Now in the collection of the Victoria and Albert Museum, London.

Edge Manitoba

1992

ISBN 0-9696265-0-9
$10.00

Artists: Sharon Alward, Shirley Brown, Amy Beuhler, Susan Chafe, Shawna Dempsey and Lorri Millan, Jeff Gillman, Ron Gorsline, Steve Gouthro, Ken Gregory, Gilles Hebert, Doug Melnyk, M.A. Peers, Reva Stone; Essays by: Shirley Madill, Leesa Steifler, Gerry Kisil, and Robert Labossiere.

This is a catalogue of an exhibition held simultaneously at aceartinc., Plug-In ICA, and the Winnipeg Art Gallery, July 3 - August 1, 1992. The works address the social and political climate of the artist’s immediate environment.

Beyond Winnipeg: East

1991

Catalogue

Design and Illustration: David Ashcroft
Artists: Margarita Popova, Choon Wha Shim, Derek Own, Guye Strobel, Ruth McKibben. (exhibition)

Food in Art

Before 1984

Design: Donna Jones, Illustration: S. Lee, Typing: Yvone Jones and Donna Jones

A collection of tasty recipes from local Winnipeg artists.