Tether 4

Brice Brown

Trevor Winkfield

Sienese Shredder Editions

Tether 3

Brice Brown and Trevor Winkfield

A brand-new, high-powered and beautifully designed annual that brings together poetry, literature, critical writing, visual arts and other culturally significant material in a way that is exciting, contemporary and fresh, The Sienese Shredder includes work by emerging and established artists; unpublished rarities and oddball pieces; items by lesser-known artists who deserve recognition; and explorations of work by a well-chosen featured artist and/or poet each issue. Among other things, this first issue contains never-before-seen postcard collages by Pulitzer Prize-winning poet John Ashbery; a special CD insert featuring the only American Oulipo writer, Harry Mathews, reading a selection of his never-before recorded poems dating from 1955-2005; dealer and historian Francis M. Naumann's attempt to unravel Marcel Duchamp's unsolvable chess problem; paintings by featured artist Jane Hammond, including works done in collaboration with John Ashbery; New Media artist, curator and prioprietor of New York's vertexList gallery, Marcin Ramocki, discussing 8Bit, his documentary about gaming culture; featured poet Ron Padgett's new long poems; artist Ron Morosan on the late drawings of the kooky outsider artist, Louis Eilshemius, made on his personal letterhead; and an interview with artist Richard Tuttle about the late Richard Bellamy, the great art dealer and advocate of the historically important Green Gallery. An extremely impressive debut and a guaranteed collector's item. Brice Brown's recent exhibitions at Francis M. Naumann Fine Art, New York, have been reviewed in The New York Times, Art in America and the Village Voice. As an art critic, he is a regular contributor to The New York Sun. In 2005 he completed "I Come In Search of Walnuts," a limited edition, hard-bound silkscreen portfolio collaboration with Trevor Winkfield printed by the Grenfell Press, New York. Trevor Winkfield's recent exhibitions at the Tibor de Nagy Gallery and the Barbara Ann Levy Gallery in New York have earned him serious critical attention and enthusiastic reviews. Mr. Winkfield is also a writer, translator, editor and publisher. In 1997 Hard Press published Trevor Winkfield's Pageant with essays by John Ashbery and Jed Perl.

The Sienese Shredder Issue 1

Arts & Photography

This must-have second installment of the new, highly acclaimed annual that brings together poetry, literature, critical writing, visual arts and other culturally significant material in an exciting, fresh, contemporary way includes never-before-seen Bushbaby drawings by Jasper Johns; unpublished poems by New York School poet James Schuyler; a film treatment in collage by Canadian cult director Guy Maddin; an unpublished drawing by Verlaine of Rimbaud, who is drawing Verlaine; a portfolio of works on paper by Mary Heilmann; a look inside Pulitzer Prize-winning poet John Ashbery's country home; artist Alexi Worth interviewing artist Alfred Leslie; intimate paintings by the reclusive artist Albert York; an Objects of Our Affection section featuring a unique, never-before-seen Man Ray iron and a pair of shoes once owned by British spy Anthony Blunt; photographs of poems installed at Tipperary by Simon Cutts; dollar-bill collages by artist Mark Wagner; poet Bill Zavatsky introducing Richard Griffin, the cult "Bug House" poet; an unpublished Appolinaire calligram; photographs by Susan Unterberg; a cartoon by Christophe; and a recording of Charles North reading a selection of poems. Plus much more!

The Sienese Shredder Issue 2

Literature & Fiction

Literary

Steered by artist-editors Brice Brown and Trevor Winkfield, The Sienese Shredder continues its voyage along the more wayward byways of art and literature with this fabworthy third issue. As always, the lineup is mouthwatering: an interview with Maurice Roche by Mark Polizzotti; writings and watercolors by Melissa Meyer; an unpublished play by New York School poet James Schuyler; a suite of early paintings by Myron Stout; Willem de Kooning's rarely seen last drawing; unpublished poems and drawings by Larry Rivers; an exclusive portfolio by Virgil Marti, Tim Davis, Elliott Green, Baroness Elsa Von Freytag-Loringhoven, David Storey and Amy Yoes; poems by Michael Gizzi; David Park Curry on Baltimore's furniture traditions; poet Peter Gizzi on Jack Spicer and Bruce Conner; William Beckford's legendary but rarely seen Epitaphs; scores by Jerome Kitzke; an anthology of nine contemporary poets edited by Miles Champion; and a CD by award-winning composer Eric Moe.

The Sienese Shredder Issue 3

Collections, Catalogs & Exhibitions

The good ship Shredder embarks upon its fourth voyage into uncharted waters with another rich trove: specially designed portfolios by Martin Wilner and Arne Svenson; Lawrence Weschler on the surfeit of Christlike imagery in contemporary art; a previously unpublished sketchbook by Joan Mitchell; Kurt Schwitters works on paper including early letterhead designs and a reproduction of a rare “Ursonate” print; a portfolio of Valentine Hugo's quirky surrealism; Fred Mann's interview with English tenor John Mark Ainsley; National Book Award winner Mark Doty's meditation on Walt Whitman's tomb; Rochelle Gurstein's rediscovery of the mysterious Venus de' Medici; the kinky side of Swiss Renaissance master Urs Graf's drawings; Luise Kruger's folksy fabric works; a new Shredder-only story by Allan Gurganus; Wilson Bentley's microscopic photographs of snowflakes; Frances Richard on Duchamp and Gordon Matta-Clark; a large selection of R. Crumb's little-known portrait spools; and a CD of accordionist Guy Klucevsek's early work.

The Sienese Shredder Issue 4

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