# Event Details - **Event Name**: DISLOCATIONS : Artists Books / GAP FRAG Works - **Event Start and End Date**: Sun, 28 Sep, 2025 at 01:00 pm - **Event Description**: GLOBAL ART PROJECT presents DISLOCATIONS : Artists Books & Selections from our FRAG Exchange Project Opening Reception : Sunday September 28th 1-4pm Closing Reception : Sunday November 22nd 1-4 pm STUDIO 55 Martinez 55 Howe Rd Martinez Ca 707-899-2032 Curated by : Carl Heyward / Akiko Suzuki / Jenny Hynes Exhibiting Artists : Elise Marshall usa Mikel Frank usa Katie Korotzer usa Brian Auerbach usa Jules Nelson -Gal usa Carol Dalton usa Mia Chambers usa Helen S Cohen usa Andrea D Guerra usa Angela Denise Allen Simms usa Dee Tivenan usa Michael D'Amelio usa Julie Schumer usa Vera Tchikovani usa Leslie Alcott usa Pam Pitt usa Sandee Johnson usa Madeleine Wories usa Salma Arastu india / usa Yasmin Lambie- Simpson usa / wales David Jenowe usa Isabelle Ruiz Perdiguero spain Ale Feijo argentina Massimo Nota italy Marino Rossetti italy Kate Simmons usa Renato de la Riva mexico Corrie McCluskey mexico / usa Pedro Cruz Pacheco mexico Valerie Corvin usa Macha Melanie france Sabine Korth italy / germany Pat Calabro usa Carol Heft usa Corinna Rosteck germany Pat Mayer usa Usha Shukla india / usa Sian Price italy / uk Alvaro Sanchez guatemala Monica Lisi italy Linda Coppens spain / belgium Carl Heyward usa Akiko Suzuki usa / japan Jenny Hynes usa globalartproject / DISLOCATIONS Artists Books / FRAG Project Works : ARTISTS BOOK Text for Ron Shelton Art Studios' High Art Fridays 4/ 23/ 15 Carl Heyward Redux : Books are birds that fly both figuratively in the imagination inducing images of places, things, concepts; trainspotting the reader / viewer into futures past seen and never realized, but also, in my case literally: 2nd grade, perhaps, Washington DC home walking to Petworth Public Library in the busy NW section; my sanctuary, my declaration of independence launched a commitment to read every book in the place, shelf by shelf row by row inviting the smell , feel and weight of the tomes to envelope me and take me away, into and beyond my experience...somehow the idea came one fall afternoon after school to see the books actually take flight, and they did. I have no recollection of a moment's hesitation: I walked as usual to my 2nd floor level, probably no taller than the librarian's desk, my guides and mentors, and approached a random stack of books, collected an armful and began to gleefully fling them out of the window, seeing them sail in this gratifying experiment like the birds they were with open flapping wings of freedom through the branches of maple trees bare and receptive of this marvel of sight. I lost all sense of time, place or consequence...surely this is the right and only thing to do, and tossed book after book after book as if a lost Wright brother in his own private Kitty Hawk moment, till a breathless employee ran up to me, not very pleased ( he had seen my mini-Phoenix tosses from the street) and ended my reverie, for the time being. Always a fascination with the book the concealed but willing pages that reveal and transform the moment into an eternity of accessible information. To change the utility of the book, of how it delivers information and what form that information takes, apparently has been a life long fascination for me, thus my interest in the Artists' Book or the Altered Book has deep connection with past and current activity as an artist. The Artists' Book is a portable gallery, an experimental space that confronts traditional expectations about what a book can or should be and what its unlimited potential may be. Always personal, always engaging, the idea of an individual publishing, in the broadest sense, their own works and thoughts is extremely compelling: we see it in the prototype of works that go on to become larger editions; the unique book, the limited edition, the chap book of imagery and/or poetry pioneered probably by the BEATS and continued by political movements, bands, punks, novice writers. Even NAKED CITY, the seminal pulp publication of photographer WEE GEE serves as an enduring example of the desire to control means of production, working outside and beyond the limitations of the traditional system to produce meaningful examples of personal vision for distribution of, perhaps, like-minded individuals open to a first glimpse of fresh talent. My exposure to what may be called the Artists' Book actually comes from the old-school POP-UP children's books of the 1950's. I was fascinated by the surprise juxtapositions of the cardboard characters, the Kings and horses, the castles and demons that filled dimensions and animated a story that I was probably not very interested in. With this interest as a backdrop...fast forward twenty years: ANDY WARHOL'S INDEX Published in 1967, I spotted the book in NYC at Sullivan's Books (I think) near Little Italy on a trip that was a treat and gift to myself after graduating (enduring) college in 1975; have always loved the idea of the pop-up book since I was a kid and to seeing the Warhol Index sent me salivating into the shop where I laid down my twenty five dollars ($25.00) and used it as the inspiration for a number of my own artists' books through the years. Decades later you can find the book new and used ranging from $2,000-$10,000 depending upon condition and the amount of drugs the prospective collector has consumed; ask me if I still have mine....don't ask! Seeing the INDEX was a defining moment for me: I would go on to synthesize several movements percolating on the West Coast and internationally at the time toward a documentation that included mail art ( Anna Banana, Buster Cleveland, and others), Electrographic (color xerox activity), performance, photography and a bit of journalism and produced SOURCE OF INVENTION that combined the pop-up book sensibility with a reverence for archival presentation of activity that seemed both important and transient. The eighties were very good for this activity . A number of collectors and collections sprang up, most notably Franklin Furnace, the arts libraries of most major universities, art schools and museums as well as notable galleries which remained receptive to the phenomenon well into the 90's when the arts market bottomed out ( again). more to come: including GAP books and personal artists' books and altered activity. - **Event URL**: https://allevents.in/martinez/dislocations-artists-books-gap-frag-works/200028822575323 - **Event Categories**: art, pop-ups, literary-art, workshops, music, entertainment - **Interested Audience**: - total_interested_count: 115 ## Ticket Details - **Ticket URL**: http://facebook.com/200028822575323?utm_source=AllEvents.in&utm_medium=event-discovery-platform&utm_campaign=martinez-events ## Event venue details - **city**: Martinez - **state**: CA - **country**: United States - **location**: Studio 55 Martinez - **lat**: 38.0145 - **long**: -122.12713 - **full address**: Studio 55 Martinez, 1622 Pacheco Blvd, Martinez, CA 94553-1907, United States ## Event Organizer details - **affiliate_id**: 2 - **organizer**: Carl Heyward (https://allevents.in/org/carl-heyward/2152680) ## Event gallery - **Alt text**: banner - **Image URL**: https://cdn-az.allevents.in/events1/banners/91ed2669b82fad8b8dd2b38b46762633904f0f5ace0ff453a6393480325c5ed8-rimg-w957-h1430-dcffffff-gmir?v=1758762440 - **Alt text**: thumbnail - **Image URL**: https://cdn-az.allevents.in/events1/banners/7b6cb13f47f52de2803e973a5e30e0461286b0e6e1a7455e859abc8294ddac56-rimg-w300-h300-dcffffff-gmir?v=1758762441 ## FAQs - **Q**: When is the event happening? - **A:** Sun, 28 Sep, 2025 at 01:00 pm - **Q**: Where is the event happening? - **A:** Studio 55 Martinez, 1622 Pacheco Blvd, Martinez, CA 94553-1907, United States - **Q**: Who is organizing the event? - **A:** Carl Heyward - **Q**: What type of event is this? - **A:** art, pop-ups, literary-art, workshops, music, entertainment - **Q**: Where can I find ticket details about DISLOCATIONS : Artists Books / GAP FRAG Works ? - **A:** You can find ticket details about this event on AllEvents. ## Structured Data (JSON-LD) ```json [ { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@type": "Event", "name": "DISLOCATIONS : Artists Books / GAP FRAG Works", "image": "https://cdn-az.allevents.in/events1/banners/91ed2669b82fad8b8dd2b38b46762633904f0f5ace0ff453a6393480325c5ed8-rimg-w957-h1430-dcffffff-gmir?v=1758762440", "startDate": "2025-09-28", "url": "https://allevents.in/martinez/dislocations-artists-books-gap-frag-works/200028822575323", "location": { "@type": "Place", "name": "Studio 55 Martinez", "address": { "@type": "PostalAddress", "streetAddress": "1622 Pacheco Blvd, Martinez, CA 94553-1907, United States", "addressLocality": "Martinez", "addressRegion": "CA", "addressCountry": "US" }, "geo": { "@type": "GeoCoordinates", "latitude": "38.0145", "longitude": "-122.12713" } }, "eventAttendanceMode": "https://schema.org/OfflineEventAttendanceMode", "description": "GLOBAL ART PROJECT \n presents \nDISLOCATIONS : Artists Books \n &\nSelections from our \n\nFRAG Exchange Project \n\nOpening Reception : Sunday September 28th \n 1-4pm\nClosing Reception : Sunday November 22nd", "organizer": [ { "@type": "Organization", "name": "Carl Heyward", "url": "https://allevents.in/org/carl-heyward/2152680" } ] } ] ```