Tantra Paintings

They're up a little while more at the SMMoA:

http://www.artforum.com/picks/section=bestofyear#picks29615

The catalog from Siglio Press is gorgeous. But first, read about them on the press's site:

http://siglioblog.com/tag/tantric-painting/

Women in Rock

Three new posts, two in Art and one in Music, highlight some of my favorite creators.

Niagara Detroit of Destroy All Monsters for Artforum.com:

http://www.artforum.com/words/#entry29535

Lizzi Bougatsos of Gang Gang Dance for Paris Review Daily:

http://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2011/11/08/lizzi-bougatsos-on-gang-gang-dance/

Pearl Hsiung at the Vincent Price Museum for Artforum.com:

http://artforum.com/picks/section=la#Los Angeles or http://artforum.com/archive/id=29258

Unnameable Books

Please come say hello on Friday, November 4th. Info below:

Place: Unnameable Books, 600 Vanderbilt, Brooklyn

Time: 7PM

The Corresponding Society is thrilled to launch the !How Now! chapbook series! Feast your senses on the wild morels and wonderful whirlpools issuing from Trinie Dalton’s ("Escape Mushroom Style") and Popahna Brandes' (“The Sea In Me/The Riddle We Heard”) rich and dreamy fiction. And don't forget to cozy up with Chanelle Bergeron's fresh herbal lyric, "Litttle Breather." Each of these three new works are encrusted with gems, musical bridges, hidden doors, and mysterious outcomes -- don’t you want to know more?

The books are brightly colored and beautifully pressed; pocketsized and available for sale; so please stop in for readings, red wine, homebrew, and moontalk. TCS will also be introducing Robert Snyderman's imprint, Urgent Series, featuring a reading from "correspondent" Lonely Christopher and Snyderman himself, plus, perhaps, a brief but engaging word on the metaphysical implications of Urgent!

Please, come! It should be fun. We haven't done this in a while, and it might be a while more before we gather again!

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Trinie Dalton's books include Wide Eyed (Akashic), Dear New Girl or Whatever Your Name Is (McSweeney's: co-edited with Eli Horowitz and Lisa Wagner), Mythtym (Picturebox), and Sweet Tomb (Madras Press). Dalton's next story collection, Baby Geisha, is forthcoming this winter (Two Dollar Radio). She teaches fiction and critical writing at USC, Art Center College of Design, SVA and Vermont College of Fine Arts.

Popahna Brandes' fiction, translation, film, and music have appeared in The Encyclopedia Project, Pocket Myths, Tarpaulin Sky, and Ein Magazin über Orte.

The Sad Drag Monologues

Risograph edition now for sale at:

http://www.pictureboxinc.com/

http://www.familylosangeles.com/

ANATHEMA release

ANATHEMA

ISSUE THREE RELEASE PARTY AND EXHIBITION

Please come celebrate

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CREATURES OF COMFORT

205 Mulberry Street, NYC

Thursday, 10.27.2011, 6-9pm

Exhibition of works by Mariah Robertson, Andrew Kuo, Peter Coffin, Michael Itkoff, Annabel Mehran, Peter Sutherland and Timothy Marvel Hull.

A journal of art, photography and writing, ANATHEMA would not be possible without our wonderful contributors:

Mariah Robertson (Greater New York at PS1) / Daniel Wagner (The Kingsboro Press) / Aurel Schmidt (2010 Whitney Biennial) / Michael Schmelling (ATL from Chronicle Books) / Starlee Kine (This American Life and The Thing) / Matthew Stone (Optimism as Cultural Rebellion) / Andrew Kuo (What Me Worry from DAP) / Peter Coffin (Public Art Fund) / Christian Jankowski (Regen Projects) / Mike Brodie (The Polaroid Kid) / Trinie Dalton (Mythtym from Picturebox) / Panda Bear (Paw Tracks) / Peter Sutherland (Smoke Bath from Seems) / Bill Callahan (Drag City) / Annabel Mehran (Purple) / Dan Bejar (Destroyer) / Dmitri Siegel (Green Patriot Posters) / Michael Itkoff (Daylight magazine) / Craig Damrauer (New Math) / Chris Mottalini (Pin Up) / Suzanne Snider (True Story) / Caleb Seavey (Donkeyclaw) / Ed Morris (The Canary Project) / Timothy Hull (Friday Notes).

Please find ANATHEMA at the following locations:

New York - Whitney Museum of American Art, New Museum of Contemporary Art, PS1, Opening Ceremony, Bookmarc, Printed Matter, McNally Robinson, Partners & Spade, Dexter Sinister, OHWOW, Spoonbill & Sugartown, Book Thug Nation, Mast Books, Clic, Project No. 8. Los Angeles - Opening Ceremony, Family, Ooga Booga, Museum of Contemporary Art. San Francisco - General Store, William Stout. Chicago - Golden Age, Quimby's. London - Tate Modern, Institute of Contemporary Art, Donlon, Claire de Rouen. Paris - Colette, OFR, Palais du Tokyo. Berlin - Do You Read Me?, Motto, Wood Wood. Amsterdam - FOAM. Tokyo - Gallery Target, Vacant, Utrecht.

"Word Salad" in Opium 39's Illustrated Internet

HELLO: THE FOLLOWING TWELVE COLLAGES CORRESPOND BY TITLE TO THE PROSE SECTIONS IN "WORD SALAD," PUBLISHED IN OPIUM'S LATEST ISSUE, THE ILLUSTRATED INTERNET. FOR IT, I WAS ASKED TO INTEGRATE THE INTERNET INTO MY PROSE. I SHOT THE PHOTOS CENTERED IN THE WORKS ON CROSS-COUNTRY ROAD TRIPS. "WORD SALAD" IS INCLUDED IN MY STORY COLLECTION, BABY GEISHA, FORTHCOMING FROM TWO DOLLAR RADIO. ENJOY!

Chocolate Lily

Murderine

Opal

Boot Stomper

Shellevision

Cruising: A Postcard Exchange

The Phenomenology of Psychedelics

Treehouses

Albuquerque Savers

Puppy Text

Jim's Rasta Vibe

Four Finger Fetish

Just got the galleys...

Here is what the book will look like!

My husband in 2005

Good year for Mariposa Lilies

Rebecca Wolff's The Beginners

The NBCC selected my Bookforum review of Wolff's excellent new novel to appear on the review-a-day listing:

http://www.powells.com/review/2011_07_13

SYNCHRONICITY SPACE

Neat group show coming up that I am lucky enough to be a part of, with a batch of attendant events for the performative aspect. I'm paired with Jodi Wille of Process Books and Megan Whitmarsh, July 14th, 7pm. This event is also a launch for my Rainbow Riso Press and its first risograph booklet edition, The Sad Drag Monologues. This is the logo on the book's front cover. $10/each cash, edition of 100 printed in blue with red/black covers, come out and say hello!

All of the events look truly interesting to me, hope to catch the suite ---

http://www.synchronicityspacela.com/?p=178#more-178

Vermont College Interdisciplinary Conference

Coming up...I'm looking forward to this.

http://www.vermontcollege.edu/node/2109

Publication Studio

A bunch of my favorite writing friends and people are involved with Matthew Stadler's new press, Publication Studio. His publishing model might be the wave of the future. My newly-launched risograph press, Rainbow Riso, might be more on a past wave but I'm working on that. More news on the first release soon... For now, here's Stadler at Bookforum and a link to his press.

http://bookforum.com/index.php?pn=interview&id=7911

http://www.publicationstudio.biz/about/

2nd Floor Projects

The risograph print edition Lauren Mackler designed for me on behalf of Margaret Tedesco's gallery really looks sharp! Teal + brown inks on various 11x17 paper. Thanks to Margaret for that opportunity. The opening was warm and enticing; Rebeca and Scott installed in the space in unique, dynamic ways. You can see Lauren's design in the photo here, see also her website for more radical design:

http://projects2ndfloor.blogspot.com/

http://lmackler.com/

Snaps of Margaret and others at the opening on Michelle Tea's fashion blog (who says authors can't be fashionable), The Ironing Board Collective:

http://ironingboardcollective.wordpress.com/2011/05/10/art-is-where-i-live/

Starcherone Press: 30 Under 30

Starcherone has a new anthology of spry young fiction writers, edited by Blake Butler and Lily Hoang; my short review of 30 Under 30 is in Nylon's summer issue. Looks like metafiction is popular again! Nylon's "Shelf Help" books page is consistently interesting and supports all manner of publications pushing the envelope.

Arthur Archives

Did I mention that Arthur's archives are emerging incrementally on-line in this snazzy new database managed by the man himself, Jay Babcock?

http://www.arthurmag.com/archives/

Amy Gerstler Interviewed...

for Paper Magazine, hooray!

http://www.papermag.com/arts_and_style/2010/10/amy-gerstler-in-conversation-with-trinie-dalton.php

RADAR Reading Series

Later this week, I'll be reading at Intersection for the Arts, hosted by the illustrious Michelle Tea.
April 28th, 7pm. Here's a little interview I did with Michelle, and the event details:

http://www.radarproductions.org/?page_id=34&paged=3

http://www.theintersection.org/calendar/index.php?op=view&id=3709

This is the skunk that lives under my house...

I prefer these snake ladies to medusa...

Nure-onna: Yokai monster




Nüwa: Chinese goddess.

Public Fiction

RAINBOWS, CAPRICORNS, VIRGOS & ALCHEMY...
This Sunday March 13th please join us for a series of events at THE FREE CHURCH:

Beginning promptly at 8pm:
A lecture about rainbows by TRINIE DALTON:
Trinie will give a slide-talk about rainbows what they are, how they're formed, and their roles in the history of art, spiritualism, mythology, and color theory.

at 8:45pm
A video screening curated by CATHERINE TAFT:
Catherine Taft presents a Capricorn/Virgo-inspired selection of videos by Dale Hoyt, Lauren Lavitt and Andrew Steinmetz

and at 9:30pm
RON REGÉ, JR. will read (and project!) comics from The Cartoon Utopia concerning the basic tenants of Alchemy and Hermetic Philosophy in Fairy Tale."

Public Fiction
749 Avenue 50, LA 90042
http://www.publicfiction.org

Google image wins again...

When researching my book titles, I do some preliminary internet trolling, and this is what comes up when I hunt images for "Baby Geisha" —go figure...I see the pup, but what the heck is that animal above?

Admitting the past unicorn obsession...

Back when I used to sing with bandmates Ben Parke and Greg Moore. Ten years back, the medieval garb and paper maché uni as our stage pet:

http://www.myspace.com/unicornucopia


But these days I'm more into images like the one above...

On Oscar weekend...

An Artforum Diary entry:

http://www.artforum.com/diary/#entry27667

Rockypoint Reading Series

Two Dollar Radio

Will be publishing Baby Geisha. Hooray!

http://twodollarradio.blogspot.com/2011/02/qa-with-editor-trinie-dalton.html

Eric Yanker's "Cracks of Dawn"

Lucky I was able to cover this exhibition as a Critic's Pick:
http://artforum.com/picks/section=la#picks27506

Meet My Brother

My brother, Greg, is a talented artist, and this is one of his latest pieces. I love the carnivorous plant over there in the lower left corner, as if the mammoth creature is about to get a stinky whiff of putrescence.

How Many Parts I Admired in Haunted Houses by Lynne Tillman

The Latest Double Rainbow

And while we're on the topic of double rainbows:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OQSNhk5ICTI

Coolest Book Ever?

Tree of Codes by Jonathan Safran Foer:

http://papercuts.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/11/24/jonathan-safran-foers-book-as-art-object/