Allied/LPV has a double presence at the fair this year with Table T17 & a site specific installation, -INTERSECTIONS- for PM’s new project, The Reading Room.
Book Launches / Signings @ Allied Booth T17
Thursday September 11
7pm: Peter Cramer & Jack Waters
8pm: Ministry, Reverend Joyce McDonald
Friday September 12
3pm: Lucia Maria Minervini, Not Selfies, Portraits
Saturday September 13
Noon – 2pm: Lizzie Olesker and Lynne Sachs – Hand Book: A Manual on Performance, Process, and the Labor of Laundry
4pm: Ethan Shoshan, Self-Help Psychic Reading
Sunday September 14
2pm: Lucia Maria Minervini, Not Selfies, Portraits
Among the book artists at our Table T17 we will present:
Joyce McDonald – Ministry: Reverend Joyce McDonald – Catalogue published in conjunction with Visual AIDS and Bronx Museum for her upcoming exhibition at Bronx Museum – 2025.
The first book dedicated to the sculptural practice of Reverend Joyce McDonald, published on the occasion of her solo exhibition at The Bronx Museum. Through sculpture, Reverend Joyce McDonald crafts moving testimonies to themes that have shaped her life: hope, grace, and serenity, but also hardship, loss, and devotion. Her work often depicts figures in repose or embrace, embodying the strength, support, and unconditional love that has sustained her life.McDonald began working with clay in 1997 through an art therapy program, shortly after her diagnosis with HIV. She quickly recognized the medium’s potential for healing and transformation. Working intuitively, she allows figures to emerge from the clay, giving form to memories and emotion while processing experiences of addiction, domestic violence, and illness.The fully-illustrated catalogue features essays by Kyle Croft and Dr. Jareh Das, alongside a conversation between McDonald and fellow artist Rafael Sánchez.
Lucia Maria Minervini – Not Selfies, Portraits – 2025
“Not Selfies, Portraits” began in 2012 as a reaction to the rise of the very popular and still invasive mania of taking selfies. The great respect for the long history of Portraiture inspired this digital project in response to selfies, which appeared to the author as a degradation of the historical genre of portraiture. For Lucia Minervini as a follower of Jungian psychology, these portraits trace her path of individuation through some of Jung’s great ideas: the collective unconscious, archetypes, the anima/animus and the shadow.
Lizzie Olesker and Lynne Sachs – Hand Book: A Manual on Performance , Process, and the Labor of Laundry – 2025
Hand Book is a collection of writings and images that came out of a hybrid documentary performance and film made by Sachs and Olesker that was set within a neighborhood laundromat, a microcosm of service work within our city. With a focus on the people who wash and fold “drop-off” loads, Hand Book explores the convergence of dirt, stains, money, identity, and desire.
Sur Rodney Sur – Ribald
Jack Waters – Pestilence #8
GRRRR – Various unique art books
Ethan Shoshan – Various titles and objects
Peter Cramer – Acqua Dotte / Covid TImes / B&W Study-The Zine.
And other unique publications from our archives including Diseased Pariah News, HYPE, Leilah Babirye monograph, RED TAPE Magazines.
Allied Productions/Le Petit Versailles presents INTERSECTIONS, a multi media installation for The Reading Room at Printed Matter NY Art Book Fair 2025. This project will encompass archival materials from various projects initiated by Peter Cramer and Jack Waters that highlight decades of art, activism and advocacy. Subjects include LGBTQ identity & AIDS politics, gentrification and preservation of NYC gardens, and will feature cable access videos as represented by HoMoVISIONES, a Latino caucus of ACT UP.
The Reading Room is a new incarnation of Friendly Fire, a program initiated in 2011 to highlight activist and grassroots-focused Fair exhibitors. The Reading Room highlights Fair exhibitors engaged in activism and grassroots struggles related to a particular theme. The NYABF 2025 Reading Room is produced in dialogue with Archivos Desviados, an ongoing exhibition at Printed Matter’s bookstore in Chelsea, and explores the relationship between publishing and queer and trans liberation, third world solidarity, and revolutionary action. In contrast to the rapid speed at which visitors move through the Fair, this program offers an alternative space to engage in close reading, critique, and reflection.
