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Friday, October 11th, 2024 | In-Person 7:00PM | RSVP

IN CONVERSATION: LINDSAY BUCHMAN & KEVIN KUNSTADT
MODERATED BY DOLLY MEIERAN

Magali Duzant - Seaton Street Press (Copyright © Magali Duzant, 2024)

Diptych: un-bound and un-trimmed book spread from All for the Best, Kevin Kunstadt, published by Penumbra Foundation © Kevin Kunstadt

Lindsay Buchman is an interdisciplinary artist, writer, and publisher based in Brooklyn, NY, whose work explores image-making and writing through print and lens-based media, artist books, and installation. Buchman holds an MFA from the University of Pennsylvania and a BFA from California State University Long Beach. Exhibitions of her work include the Penumbra Foundation; San Francisco Center for the Book; TILT Institute for the Contemporary Image; LA Art Book Fair at The Geffen Contemporary, MOCA; New York Art Book Fair, MoMA PS1; Tokyo Art Book Fair, Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo; SPRINT Milano, Spazio Maiocchi. Her publications are included in collections at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York Public Library, SFMOMA, the Amon Carter Museum of American Art, Harvard University, and the University of Pennsylvania. She is a recipient of the Toby Devan Lewis Fellowship and the Flaherty Fellowship, and her work has been featured in Hyperallergic, Lenscratch, and The Hopper Prize Journal. Buchman has been an artist-in-residence at the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts and the Lower East Side Printshop, and she is a 2025 Light Work AIR. As an extension of her practice, she runs an independent artists' books and publications project, Seaton Street Press, to collaborate with artists through publishing and distribution.

Kevin Kunstadt (b. 1982, New York, NY) lives and works in New York, NY. He received his BA in Visual Art from Brown University in 2004, and his MFA in photography from Hartford Art School’s international limited residency program in 2017. Since 2010 Kunstadt has produced several photographic projects in book form, on subjects as varied as: asphalt road resurfacing, gunpowder, scrap metal, and “sneakers, bricks, and politics.” These have been nominated for the Mack First Book Award, and shortlisted for the Kassel, Luma Rencontres, Fiebre, and La Fabrica Dummy Awards. In addition to an his ongoing self-publishing photobook practice, his artist's book 'All for the Best' was published by Penumbra Foundation in 2020.


Dolly Meieran is a graphic designer based in New York City. 


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