Publishing — Gabrielle Jennings

Silent Spring Redux (mini)

2.75” x 4.25,” folded 1-sheet book, inkjet, open edition, 2024

A reprint and strategic placement (eg. in pesticide departments of local hardware stores) of environmentalist Rachel Carson’s seminal wake-up-call-essay “A Fable For Tomorrow,” from her book Silent Spring (Houghton Mifflin, 1962). Download, print, fold, repeat, disseminate widely. Related to Silent Spring Redux.

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Lincoln Park Dwellings

artist's book, 12 pages laser printed on Desert Storm recycled 80lb. card stock, blue plastic tarp cover, acrylic lettering, 3” x 10.5”, staple and duct tape binding, edition of 12, 2021

In the last year I’ve seen things get dire. At the local park where I walk my dogs everyday, things have gone from mediocre to desperate. The unhoused population has skyrocketed. I’ve seen people huddled around a trashcan fire, a naked woman sprinkler bathing, and the remains of more than one RV blaze. I started making drawings of assorted park dwellings, then wrote poetic descriptions, and put them together to make this artist’s book.

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Olney Magazine

Issue 2, 60 pages, Fall 2021

Poems published: My Best Friend the Bear and dignity of the [Swiss] creature.

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bear gif

2.75” x 4.25,” folded 1-sheet book, inkjet, open edition, 2020

A mini-zine of drawings for the Bear gif focusing on the metaphor of protection and vulnerability represented by Susie-the-Bear from the 1984 film The Hotel New Hampshire, an adaptation of the book by the same name by John Irving. The zine is related to Bear (poetry, drawings, paintings and a gif). Download, print, fold.

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Dog Whistles

zine, 8.25" x 8.25," 32 pages, saddle-stiched, open edition, 2024 (in production).

Drawings of dog whistles used for hunting, paired with definitions of language often meant to covertly communicate discriminatory or explicit signals: aesopian language, algospeak, dog whistles (political) and secret emojis.

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g h o s t

artist's book, 8" x 8", 74 pages, perfect bind open edition, 2021

g h o s t is an artist's book of phrases containing the word 'ghost.' The book features photographic imagery made by compositing the top google images from a search for each phrase.

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Movies, Diaries 12-18

artist's book, 5.25" x 8.25", 60 pages, perfect bind, 27 drawings, 27 unique vellum covers, edition 27, 2020

27 drawings of movie posters are paired with corresponding teen diary entries including each movie. The book brings to the fore relationships between teen angst and desire on the one hand, and cultural misogyny on the other. See Movies, Diaries 12-18 for more images.

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treetreetreetreetreetree

zine, 8.25" x 8.25," 20 pages, open edition, 2022

Zine containing research images of 3D tree models for use in my interactive video project, Make Like A Tree.

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Gilligan’s Island Establishing Shots

artist’s book, 10"l x 11.75"w; spine: 1.4" binder, 75 postcards in sleeves, 2021

This singular artist’s book is a custom vinyl binder holding 75 postcards of every establishing shot (tropical landscapes) in the first season of Gilligan’s Island, the 1970s tv sit-com. This investigation centers on in-between moments to do with a generalized narrativity (the extent to which media tells a story), and narrative discourse (how that story is told). This artist’s book is related to my Gilligan’s Island Establishing Shots video.

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Fence Magazine

Issue 36, Volume 20, Winter 2020

Poems published: Magnificent She Said (January part 1) - Friday January 20 - January 25.

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LoveIsland

zine, 5.25" x 8.25", 32 pages, saddle-stitch, 2017

A zine containing research images from the three-channel installation with video appropriated from The Love Boat, Fantasy Island, and Gilligan’s Island. The zine is related to Gilligan’s Island Establishing Shots (video installation and artist’s book) and LoveIsland video and textiles).

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Bear

zine, 8.25" x 8.25," 32 pages, saddle-stiched, open edition, 2022

Zine containing research images of adult bear costumes related to my Bear series of paintings, poetry, gifs.

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Country Mouse / City Mouse

zine, 5.25" x 8.25", 46 pages, perfect bind, open edition, 2021

This zine is comprised of a collection of book covers from internet searches for Country Mouse, City Mouse children's stories. "The Town Mouse and the Country Mouse" is one of Aesop's Fables whose general moral is it is better to live simply in safety than to live with luxury tortured by fear. The story relates to my 'Country Roads' exhibition.

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Terror House Magazine

poetry, online, Summer 2020

Poems published: Longing For Two: lisa & ginny, ginny’s brother, steeling spreas, thefts, smoking

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Abstract Video: The Moving Image in Contemporary Art

7” x 10, 304 pages, Illustrations: 59 color, 11 b/w, ISBN: 9780520282483, 2015

Offering historical and theoretical positions from a variety of art historians, artists, curators, and writers, this groundbreaking collection is the first substantive sourcebook on abstraction in moving-image media. Editor: Gabrielle Jennings.

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