Only at SFABF

We are so proud to debut Soliana Habte’s book, Save Your Selves this Thursday at the San Francisco Art Book Fair!

It is a beautiful case bound, 118 pages of commentary, color, photography, poetry, identity and healing.

 
 

sol1ana creates richly textured self-portraits, sculptures, films, paintings and collaborative group exercises to activate ancestral, futuristic patterns of freedom and conjure Afro-presence

they learned how to paint on rocks and socks in the backyard as a child in Kingston, observing how colors go together and the way air can smell and feel

a Black, Ethiopian, American, Afro Futurisitic, Queer, Non Conforming alien being, sol1ana is not subtle but they are at home on earth

they would like the right to exist peacefully, but recognizes that their existence is inherently extractive 

this is their first book

Through The Void

 

✨New zine alert!✨

This zine contains scans, transcriptions, and documentations of the journal the author kept throughout their antidepressant treatment at a ketamine center in Brooklyn. Their hope is that you use these pages as your own form of therapy. Write reflections, diagram your thoughts, doodle, collage. Tape, glue, post it, sticker all over it. Make it your own. And next time you're in your own void, maybe this can help you through.

Jezz believes that personal transformation is a practice of collective change.

Based in New York City, they explore the intersections of self care and community care through their writing, performing, speaking, and facilitating.

You can learn more about them at jezzchung.com and @jezzchung across social media.

Through The Void is now available in our WEBSTORE

 

Relevant Poetry Reading

The reading was really sweet… Thanks so much to all who read, and attended.
Also, here is the recording for those who couldn’t make it!

 

ft. Kelley Tom, Noor Brody, Leena Joshi, Vanessa Norton, Ocean Escalanti, Jared Mitchell and Mek Zou

 

Siya

Sweet zine about discovering the term NON-BINARY, and growing up a queer and Filipino!

Find more from Jenica here

“I can’t be your girlfriend because I’m not a girl.”

So Excited! Zine Tent!

 
 

San Francisco Art Book Fair
1275 Minnesota Street
July 14 – 17, 2022

Public Hours:
Preview: Thursday, July 14: 6pm – 10pm
Friday, July 15: 11am – 6pm
Saturday, July 16: 11am – 6pm
Sunday, July 17: 11am – 5pm

San Francisco, CA. June 2022 - This July marks the much-anticipated return of the San Francisco Art Book Fair (SFABF) at Minnesota Street Project (the Project) after a two-year pandemic break. The SFABF will debut Thursday, July 14 with a special preview from 6pm to 10pm and continue Friday, July 15 through Sunday, July 17. All four days are free and open to the public. Launched in 2016 as a joint collaboration between Colpa Press, Minnesota Street Project, and Park Life, the fair’s popularity has grown steadily over the past six years. As of 2019, the SFABF had welcomed more than 50,000 visitors from the Bay Area and beyond. This year the fair continues to expand its horizons, offering more programming at three different on-site venues, new exhibitors, and exciting fundraising editions from world-renowned artists.

The mission of the SFABF is to foster the unique and diverse art publishing community of the Bay Area while providing a platform for national and international publishers to exhibit their work to new audiences. The four-day annual event features a unique selection of artists’ books, art catalogs, monographs, periodicals, zines, printed ephemera, and artists' multiples. These items are presented by over 130 publishers, antiquarian dealers, artists, and galleries from the Bay Area and around the world.

This year the SFABF will feature an outdoor Zine Tent, located behind the Project on Tennessee St., that will host 38 publishers whose practices are dedicated to accessible and inventive forms of bookmaking.

 

Can you believe? This is going to be our first year ever tabling SFABF, one of our all-time favorites. Catch ya in the zine tent July 14-17! #SFABF2022

Opening Night

What a blast! Enormous thank you to everyone who came through Irrelevant Press & Friends opening. On view every Saturday (1-5pm) this month, or feel free to email us for a private walk-through appointment during the week.

Congrats to all the featured artist, you made this happen!!

Here’s a few photos from the opening night!

“outside @irrelevantpress takeover at @aggregatespace. struck by how friendly this art is - art spun and lifted by friendship. the power, river changing course power, of just two sentences: “you are an artist. you are my friend.” friendly not as a synonym for outgoing or extroverted, but as a synonym for counterintuitive, disadvantageous, fair.”
— Liam Curley

📣 SPECIAL ANNOUNCEMENT 📣

Hi everyone!!
We can finally give you the details of our first ever gallery show,
at Aggregate Space Gallery in Oakland!
Here is all the info below, and really hope you can make it.
The opening is going to be really fun, and is coming up quick, June 3rd 6-8pm!

This is their new location so please share far and wide! Thank you!!