Featherproof Summer Release Party
@ Rainbo Club
1150 N Damen Ave, Chicago, IL 60622
Opening Sunday, August 7th, at 7:30 PM
Join us in celebrating the release of our two summer titles, THE INBORN ABSOLUTE: THE ART OF ROBERT RYAN and THE TENNESSEE HIGHWAY DEATH CHANT with music, readings, and drinks.
Readings by Keegan Jennings Goodman and Devin King
Solo drone set by Robert Ryan
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+ THE INBORN ABSOLUTE:
Coming in at just under 160 pages, this cloth hardcover book contains over 70 pages of full-color paintings; 30 pages pulled from his sketchbooks; and essays and interviews with art and music luminaries Genesis P Orridge, Freddy Corbin, and Andrew Berardini—all discussing the esoteric origins and subject matter of Ryan’s incomparable body of work. With early roots as a musician and painter, Robert Ryan’s work reveals a deep mastery of the American tattooing tradition while creating a mystical and fantastic world full of unique takes on Eastern religious iconography.
+ ROBERT RYAN lives in Asbury Park, New Jersey, where he has been painting and tattooing for twenty years. Ryan’s work has been featured in many galleries, schools, and publications worldwide. As a musician, he has released albums with the bands Lord Sterling, Out Like Lambs, and Harmonize Most High, as well as his solo effort American Cloud Songs.
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+ THE TENNESSEE HIGHWAY DEATH CHANT:
In a purgatory at the banks of the Hiwassee River in southeastern Tennessee, two teenagers, the garrulous John Stone and the young Jenny Evenene, barrel through an endless night in a Firebird Trans Am. As Jenny wakes each morning, the same morning, and chronicles the events of her final day, her mind reaches back into the recesses of time, collecting a mythical past that bleeds into the details of her violent end. John drinks beer and philosophizes about the nature of reality and consciousness. The two heroes drive through the night, drinking cold American beer and listening to the country music station, hurling themselves into the darkness beyond the headlights.
+ KEEGAN JENNINGS GOODMAN grew up in the Ozark Mountains, went to college in New York, then art school in Chicago, and now lives in Toronto, where he is working on a dissertation about the French philosopher Georges Bataille.
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++ DEVIN KING co-directs Sector 2337 and is the poetry editor for the Green Lantern Press.
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