Alex Fuller

Slideshow Talk & Book Launch Party

Saturday, May 11 at 7:30PM

Drinks courtesy of Ninkasi Brewing Co. 

Chicago-based designer Alex Fuller is one of seven partners in the studio/gallery/blog called The Post Family, Design Director at the Leo Burnett Dept. of Design & co-founder of 5x7 publishing. His latest publication through 5x7 is Two Letter Words, a limited edition book which “…explores the combination of abstracted geometric letterforms & the resulting words & marks they create.” To celebrate its release, Ampersand will host a book launch party on May 11. No mere excuse to drink Ninkasi beer, Fuller will also be presenting a slideshow discussion about his design work, self-initiated projects like 5x7 & the trials & exaltations of producing small press publications.

You can pre-order signed copies of Two Letter Words on website here.

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05.05.2013

The Incredible Journey that is Consciousness by Alex Fuller & Gabe Usadel

“Squares, circles and triangles are at the core of what makes the industrial world around us. A universal visual language apparent in all things—the tools we use, the fashion we wear, the buildings we live in and the communications we read.”

Alex Fuller, designer & publisher of 5x7 Books, will be joining Ampersand on May 11, 2013 to present an artist talk & sign copies of his books, including a new title to be released that night. Mark your calendars.

In the meantime, you can order The Incredible Journey … & other 5x7 publications from our website here: http://bit.ly/Y25w7J

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03.19.2013

Artist Talk & Book Signing Tonight at Ampersand

Join us tonight at 7:30PM for an evening with photographer Neil Krug & model Joni Harbeck. We’ll be celebrating the release of their new book, Pulp Art Book: Volume Two, which you can order here.

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12.15.2012

We’ll be selling an assortment of photography & design books, vintage photos & antique prints at the Publication Fair this Sunday, December 16 from noon to 6PM. It’s at the Ace Cleaners, so come early & grab a coffee at Stumptown, or come late & join us for a drink afterward at Clyde Common.

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12.13.2012

Pulp Art Book | Artist Talk & Book Signing

Neil Krug & his wife Joni Harbeck will be at Ampersand this Saturday, December 15 to celebrate the release of Pulp Art Book: Volume Two, which was just published by Portland’s Nazraeli Press. Starting at 7:30PM, the couple will present a slideshow & discuss the project. A book signing & revelry follows, with drinks provided by Ninkasi Brewing Co.

You can pre-order a signed copy of the book on our website here.

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12.10.2012

Ampersand will be selling books, vintage photos, antique prints & ephemera at the Portland Bazaar. Last year’s event was amazing & I’m guessing this year will be even better. With so many great vendors under one roof, this really is an opportunity for one-stop Xmas shopping. 

Hope to see you there!

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12.07.2012

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12.02.2012

Please join Ampersand this coming Saturday at 7:30 PM for an artist talk & book signing with photographer Lucas Foglia. He’ll be discussing his ongoing photographic essay & series of interviews titled A Natural Order, which was published to wide acclaim earlier this year by Portland-based publisher Nazraeli Press. Photographs from the series have been widely exhibited, including shows at Gallery 339 in Philadelphia, RISD Museum in Rhode Island, Pier 24 in San Francisco & an upcoming solo exhibition at Michael Hoppen Contemporary in London. The book has also been selected as a finalist for the Paris Photo-Aperture Foundation Photobook Awards & will be on display at Paris Photo in November.

A Q&A will follow Foglia’s talk & copies of A Natural Order will be available for purchase & signing. Drinks will be provided by Ninkasi Brewing Co.

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10.31.2012

Seattle Antiquarian Book Fair

If you are in Seattle stop in Saturday or Sunday & check out our booth at the Seattle Antiquarian Book Fair. Booth #302 … Seattle Center - 300 Mercer Street.

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10.13.2012

Outdoor Reading this Friday at Ampersand

Free Outdoor reading at Ampersand. This Friday, July 27 at 7pm.

Drinks courtesy of Ninkasi Brewing Co.

We’re once again teaming up with Kevin Sampsell of Future Tense Books for an outdoor reading on our back patio with Justin Maurer & Lindsey Kugler. Maurer will be reading from his new title, Seventeen Television, which was published by Vol. 1 Brooklyn.  He is also the frontman for The Clorox Girls & will be playing a show in Portland later that night. Kugler will be reading from her limited edition book titled Here, published through the writing program at Portland’s IPRC.

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06.24.2012

Christopher Gianunzio at Ampersand - Tues., June 12 at 7:30PM

Click here to order a signed copy of Gianunzio’s latest publication, Speaking of Names, which he produced with Jenny Tondera.

Join Ampersand next Tuesday, June 12 at 7:30PM for a talk by artist, book maker & curator, Christopher Gianunzio. We’ll be serving drinks courtesy of Ninkasi Brewing Co. & a book signing will follow the talk.

Gianunzio will be speaking about his current publishing endeavors & the recent exhibition he organized at the Philadelphia Photo Arts Center entitled Of the Ordinary. All of these projects mine the photographic archive as source material, expanding the already ubiquitous nature of contemporary photographic thinking.

Gianunzio is an artist & curator based in Philadelphia. He has exhibited nationally & internationally, most recently at Le Garage Arles, France, Little Big Press 2nd Edition at FotoGraphia Rome, the International Fotobook Festival in Kassel Germany, Chelsea Art Museum, Skulpturenpark in Berlin, Germany & also at NYCAMS gallery in New York City, the University of Georgia & Rochester Contemporary Art Center. In 2011, he was commissioned to produce a text for the Brighton Photo Fringe under the direction of Charlotte Cotton.

He is currently the Assistant Director at the Philadelphia Photo Arts Center where he has organized exhibitions including the work of Adam Broomberg & Oliver Chanarin, Alyse Emdur, La Toya Ruby Frazier, Luis Gispert, Beate Gütschow, Greg Halpern, Ron Jude, Christian Patterson,Taryn Simon, Chad States,  Mark Steinmetz & Ofer Wolberger.

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06.05.2012

Event at Ampersand this Friday at 7:30PM

Ampersand is pleased to host an evening with photographers Amy Elkins, Eirik Johnson & Daylight Magazine Editor & photographer, Michael Itkoff. They will discuss Daylight’s recent publication titled Photographs Not Taken, to which Elkins & Johnson contributed essays. A question & answer & book signing will follow.

Drinks courtesy of Ninkasi Brewing Co.

Friday, May 11 at 7:30PM

Amy Elkins is a Portland based photographer whose work is represented by Yancey Richardson Gallery in New York. Her work has been shown widley, most recently in a show with Jen Davis titled looking & looking at Light Work Gallery in Syracuse, New York.

Eirik Johnson is a Seattle based photographer whose monograph, Sawdust Mountain, was published by Aperture in 2009. His current show at Gail Gibson Gallery in Seattle features work from his series on Mushroom Camps & Barrow Alaska Cabins. If you are in Seattle on May 19, he will be speaking at G. Gibson Gallery about the exhibition.

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05.08.202

Artist Talk & Book Signing this Saturday, April 21

Nick Haymes & Gabe Nevins

This Saturday, April 21, 7:30PM at Ampersand

Drinks courtesy of Ninkasi Brewing Co.

Ampersand is pleased to present an artist talk & book signing by San Francisco based photographer, Nick Haymes. Gabe Nevins, the subject of Haymes’ recently published book, GABE, will also be present. Nevins played the lead role in Gus Van Sant’s 2007 film set here in Portland titled Paranoid Park, the departure point for a body of work that graphically records Nevin’s drug use, emotional breakdown & progression into homelessness that followed his momentary brush with movie stardom. Nick Haymes is also involved with Little Big Man, an independent publishing house that specializes in small edition, experimental photography books, of which he’ll speak more about the night of the event.

Read interviews with Nick about the project & book here & here.

You can pre-order signed copies here.

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04.17.2012

Upcoming event at Ampersand:

Vernacular Photography: collecting, publishing, curating & communication

Saturday, February 11 at 7:30PM

We are pleased to have Tyler Whisnand stopping by to talk about found photography, collecting & publishing. Whisnand, now a creative director at Wieden+Kennedy here in Portland, is a former partner with KesselsKramer, Amsterdam. There he contributed to several of their publications featuring found photos, several of which we will be selling. Whisnand will be talking about the motivation to collect & ultimately publish found images & how seemingly useless & banal photos in fact play an intricate role in the way we communicate.

Check out all the KesselsKramer publications here.

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01.25.2012