the interaction of yellow: our 423 lineup

“Be­ing a FLOM­MIST means learn­ing my emer­sion. It’s say­ing yes to art forms that you haven’t mas­tered yet … And we’re all vol­un­teer­ing to make this happen.”
—Louis Her­nan­dez, from the pro­mo for the first FLOMM 423 event, 2016
 

le TRIP­TIQUE de FLOMM PART ONE:
423 YEL­LOW

NEXT WEEK.
MON­DAY NIGHT 23 APRIL 2018.
STARTS AT 6.
AT MYR­TLE PRESS in SACRAMENTO.

A SMOLLER VER­SION of OUR PAST 423 EVENTS.
IN YEL­LOW.
Be­cause IT­TEN. Be­cause AL­BERS.

AND 423 YEL­LOW is FREE this year.

THEN RED will hap­pen in JUNE.
AND BLUE in SEPTEMBERish.

SHOW UP and jump in. We have a bunch of things planned:
 

1.   PRINT­ING
hands on LET­TER­PRESS, MONO­PRINT­ING + MOR
Ex­plore the craft of print­mak­ing at MYR­TLE PRESS. Vol­un­teers will be on hand to get inky and make. In ad­di­tion to DIX­IE LAWS and the Myr­tle Press ex­perts, flom­mist CLAU­DIA OR­TIZ will be do­ing prints from LYN­D­SIE ROSS and ETHAN CAMERON’s per­son­al col­lec­tion of vin­tage WOOD­TYPE and CUTS on clas­sic pa­per do­nat­ed by Sacramento’s own MIN­UTE­MAN PRESS. GO OR­DER print­ing from MIN­UTE­MAN, they’re excellent!

Print art, ready to hang once dry!
 

2.   MAKE ART
live PAINT­ING and ILLUSTRATION
Join flom­mists LEE CANAS, CAR­LO CYPHERS, MATT ROP­ER, MILK SUR­FACE, LAU­RA HOHLWEIN and (of course) AL­LEY SCHEF­F­KI for live art demon­stra­tions AND pick up some pens, pas­tels, paints (+ pix­els) AND join in. Learn a bit about tech­nique or just a lack of tech­nique. See wat marks can be made, just don’t say ‘I can’t draw.’ You’d be sur­prised wat’s pos­si­ble in a FLOMMED atmosphere!

Make art, be art, take home art!
 

3.   WHY YOU USE YELLOW
an overview of YEL­LOW IN ART
Fa­mous – tho elu­sive – Dutch Artist MONDAIN has re­paired his rift with FLOMM and will be on hand to talk about the colour YEL­LOW and why he some­times, but not of­ten­times, uses it in his art. We’re hop­ing he’ll bring ex­am­ples of his lat­est pieces, since he hasn’t shown us any­thing for at least 10 years. He also has a rant in­volv­ing tele­vi­sion in­stead of streaming.
 

4.   EN­TER­TAIN­MENT
live en­ter­tain­ment, MÚSIK, PO­ET­RY, PER­FOR­MANCE ART
Flom­mist BWARGH VON MOD­NAR will again be live – backed by ED­DIE, ROSE & THE FOR­EIGN LO­CALS – and join­ing us this year will be Sacramento’s own guer­ril­la poet lau­re­ate AN­DRU DE­F­EYE. Tunes will be spun by KAY­LA LE MAS­TERS a.k.a. LADY FRIGHT.
 

5.   EAT ART
food IS ART, art IS FOOD
We will have TAM­MY of FATSO’S FA­MOUS ’NANA PUD­DING on hand with pud­ding cups for sale;
AND
FRESH­ER SACRA­MEN­TO just came thru with some baked goods. If you’re lo­cal and haven’t sam­pled FRESH­ER yet, dooo ittt. (I eat them every week);
THIS IS,
in ad­di­tion to a spread only FLOMM could do – which will in­clude sweet, sa­vory and sublime. 

To keep you fu­eled while making. 
 

PLUS
WA­T­EV­ER ELSE
we can think of be­tween now and 6 p.m. on 23 April 2018.
 

423 YEL­LOW is or­ga­nized by (me) STEVE MEHAL­LO with CLIFF ALLEN, BILL MEAD, AL­LEY SCHEF­F­KI, MILK SUR­FACE, DIX­IE LAWS, KAY­LA LE MAS­TERS, LEE CANAS, RE­NEE THOMP­SON, LOUIS HER­NAN­DEZ, CHRIS­TINE ZUL­LO, MON­I­CA ODEH, ALEX TROY­AN, and JES DE­PREZ.

ALSO, I’ll have a long list of ac­knowl­edge­ments for the oth­er flom­mists who’ve helped bake the books, mix the colours and get donations.

JOIN US
THRU the se­cret back door at 625 S Street (en­ter on the al­ley be­tween 6th and 7th streets) [zee map] –
here AGAIN is THE IN­VITE.

The MAG­IC that is a 423 event only hap­pens one night at a time. Hope you can make it!
 
 

—steve mehal­lo

Flom­mist Steve Mehal­lo is a graph­ic de­sign­er, il­lus­tra­tor, font de­sign­er, ed­u­ca­tor, food­ie and gad­fly. He is the cre­ator and founder of FLOMM! Im­ages are from mul­ti­ple sources re­lat­ed to the 423 par­tic­i­pants. Sor­ta. Mondain sent us the yel­low piece and we’re pret­ty sure it’s not his, but is one of the colour squares made fa­mous by Josef Al­bers. Line­up sub­ject to last minute change, ILL­NESS or cancellation.

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