the flomm zine in a gallery show you’ll prolly never see

“You kno, if we have an open­ing, I’m not go­ing to ac­tu­al­ly show up. I’m di­a­bet­ic – and to­tal­ly pisssy about peo­ple near me not wear­ing masks.”
—me, cou­ple weeks back

 

Like all things FLOMM, this sort of hap­pened: We have an ex­hi­bi­tion up RIGHT NOW, TO-DAY at Axis Gallery in Sacra­men­to.

Be­cause DADA. Be­cause MAG­A­ZINES. Be­cause it’s #in­ter­na­tion­alzinemonth

F
RICT
iON
is a phys­i­cal show­ing of se­lect­ed spreads from FlomZINEm Nº1 –

along with some ag­gres­sive ‘po­lit­i­cal and so­ci­etal’ works by Ja­cob Lewis

WITH
Mur­ray Bowles: Six­teen Frames in the main gallery, cu­rat­ed by Luke Turn­er and Justin Marsh

Ad­di­tion­al­ly, Bill Mead has vi­su­als and au­dio (it bro­ken rn) from our short-lived 423ZERø in­ter­ac­tive site on a screen, in mo­tion with all the typey things.

THAT’S THREE shows you’ll pro­l­ly nev­er see!

THO —
by Ap­point­ment IS an op­tion, de­pend­ing on sev­er­al fac­tors. Head to the AXIS web­site for info on all that.

 

Our open­ing was go­ing to be TONIGHT – Sat­ur­day 11 July 2020 – but shit, wat are the ’rona num­bers to­day?

SO we hung the show any­way – with the help and sup­port of Shehreen Hu­sain and Omar Ara­son – we were all hosed down be­fore­hand and wear­ing masks:

 

Annnd … here’s some snaps.

 

 

Thanks again to all our con­trib­u­tors and wall measurers/nail pounders and the nü flom­mists we are al­ways meet­ing every­where and all of the time al­ways ever.

F RICT iON  clos­es 30 Au­gust 2020

 

up­date 1 au­gust 2020
Ad­di­tion­al fo­tos from the show + video of the now-dor­mant 423ZERØ web­site are post­ed on our tum­blr art blog.

 

—steve mehal­lo

Flom­mist Steve Mehal­lo is a graph­ic de­sign­er, il­lus­tra­tor, font de­sign­er, ed­u­ca­tor, food­ie and gad­fly. He is the cre­ator and founder of FLOMM! Ad­di­tion­al fo­tos by Milk, video edit­ed by Bill.

 

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