Publication Studio, Folsom & 20th St. | BAY AREA NOW 7 (BAN7)

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Visiting BAN7 exhibition partner organization, Publication Studio, and Ian Dolton-Thornton in San Francisco.

Publication Studio is a dispersed publishing project united by a shared name and production process. Each studio independently edits and publishes books, which are then uploaded to a book cloud available in common to all Publication Studios. We print and bind books one at a time on-demand, creating original work with artists and writers we admire. This model allows an increased freedom in our choice of projects. We use a variety of means to help writers and artists reach readers and viewers: physical books; a digital commons (where anyone can read and annotate our books for free); eBooks; and unique social events with our writers and artists in many cities. We attend to the social life of the book. The Bay Area branch of Publication Studio was founded by Colter Jacobsen. In 2012, Ian Dolton-Thornton began working as the primary publisher. In the Bay Area, Publication Studio has participated in projects at the Berkeley Art Museum, Pacific Film Archive, and SF Camerawork, as well as publishing many Bay Area authors and artists.



Through the work of artists who capture the spirit of "now," YBCA's signature triennial, Bay Area Now, brings to life current perspectives for both this art center and the regional art scene. In its seventh edition, BAN7 is experimenting with a new approach to curating that highlights collaborations with our region's artists and arts organizations and pushes beyond presentation toward a multidisciplinary celebration of the diversity of artistic practices in the Bay Area.

BAN7's core idea is to decentralize the curatorial process, and centralize the public presentation of some of the most exciting artistic voices in the region today.

As a common shared site for the presentation of works, BAN7 aims to create a lucid web of creative activity in the Bay Area. Our vision to create a platform for new work and experimentation is rooted in the belief that a decentralized curatorial process will open up an opportunity for a wider range of voices and create spaces for dialogue beyond the arts.

The visual arts component of Bay Area Now 7 has been reconceived through an open and rigorous selection process. By inviting noncommercial, small- to mid-size regional visual arts organizations to curate site-specific projects with Bay Area artists in YBCA's galleries, we are making visible the rich complexity of our many arts communities. Using an art fair style format in which the selected participants curate projects for specific locations throughout an exhibition space, BAN7 celebrates visual arts organizations as vital players in the local arts ecology. The exhibition aims to foster increased appreciation for Bay Area art, artists, and organizers, and to promote a greater understanding of the vast range of practices and individual visions that make the Bay Area such a vibrant center for contemporary art.