Cheng, Perez, + Calimlim

JANUARY ARTIST SHOWCASE AND OPENING RECEPTION co-presented by Omnidawn Publishing

Arc Gallery & Studios
1246 Folsom St. (btw 8th and 9th)
Thursday, January 19th, 2017 8-10pm
Early Bird $8 | Pre-sale $10 | Door $12| Season Pass (includes Celebrate Your Body and APAture 2017) $50 — bit.ly/kswpresents01

Kearny Street Workshop teams up with Omnidawn Publishing to present the book releases for Jennifer S. Cheng’s “House A” and Robert Andrew Perez’s “the field”.

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KSW’s Office Gallery re-launches! Focusing on early artists looking to mount their first solo exhibition, we are proud to present a new exhibition by Francis Calimlim.

bios:

Jennifer S. Cheng writes in the intersecting space of poetry and essay. Her book HOUSE A explores immigrant home-building and was selected by Claudia Rankine as winner of the Omnidawn Poetry Book Prize, and she is also the author of Invocation: An Essay (New Michigan Press), an image-text chapbook. www.jenniferscheng.com

Robert Andrew Perez lives in Berkeley and is an associate editor & book designer for speCt! in Oakland, where he also curates readings. He is an alum of the Lambda Literary fellowship & a recipient of the Lannan Literary Award for poetry. His poetry has appeared in print & online in publications such as DIAGRAM, The Awl, The Laurel Review & The Cortland Review, and has forthcoming work in Vinyl. His first collection, the field, was published with Omnidawn in their pocket book series. He is currently writing a movie about a divorce and wine tasting; it’s a comedy. More at robertandrewperez.com.

Francis Calimlim was born in Quezon City, Philippines and was raised in San Diego, California. He has participated in a number of group shows in San Diego, Los Angeles, and San Francisco. He received his BFA in Multimedia at San Diego State University in 2011, and his MFA at the San Francisco Art Institute. http://www.franciscalimlimart.com/

Omnidawn Publishing was founded by wife and husband team Rusty Morrison and Ken Keegan to create books that are most closely aligned with each author’s vision, and to provide an interactive and rewarding publishing experience for poets and writers. They encourage authors to participate at every point in the decision making process of book design and book production, and thus far all have taken an active part, deciding on or providing cover art and assisting in the design of the interior of the books. Omnidawn has been publishing poetry since 2001, with Fabulist and New Fabulist Fiction added in 2006.