I’ve got some good news and I’ve got some bad news.
The bad news is Cold Cube Press, a genre-busting risograph outfit run by Aidan Fitzgerald and Michael Heck, is ditching the gallery space in the Tashiro Kaplan Building and moving into a smaller studio in Pioneer Square. It will continue on as a company, but they won’t be throwing awesome/awkward parties fueled by coolers of Rainier on First Thursdays anymore. They want to focus on publishing books and creating their own personal work. Now that Mount Analogue, Cold Cube, and Gramma Press are out of the X Y Z galleries, that whole scene is spaceless.
The good news is they’re throwing a closing party at the space (300 S Washington St) on Saturday, May 25, during which they will release a new anthology of work, Cold Cube 05. The annual collection will feature 17 artists from around the country and around the world. More than half of the artists showcased in this edition live outside the United States.
