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Tree News No. 6 ✰ PABF ✰ Sept 20–21, 2025

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Tree News is launching Issue No. 6 at the 2025 Pittsburgh Art Book Fair!

Extreme weather and storms are intensifying while hurricanes are forming faster, starting earlier, lasting longer and becoming less predictable and more dangerous. In April 2025, while in conversation with Issue No. 6 contributor Benjamin Ogrodnik about art pedagogy and Hurricane Helene, a widespread, destructive storm system raced across western and central PA. Described as a “perfect storm of storms,” what began as a small core of thunderstorms intensified as the conditions needed to produce a big storm kept building. Our current moment feels similar. Climate crisis, right-wing authoritarianism, American funded atrocities, “post-truth” propaganda, deregulation, and extreme wealth concentration compound as each season brings yet another “unprecedented” weather event. What future storms – climatic, social, and political – are we seeding?

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Contents:
𝗧𝗿𝗲𝗲𝘀 𝗗𝗼𝘄𝗻: 𝗣𝗵𝗼𝘁𝗼𝗴𝗿𝗮𝗽𝗵𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗣𝗼𝘀𝘁-𝗛𝘂𝗿𝗿𝗶𝗰𝗮𝗻𝗲 𝗟𝗮𝗻𝗱𝘀𝗰𝗮𝗽𝗲, by Benjamin Ogrodnik, Assistant Professor of Art History, Augusta University, GA.
𝗦𝗼𝗺𝗲 𝗪𝗮𝘁𝗲𝗿, a prose-poem by Ed Steck
𝗣𝗶𝘁𝘁𝘀𝗯𝘂𝗿𝗴𝗵 𝗰𝗼𝗺𝗺𝘂𝗻𝗶𝘁𝘆 𝗶𝗺𝗮𝗴𝗲𝘀 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝘁𝗲𝘅𝘁 from the April, 29 2025 storm with additional photography by Alexis Oltmer
𝗜𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗿𝘃𝗶𝗲𝘄 𝘄𝗶𝘁𝗵 𝗠𝗼𝗵𝗮𝗺𝗲𝗱 𝗦𝗹𝗲𝗶𝗺𝗮𝗻 𝗟𝗮𝗯𝗮𝘁 𝘄𝗶𝘁𝗵 𝗜𝗻𝘁𝗿𝗼𝗱𝘂𝗰𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗯𝘆 𝗔𝗻𝗻 𝗛𝗼𝗹𝘁, Assistant Professor of Art Education, Penn State University, PA

Pittsburgh Art Book Fair
September 20–21, 2025
Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, PA

 
 
 

NY Art Book Fair ✰ September 11–14, 2025

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Excited to announce that Tree News will be an exhibitor at Printed Matter’s 2025 NY Art Book Fair! We’ll have the full back catalog, a sneak peek of our next issue, No. 6, and a selection of printed goodies from Tree News contributors and partner ❧ Stop by booth A14 and say hello.

New York Art Book Fair
September 11-14th, 2025
Opening Celebration: Thur, September 11, 7–10pm
MoMA PS1, Queens, New York

 
 

LA Art Book Fair ✰ May 15–18, 2025

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Tree News will be at Printed Matter’s LA Art Book Fair! Recent issues will be featured in OFF THE RECORD, an exhibition of zines and artist books organized by Departure Lounge (Los Angeles).

LA Art Book Fair: Off the Record
Curated by Jamison Edgar and Matthew McGaughey, the exhibition features artists working across the United States who explore our entangled sociopolitical relationships with more-than-human subjects. These artists use creative publishing as a foil to traditional cultural criticism, advancing their own forms of grassroots journalism.

Presenting Artists:
Tree News (Paper Buck, Erin Mallea), Marianne Hoffmeistter Castro, Matthew Lax, Sean Seu.

Los Angeles Art Book Fair
May 15-18th, 2025
ArtCenter College of Design, Pasadena, CA

 

Above: Re-printing and assembling the full Tree News back catalog. Issues 1-5 will be available at the LA Art Book Fair.

 

Condition Report at Tomayko Foundation ❉ March 14–April 18, 2025

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My work Condition Report, installed as part of every speck of dust illuminated at the Tomayko Foundation (Pittsburgh, PA) in partnership with Associated Artists of Pittsburgh and april april. March 14–April 18, 2025. Images by: Chris Uhren

Read the exhibition review in Petrichor.

Erin Mallea, Condition Report, 2024–ongoing
Aluminum and bronze slag, thrift store jewelry chain, glass and plastic beads, fishing sinkers, pennies, nurdles and polyurethane foam from the Ohio River, and spotted lantern flies coated in beeswax, resin, nail polish and sugar.

 

every speck of dust illuminated ✰ March 14, 2025

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A new iteration of Condition Report will be on view as part of every speck of dust illuminated opening March 14, 2025 at the Tomayko Foundation juried by Patrick Bova & Lucas Regazzi of april april.

every speck of dust illuminated
March 14 – April 18, 2025

Alexandra Lakin
Karen Lue
Erin Mallea
Joseph Ryznar
Shori Sims

every speck of dust illuminated presents a tableau of the everyday. Inspired by Richard Siken’s poem “Visible World,” the exhibition sketches a feeling around quotidian notions of quietude, the banal, dreaming, and interiority (Siken, 2005). Assembled here is the work of five artists with ties to Allegheny County, each of whom have distinct material approaches to observing these notions and the memories inflected therein.

 

Uprooted: Plants Out of Place ✰ March 22, 2025

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Issues of Tree News will be featured in Uprooted: Plants Out of Place, opening March 22, 2025 at the Carnegie Museum of Natural History. The exhibition explores humans’ role in the history and future of invasive plants.

Read more about Plants Out of Place in the New York Times!

Tree News No. 3, Summer 2022

 

Machina Ex Natura ✰ Feb 20–March 31, 2025

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An iteration of my installation, Permissible Dose, and my short film Obscuring Power, will be on view as part of Machina Ex Natura at Kentucky College of Art + Design’s 849 Gallery from February 20–March 31, 2025. Thanks to Robert Zacharias for technical assistance.

 

Installation at (___) Residency ✰ May 2024

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Condition Report, detail, work in progress, 2024. Aluminum and bronze slag, thrift store jewelry chain, and beads, polyfoam "stones" and spotted lanternflies coated in beeswax, nail polish, resin, and sugar. Photo: Sean Carrol

Installation images from Condition Report, a residency exhibition at (___), aka Blankspace in Pittsburgh, PA during the month of May 2024.

(___) invites artists to creatively engage vacant spaces within a house undergoing slow renovation. (___) and its primary steward, artist Joey Behrens, offer the space as a resource and invitation to engage in experimental, playful, and generative acts of co-creation.

Photos: Sean Carrol