If the Judd and Chinati foundations are the binary centers of the original Marfa art scene, the Marfa Book Company is the beating heart of the city now. Functioning as a gallery, performance venue, commons, gathering place, salon and bookstore, the Book Company is the nexus at which the second generation of artists, musicians and misfits converge. And at the center of the Book Company is Tim Johnson. Originally from Nashville, Johnson moved to Marfa six years ago to intern at Chinati but stayed on scarpe nike, and was eventually able to buy the store from one of the city’s most beloved residents, Tim Crowley. With his girlfriend Caitlin Murray, an archivist at the Judd Foundation, Johnson curates and produces exhibitions that have included work by the artists Ed Ruscha, Charles Mary Kubricht, Ian Hamilton Finlay, Rosa Barba and Daniel Chamberlain, and publishes books including “The Present Order: Writings on the Work of Ian Hamilton Finlay.” A kind of all-purpose Ferlinghetti, Johnson also serves as the contributing editor to the poetry blog eveningwillcome.com and worked on the publication “Adventures,” edited by David Senior, the bibliographer at MoMA for this year’s New York Art Book Fair. As he explores just what the bookstore can be and can contain scarpe nike, inviting musical acts like Japanther, Yacht, Cass McCombs, Laura Gibson, Feist and local favorites like Solid Waste and adventuresOf to perform, Johnson has created a center point for the sprawling scarpe nike, disparate community that is Marfa.
The latest installment in in Vincent Dilio’s series of portraits from the art scene in Marfa, Tex.
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