Roger Omar (editor), 6dreams, #48 (2024) and #52 (2024), Valencia, Spain

Another two publications in Roger Omar's longstanding and wonderful project of pairing children's accounts of their dreams with an international coterie of illustrators who then bring their stories to life. Both sides are designed by the artist with the back side printing the dreams in both English and Spanish. A quick search of this blog will reveal quite a number of other accordions in the 6dreams series that Omar started in 2002.

Katone Utsunomiya, #52: Girl Why Do You Let Them Eat Your Brain?, dreams from Oaxacan children from 2016, 6dreams, Valencia, 2024

reverse side

10 double-sided pages, individually 8.25" x 8", and unfolded 5ft 4inches.

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Katya Vatel, #48: Padre Father, dreams from Spanish children 2022, 

6dreams, Valencia, 2024

reverse side

10 double-sided pages, individually 8.25" x 8", and unfolded 

5ft 4inches.

Stephen Perkins, New Works: #168-187, Madison, 2025

All works: 6 pages single-sided, individual pages 5" x 5" and unfolded with covers 3ft 4" 

Barry McGee, I'm Listening, Perrotin, Paris, France, 2025

Front and back covers with slipcase

This is a really fun accordion that accompanied McGee's second exhibition at Perrotin in April of this year. McGee is a San Francisco based artist and a member of the Mission School, a group of artists who emerged in the 1980s and the 1990s in the Bay Area. The movement was characterized as a 'lowbrow art movement' with its members developing hybrid practices that rolled together fugitive urban imagery recycled through the aesthetics of graffiti and mural art, with a strong dose of comics and graphic imagery. McGee's work in particular and his exhibition installations, bring together varied types of works in dynamic configurations that push the boundaries of both the strictures of exhibitions as well as the boundaries of the gallery. 

McGee's different styles of work are ideally suited to the accordion format and this work positively hums with visual excitement.

For installation documentation of this show see:

perrotin.com/artists/barry_mcgee/774/view-of-the-exhibition-im-listening-galerie-emmanuel-perrotin-paris-france-2025/10000048461

14 double-sided pages, individually 4.5" x 6.75, and total width including covers 6 feet.

reverse side

Stephen Perkins, Works in Progress, Madison, 2025

  

   

Stephen Perkins, Madison Arts Commission, West Gilman Street, Madison

The Madison Arts Commission has enlarged some pages from one of my accordions and installed them in the window frames at the back of the Porta Bella Italian restaurant on West Gilman Street in downtown Madison....they did a great job and it just goes to show that you never know where your works will end up!!

below is the original work