Wanderers Release

The “Wanderers” a Phalanstery fan zine, a community project that spans the ages. It is a photographic journal that follows the evolution of the Phalanstery as an art involved project dedicated to the preservation of our planet.   

Richard Tyler, founder of the Phalanstery, proclaimed it a demilitarized zone, DMZ, and ecological garden.   Both he and cofounder/wife Dorothea believed that all material, especially the living, and mineral rich, deserves to be respected, honored and cared for as properly as possible. 

In this publication, the third generation of the Phalanstery is introduced.  The story begins as they start to look for answers to the challenges that face them.  Works of art from the Phalanstery archive, past and present, are part of the story and included in the panorama of journeying.  

This is the first of the series, the next follows them over the Atlantic, to the Pembroke coast of Wales, with a visit to Lammas Eco Village.  Coming Autumn 2021 

This book is Limited Edition, only 52 Copies printed

cover art: YoYo Friedrich

Panoramic photo: Armand David Matin

Art books close down St. Mark's

This Saturday, June 12th, 2021, 8Ball Radio and Printed Matter host about 50 independent art book publishers for a street fair on St. Mark’s. The block will be pedestrian only, and vendors will be displaying and selling work.

We will be present, representing the Phalanstery and the Uranian Press along side other grass roots organizations. At the fair we will unveil new work, art and limited edition publications.

Please Join us, as we welcome this wave of creativity and sharing.

Dorothea Baer Tyler prints, New Year's offering

We are celebrating the beginning of the year with our own unprecedented releases.  Five fine art prints, of which three are lithographs and two woodcuts, by Dorothea Baer Tyler. 

This is a rare and unique opportunity to include DBT in your art collection. Posthumously she is being recognized for her accomplishments in the arts and is starting to show work globally in prestigious environments.  During her life, though she lived in NY city and participated heavily in the arts, she was not a “career” artist.  She sought to hold and maintain her art collection and was also an ardent collector and supporter of other artist.  She was severely introspective, and for most of her latter life reclusive. She did not seek to promote her work as much as use art and expression to directly communicate with the living.  

Dorothea’s work opens a window into mythologies. She, as art priestess, motions to reveal instances by which the mysterious makes itself known for the length of time it takes for a single breath, maybe less.  Her work feels simplified, finely composed, reaching towards the sublime. 

We, at the Hamilton Heights Phalanstery, Wish you the Best for 2021!


The 5th Tattoo Gazette, Clayton and the Tattoo Society of New York

The Tattoo Gazette #5 gathers Clayton’s scrap book of Tattoo articles and pictures referencing the existential life and history of the Tattoo Society of New York. The TSNY was a club Clayton helped guide for a few decades, however with the advent of legal tattooing the need for a such a  community fragmented into a culture at large.  Richard Tyler’s perspective is amongst the many surprises adorning the pages of this limited edition.  This art book opens a portal to the early emergence of tattooing as it collided with the fine art world in New York. Many of the forgotten artists who bravely carried the culture of tattooing into new and complex conjectures are noted in this publication. 

A few years ago, I received an odd call. The voice on the other side wanted to know what had happened to the Phalanstery. With the Phalanstery’s founding Mother and Father, Richard and Dorothea Tyler having passed from this realm, there must have been people who were familiar with the Organization waiting to see what the continuity of the Phalanstery would be. The voice on the other side of the phone was of Lower East Side resident, artist and community activist Clayton Patterson. I have since had many conversations with Clayton and have grown to respect the wild manner in which his attention gravitates to underground culture, especially as it emanates out of the LES.   

There is a community emerging from the LES which Clayton and all of us at the Phalanstery come into contact with and merge into. A community of “outlaw” and visionary artist alike. We are happy to help produce Clayton’s 5th Tattoo Gazette, a fascinating survey 20 years in the making.  

YoYo Friedrich: No Day Like The Other

Emerging from behind an abstract symbol are the columns of the New York Times. The artist constructs on top of the daily paper, drawing on a symmetry to unify the graphic story of the page. The NYT paper is guided into a abstract state, shifting vibration and function.  

In 1977 YoYo started working on the newspaper pages of the NY Times. Today, Fall 2020,  He continues to play on top of the NY Times, building a language around the newspaper profile which seemingly invites the emergence of his art. 

This zine-catalogue, “No Day Like The Other,”  refreshes YoYo’s work from 1977-78 derived from digitized slides. We hope to build upon our relationship with YoYo and bring you more access to his work. 

Beginnings

Welcome to the Phalanstery.com!  

We are excited to launch this digital space, and eager to share our works- past and present- with you. Through this site, we offer you a window into our world, inviting you to experience and access artists who until now have remained largely inaccessible. 

Our recent efforts have manifested in the publishing of seven R.O.Tyler woodblock portfolios in a limited edition of postcard sized accordion books. Many of these original prints, emanating from as early as the mid 1950s and printed on handmade paper, are rare and priced into the thousands, if available at all. Through these publications, Tyler’s wood carved images and esoteric poetry are now easier to handle, display and share with the world.

As New York City transitions out of isolation, the Phalanstery will open its doors for single party visitation starting this September and hopefully before the end of the year we can have a celebratory full house engagement (like old times :) In the following weeks and months we will be making available original work by our community of artists especially our enigmatic founders, Richard and Dorothea. 

We look forward to sharing these treasures and connecting with you.