The hybrid zine/artist book functions as a platform for new ideas and creative expression. The team selects art-related professionals working in various media--drawing, photography, poetry/writing, and music--to create a focused project, a new commission. Each issue will focus on a relevant theme in contemporary art, inspecting it from a number of different angles. With this series, Pirate Press h
opes to bring together artists, curators, and thinkers from around the world working in diverse disciplines. Christopher Rivera received his MFA in combined media at Hunter College, New York City. From 2005 to 2009 he organized an annual drawing marathon at the University of Puerto Rico, and has curated group shows such as transportable mind and Espacio entre medio, both in San Juan, Puerto Rico. Christopher currently hosts an invitational poster battle during his monthly party at Home Sweet Home, “Dancing Bones,” where he spins different underground music. He has exhibited his work individually and in group shows at different museums, galleries, and alternative spaces in the U.S., Europe, and South America. Misa Jeffereis is Public Programs & Research Coordinator at Independent Curators International, and co-director of Pirate Press, which she co-founded with Christopher Rivera in 2011. She is also a research assistant for New York City-based curator and writer Fionn Meade. From 2007-10, Jeffereis was Curatorial Associate at the Henry Art Gallery in Seattle, where she curated exhibitions on Jeppe Hein, Milton Rogovin, and Chiho Aoshima. In 2011, she worked for Frieze Art Fair New York and E|AB Fair, and interned at SculptureCenter and International Center of Photography. In December 2010, she co-curated an exhibition at The Artist’s Institute. She has two essays published in the exhibition catalogue, Notations: The Cage Effect Today (2011) and an essay in Mnemosyne Atlas (2013), was a regular contributor to SculptureCenter’s curatorial blog, and has written on the work of Martin Roth, Joshua Schwartz, Yunyi Yi, Seung-Min Lee, Freya Powell, Kristen Studioso, and Christina Freeman, among other artists. Jeffereis holds a Master of Arts in Art History from Hunter College.
