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Sonnenzimmer
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What an image does to us, we also do to it. Graphic art practice of Nick Butcher and Nadine Nakanishi.

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Ideas Beyond Formats Application is closed. Thanks to all who applied and who helped spread the word.
October 18, 2025 at 8:22 PM
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​Ideas Beyond Formats is a paid publishing program geared towards supporting and amplifying artists who live/share stories of marginalized communities, who feel outside of traditional power dynamics. For more information, go to,
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Colorful graphic tile with logo and text. It says: “2025, Ideas Beyond Formats, Applications open October 10”. Logo features a dolphin breaking out of a light bulb while holding a box in its mouth. The words “Ideas Beyond Formats” appear on top of the graphic. There is a colorful meta border.
October 4, 2025 at 3:01 AM
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New Sonnengram out.

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Graphic with txt: Anti-aliasing is a technique used in computer graphics to smooth out jagged edges. Often it’s used to make something look more realistic—less rigidly computational. But in order to do this, a sort of blurring of edges happens and that is the trade-off. Things become more recognizable and familiar by smudging the boundaries between them. An object alone can’t blur; it must blur together with something else. These days, in the physical realm, so much human thought and energy is doing just the opposite. Those in power seek to fixate the edges of our lives and identities. So much math and brute force is in service to this purpose alone, be that in secret or in plain sight. It’s ironic that as we are getting “blurred” in our digital skin, our physical selves are being more and more confined. In the process, we are becoming encrusted with ideologies that harden our edges and our love.
May 19, 2025 at 4:17 PM
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Manual is having a moving sale this weekend!
4432 N Kedzie Ave

www.manual.is
May 17, 2025 at 7:37 PM
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Test print Tuesday @thebirdmachine.bsky.social
Don’t miss out!
April 22, 2025 at 11:27 PM
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Opening tonight at the Franklin.
April 19, 2025 at 10:19 PM
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Chicago Art Department hosting a small but mighty student fair!
Illustrated graphic. A skeleton like figure is holding up a sign on it says: Saturday, April 19, 12-5pm, 1926 S. Hamster St.
April 18, 2025 at 6:11 PM
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We’re happy to announce the release of “Dubbing Stills.” This publication serves both as an artifact and an epilogue to a 2016 performance at the MCA Chicago. The work marked a shift in our practice from graphic to time-based. Presale, edition of 50, ships 04/10 www.sonnenzimmer.com/product-page...
A publication featuring a small booklet and a cassette is shown. It is photographed straight on. The two items are packaged side by side in an oversized plastic cassette case. The colorful product features an image repeated on both the booklet and cassette. The title “Dubbing Stills” and the artist’s name, “Sonnenzimmer”, are printed on the booklet cover.
March 29, 2025 at 10:25 PM
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Only 6 prints available through next Friday. “Parallel to Time” series explores the axis of time. Made from make-ready's from our print runs and the base of "A Race in Space" print– captures the flow of graphic information moving through our experimental studio. www.sonnenzimmer.com/parallel-to-...
A print featuring a base image, a strange sand dollar-headed individual with a flowing orange sweater and hot pink tube-like legs. This print contains different fragments of colorful graphic shapes printed on top of and underneath the figure.
March 21, 2025 at 7:24 PM
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Sunraiser is a humble track released in support of our 2024 Sunraising campaign to rebuild our printshop. Captured in a single take, the song is a reminder that maintaining momentum takes a balance of rhythm and open-ended improvisation. Available in our shop or free on Bandcamp
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March 10, 2025 at 11:29 PM
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Join us today for the world premiere virtual screening of our animated shortest of short, “Shapes Are Not Ours”. We’ll be fielding your q’s and comments live.

Saturday, March 8, 11am-12pm CST
Link goes live at 11am.

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March 8, 2025 at 4:17 PM
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New print available from the archives, Maru, ed. 10. Read about this and more in our March Sonnengram.
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A colorful graphic work is shown. The work features a rainbow-striped paper balloon called a kamifusen at the top of the composition. Partially overlaying the balloon are vibrant color blocks in magenta, yellow, blue, green, and red.
March 4, 2025 at 5:41 PM
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The Company We Keep

Chicago is a collection of dreams flickering with hustle and quietude, an empty storefront with a line out the door. The exacting grid, western bound streets, the sun setting, and back-lit signs no longer saying a thing.
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A digital collage showing the Chicago skyline at sunset. Inset is a vignette of some pampus seeds atop of a yellow circle, emanating a sun-like effect. The collage is a bit grainy.
February 18, 2025 at 10:34 PM
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In 2019, we produced robot-aided print works @WNDR Museum Chicago thanks to an invitation from Megan Jedrysiak + Jackson Ammenheuser @applebutteranimated. Their ambitious painting robots created a foil for our static graphic works. Each day, the robots painted a slow-mo conversation between two 🌸.
February 13, 2025 at 11:15 PM
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All remaining “Flower Tongue” prints are 50% OFF through the month of Feb!
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Coupon Code: FLOWER2025

Pick a flower today!
February 13, 2025 at 11:15 PM
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New Sonnengram: Pick A Flower is out.
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ID: High contrast graphic tile. It says: "Sonnengram No. 136. For everyone digging in the garden or chasing the wind, both carry the seed, the flower, the fruit. –Sonnenzimmer. February, 12, 2025
February 12, 2025 at 8:08 PM
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Tonight.
Flyer for event Postscript, a love letter to Logan Square for Comfort Station. Friday, February 7, Sarabande, 2726 W Roscoe St, Gala 7-9:30, Afterparty 9:30-12. The graphic has two stars to the side and the headline is typeset in a script like font.
February 7, 2025 at 11:09 PM
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Tonight, for those who like print folk!
Flyer for the Chicago Printers Guild. Friday, February, 7-10 pm, Public Works Gallery, 2141 W North Ave. All are welcome. Chicago Printers Guild Kick Off. The graphic has a ink container smiling holding the world. There are two logos in the corner. One a smiley face upside-down and the other a union like looking stamp.
February 7, 2025 at 11:05 PM
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We got to show our newest animation, "Shapes Are Not Ours" in the exhibit Applied Arts, UNI Art Gallery, Cedar Falls, amongst other print work. This epic show is up until February 21. insideuni.uni.edu/arts-design/...
Gallery view of Sonnenzimmer prints. A pedestal displays books in the middle of the room, and on the back wall, there is a projection of an animation, and to the side a big wall paper installation starts.
February 6, 2025 at 12:16 AM
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Opening night talk at UNI Art Department, Cedar Falls for Applied Arts exhibit. On state here, Midwest Pressed.
View to the podium of two speakers in front of a screen, in a lecture hall.
February 6, 2025 at 12:12 AM
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We got to add some Sonnenzimmer sprinkle (motion+sound) to some graphics for USA's 2025 Fellowship announcement. Learn about these artists! It will brighten your day and make your heart full.

For more about the 2025 cohort go to www.unitedstatesartists.org or follow @unitedstatesartists.org
January 30, 2025 at 5:38 PM
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”Applied Arts” curated by Midwest Pressed is a group show featuring the work of Bráulio Amado, Chloë Lum & Yannick Desranleau, Gfeller + Hellsgård, Robert Beatty, Shawn Reed & Ryan, Sonnenzimmer, Suzy Poling

Jan., 16 – Feb. 23, 2025
University of Northern Iowa Art Gallery, Cedar Falls, IA
An exhibition catalog cover featuring the words "Applied Arts" written large in red ink on a dark background. Centered on the cover is a small photo-realistic image of a unicorn. The unicorn’s eyes are obscured with a bright red rectangular graphic element. Participating artists names are listed below the unicorn’s photo.
January 8, 2025 at 3:30 AM