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08/07/2025

Today Elsewhere publishes Marika Maijala’s A Magician’s Flower, translated by Mia Spangenberg. This vibrant picture book follows Willow and her poet-friend Aspen in a quest to help a tiny seedling grow. In their world, everything is buzzing—flowers peer from pleated petals, cats pace sunlit sills, and Eulalia (the friends’ faithful pet chicken) struts and clucks most regally. As with her latest picture book with us, Rosie Runs, Marika leads with her heart, attending to the tiniest voices and letting life’s mysteries bloom.

You can now order A Magician’s Flower on the Elsewhere or Archipelago site!

03/07/2025

Delighted to see Mafalda in the pages of the New Yorker! Daniel Alarcón beautifully traces Mafalda’s bighearted politics in this latest issue.

Order your very own Mafalda from our Elsewhere or Archipelago site ♥️

25/06/2025

Place your bids before 9pm tonight to help us continue to publish curious and inspired picture books from all over the world!

Inês Viegas Oliveira’s “The Birds”
Oil, watercolor, graphite, dry pastel, 4.9 x 7.5 in

Inês Viegas Oliveira is a Portuguese children’s book illustrator whose drawings ripple out from the page. Dissolving the lines between science and art, Oliveira depicts bodies, birds, and butterflies that pulse with immediacy. With “The Birds,” Oliveira makes day and night porous as she shifts between a velvety black and green. Pulled through time, we glimpse a flock of birds in varying states of presence. Some are ghostly, disintegrating; some outlined in an enlivening, electric blue. The image that results is a composite one; we’re lost between absence and presence, stillness and buoyancy, trapped with our wings fluttering.

24/06/2025

Just two days left to place your bids in our auction for Elsewhere 💌

Hilary Harnischfeger’s “Violet Crown”
Paper, ink, dye, ceramic, hydrostone
9 x 13 x 10 in

For Hilary Harnischfeger, form is always in contradiction—processes of destruction and creation, compression and expansion, growth and decay. At once geological, biological, and cosmic, “Violet Crown” ripples with striations of paper, clay, and pigment. The layered forms at its surface evoke eroded rock or the close folds of a manuscript. Though featureless, “Violet Crown” has the magnetic pull of a human face.

23/06/2025

Just three more days to bid on this beauty and others…! Browse our auction page through the link in our bio.

Andie Dinkin’s “Midnight Snack”
Acrylic, gouache, and ink on paper
10 x 8.5 in

Andie Dinkin creates opulent worlds where objects command life. A spread where oyster and wine bottle seem to share a wink and a whisper, a pear with lips fixed to kiss—her mystic, Leonora Carrington touch enfolds and enrapts viewers. “Midnight Snack” imagines a sumptuous moonlit tablescape we can languish in.

22/06/2025

Four days left to bid on a stunning portrait by Rabih Alameddine (the artist will offer a few options to the winning bidder, similar to the options displayed)

Rabih Alameddine’s “Self Portrait”
36x36 in

Rabih Alameddine is a painter and writer based in San Francisco and Bierut. The author of six novels, Alameddine and has won the PEN/Faulkner Award, was a finalist for the National Book Award, and received a Guggenheim fellowship in 2002. In a beautiful interview with Kara Walker he notes how writing is like talking to oneself, how great work puts all our selves in conversation. This spirit in Alameddine’s self-portrait series—each face seeking contact, yet each concealed behind a certain haze. With the visual textures of an old tintype, Alameddine’s painting contain trapped gazes where ghosts seem to pass.

20/06/2025

Sascha Mallon’s “Air”
Porcelain, glass, 18 in tall

Sascha Mallon sees her ceramics as drawings in motion. Based in Beacon, NY, Mallon is a certified meditation teacher and has served as artist-in-residence at the Mount Sinai Oncology and Bone Marrow Transplant Hospital since 2012. Her work with patients (often those with limited physical capacities) has deeply informed her artistic practice. “Air” shows a woman whose body is a vessel for the world around her. The patchworked textures of her dress—vines, branches, blossoms—give way to an open heartspace, where a blue bird gently beats. Though life pulses within and around her, there is stillness in her tilted gaze. Something in her eye says this stillness is delicate—the stillness that comes just before flight.

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19/06/2025

Six days left in our 2025 auction for Elsewhere 🩷

France-Lise McGurn () “Sweetie”
Oil and marker on canvas, 15.7x19.6 in

France-Lise McGurn is a Glasgow-based artist whose paintings seep into space. In each work, arms, legs, high heels, and fingertips bloom from a gestural pastel. Though the figure in “Sweetie” appears elemental, her turned gaze and outstreched arms are gushing with movement. McGurn’s meandering brush contemplates how bodies speak to each other in extatic symphony.

18/06/2025

Joana Galego’s “Synchronized Breath”
Watercolor on gessoed board
8x10 in

Joana Galego, a Portuguese painter living in London, is motivated by memory and atmosphere. In the rippling blues of “Synchonized Breath,” Galego imagines two lovers, distanced by sleep. A head turns toward an open window, a disembodied hand rests on a shoulder, an eye seeps off the page. This moment, intimate yet estranged, lets us into the silence between two minds, lost in worlds we can never penetrate—the blue landscape of dreams.

Click the auction link in our bio to bid 💌

17/06/2025

Mary Frank’s “Amaryllis and Stork” (1985)
Signed etching
9x8 in

Mary Frank is a sculptor, painter, photographer, and ceramicist guided by an alphabet of recurring images: the curling silhouettes of birds, bodies, lions, and other mythic creatures. “Clustered species questing/ Trembling scalding and sacrificial/ I/we witness to this, our world now,” Frank writes. This etching from 1985 shows a tree-like amaryllis flowering over the faint outline of a stork. The stork stands in a sliver of white, apart from the flower’s vast, pointillated shade. With Frank’s trailing, murky lines, we have the feeling we’re peeing into a micriscope, witnessing the core of our world against a trembling glass.

16/06/2025

Today marks the beginning of our 2025 auction for Elsewhere Editions! Bidding is open now and will close on Wednesday, June 25th, at 9pm ET.

Em Kettner’s “The Comedian”
Glazed porcelain tile in oil-sealed cherry frame
13x6x1in

Em Kettner, an artist and writer based in Richmond, CA, knows nothing is too sacred to be comical. Seeking “to revise problematic stereotypes about the disability community,” Kettner’s porcelain figures explore the silly, sensual ways bodies twirl and transform in space. With “The Comedian,” Kettner asks the viewer herself to twirl as she bends to encounter it. Drawing our nose to the wood’s grain, we glimpse (as if through a keyhole) a performer baring her legs. The drama of the elongated wood and peaked grain plays with our expectations. Though set on an imposing stage, the performer hides behind a billowing curtain, exposing a quivering ankle and a sensual, bashful eye. Kettner shows how, if we look close, a body can reveal a whole world: reticence, pride, sexuality, fear, all in a simple gesture.

10/06/2025

She is joyful, playful, skeptical, sardonic. She has a passion for democracy, equality, and her posse of nonconformist neighborhood friends. Since the mid-60s readers have been thinking alongside Mafalda, and finally, thanks to Frank Wynne’s nimble translation, her world has been brought to English.

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