An agency [legal corporate personhood] finds itself caught in an unstable love triangle with the thing itself and representations of the thing. They run in circles in opposite directions, or spiral toward abstraction. To break the cycle they script a linear continuity design mission, running forward against the countdown to madness.
Founded and directed by Saul Appelbaum in 2015, Vera Maurina Press DBA THE PIONEERS International is an art and media company bridging representation [agency & depiction], abstraction [textual & visual], and genre [fiction & non-fiction] in image, music, and text.
Appelbaum holds a Bachelor of Fine Art from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, a Master of Architecture from Cornell University, and a Master of Fine Art from the University of Chicago. He has worked with Harper’s Bazaar, Serpentine Gallery, ASICS, Marian Goodman Gallery, Elle, Tony Cragg, The Broad Museum, FGP Atelier, Museum of the African Diaspora, Heidi Klum, The Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art, InStyle, Critical Inquiry, the Kunstmuseum Bern, Grazia, Snoop Dogg, Adam McKay’s Yellow Dot Studios, The Jewish Federation, MAK Center for Art and Architecture, Zión Moreno, Petzel Gallery, Kohn Pedersen Fox Associates, Nato Thompson's The Alternative Art School and Dreaming in Public, Perry Ellis, The Visionaries Agency, Atlanta Art Fair, Mick Jenkins, TRANSFER Gallery, Ann Hamilton, The Columbus Museum of Art, de Sarthe Gallery, TCAmgmt, Diego Boneta, Rocco Castoro's SCNR, L’Officiel, Hirmer Verlag, Kids of Immigrants, Natalia Reyes, Vogue, The Singapore Art Museum, Numéro, and Pope.L.
