DIRTY : DIRTY
dirty paintings by Mugi Takei

dirty writing by: Greg Bachar, Elizabeth Burns, Jennifer Calkins, Jane L. Carman, Kylee Cook, Beth Couture, Dirk Cowan, Justin Dobbs, Trevor Dodge, Meredith Doench, el buffalo, April Gigliotti, Christopher Grimes, Steve Halle, Jeff Hansen, Michael Harold, Garrett Hayes, Jacqueline Heffron, Lily Hoang, Nor Huda Mohd Izam , Eric Jeitner, Steve Katz, Kimberly Koga, Stacey Levine, Marilyn Jane Lewis, Robert Lopez, Cris Mazza, Joe Milazzo, Kathleen Miller, Scott Million, Theresa A. O'Donnell, Jordan Okumura, Melanie Page, Mitch Parker, Aimee Parkinson, Jack Rees, Ae Reiff, Doug Rice, Thad Rutkowski, Davis Schneiderman, Mikal Shapiro, Gary Shipley, Ascot Smith, Rob Stephenson, Helen Tran, Holms Troelstrup, J. A. Tyler, Laura Vena, Hal Wert, Lane William, Alyssa Wisene, Lidia Yuknavitch

SOUND: To be announced

DIRTY : DIRTY will be produced in 5 editions:
1. Portfolio of signed prints & handwritten text edition of 100.
2. Fine art limited edition of 25 (ea. $20,000)
3. Color paperback (ea. $49)
4. B/W paperback (ea. $16.95)
5. ebook - contains only text (download $9.99) - August 2012

EXCERPT FROM DIRTY : DIRTY:
“When all is ending, you find yourself sending text messages to a 19 year old in California that read ‘I need you to come in my mouth’ and ‘I want us to fuck each other to sleep.’ He will write back with ‘Yes.’ And ‘We will,’ will call you ‘lover’ and ‘ghost.’ While there is not much more to be said, you will continue to say it. Your mouth spills words like salt. When all is ending, you are wet for days. It is summer. Your body and your cunt drip and don’t stop. You are overflowing. You compare the boy to a river, and he doesn’t thank you. Instead, he talks about incest, says he will make you call him ‘brother.’ You don’t know how to pronounce his real name, so you never say it.”

– Beth Couture, from her dirty writing titled, “Ghosts”

DIRTY : DIRTY will be produced in 5 beautiful editions:
1. Portfolio of signed prints & handwritten text edition of 100.
2. Fine art limited edition of 25 (ea. $20,000)
3. Color paperback (ea. $49)
4. B/W paperback (ea. $16.95)
5. ebook - contains only text (download $9.99) - August 2012

Mugi Takei was born in New York and moved to Japan when her parents decided to return to their homeland. She later returned to the U.S. to study painting at Massachusetts College of Art, and received her MFA from Cranbrook Academy of Art. In 2001, she traveled to Brussels, Belgium to study French, Russian history and philosophy. Two years later she moved to Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, to live with my mother, organizing an independent film festival in support of young Japanese filmmakers and to develop cultural exchange.  She served as visiting artist at the Wing Luke Museum of the Asian Pacific American Experience in Seattle, where her first solo exhibition was held at Cullom Gallery.