ABOUT YEARS YET YESTERDAY (ARTIST'S BOOK):
Years Yet Yesterday is a drawing series and artist book in which language from Larry Kramer’s call-to-action speech, The Tragedy of Today’s Gays, becomes translated into direct-messaging, black and white eye charts to explore the past decade of grayscale queer representation and power (mis)alignments amidst the on-going AIDS pandemic. Each drawing is dedicated to a letter in the alphabet, and constructed using three words—rewritten hundreds of times to push agendas of immediacy and urgency—that appear in Kramer’s original speech (this abecedary is incomplete at 24 drawings because his speech did not include any words beginning with X or Z). The three words within each panel can be rephrased in any order to invite viewers to question past histories and the future of activism.

9.5 x 9.5 x .25 inches, perfect-bound with gatefold flaps on soft cover, offset + digital printing, 60 pages, printed on Stonehenge 90# paper, printed by R.C. Brayshaw, featuring 24 drawings within the complete abecedary + artist interview with arts organization VisualAIDS. Signed edition of 365 copies.

LIMITED COPIES ARE FOR SALE AT:
Printed Matter, New York City / Boekie Woekie, Amsterdam / The Bureau of General Services (BGSQD)—Queer Division / Chicago Design Museum / Poem88, Atlanta / St. Mark’s Bookshop, New York City (now closed) / Women and Children First, Chicago / or please email markaddisonsmith@hotmail.com with inquiry

YEARS YET YESTERDAY IS INCLUDED WITHIN THE FOLLOWING PERMANENT COLLECTIONS & LIBRARY ARCHIVES:
Artexte / Art Gallery of Ontario / Baylor University, Book Arts Collection / Bard College, Center for Curatorial Studies Library & Archives / Bennington College, Crossett Library / Birmingham Museum of Art, Artists' Books Collection / The Boston Athenaeum, Rare Books and Manuscripts Collection / Brooklyn Museum, Artists' Books Collection / Carnegie Mellon University, Artists' Books Collection / Center for Book Arts, New York / Chicago Design Museum / Clark Art Institute Library / Cleveland Institute of Art, Jessica R. Gund Memorial Library / Columbia University, Rare Book and Manuscript Library / Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum / Edinburgh City Libraries, Art & Design Library at Central Library / Emory University, Stuart A. Rose Manuscript, Archives, and Rare Book Library / Free Library of Philadelphia, Parkway Central Library Art Department / George Mason University, Fenwick Library Special Collections Research Center / The Gerber/Hart Library and Archives / Getty Research Institute, Special Collections/ Glasgow School of Art, Special Collections / Guggenheim Museum, Library and Archives / Indiana University–Purdue University Indianapolis, Herron Fine Press & Book Arts Collection / Jaffe Center for Book Arts / The Jean-Nickolaus Tretter Collection in GLBT Studies at University of Minnesota / Joan Flasch Artists’ Book Collection, Chicago / John M. Flaxman Library at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago / Kansas City Art Institute, Artists' Books Collection / Library of Congress, Rare Book and Special Collections Division / Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) Research Library / Maryland Institute College of Art (MICA), Special Collections / The Menil Collection / The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Thomas J. Watson Library / Michigan State University Libraries, Special Collections / Mills College, F.W. Olin Library Special Collections / Minnesota Center for Book Arts (MCBA) / Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) Franklin Furnace Artists’ Books Collection / Museum of Contemporary Art (MCA) Chicago / The Newberry Library, Rare Books Collection / Oberlin College, Clarence Ward Art Library Artists’ Book Collection / ONE National Gay and Lesbian Archives at the University of Southern California / Paper Machine / Pratt Institute Franklin Furnace Artists’ Books Collection / Princeton Firestone Library, Graphic Arts Collection / Rhode Island School of Design (RISD), Fleet Library Special Collections / Ringling College of Art + Design, Brizdel-Schoenberg Special Collections Center / Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT) Wallace Library, Artists’ Books Collection / Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT) Wallace Library, Circulating Collection / Savannah College of Art and Design, ACA Library Special Collections / Seattle Art Museum / Smith College, Neilson Library Rare Books / Smithsonian American Art + National Portrait Gallery Library, Artists’ Book Collection / St Bride Foundation Library, London / Swarthmore College Libraries, Special Collections / Tate Library and Archives / University of Arizona, Special Collections / University of California, Davis, Shields Library Special Collections / University of California, Irvine, Artists’ Books Collection / University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), Arts Library / University of California, San Diego, Library, Special Collections & Archives / University of California, Santa Barbara, Special Research Collections / University of Chicago, Special Collections Research Center / University of Delaware, Special Collections / University of Dundee Museum Collections, Artists' Books Collection Dundee (abcD) / University of Georgia, Special Collections / University of Iowa, Special Collections and University Archives/ University of Louisville, Bridwell Art Library Artists’ Books Collection / University of Michigan, Artists' Books Collection/ University of Oregon, Design Library / University of Southampton, Winchester School of Art Library Artists’ Books Collection / University of Utah, K.W. Duke Fine Arts and Architecture Library / University of Vermont, Silver Special Collections Library / University of the West of England, Bristol, Artists’ Books Collection / University of Wisconsin-Madison, Kohler Art Library / University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Special Collections / V&A Museum, National Art Library / Valdosta State University, Odum Library Archives and Special Collections / Virginia Commonwealth University, James Branch Cabell Library, Special Collections and Archives / Walker Art Center, Archives & Library / Wellesley College Library, Special Collections / Whitney Museum, The Frances Mulhall Achilles Library / Yale University, Haas Arts Library Special Collections / York University Libraries, Clara Thomas Archives & Special Collections