Design Materials

Improvisational Grids: Vol. 1

An ongoing book collaboration by NY poet Jeremy Sigler and multidisciplinary artist Mykola Haleta.

“The choice was just to put our stuff together in close proximity like the two cyclist on Harley’s sharing the open road in Easy Rider. Or maybe a nerdier image. Mike’s patterns have electricity in them. So the one prose poem of me being electrocuted seems to dovetail nicely. I think of fuse boxes and circuitry and wiring. Like finding a gorgeous Deco lamp from the 20’s and plugging it in and blowing a fuse or seeing sparks. You know how old lighting fixtures often have corroded wiring. The relation in my verse poems to patterning is another idea altogether. I prefer to just see us as happily autonomous but sharing the open highway at high speed.” —Jeremy Sigler, August 6, 2018

Design and Patterning Systems by Mykola Haleta.
Words by Jeremy Sigler.

Open Pop #1: Published by Open Pop Press/Raw Special Effects (RSE), 2018. Current Edition 1A: 25/25 (Last Edition: A: 4/4, 2016). Soft Cover, 40 pages, 40 color images, 5 × 7 inches.

Modular Assembly Sheet 1.1
Interchangeable instruments and auxiliary tools for offset printing, pattern development, prepared guitar and piano. Laser cut 1/4" steel, spray paint, magnet holder, maple wood, US Postal Service. 
(For Karel Martens!)
24" w x 18" h

Released through Open Pop Press/Raw Special Effects. Get it here!

Sky Improvisations #1-5: Intensity of Light Through Clouds:
1:35 pm to 1:37pm on July 10, 2020
Materials: sun, clouds, mirror, acrylic, laser cutter, ruler, camera.
More Sky Improvisations can be found here.

Visual Studies Workshop (VSW) Custom Sound Diffusion and Sound Therapy Event Poster

Thesis show documentation at Fosdick-Nelson Gallery.

Grid Equation RB-#6 for Dot Line Grid Series.

189 Piccadilly Restaurant: Identity and Signage Project

Rise Up, Show Up, Vote! (Version #5)
Poster for BLM protests and voter rights!

Modular Components: Laser cutter, masonite, spray paint.

Math by Jeremy Sigler (Digital Drawings/Render Grids: Mykola Haleta)

Math is a book by poet Jeremy Sigler. It was released on UBUWEB and can be read and downloaded here. I digitized all drawings for Jeremy and created a "numbers" grid for the book layout which helps to turn the finalized PDF book into an animation. 

Open Pop Press #3: The definition of "cheat" (taken from the web) is to act dishonestly or unfairly in order to gain an advantage, especially in a game or examination. This book contains 46 completed looping and growth-based compositions where the player has to sometimes "cheat" in order to complete the looped cycle and finish each game. Keywords: hand-set, analog, algorithms, growth, cheat, loops, cycles.

Error edition of 25. Corrected edition of 25. 

8" w x 8" h

This body of research presented in the Scholes library, represents my experiments conducted through the lenses of optical art, fluorescent minerals, patterning and microelectronics design.
--Mykola Haleta (Scholes Library, Alfred University: May 13-31.)

Edition of 10/10 booklets made for opening reception.

5" x 7.5"

Logo design for OnceTwice Electronic Music Festival in Baltimore, MD. (Curated and organized by Jason Urick.)

Modular Typography Form: Component #6 from Alpha Modular Set #2. Masonite, spray paint, optical screen filter.

Poster design for an artist lecture given at Chattanooga State Community College.

2016 Alfred University BFA Senior Thesis Show Poster. 

Designed for the painting and foundations departments at the School of Art and Design at Alfred University.

11" w x 15" h

Open Pop Press #2:

Vyshyvanka is a type of Ukrainian embroidery, which contains colourful and geometric patterning, contrasting colours and a wide range of stitch types. It has a rich visual history within Ukrainian folk culture; functioning as both a visual map of the region of its owner and as a symbolic and superstitious protective shield.

The following three pages contain scans of a Ukrainian embroidery zine mailer which my grandmother, Marfa Moliar Haleta, subscribed to and collected as religiously as a 7-year-old would collect baseball cards and comic books in the 1980’s. My first encounter with her embroidery templates collection happened at the age of 7.

The “Vyshyvanka Grids” from page 6 onwards were designed and assembled using components with a value of 1 point for line width and adhere to a 1/8 inch unit system. Throughout the course of the book, the “Vyshyvanka Grids” grow, mutate, geometrize and decay. They force you to squint to see the camouflaged colour-grid texture melds and optical wave rubbing. If I was living in Ukraine now my vyshyvanka would look like this...

Edition of 3 Artist Proofs. Edition of 100 to follow shortly. 

6" w x 9" h

Laser Cutting Session: fluorescent and colored acrylic, construction paper, masonite, and more.

Speculative Design: Mycelium Rings/Bion Accumulator Land Art Proposal:

This is a land art sculpture I created in memory of my father. This piece was collaged together from a series of concepts constructed from extensive research on Wilhelm Reich’s theory of “Orgone Energy” aa well as his orgone accumulator. Research on quartz crystals as well as the functionality of Weeping Willow trees used in bioremediation sites was also included into the later phases of project completion.

32’ x 32’ Circle Area, 6 Weeping Willow Trees, 24 quartz crystals, man-made island, silk-screen, 2017-2019.

An exhibition featuring light as material. This exhibition took place in the downtown area of Corning, New York and in conjunction with the GAS (Glass Arts Society) conference.

Printed materials included: street signage, flyers, posters and stickers.

Flyer for Liisa Nelson Show Opening. 2019

Open Pop #5: Eye Tuning/Dot Line Grids.

Artist Proof A. Edition 1/10. Second Edition: Open and each copy unique. Soft Bound: 52 pages, 5.5” x 8.5”.

Logo redesign for the National Casting Center in Alfred, New York. 

Printed materials included: t-shirts, vinyl stickers and posters.

CD design and packaging for noise artist and electronic music composer Jeff Carey. This CD can be purchased on Discogs.

Design Materials: Flyer, poster and spray painted stencil prints made in collaboration with Andy Robertson.

Curatorial Note:
MicroCollections 01: The Onderdonx Archive
Artist, curator and minimalism archaeologist, Andy Onderdonx brings his eclectic “Onderdonx Archive” to the Scholes library from August 29th to Oct 1. 

This exhibition opens up the main artery of 1960s and 1970’s minimalism through a beautiful display of rare artist books, show catalogues, artist prints, posters and printed ephemera. The collection highlights uncelebrated artists from a range of disciplines such as Deborah Remington, Georg Karl Pfahler, Lygia Clark, Larry Zox, Beverly Pepper, Sven Lukin, Anne Truitt, William Pye, Bridget Riley, Friedrich Grasel as well as revered artists from Ken Price to Frank Stella. Come delve!
—Michael Mykola Haleta

Open Pop Press #1: Improvisational Grids: Volume 1. 40 individual grids mutate, colourize and multiply in reaction to a short story by NY poet Jeremy Sigler.

Edition of 50. Edition of 10 Artist Proofs.

5" w x 7" h

Modular Assembly Sheet 1.1
Interchangeable instruments and auxiliary tools for offset printing, pattern development, prepared guitar and piano. Laser cut 1/4" steel, spray paint, magnet holder, maple wood, US Postal Service. 
(For Karel Martens!)
24" w x 18" h

Improvisational Grids: Vol. 2

An ongoing book collaboration by NY poet Jeremy Sigler and multidisciplinary artist Mykola Haleta.

“The choice was just to put our stuff together in close proximity like the two cyclist on Harley’s sharing the open road in Easy Rider. Or maybe a nerdier image. Mike’s patterns have electricity in them. So the one prose poem of me being electrocuted seems to dovetail nicely. I think of fuse boxes and circuitry and wiring. Like finding a gorgeous Deco lamp from the 20’s and plugging it in and blowing a fuse or seeing sparks. You know how old lighting fixtures often have corroded wiring. The relation in my verse poems to patterning is another idea altogether. I prefer to just see us as happily autonomous but sharing the open highway at high speed.” —Jeremy Sigler, August 6, 2018

Design and Patterning Systems by Mykola Haleta.
Words by Jeremy Sigler.

Open Pop #2: Published by Open Pop Press/Raw Special Effects (RSE), 2018. Current Edition 1A: 50/50 (Last Edition: A: 3/3, 2017). Soft Cover, 48 pages, 48 color images, 5 × 7 inches.

Math by Jeremy Sigler (Digital Drawings/Render Grids: Mykola Haleta)

Math is a book by poet Jeremy Sigler. It was released on UBUWEB and can be read and downloaded here. I digitized all drawings for Jeremy and created a "numbers" grid for the book layout which helps to turn the finalized PDF book into an animation. 

Long live New No York Soundsystem and club Tonic!

Pita ‎– Talking Head-Baltimore + Contemporary Gallery-Detroit

Discogs Link:
"Performed live by PITA. No edits. No overdubs."
Packaged in oversized library case. Edition of 129 copies.

Jamin Kuhn/Mykola Haleta at Cohen Gallery, Alfred, NY.