from X-Men/Malcom X (After Marvel Comics and Malcom X), 1997
comic book covers and book pages mounted on rag board, 23.2 x 15.3 cm

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By Any Means Necessary, Trapped (After Malcom X), 1985
serigraph on book page, 14 x 22.6 cm

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Study for Invisible Man (After Ralph Ellison), 1995
tempera on book pages, 20.3 x 12.7 cm

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from the Golden Horn Drawings (After Franz Kafka), 1986
graphite, watercolor, gold and silver paint on book pages, 20.2 x 13.3 cm

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A Journal of the Plague Year (After Daniel Defoe), 1988
animal blood and pencil on book page, 17 x 12.7 cm

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from the Temptation of Saint Antony-Other Voices (After Gustave Flaubert), 1989-1990, powdered pigment, india ink, alcohol, watercolor, turpentine and xerograph on rag paper, 28 x 21.6 cm

all images courtesy of the artist and their respective galleries

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TIM ROLLINS & K.O.S. (Kids Of Survival) have been collaboratively drawing and painting on book pages since 1982. They have used texts that are fundamental to Western culture and have developed a visual synthesis that preserves a memory of spontaneous associations with the original text. Glued onto canvas, the pages of these same texts become the support for medium and large-scale pictorial works, and for a series of works on paper.

We were making illuminations inspired by the narratives and movements of the carpet of text underneath. They are categorically not illustrations, but something more integrated. – TIM ROLLINS

Frieze New York opens this week at Randall’s Island and one of the works on view at Frieze’s Projects Program is a 40-foot table installed beneath a canopy of large oak trees, where TIM ROLLINS & K.O.S. will conduct their first open workshop for children and youths. Using watercolors and inks, a vast painting-collage will be created on a musical score of FELIX MENDELSSOHN’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream (full details here).