Issue 11 of Fraction Magazine is now on view featuring work by Hey, Hot Shot! contender and 20x200 edition-maker Liz Kuball, Jonathan Blaustein, John Divola, Gordon Stettinius and 20x200 edition-maker Brian Ulrich.

Untitled by Liz Kuball

All of the series by the above artists surround the theme of "place," focusing on spaces that are imagined, idealized, celebrated and mourned. Kuball's California Vernacular reflects on going to a place surrounded by mystique—and the fantasy, expectation and desire that come with what you'll find once being there. She writes of California: "we hang on--hang on to a world that, to us, is even more fantastic than the one we thought we'd find, because it's real in its absurdity and because we have stories to tell."

(X18F5) Brady Bunch House - Stage 6 by John Divola

John Divola explores transient places: sets made on The X-Files during their final season in 2002. He photographs aspects—otherwise ordinary—of homes created to make a fictional world full of its own existential mysteries, feel more real. Divola writes of his series, "I was interested in The X-Files because it is literally a stage for the expression of these desires. I hope that there is some resonance between the generic nature of these sets, the character of photographic insistence on the observable present, and the X-Files as cultural fact."

Fraction is also collaborating with Radius Books to give away six signed books—three each of Debbie Fleming Caffery's The Spirit & The Flesh and Michael Light's Bingham Mine/Garfield Stack. To enter, send an email to fractionmag@gmail.com with the subject line "radius book giveaway" and you automatically get a discount code good for 25% at the Radius Books online store. The winners of the signed artists' books will be randomly selected on March 1st.