Chadwick Rantanen for Jerry Hunt’s Ground: Five Mechanic Convention Streams

For our TEST PRESSINGS initiative, we invited ten visual artists—Marie Angeletti, Cory Arcangel, Rochelle Goldberg, Brad Kronz, Veit Laurent Kurz, Ari Marcopoulos, Win McCarthy, Chadwick Rantanen, Joanne Robertson, and Stewart Uoo—to select an album from our back catalog and design covers for its test pressings. Chadwick Rantanen (b. 1981), based in Los Angeles, selected Jerry Hunt’s Ground: Five Mechanic Convention Streams (2022).

Test pressings are the very first vinyls produced in the stamping of a record, used by artists and producers to evaluate audio quality. This year, Blank Forms gave these records new life by turning each plain white sleeve into a canvas for a contemporary artist—now available to the public.

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