Books
Forthcoming
Cal Siegel & Sable Elyse Smith
…In that Empire
Published by Pacific
Marina Adams
Published by Salon 94
Designed by Pacific
Servane Mary (monograph)
Published by Pacific
and A PALAZZO Gallery
Maiastra: A History of Romanian
Sculpture in Twenty-Four Parts
Igor Gyalakuthy
Published by Pacific and False Flag
Jennie Jieun Lee, Rainbow 1 Hour Photo
Published by Pacific and Martos Gallery, 2018
Texts by Barbara Pollock, Natasha Lyonne, Tony Marsh, and Lila Lee-Morrison
Hardcover, with insert
144 pages, 8 ½ × 10 ¼ inches
Edition of 500
$45
Ceramicist Jennie Jieun Lee’s first hardcover publication, Rainbow 1 Hour Photo documents several years of the artist’s work divided into four distinct sections: Vessels & Larger Works, Busts & Pedestals, Paintings, and Masks. The diversity Lee brings when navigating ceramic art is highlighted in four texts addressing her practice as well as her complex and inspiring personal history.
The title alludes to the photo business run by her parents when Lee was a child. A 12-page facsimile insert of the photo books supplied by the business includes photos of Lee as a child and adolescent growing up in New Jersey and New York City.
Nelson George, The Nelson George Mixtape
Volume 1
Published by Pacific, 2018
Hardcover
160 pages, 7 ½ × 9 ½ inches
Limited edition of 150
$65
“I wanted this book to be as much an object as an collection of writing, a celebration of the tactile, receding world of print with the graphics of old dead magazines, myriad typefaces and the messy transcripts of interviews.”
The Nelson George Mixtape is a limited edition hardcover anthology that gathers together articles by George from 1978–1993. Early articles for Record World and the Village Voice chronicle the birth of hip hop in New York City, leading to features on some of the biggest names in music including Marvin Gaye, Michael Jackson, and Quincy Jones. The publication presents many reproductions of out of print articles, as well as unpublished interviews with Bob Marley and James Jamerson and early pieces on Whitney Houston and Prince.
Curtis Kulig, Prize
Published by Pacific, 2018
Texts by Karen Wong and Max Blagg
Hardcover
112 pages, 9 × 9 inches
Edition of 300
$50
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Prize is new hardcover publication by Curtis Kulig, featuring forty mixed-media works on paper that explore the nuanced and poetic movement of professional boxing. The publication, and corresponding exhibition at agnes b. Galerie Boutique, draws from Kulig’s relationship with his Uncle Davy, an amateur boxer and free spirit, who has had a profound effect on the artist’s life.
Like dancers, boxers exist in the physical moment—the body is their medium and every gesture is an articulation of strategy. The end result is exhaustion, but Kulig’s boxers are frozen in the moment, giving the viewer a chance to linger over their angled, twisting figures mid-fight. The prize for the two fighters at the end of a boxing match is either agony or euphoria, defeat or triumph. The opening and closing pages of the publication play with this notion, bookending Kulig’s drawings—as well as texts by the New Museum’s Karen Wong and poet Max Blagg—with archival footage from two fights featuring Uncle Davy in 1982.
Alec Von Bargen, Soliloquy
Published by Pacific, 2018
Hardcover
480 pages, 8 ¼ × 10 ¾ inches
Edition of 500
$85
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“Alec Von Bargen’s body of work, comprising installation, photographic and temporal works, undertaken throughout 10 countries and comprising 23 projects, titled So.lil.o.quy, destabilizes traditional notions of knowledge and representation within visual cultures and methodologies as found in both fields of art and anthropology, attesting to and engaging within a new vision of representational practice, offering a more authentic response to the world. The artist reflects within this work a deep level of humanity more than perhaps politically correct ways of being self-reflexive about the human subject and objects. Von Bargen’s representational practice expands the notion of what it is to be human, to ethically elicit empathy, and to create a discourse of healing and to not reduce it.”
– Lynne Roberts Goodwin
Nick Waplington, Neither a Salt Spring Nor a Horse
Published by Pacific, 2018
Saddle Stitched with white foil stamp
68 pages, 10 ¼ × 12 inches
Edition of 400
$35
Special Edition (50) $100
Neither a Salt Spring Nor a Horse documents a series of paintings, Poseidon Paintings, and two series of photographs by the artist Nick Waplington. Olive Trees (2013) was taken in “no man’s land” between the Jewish settlement of Har Homa, south of Jerusalem, and the Palestinian city of Bethlehem, a few hundred metres away. The second series, Athena 1 to 9 (2012), were taken while Waplington was out walking in the mountains in the northern West Bank. The women in the photographs are students at a midrasha, or Jewish religious boarding school, in the settlement of Shvut Rachel.
Michael Bennett, Impressions
Published by Pacific, 2018
Softcover
Black and white on recycled paper
128 pages, 7 ¼ × 9 ½ inches
Edition of 250
$45
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Impressions includes scans, sketches, photographs and collages from in and around artist Michael Bennett’s studio. An extension of the artists process-based studio practice where he adds, subtracts and merges different materials, textures and mark making to create painting and sculpture.
Judy Chicago, Roots of The Dinner Party
Published by Salon 94, 2018
Designed by Pacific
Texts by Carmen Hermo, Anne Pasternak,
and Jeanne Greenberg Rohatyn
Hardcover
224 pages, 8 ¾ × 11 inches
Edition of 1,000
$50
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This monograph documents the making of Judy Chicago's monumental feminist artwork The Dinner Party, permanently housed at the Brooklyn Museum. Includes never before seen sketches, archival photographs and reference material for the installation.
Jasper Johns Vs Brian Ramnarine is a facsimile publication that includes falsified correspondence between bronze manufacturer Ramnarine and Johns created by the former, as well as evidence used by the United States Government to convict Ramnarine of forgery.
The document outlines fake letters of authenticity, forged correspondence from Johns, and images of the artist’s work that Ramnarine wrongfully produced and sold. Ramnarine was convinced and jailed in 2014 by the United States Government.
This publication is in the collection of the New York Public Library and the Whitney Museum.
Recycle is comprised of collages by and a dialogue between Amy Gall and Sarah Gerard. Twenty-seven original collages by each artist bookend an in-depth interview between the two. Both published writers, Gall and Gerard have independent practices that coalesce in a dialogue addressing the natural vs. the man made, female sexuality and spatial dysmorphia.
Embracing a diverse range of media, Ann-Sophie Berger confronts issues relating to distribution, consumption and production cycles in The Fool at Sea. Where previous work addressed these issues through food, images and clothing, this new series focuses on ways in which a municipality can produce and distribute public spaces for its citizens to consume.
Bonnie Lucas, N is for Nice
Published by Pacific and 17ESSEX, 2018
Softcover
40 pages, 8 ½ × 11 inches
Edition of 100
$20
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"I grew up in Syracuse, in New York, in a time when girls were very circumscribed ... 'sugar and spice and everything nice and that is what little girls are made of' ... but I also knew that as a girl and young woman, I was not particularly sugary or nice. And, my mom never once talked about things like menstruation or sex. So I was baffled and ashamed but went ahead anyway being the real girl that I was and I turned it all into art. I think that is what life in general is like. You see, one is told what one should be and do and feel but that is only one part of the story."
N is for Nice explores a range of subjects relating to femininity, motherhood, gender, and childhood.
Elizabeth Karp-Evans, Type of Blue
Published by Pacific and STL Press, 2018
Softcover
36 pages, 5 ½ × 8 ½ inches
Edition of 100
$20
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False Flag
Published by Pacific, 2017
Hardcover
136 pages, 8 ¼ × 10 ¾ inches
Edition of 1,000
$35
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False Flag occupied a shuttered foundry that engaged in legitimate fabrication for many years, but made headlines in 2014 when former owner Brian Ramnarine was convicted in federal court of forgery on an audacious scale. The name False Flag comes from the forged Jasper Johns Flag sculpture at the center of the scandal that finally brought down the enterprise.
The publication includes a text outlining Ramnarine’s rise and fall in the art world, how False Flag acquired the space, and color photographs of exhibitions and performances by the artists from the gallery's first year of programming (2016–17) in Long Island City, New York.
Mary Kelly, The Voice Remains
Published by Mitchell-Innes & Nash, 2017
Designed by Pacific
Text by Juli Carson, Rosalyn Deutsche,
and Hans Ulrich Obrist
Softcover with flaps
184 pages, 8 ¼ × 10 ½ inches
Edition unknown
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The Voice Remains is the first monograph to document Kelly's work with compressed lint over the past two decades.
"Mea Culpa is fabricated out of compressed grey lint gathered from the filter of the artist’s home dryer in which black and white clothes had been dried. Kelly attached letters to the filter and in this way produced intaglio words in the lint. She then joined together 20 units of lint, all retaining the dimensions and curved shape of the filter, to form five sixteen- to twenty-foot-long horizontal panels, each matted and framed as a separate work and titled with the site and date of a historical—which is to say, politically motivated and collective—trauma ..."
Susumu Kamijo, Poodles
Published by Pacific and Marvin Gardens, 2017
Text by Susumu Kamijo and Jonas Wood
Hardcover
112 pages, 8 ½ × 11 inches
Edition of 1,000
$35
Poodles, Susumu Kamijo’s first publication, presents 48 brightly-colored drawings of poodles, based on images culled from the Internet and dog magazines. The publication includes an interview between Jonas Wood and Kamijo who met as MFA students at the University of Washington in 2000.
A Handbook of Drug Terms
Published by Pacific, 2017
Softcover
34 pages, 5 ½ × 8 ½ inches
Second edition of 500
$15
→ Available at Printed Matter and May 68
A facsimile of a brochure produced by the New York State government in 1972, A Handbook of Drug Terms outlines the new vocabulary that originated when recreational drug use entered the mainstream in the late 1960s and 70s.
Peter Coffin, Imaginary Concerts
Published by Printed Matter and Anthology Editions, 2017
Designed by Pacific
Hardcover
166 pages, 9 × 12 inches
Edition of 1,000
$30
→ Available at Printed Matter and Mexican Summer
Artist Peter Coffin solicited friends to contribute their dream concerts—invented lineups for impossible gigs. The line-ups were turned over to us to design 160 posters in the LA print shop Colby Poster's style on artworks created by Coffin, resulting in Imaginary Concerts. The project has turned into a two-volume celebration of music’s vast conceptual universe. Featuring concert lineups from a roster of artists and authors Yoko Ono, Hans Ulrich Obrist, Carlo McCormick and many others
Adam Turnbull, Found Flowers
Published by Pacific, 2017
Softcover
32 pages, 8 ¾ × 11¾ inches
Edition of 250
$20
Found Flowers documents the artists collection of reference images, which originated from research into image reproduction during the period predating widespread use of the Internet. Includes a found text from The Landscape is In The Design by L.H Bailey.
Robin Cameron,
Published by Run/Off Editions, 2017
Edited by Pacific
Softcover
196 pages, 6 × 9 inches
Edition of 125
$40
→ Available at Printed Matter
Right Now is a book of 365 stories inspired by the chronological events of an e-mail archive. A 10-year span in the artist’s life is distilled into a single new year—days, months and years are blurred into a pastiche of deconstructed personal histories. Cameron uses our perception of time as a device to formulate themes of permanence, change and nostalgia. Ultimately, the past is reiterated into the present, creating an examination of readers’ tenuous relationship to memory and time.
Adam Turnbull, VEHICLES
Published by Pacific, 2016
Softcover
114 pages, 5 ½ × 7 inches
Edition of 100
$14
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This compact volume of solely color photographs investigates the modification, personalization and imagery used on vehicles in and around New York.
Doug Aitken, Station to Station
Published by Prestel, 2015
Edited by Pacific
Hardcover
232 pages, 5 ½ × 10 ½ inches
$50
→ Available from Prestel
Over a 23-day period, Doug Aitken’s Station to Station project project crossed North America by train presenting a series of cultural interventions and site-specific happenings that took place in ten cities between New York and San Francisco. Over one hundred unique projects took place during the journey, created by today's leading contributors in contemporary art, music, literature, and culture. This publication houses the ideas that emerged from Station to Station. Includes an introduction by Dean Kuipers and interviews with Bice Curiger, Olafur Eliasson, Urs Fischer, Liz Glynn, Carsten Höller, Ed Ruscha, Lawrence Weiner, and many more.