Tag: Drawing
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“Tear Gas Flash Bangs Fires” Consume Us and Will Consume this Book
“Tear Gas Flash Bangs Fires” Consume Us and Will Consume this BookPaul Valadez2026 286 pages9.5 × 13.75 in. closedUnbound altered bookInk lettering on cover with graphite and watercolor insideUnique (1 copy) Most of the books I review have been donated to Artists’ Book Reviews — an exchange of artistic and critical labor. If anything, it…
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Warten
WartenConstanze Kreiser2021 20 pages8.25 × 5.75 in. closedPamphlet stitchDigital printing with graphite and cut-out embellishmentsVaried edition of 20 copies Warten is a book about waiting for a book about waiting. Constanze Kreiser created Warten (“waiting” in German) while waiting for a copy of Maurice Blanchot’s Awaiting Oblivion to arrive at a local bookstore. Created in…
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how to build a ____.
how to build a ____.Madeleine Aguilar2023bench press Issues:1. Madeleine Aguilar2. Ray Madrigal3. Jane Ferry4. Bex Ya Yolk 24 pages7 × 8 in. closedSaddle stitchRisograph printingEditions of 250 Madeleine Aguilar calls how to build a ____. “a series of artists’ responses to organizing their creative practice in 20 steps.” I wouldn’t usually begin a review by…
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The Streets Are Very Quiet
The Streets Are Very Quiet(You Look Like The Right Type, Book 2)Mark Addison Smith2022Printed at Fort Orange Press 448 pages9 × 6 × 2 in. closedSmyth-sewn, case-boundDigital printing inside with foil-stamped coverFirst edition of 150 The Streets Are Very Quiet belongs to a series of daily drawings titled You Look Like The Right Type, which…
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praying for joy
praying for joyIsabel Baraona2025 20 pagesSaddle-stitched pamphlet6 × 9.5 in. closedDigital printingEdition of 50 Praying for joy is a short pamphlet containing a single poem by Isabel Baraona. A single poem, but one created by remixing and redacting two earlier pieces. Praying for joy shares its title with a painting series from 2010 and deals…
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Poems Sneaking Through a Sieve
Poems Sneaking Through a SieveRiley CavanaughHave a Nice Day Press2022 Spiral-bound softcover8.5 × 6.25 in.66 pagesDigital printingEdition of 500 Poems Sneaking Through a Sieve combines poems from two series, one derived from spam emails and the other from CAPTCHAs, into a single, spiral-bound compendium. Riley Cavanaugh’s visual poetry and hand-drawn annotations are accompanied by a…
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Prisoners’ Inventions
Prisoners’ InventionsAngeloTemporary Services (Brett Bloom and Marc Fischer)Edited by Mairead Case and designed by Partner & PartnersHalf Letter Press2020 8.5 × 5.5 in. closed200 pagesPerfect-bound softcoverDigital printing Prisoners’ Inventions is what the title suggests: a compendium of devices designed, built, and used by people incarcerated in US prisons. First published in 2003 with WhiteWalls, this…
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Asemic Walks: 50 Templates for Pataphysical Inspections
Asemic Walks: 50 Templates for Pataphysical InspectionsHartmut AbendscheinTimglaset Editions2020 8.25 × 6 in. closed108 pagesPerfect-bound softcoverLaser printing If the title of Asemic Walks: 50 Templates for Pataphysical Inspections seems somewhat opaque, the book itself is transparent – literally. Fifty sheets of translucent drafting vellum, each with a printed route, are bound between a few solid…
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The Circus
The CircusTara HomasiPinsapo Press / Publication Studio2019 9 × 12.25 × 0.7 in.190 pagesPerfect-bound softcoverDigital printing Tara Homasi coaxed The Circus out of an existing book, The Circle of Life: Rituals from the Human Family Album. If Tom Phillips’ seminal redacted book, A Humument, is impressive because the original book is mediocre, obscure and visually…
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Terra Nullius
Terra NulliusChristopher Kardambikis2020 7.5 × 10.25 in. closed50 pagesBinding: Plastic strip fastenerRisograph I try not to talk about William Blake. I love his work, but I find his outsized role in the genealogy of artists’ books to be of little use for contemporary criticism. So, when I opened Terra Nullius by Christopher Kardambikis, I shuddered.…
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