Events Posted Jan 10, 2024

Book Signing With Todd Hido AND Mark Steinmetz 1/20/24

On Saturday, January 20th we start 2024 off in style by presenting a special dual book signing with longtime Arcana favorites - and pals - Todd Hido and Mark Steinmetz. Each has a lovely hot off the Nazraeli Press offering in The End Sends Advance Warning and France 1987, and we have them both here at the shop for the afternoon!
 
If you cannot attend and would like to order a copy of Todd Hido's The End Sends Advance Warning or a signed copy Mark Steinmetz's France 1987, or both to have shipped or to pick up at the shop, please place your order here.
 
We look forward to seeing you!
 
None Posted Dec 12, 2023

BOOK SIGNING WITH DOUG AITKEN!

PLEASE JOIN US THIS SATURDAY, DECEMBER 16TH, 4-6 FOR A BOOK SIGNING WITH DOUG AITKEN!
 
Between 2017 and 2021 artist Doug Aitken presented his site-specific installation entitled “Mirage” in the California desert outside Palm Springs, at a defunct Detroit bank, and nestled in the Swiss Alps. “Mirage” takes the form of a ranch-style suburban American house whose exterior is entirely clad in reflective mirrored surfaces that camouflage it in landscapes far removed from the familiar lawn and picket fence. The book is an immersive chronicle of the three installations, featuring photographs, architectural drawings, and other materials related to the project accompanied by a text by Neville Wakefield as well as an interview with the artist. Published collaboratively by the LUMA Foundation, Zolo Press and JRP  Editions, and handmade with cold foils, silver printing, an exposed spine, and bound as a leporello, this extraordinary document is a tour de force of the bookmaker’s art."
 
If you cannot attend and would like to order a signed copy of Mirage and/or  his recent and most spectacular Doug Aitken: Works 1992-2022, please place your order here!
 
We look forward to seeing you!
 
 
 
"Living and working in Los Angeles, Doug Aitken is an American artist and filmmaker. Defying definitions of genre, he explores every medium, from film and installations to architectural interventions.
 
His work has been featured in numerous exhibitions around the world, in such institutions as the Whitney Museum of American Art, The Museum of Modern Art, the Vienna Secession, the Serpentine Gallery in London and the Centre Georges Pompidou in Paris. He participated in the both the 1997 and 2000 Whitney Biennials, and earned the International Prize at the Venice Biennale in 1999 for the installation “electric earth”. Aitken received the 2012 Nam June Paik Art Center Prize, and the 2013 Smithsonian Magazine American Ingenuity Award: Visual Arts. In 2016 he received the Americans for the Arts National Arts Award: Outstanding Contributions to the Arts. In 2017 Aitken became the inaugural recipient of the Frontier Art Prize, a new contemporary art award that supports an artist to pursue bold projects that challenge the boundaries of knowledge and experience to reimagine the future of humanity.
 
In September 2016, a major survey of Aitken’s work opened at the Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA), Los Angeles. The survey exhibition subsequently traveled to The Modern, Fort Worth in May 2017. December of 2016 marked the installation one of his most ambitious projects to date, a trio of Underwater Pavilions tethered to the seabed off the coast of Catalina Island, California.
 
Mirage, a site-specific sculpture that takes the form of a home completely covered in mirrors and set in the heart of the Californian desert was installed in 2017. It has also been installed in Detroit, MI (2018) and in Gstaad, Switzerland (2019-2021). In July 2019, he launched the project New Horizon, a multifaceted art event challenging the notion of art in the 21st-century. The project was composed of a series of live events across the state of Massachusetts, centered around a stunning reflective hot air balloon and gondola. In 2022, a large scale survey of his artwork was featured in a solo exhibition at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Sydney."

 

Events Posted Dec 04, 2023

DEAN WAREHAM + ED TEMPLETON BOOK SIGNING!

Saturday, December 9th between 4:00 and 6:00 PM, Dean Wareham and Ed Templeton will be joining us for a very special book signing celebrating the publication of their elegant new Nazraeli Press edition, Hearing Voices - Selected Lyrics 1987-2021.
 
"This is the first published collection of Dean's lyrics, and is the result of collaboration with the artist Ed Templeton, who created the illustrations for the book. The songs presented here span his entire career from Galaxie 500 and Luna to his recent solo work."
 
 
We look forward to seeing you!
 
"Born in Wellington, New Zealand, Dean Wareham moved to New York City as a teenager, in August 1977. It was here, in high school, that he met future bandmates Damon Krukowski and Naomi Yang. All three went on to attend Harvard University, and in 1987 founded Galaxie 500, for which Wareham was the singer, guitarist and principal songwriter. Galaxie 500 released three albums For Rough Trade between 1987 and 1991 that have only grown in stature and influence. Wareham’s next band Luna recorded seven albums for Elektra and Beggar’s Banquet, followed by four albums with wife Britta Phillips as Dean & Britta, and three simply as Dean Wareham, including his most recent album I Have Nothing to Say to the Mayor of L.A. Also a writer, Wareham’s memoir, Black Postcards, was published by Penguin, and he has contributed to Salon, Pitchfork, the Talkhouse and Counterpunch."
 
"Ed Templeton is known for his interdisciplinary practice, most notably of photographs documenting people and street life of his Huntington Beach, California neighborhood, intimate portraits of his wife Deanna, and paintings depicting the psychological complexity of American suburbia. He first gained recognition as a teenage skateboard prodigy in the late 1980s and learned to photograph using disposable cameras while actively touring for competitions. He later expanded to incorporate his artwork and graphics for his skate company Toy Machine. Templeton has exhibited both his photography and artwork extensively worldwide, and his work is included in the permanent collections of Museum Dhondt-Dhaenes, Deurle, Belgium, Museum Het Domein, The Netherlands, The Orange County Museum of Art, Santa Ana, CA, and the Zabludowicz Collection, London, UK".
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

 

Events Posted Nov 28, 2023

Jacob Samuel Book Signing, Saturday 12/2!

JOIN US SATURDAY, DECEMBER 2nd, 4:00 to 6:00 PM
FOR A BOOK SIGNING WITH JACOB SAMUEL!
 
 
Saturday, December 2nd between 4:00 and 6:00 PM, renowned master printmaker Jacob Samuel will be joining us for a very special book signing. Available will be the hot-off-the-press New Ground: Jacob Samuel and Contemporary Etching, the awesome new hardbound catalogue of works published by Edition Jacob Samuel between 1988 and 2015 that accompanies the retrospective currently on view at the Museum of Modern Art in New York. In addition to hanging with Jacob - one of Arcana's oldest and dearest friends - you'll be able to bask in the sonic stylings of artist and DJ extraordinaire, Dave Muller.
 
If you cannot attend and would like to order a signed copy of New Ground to have shipped or to pick up at the shop, please place your order here!
 
We look forward to seeing you!
 
"What makes a five hundred-year-old printing process new? Master printer and publisher Jacob Samuel has brought etchings - prints created by transferring ink from a metal plate to paper - into the 21st century through collaborations with more than sixty contemporary artists. Some of the artists had never made prints; others had previously hated the process. But with Samuel’s guidance, they all adapted this historic technique to their artistic visions. New Ground: Jacob Samuel and Contemporary Etching gathers the resulting books and print portfolios to show the flexibility of etching and its reinvention for a contemporary world.
 
Jacob Samuel’s career began in the printshop of painter Sam Francis. It was there that he determined the type of etching projects he wanted to publish: small scale, serial, and generally printed in a single tone. Soon, Samuel began to work on prints at his own Santa Monica studio with a group of diverse and remarkably influential artists that includes the likes of Ed Ruscha, John Baldessari, Nancy Rubins, Chris Burden, Charlene von Heyl, Christopher Wool, Shio Kusaka, Jonas Wood, James Welling, Wangechi Mutu, Jannis Kounellis, Rebecca Horn, Gabriel Orozco, Dave Muller, Ed Moses, Joe Goode, Cristina Iglesias, Richard Tuttle, Meredith Monk, Tom Sachs, Marina Abramović, and Barry McGee. Encompassing abstraction, figuration, and a diverse range of visual styles and approaches, the works in New Ground reflect Samuel’s success in making the tradition of old master printmaking relevant and inspiring today."

 

Events Posted Nov 04, 2023

DAVID NETTO BOOKSIGNING SATURDAY 11/11!

JOIN US SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 11th, 4:00-6:00 PM
FOR A BOOK SIGNING WITH DAVID NETTO!
 
"For more than a decade, David Netto has been profiling the leading lights of the design world in lively, illuminating articles for numerous publications. Now, at long last, he turns his erudite eye and rapier wit to his own work as an interior and architectural designer. Featuring some twenty projects, ranging from city apartments and country houses to seaside and mountain getaways, David Netto reveals an eclectic aesthetic that brings to modernism a touch of warmth and personality and to traditionalism a jolt of energy and a dash of the exotic. Extensively photographed, with delightful watercolor illustrations by interiors artist Mita Bland, the book is as enlightening to read as it is inspiring to look at”.
 
If you cannot attend and would like to order a signed copy of David Netto to have shipped or to pick up at the shop, please place your order here!

 

Events Posted Nov 01, 2023

PIPPA GARNER BOOK SIGNING 11/18!!!

Saturday, November 18th between 4:00 and 6:00 PM, renowned Los Angeles-based artist Pippa Garner will be joining us for a very special book signing. Available will be the much-anticipated catalogue for Ms. Garner's current career-spanning retrospective - Act Like You Know Me, along with the 2023 edition of her iconic, long-unavailable Philip Garner's Better Living Catalog.
 
If you cannot attend and would like to order a signed copy of either - or both - to have shipped or to pick up at the shop, please place your order here! We look forward to seeing you this Saturday!
 
Act Like You Know Me is the first comprehensive monograph on innovative American artist Pippa Garner. Encompassing Garner’s most iconic works, from the Backwards Car to the Half-Suit, alongside never-before-seen photographs and ephemera, it surveys fifty years of her transdisciplinary art practice, from the late 1960s to the early 2010s, through photography, illustration, ephemera, and original writings. "Act Like You Know Me" supplements exclusive visuals and texts by Garner with archival press materials on the artist from such notable figures as Glenn O’Brien, Ralph Rugoff, and Hayden Dunham in addition to three new original commissions from contemporary, award-winning authors Shola von Reinhold, Dodie Bellamy, and Fiona Alison Duncan, and serves to introduce a highly-influential, under-recognized artist whose uncompromising approach to life and practice has allowed her to interact with the worlds of illustration, editorial, television, and art without ever becoming beholden to them. Pippa Garner’s Better Living Catalogue - originally published in 1982, takes the form of a mail order catalog featuring clever and whimsical inventions that parody consumer goods while simultaneously critiquing America’s obsession with ingenuity, efficiency, leisure, and comfort. These works, which were made as prototypes and photographed for the publication, take the form of improbable accessories, clothing, footwear, home appliances, and office gadgets. For example, the “Reactiononometer,” a portable wristband, instantly measures social success, while the “Digital Diet Loafers” display the wearer’s weight with every step. If the “Munch-o-Matic” reduces deskwork interruptions by flinging a snack right into the user’s mouth, other items promise financial solvency (the controlled cash flow “Autowallet”), sustainable waste management, or mess-free companionship (the “Pet-a-Vision” TV console). The artist asserts that all of the products in the book are “absolute necessities for contemporary survival.” Many of the prototypes Garner created for the publication were ultimately repurposed or recycled, making this previously rare gem of an artist book one of the artist’s few works to now be widely available. Born in the suburbs of Chicago in 1942, the artist formerly known as Philip Garner has satirized American-style consumerism for decades, reifying the joys of everyday life and personal liberation along her way. With her prankish sense of humour and conceptual dedication to experimental engineering, she has altered materials of mass production - from Fordism through the pharmacopornographic era - subverting commercial binaries to reveal the transitory nature of material life and her own transpersonal identity.
Events Posted Oct 15, 2023

JIM GOLDBERG BOOK SIGNING + DISCUSSION 10/28

JIM GOLDBERG: COMING AND GOING DISCUSSION + BOOK SIGNING
SATURDAY, OCTOBER 28TH, 3:00 - 5:00 PM
AT 8707 WASHINGTON BOULEVARD
 
Please join us Saturday, October 28th for a discussion with Jim Goldberg and Douglas Fogle for Goldberg's new book Coming and Going, published by MACK.
 
* PLEASE NOTE *
The discussion will begin at 3:20 and will be followed by the book signing.
 
Coming and Going will be available for purchase beginning at 3:00 at the event space (8707 Washington Blvd.) and is available for pre-order on our website now.
 
Mr. Goldberg's schedule is tight and he will prioritize signing Coming and Going over other material brought to the event.
 
All seating has been reserved by those who have RSVP'd. But there is plenty of standing room, so please do join us. If you have already RSVP'd please arrive by 3:15 to insure your seat.  Seats will be open to all after 3:15 regardless of RSVP.
 
8707 WASHINGTON BOULEVARD (350 FEET WEST OF ARCANA)
FREE VALET PARKING AVAILABLE ADJACENT TO THE EVENT VENUE AT  8711 WASHINGTON
 
"Coming and Going is Jim Goldberg’s unique work of autobiography. Since 1999, Goldberg has been photographing his daily life through all its vicissitudes and returning to his studio to re-imagine and investigate these images through a practice of collage, annotation, montage, and reconstruction for which he has become renowned. This book charts a course through the grief following the death of one’s parents, the life-altering birth of a child, the heartbreak of divorce, and the rediscovery of love. Told using a correspondingly tumultuous blend of singular and combined imagery, personal notes, collages, and ephemera, the book captures the bittersweet realities of an individual life while reflecting on the universal, inescapable comings and goings that shape us and the ways we grow to understand ourselves. Familiar from celebrated works such as Rich and Poor (1985), Raised by Wolves (1995) and Open See (2009), Goldberg’s visual language employs sequence and narrative with a feverish intensity. History, memory, and imagination collide in a vividly material practice to which the influences of fiction and film, and the book form itself, are central. Coming and Going offers a fierce, vulnerable, and at times overwhelming account of a life and a search for the elusive universals of experience – an achievement that constitutes Goldberg’s masterwork and a significant contribution to contemporary bookmaking."
 
Events Posted Oct 01, 2023

RICHARD EDSON: YEAR ZERO - LOCKDOWN JOURNAL BOOK SIGN

Please join us Saturday, October 7th between 4:00 and 6:00 PM for a very special book signing with photographer Richard Edson.

"I began the Year Zero - Lockdown Journal on March 20th, 2020. On the first day I took my bicycle and camera and rode through the empty, silent streets of Los Angeles. Everything looked the same, but everything was completely different. I took photos and came back and wrote about it. And I kept it up for next twelve months, through our personal and collective isolation, through the ups and downs of the pandemic, the slow, halting opening of society, the politicization of the virus, the George Floyd protests, the elections, the Stop-the-Steal movement, and the storming of the Capital. Covid-19 was beyond anything we thought possible or could even imagine. It's the stuff of science fiction and dystopian nightmares. But the writers and doomsayers were right. And here we are. Each of us who have lived through Year Zero have our own stories to tell. This, in photographs and texts, is mine." Published by Artvoices Books, Year Zero - Lockdown Journal features two beautifully packaged hardcover books in a slipcase subtitled, "Spring & Summer" and "Fall & Winter."

Richard Edson has been acting in films for nearly forty years and has appeared in over one hundred movies and television shows. His more notable roles include a disreputable parking garage attendant in Ferris Bueller's Day Off (1986), Desperately Seeking Susan (1985), Howard the Duck (1986), Jim Jarmusch's cult film Stranger Than Paradise (1984), Eight Men Out, and Joey Breaker (1993). He also appeared in Platoon (1986), Good Morning, Vietnam (1987), Tougher Than Leather (1988), Let It Ride (1989), and Do the Right Thing (1989). He starred in the 1993 movie Super Mario Bros as Spike (1987). As a photographer he has had four solo exhibitions in Los Angeles and has been in countless group exhibits. He has also appeared in Juxtapose, Puta, and The Propagandist magazines and has had photography assignments for Wax Poetics, American Apparel, and many others. Until recently he had a monthly photo spread / column in the Los Angeles downtown arts magazine, Citizen LA. In addition to acting and photography he was a founding member and first drummer for the seminal art rock band Sonic Youth, and drummer / trumpet player for the legendary New York Afro-dance band, Konk.

If you cannot attend and would like to purchase a signed copy of Year Zero - Lockdown Journal, please place your order here!
Events Posted Aug 08, 2023

JERRY HSU BOOKSIGNING - LONLEY CITY - SATURDAY 8/19!

Please join us on Saturday, 8/19 from 4:00 PM to 6:00 PM to celebrate Jerry Hsu's new book, LONLEY CITY.

Books will be available for purchase and signing. 

 

 

Events Posted Jul 14, 2023

AWOL ERIZKU: MYSTIC PARALLAX!

JOIN US SATURDAY,
JULY 15th, 4:00 - 6:00 PM
FOR A BOOK SIGNING WITH
AWOL ERIZKU!

Please join us Saturday, July 15th between 4:00 and 6:00 PM for a very special book signing with esteemed artist Awol Erizku.

"Working across photography, film, video, painting, and installation, Awol Erizku's work references and re-imagines African-American and African visual culture, from hip hop vernacular to Nefertiti, while nodding to traditions of spirituality and Surrealism. This comprehensive monograph spans the artist’s career, blending his studio practice with his work as an in-demand editorial photographer working regularly for the New Yorker, New York magazine, Time, and GQ, among others, and features his conceptual portraits of Black cultural icons such as Solange, Amanda Gorman,

and Michael B. Jordan. As Erizku recently told the New York Times, 'It’s important for me to create confident, powerful, downright regal images of Black people.' Featuring essays by critically acclaimed author Ishmael Reed, curator Ashley James, and writer Doreen St. Félix, and interviews with the artist by Urs Fischer and Antwaun Sargent, Mystic Parallax is a luminous and arresting testament to the artist’s tremendous power and originality."

If you cannot attend but would like to purchase a signed example of Mystic Parallax, please place your order here, or call 310-458-1499.

 

 

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