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(Williams, Senon). Williams, Senon. Los Angeles: APKG Press, 2025. First Edition of 12 examples. 7 1/4 x 9". Etching on Paper. Artist's Multiple. As New. One 7 1/4 x 9" etching on paper, 1 monochrome illustration. Published in a limited edition of twelve copies in conjunction with his 2025 Hat & Beard Press book "Scrapyard", "Everything Must Go'" is a charming new etching from esteemed Los Angeles artist, musician, and author SEnon Williams. A brand new example SIGNED AND NUMBERED by the artist in pencil across the lower margin, as issued. Inventory Number: E00SWEMG

(Williams, Senon). Williams, Senon. Los Angeles: Hat & Beard Press, 2021. First Edition. 12mo (4.5 x 5.25 in.). Printed Flexible Boards. Artist Monograph. As New/No Jacket - As Issued. 152pp, illustrated in color and b&w. Designed by Lorraine Wild, Green Dragon Office. “The old adage “a picture is worth a thousand words” is turned on its side in “Words Don't Mean Much” - Senon Williams’ new book of aphoristic phrasing. Far fewer words are needed to create an illuminating image in the mind’s eye, conjuring immediate multi-sensory experiences. This book of poems is derived from the text in Williams’ ink on paper drawings. The drawings are textual extractions and gather momentum within the book, exhibiting great attention to materials and craftsmanship. Every detail, from select paper to classic typeface, has been considered. An object, not unlike a sculpture, can be viewed from all sides, handled - and leafed through in the case of this book - front to back, back to front, or randomly opened. “Words Don't Mean Much” is a small pocket book, easy to conceal. A book to keep all to yourself or share intimately.”

Los Angeles native Senon Williams is a lifelong artist and musician. A founding member of the always-engaging Dengue Fever, Williams’ visual work finds space in the natural, exposing outstanding and devastating stages of human evolution. “To provoke thought, a question works better than answers. I enjoy to start a story I resolve in different ways depending on my mood."

A brand new, most handsome example of this charming new work additionally SIGNED by Senon Williams in ink. Inventory Number: E000SWWDMM

(Williams, Senon). Williams, Senon. Venice, CA: Hamilton Press, 2017. First Edition 1/750. Small 4to. Illustrated Flexible Boards. Artist Monograph. As New/No Jacket as Issued. 152pp, profusely illustrated in color and b&w. Los Angeles native Senon Williams is a lifelong artist and musician. A founding member of the always-engaging Dengue Fever, Williams’ visual work finds space in the natural, exposing outstanding and devastating stages of human evolution. “To provoke thought, a question works better than answers. I enjoy to start a story I resolve in different ways depending on my mood". With imagery ranging from stark silhouettes to lush landscapes and human forms staged in undetermined acts of hope, his pairing of words and imagery form a poignant visualization of the inherent human struggle both ancient and contemporary.  Senon Williams' first book, "Hunted & Gathered" was painstakingly produced by Hamilton Press. The press was established in 1990 by master printmaker Ed Hamilton and artist Ed Ruscha to encourage artists to produce art in a peaceful, unhurried atmosphere. Steeped in traditional book making in a modern age, each publication itself is a fine object created by an esteemed team. Designed by Lorraine Wild and Marina Mills Kitchen of Green Dragon Office with color separations by Echelon Color, Santa Monica and printed by Dr. Cantz’sche Druckerei Median GmbH in Ostfildern, Germany, the book consists of seven hundred hardbound copies along with a deluxe edition of limited to fifty copies containing an original work on paper by the artist. A brand new, most handsome example of the standard edition additionally SIGNED by Senon Williams. 978-0-692-87700-5

Inventory Number: E000SWH&G

(Williams, Senon). Williams, Senon, Richelle Munkhoff & Beth Ann Whittaker. Los Angeles: Hat & Beard Press, I00251213, 2025. First Edition. 8 1/4 x 10 1/2", Oblong 4to. Illustrated Boards. Artist Monograph. As New/No Jacket - As Issued. 978-1955125680

146pp, profusely illustrated in color. Designed by Russell Etchen. Senon Williams is a lifelong musician, visual artist and poet, born and currently based in Los Angeles. Descended from survivors of enslavement and the Holocaust, Williams is an artist whose practice is a response to scarcity and loss with a deep commitment to preservation. He is drawn to the physical scraps of life - and the layering of those scraps into a larger tapestry - believing that these objects have souls. Assembling found pieces, large and small, sometimes literally from yards or the street, Williams collects unwanted things, used things, to create anew. A blending of these objects’ inner character with his own vision into an assemblage, not only of the physical but also of the spirit. Williams’ work is grounded in a love of language play, sounds, textures, and associations of word and object. Working in various media in his visual art practice - sculpture, painting, serigraphy, and printmaking - he counters what we think we know. Something familiar gives us pause and words we know well induce questions. Always blending the visual with poetry, we are addressed with layers of contrasts. 

This book forms a graveyard or a scrapyard of items one might typically discard. In our time of extreme wastefulness, assembling the detritus from his artmaking into a scrapbook gives each of these items a collective home and value. Gathered from his day-to-day studio practice, they are thoughts jotted down, remnants of materials used, random receipts, which suggest a sense of care, like acts of preservation, mending and repurposing. Each piece is held, suspended from its final dissolution, forming a new place in which to exist. Interspersed within are vignettes looking at the histories of scrapbooking and ephemeral collection over time by Richelle Munkhoff and Beth Ann Whittaker of Plain Sight Archive. There is a long legacy and history of this artistic action and this publication represents now another documentation of time and place. A brand new, most handsome example of this charming new work additionally SIGNED "Senon Williams" in black ink on the title page.

Inventory Number: E00251213