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Eloquent Eye: 2017-2023 Interviews with Los Angeles Artists
Gary Brewer
Hardcover
122 Pages
8.5 x 5.5 inches
ISBN: 978-1-7367738-4-0
US $16
“The world indeed has upended. A seismic shift has realigned the magnetic poles, and the art world is seeing a shift in the nexus where the planet’s creative souls converge. Many factors make Los Angeles an ideal city to nurture a contemporary zeitgeist. It has long been criticized as a vapid, glittering mirage, a phenomenon of impermanence that grew rapidly without a plan or design, a hodgepodge of communities linked by a nightmarish gnarl of freeways. Greater Los Angeles is indeed a Byzantine sprawl of cities. The world has filled this urban crazy quilt with a rich weave of cultures—and these cultures are synthesizing new language forms, with images and metaphors that tell human-scale stories the world is hungry to hear.” So writes Gary Brewer in the exciting preface to this journey into the studios, hearts and minds of the artists in his fascinating book, Eloquent Eye: Studio Visits/Interviews with Artists of Los Angeles.
Artists:
Iva Gueorguieva
Paul Paiement
Simphiwe Ndzube
Rebecca Farr
Alison Saar
Tim Hawkinson
Katherina Olschbaur
Kimberly Brooks
Nasim Hantehzadeh
Mercedes Dorame
Forrest Kirk
Umar Rashid
Matthew Brandt
Elliott Hundley
10 Things Every Jew Should Know Before They Go to College
by Emily Schrader and Blake Flayton
Illustrated by Kimberly Brooks
5.5 x 8.5 in., 282 pp, Hardcover, Paperback
Illustrations Throughout
ISBN 978-1-7367738-5-7
10 Things Every Jew Should Know Before They Go to College provides a pithy illustrated primer on Jewish history, Israel and geopolitics in an easy-to-reference trope-busting book for any Jew, especially current and future college students.
February 18th, 2025
Dan Droz: Behind the Fold
Hardcover
122 Pages
7.5 x 9.25 inches
ISBN: 978-1-7367738-2-6
$39.99
“Behind the Fold” documents the background, recent work and unique methods of sculptor, Dan Droz, who at the age of 69, began his career as a full-time sculptor and is now represented nationally in both private and public collections. “Behind The Fold” provides a window into Droz’s magical world of form, inventive fabrication methods, and philosophies and showcases new perspectives on sculpture for other artists, collectors, curators, gallerists, and art historians.
Dan Droz is an internationally known designer, educator, and sculptor who has developed novel methods for forming metal, glass, and wire mesh to draw attention to the limits of perception. dandroz.com
Clive Wilson: Blue Note
Jerrin Wagstaff: Miscellaneous Debris
Hardcover
74 Pages
7.5 x 9.25 inches
ISBN: 978-1-7367738-0-2
$29.99
Miscellaneous Debris features paintings and drawings by artist Jerrin Wagstaff and includes an interview conducted by Austin Beck-Doss and an essay by Shana Nys Dambrot. Wagstaff’s paintings examine the nature of visual experience in the internet era and the anxiety of responding to a torrent of information.
Jerrin Wagstaff paintings address the nature of visual experience in the internet era and the complexities of living in an attention based economy. His work has been featured in several solo and group shows locally and throughout the country. Jerrin’s work has also been included in group shows at the Torrance Art Museum, Torrance, CA, Center for Contemporary Art, Sacramento, CA, Utah Museum of Contemporary Art, Salt Lake City, UT, San Diego Art Institute, San Diego, CA, and CUAC Contemporary Art, Salt Lake City, Utah.
Ray Beldner: The Most Perfect Most
Hardcover
68 Pages
7.5 x 9.25 inches
ISBN: 978-1-7367738-2-6
$29.99
The Most Perfect Most, is an art catalog of shaped, wall-mounted collage/assemblages by artist Ray Beldner. The collages are made from images of historic artworks that he finds from books, auction catalogs, and magazines which he then deconstructs to create wholly new forms and narratives.
Ray Beldner is a sculptor and mixed media artist whose work has been exhibited both nationally and internationally and can be found in many public and private collections including the Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery and the Federal Reserve Board, Washington D.C., 21c Museum, Kentucky, the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, Oakland Museum of California, and the San Jose Museum of Art, among others.
The New Oil Painting
Written and Illustrated by Kimberly Brooks
208 pages
5 x 7 inches
The New Oil Painting: Your Essential Guide to Materials & Safe Practices, is a culmination of years researching the best and safest materials for oil painting by artist Kimberly Brooks. Oil painting practices need not be complicated and are often misunderstood and produce unnecessary exposure to toxic chemicals. Simple explanations and lists of mediums, canvas types, paint brands and brushes are accompanied by simple illustrations created by the artist. The first edition was published by Griffith Moon. An updated expanded version with photographic images will be available May 18 from wherever books are sold.
Kimberly Brooks is an exhibiting artist and award winning teacher who on occasion conducts workshops around the country including at the Otis School of Art and Design and the Anderson Ranch Arts Center.
A Great Intake of Breath
SPACE
A Collection of Essays and Images Curated
by Shana Mabari and Andi Campognone
134 pages, hardcover, 7.5 x 9.25 inches, 20 photographs
$39.99
“Children at play, artists at work, and scientists measuring quantum effects share this in common: they are all creating reality.” – LEONARD SHLAIN
ABOUT THE BOOK
An intimate meditation on an almost infinite subject, Space aims to explode an ordinary everyday word into a dazzling prism via an exploration of some of the many interpretations of the term. Artist Shana Mabari asked more than a dozen individuals from dramatically different walks of life—from an astronaut and a filmmaker to an art critic and a musician—what they think about when they think about space. Their answers, which alternate with exceptional work from contemporary Southern California artists selected by curator Andi Campognone, invigorate and inspire, and in turn become fodder for reflection upon our relationship to ourselves, to others, and to the universe at large.
ABOUT THE AUTHORS
Andi Campognone has over 30 as an arts and culture leader in the southern California region. She is the Executive Director of AC Projects, a non-profit consulting organization focused on promoting arts and culture. Projects include developing museum exhibitions, public engagement, mentoring programs and book and film publications of historically relevant southern California artists. Campognone is also the Arts Manager/Senior Curator for the City of Lancaster’s museums. She is responsible for the development and maintenance of partnerships and community engagement initiatives with artists, businesses, stakeholders, Los Angeles County Arts Commission, Los Angeles County Supervisors office, California Arts Council and higher level institutions. She develops curatorial direction for exhibition, educational and engagement programming and additionally leads the public art initiatives for the City of Lancaster. She has previously served the City of Pomona as Cultural Arts Commissioner where she co-wrote and implemented the City’s Master Cultural Arts Plan and the adopted Arts in Public Places Policy. She is the cofounder of Kipaipai, a professional development workshop for artists in Hawaii, California and New York. Campognone is on the Board of the Lancaster Museum and Public Art Foundation and on the Board of the Holualoa Foundation for Arts and Culture. She volunteers as a regular speaker and mentor to art students at both the undergraduate and graduate level and is on the advisory board of the Los Angeles Arts Association. She is a member of ArTTable.
Shana Mabari is an American contemporary artist with a studio practice based in Los Angeles and Ibiza, Spain. Previously she has lived and worked in Paris, Northern India, Southeast Asia, and Tel Aviv. Central to Mabari’s practice are her ongoing investigations of the intersections of art and science, as evidenced by her sculptures, installations, and immersive environments that explore the dynamics of visual perception and the ways in which we experience physical space.
Sant Khalsa: Prana – Life with Trees
Hardcover
178 pages
7.5 x 9.25 inches
ISBN: 978-0-9998452-6-4
$45
Sant Khalsa is an artist and activist whose projects develop from her impassioned inquiry into the nature of place and complex environmental and societal issues. Her artworks create a contemplative space where one can sense the subtle and profound connections between themselves and the natural world.
The subject of trees has been a focus in Sant Khalsa’s creative work for nearly five decades. Prana: Life with Trees is the first in depth survey of Khalsa’s intimate connection with trees – her explorations, observations, perceptions and interpretations. Her unique perspective is expressed through a style that encompasses the documentary, subjective and conceptual. Her work evokes a meditative calm to what we often experience as a chaotic and conflicted world.
Khalsa is concerned with both the micro and macro aspects of forests: what is seen and unseen; historical, scientific and spiritual; and personal and universal. She is mindful of our symbiotic relationship with trees and forests, grounded in the life-sustaining connection through the breath (exchange of carbon dioxide and oxygen). Her beautiful, distinctive and sometime disquieting works express the cycle of life (birth, life, death, and rebirth), the destruction and memory of the forest, as well as the promise of new growth.
The book includes her earliest landscapes (self-portraits and photographs of orange groves); images of trees from her three decades photographing in the Santa Ana Watershed and other locations in the American West; and mixed-media sculptures and installation works inspired by her research on air quality and life-changing experience planting more than a thousand trees in 1992 as part of the reforestation of Holcomb Valley in the San Bernardino Mountains. In her recent color photographs, we witness the fruits of her activism, a healthy, thriving and hopeful forest eco-system.
Sant Khalsa’s artworks are widely exhibited internationally, collected by prestigious museums including the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Nevada Museum of Art and Center for Creative Photography in Tucson and published in numerous art books and periodicals. Khalsa is a recipient of prestigious fellowships, awards and grants from the National Endowment for the Arts, California Arts Council, California Council for the Humanities and others. She is a Professor of Art, Emerita at California State University, San Bernardino and resides in Joshua Tree.
UC Berkeley Arts + Design Showcase: Issue 03 2019
Paperback
160 pages
7.5 x 9.25 inches
ISBN: 978-1-7326992-3-6
$20
Issue 3 of Made at Berkeley gathers outstanding creative work by UC Berkeley undergraduate students with stunning texts and images on nearly every page. From the visual arts to film to the performing arts, from the literary arts to architectural and industrial design, the book features the achievements of top students in their respective fields.
These works demonstrate the discipline of particular art forms—painting, theater, poetry—as well as the vibrant ‘mash-up’ of cross-disciplinary experiment. Described in the voices of the students who made them, the collection exemplifies and advances the innovation and creativity of UC Berkeley.
Paul Cummins: The Collected Poems
Hardcover
148 pages
6 x 9 inches
ISBN: 978-0-9998452-9-5
Available Spring 2019
$24.99
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Paul Cummins, a renown educator and social justice activist, entered the world of poetry in 1966 while writing a doctoral dissertation on the poetry of twice pulitzer prize winning Richard Wilbur at USC. This book, selected from the nearly 600 poems written between 1966-2017, since then, offers a clear and often inspiring voice, with brilliant and sacred imagery all the while allowing for uncommon accessibility. This volume includes sonnets, prose poems, odes as well as various metered, and stanzaic poems.
Cummins, likens the absolute quiet that he requires to create as his own mini temple. Where usually the act of creation is deliberate, sometimes it startled Cummins: “Sometimes, poems just appear, such as ‘Red Rover’ which wrote itself in the my head while driving, and I had to pull over on the side of the rode to capture it.”
In addition to poems about everyday life, the subjects of this selection occasionally delve into literature and history as in “HCE: A Son-Not (?)”, and “Endsandbeginsand,” each providing a nod to Joyce’s Finnegan’s Wake, in addition to war poems featuring subjects from Buchenwald to Nagasaki to Vietnam.
Cummins offers a rare blend of depth and accessibility. These poems, besides addressing the core issues of human experience, offer genuine aesthetic treats – unusual forms, rhyme and rhythm in synch, assonance and imagery. Even in poems seemingly simple, there is artistry to enjoy.
He Started It!: My Twitter War with Trump
Paperback
92 pages
5 x 8 inches
30 Illustrations
ISBN: 978-0-9998452-8-8
$14.95
For appearances and press kit go to www.hestartedit.com
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In 2013, Donald Trump got involved in his first sustained Twitter War. Unfortunately for Trump, in this endeavor as in so very many others, he was not up to the task. If you’re someone with no discernible sense of humor – someone for whom ridicule is like Kryptonite – a professional comedy writer would not be an ideal opponent with whom to engage. He Started It!: My Twitter War with Trump is the complete record (with commentary) of Donald Trump’s hilarious three-month-long delusion that he was outwitting Danny Zuker. Introduction by Paul Slansky.
A PERCENTAGE OF EACH SALE GOES TO PLANNED PARENTHOOD, RAICES (the Refugee and Immigrant Center for Education and Legal Services) and the WORLD WILDLIFE FUND
Danny Zuker
When not trolling the leader of the free world, Danny Zuker (@DannyZuker) works as a television comedy writer/producer. He’s spent the last nine years as one of the executive producers of Modern Family, and has worked on many shows including Evening Shade, Roseanne, Just Shoot Me, and so many flops.
Paul Slansky
Paul Slansky (@slansky) is the author of The Clothes Have No Emperor: A Chronicle of the American ‘80s and five other books that savagely mock the idiots, hypocrites and demagogues who masquerade as our “leaders.” In the summer of 2016, he created (and continues to curate) www.trumpelthinskin.com, a website dedicated to disrespecting Donald Trump.
Central Park Love Song
Wandering Beneath the Heaventrees
by Stephen Wolf
Paperback
240 pages
5.5 x 8.5 inches
25 Illustrations & Maps
ISBN: 978-0-9993153-6-1
$16.99
Press Release: Download PDF
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[Stephen Wolf’s] “Central Park Love Song: Wandering Beneath the Heaventrees” is an eloquent, evocative ode that encompasses New York history, past and contemporary protagonists, geography and botany so gracefully that reading his book is like, well, a walk in the park.
– Sam Roberts, The New York Times
Central Park Love Song: Wandering beneath the Heaventrees is both an intimate portrait and meticulous research of America’s first great public park and the most visited site in New York City. Beginning with the narrator and his dog wandering the battered but still beautiful park in the late 1970s, readers learn why the park is so large on an island so small, why it grows in the center of Manhattan, and what has been lost to the needs of an ever-changing city. These and other stories weave through the narrative as the reader and narrator discover every cave and cranny of the park’s 843 acres and later see the park in new ways with his children, much as he did with his dog three decades before. In a creative blend of fact and imagination that includes excerpts from novels, poems, essays and songs about Central Park, we visit the park during its construction, the raucous zoo hoax of 1876, and stroll with “Miss Manhattan” –Audrey Munson, model for three statues in the park and a dozen more throughout the city. We’re at Jimmy Walker’s glamorous Casino and the bleak Hooverville nearby, slip through a fence on summer nights to swim in the reservoir—Lake Manhattan to those who love it—and experience the wondrous gift given the park and surrounding city by the legendary hawk Pale Male; finally, we watch the Central Park Conservancy’s miraculous revival of the park over the last twenty years. The book concludes at an imaginary lunch with the narrator, his young daughter, Frederick Law Olmsted and others at work on the map of “The Greensward Plan” that eventually became Central Park.
“This book about an enduring enchantment with place will resonate with all who find in the city’s green heart a special world of their own.”
– Elizabeth Barlow Rogers, author of The Green Metropolis, first president of the Central Park Conservancy, 1980-1996.
“Stephen Wolf loves the city & its green sanctuary as Frank O’Hara did its streets… Everywhere you look there is wonder & beauty & the everyday real people who populate the place. Along the way, wandering beneath the heaventrees, you will most certainly fall in love.”
– Kevin Coval, author of This is Modern Art, editor of The Breakbeat Poets.
Stephen Wolf, PhD – Born in Chicago and with a doctorate from the University of Illinois, Stephen Wolf moved to the Lower East Side in 1977, blocks from where his grandparents once lived. His fiction has appeared in Playboy, Ploughshares, and The Anthology American Families, and his story cycle “Intimate Articles”, was published by Ten Speed Press. He teaches literature and the humanities at Berkeley College in New York City.
KIMBERLY BROOKS: Fever Dreams
Hardcover
133 pages
7.5 x 9.25 inches
ISBN: 978-1-7326992-1-2
$40.00
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Kimberly Brooks integrates figuration and abstraction to explore a variety of subjects dealing with history, memory and identity. Exhibitions include Mom’s Friends, Technicolor Summer, The Stylist Project, I Notice People Disappear, Brazen and most recently Fever Dreams at Mt San Antonio College (2018). Brooks paintings have been showcased in numerous juried exhibitions with artist curators including Chris Burden, Mira Schor and Museum curators from the Whitney Museum of American Art, The Museum of Modern Art, California Institute of the Arts, Los Angeles County Museum of Art. Her work is the featured subject of Brazen, A Collection of Paintings and Poetry by Griffith Moon. Her work has received international press and she was recently a featured artist for the National Endowment for the Arts. Also an educator, Brooks teaches workshops around the country including at Otis School of Art and Design in Los Angeles and The Anderson Ranch Art Center in Colorado. She is the recipient of the Franklyn Liegel Award for Teaching excellence. She was born in New York City, raised in Mill Valley and works and lives in Los Angeles.
UC Berkeley Arts + Design Showcase: Issue 02 2018
Paperback
186 pages
7.5 x 9.25 inches
ISBN: 978-0-9998452-3-3
$20
UC Berkeley Arts + Design: gathers outstanding creative work by UC Berkeley undergraduate students with stunning texts and images on nearly every page. From the visual arts to film to the performing arts, from the literary arts to architectural and industrial design, the UC Berkeley Arts + Design: features the achievements of top students in their respective fields. These works demonstrate the discipline of particular art forms—painting, theater, poetry—as well as the vibrant ‘mash-up’ of cross-disciplinary experiment. Described in the voices of the students who made them, the collection exemplifies and advances the innovation and creativity of UC Berkeley.
Memory & Identity: The Marvelous Art of Betye, Lezley & Alison Saar
Hardcover
94 pages
7.5 x 9.25 inches
55 Illustrations
ISBN: 978-0-9998452-1-9
$39.95
Betye, Lezley and Alison Saar have created some of the most powerful, important and deeply moving art in our contemporary world. Their compelling works forge idiosyncratic constructions of social memory and personal identity, as well as the cultural histories underlying them. All three Saars assemble two- and three-dimensional works based on unexpected juxtapositions of form and content. They deploy the flotsam of material culture, from discarded architectural components (old windows, ceiling tiles, wall paper) to domestic detritus (washboards, buckets, shelves) to historic photographs and printed fabrics.
KHÔRA:
John David O’Brien, Rebecca Ripple, Coleen Sterritt
Hardcover
115 pages
7.5 x 9.25 inches
70 Illustrations
ISBN: 978-0-9993153-2-3
$39.95
What is meant when using khôra to describe this exhibition, a Platonic concept that explains the space in which ideas exist? In this exhibition space is formed and agitated by the objects, shifting between imagination and reality, the tactile reality of our everyday life re-formed as a fantasy. It is a game that plays with perception. The artists compete with reality by using reality to trigger a new meaning or response as reality ignites each individual’s association with the module that has been created as a new entity.
Khôra tickles our sense of, perception of, and association with that object, as if we are on a carousel: with each turn we return to the same place but we are always moving, there is a foundation that remains stable but our understanding of that foundation continues to change with each pass. Sense, perception, and association; these three phases of experience, varying from individual to individual, can be highly subjective. It is individuals’ response to this transformation that takes them through the experience of everyday perceptual genres to what becomes a game of play through imagination.
Khôra orchestrates different forms of materialized fantasy from three different minds in the same space, in order to create a new perception. These artists take common, recognizable objects from our everyday life and put them in a different context; they take familiar perception and twist it into a different universe, a tactile fantasy. The audience is looking at a real creation, but the composition of it removes the object from what it once was. As a painter I know that when the audience looks at a painting they know it is a complete myth. But when this myth becomes three-dimensional in the space and viewers become surrounded by it, all of their senses are alerted by it. It is a fantasy they can interact with, one which pushes them to reexamine reality. It makes the audience want to identify what is being seen, but the transformation is ongoing: there is no one way to look at this exhibition. The artists’ interaction is a compound concept of storytelling, philosophy, and fantasy. The objects move out of personal perception and become exclusive and esoteric.
The exhibition essay by Christopher Miles gives incredible insight into each artist’s work and opens the possibility for the audience to create its own interpretations of it. I hope the interviews with the three artists will provide a different dimension as well. It has been a pleasure to work with Coleen, John, and Rebecca, as I have known these artists as colleagues for decades.
Fatemeh Burnes
Los Angeles 2017
Coleen Sterritt
Essays by Cooper Johnson, Carole Ann Klonarides, Sue Spaid
240 pages, hardcover, 7.5 X 9.25 inches, 150 illustrations & photographs
ISBN 978-0-9998452-4-0
Griffith Moon is pleased to introduce Coleen Sterritt, a retrospective catalog published in collaboration with the Lancaster Museum of Art and History (MOAH). It showcases her work over a forty year period and includes an interview with artist Rochelle Botello and essays by Cooper Johnson, Carole Ann Klonarides, and Sue Spaid.
Sterritt’s hybrid sculpture evokes the interplay between nature, culture, and lived experience. Her source materials are pulled from everyday objects and elements. Plaster, tar, pinecones, fishing line, found furniture, and studio refuse are just some of the components she uses to construct and express her richly evocative formal language. Questioning the diverse possibilities of sculpture in both scale and form, her eccentric, abstract structures present strong polarities possessing a resonance at once familiar and obscure.
Her sculpture and drawings have been included in numerous exhibitions throughout the United States and in Spain, Kenya, and South Africa. Prominent public and private collections include the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, The Museum of Contemporary Art, L.A., The Crocker Art Museum, Scripps College Collection, Anderson Museum of Contemporary Art, NM, Nestlé USA, and The Capitol Group Companies, Los Angeles, New York, & London.
Named a John Simon Guggenheim Fellow in 2016, Sterritt has received other awards and fellowships including: the National Endowment for the Arts (1986), the Roswell Artist-in-Residence Program (1994), Art Matters, Inc. (1994), the J.Paul Getty Trust Fund for the Visual Arts /California Community Foundation (1996) and the COLA (City of Los Angeles) Individual Artist Fellowship in 2007.
Her teaching career began in 1983 and has included noted positions at California State University, Fullerton; Otis College of Art & Design; and The Claremont Graduate University. Since 1998 she has been a professor and faculty coordinator of the sculpture program at Long Beach City College.
Sterritt was born in Morris, Illinois and grew up in Chicago. She received a BFA from the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign in 1976 and a MFA from Otis Art Institute (now Otis College of Art & Design), Los Angeles in 1979
Brazen, A Painting and Poetry Collection
Hardcover Linen, Gold Foil, Dust Jacket
122 pages
5 x 8 inches
24 Illustrations
ISBN 978-0-9993153-3-0
$30
Four Los Angeles-based poets write and perform original poems inspired by the recent exhibition of Los Angeles based artist Kimberly Brooks. Brendan Constantine, Rich Ferguson, Luivette Resto and Marie Marandola will be performing at the Zevitas Marcus Gallery at 2:00 PM Sunday Oct 29th where advance reader copies will be available for guests. The book will be available for release in the spring of 2018.
Brendan Constantine
Brendan Constantine’s work has appeared in Prairie Schooner, FIELD, Ploughshares, Virginia Quarterly, and Ninth Letter, among other journals. His most recent collection is ‘Dementia, My Darling (2016 Red Hen Press). He has received grants and commissions from the Getty Museum, James Irvine Foundation, and the National Endowment for the Arts. He currently teaches poetry at the Windward School and regularly offers classes to hospitals, foster homes, veterans, and the elderly.
Rich Ferguson
Pushcart-nominated poet Rich Ferguson has shared the stage with Patti Smith, Wanda Coleman, Moby, and other esteemed artists. He is a featured performer in the film What About Me? His poetry has been widely published, and his spoken word videos have appeared in international film festivals. His poetry collection 8th & Agony is out on Punk Hostage Press. His debut novel, New Jersey Me, is available through Rare Bird Books.
Marie Marandola
Marie Marandola is a badass feminist poet who received her MFA from Sarah Lawrence College. She is an editor for the literary press Meow Meow Pow Pow, and the former poetry editor of Lumina Journal. Her work has appeared in Poetry International, Fairy Tale Review, Lunch Ticket, and Dressing Room Poetry Journal, amongst others, and her poem “Poet Groupie” won the Academy of American Poets University Prize for Sarah Lawrence College in 2016. She now lives in San Diego, where she remains in the habit of picking up fallen bits of trees and giving them to people.
Luivette Resto
Luivette Resto, a mother, teacher, poet, and Wonder Woman fanatic, was born in Aguas Buenas, Puerto Rico but proudly raised in the Bronx. Her two books of poetry Unfinished Portrait and Ascension have been published by Tia Chucha Press. She is a CantoMundo fellow and has served as a contributing poetry editor for Kweli Journal. Some of her latest work can be read in Entropy Magazine, Coiled Serpent anthology, Altadena Anthology 2015 & 2016, and an anthology of Afro-Latino poetry titled ¡Manteca! published by Arte Público Press. Currently, she lives in the Los Angeles area with her three children.
Keith Martin
Keith Martin is a community organizer and long time supporter of the LA literary community. He served on the Los Angeles poet laureate selection committee. He was appointed by Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti to the LA County Metropolitan Transit Authority Citizens Advisory Council. He serves on the Clinica Romero executive executive board as fundraising chair and homeless patient advocate. He is the Chairperson of the Golden State Bonsai Federation committee at the Huntington Library and Gardens bonsai pavillion. He volunteers as a Crossing Angel for CicLAvia and also at Beyond Baroque literary center in Venice.
Kimberly Brooks
Los Angeles based artist Kimberly Brooks integrates figuration and abstraction to explore a variety of subjects dealing with history, memory and identity. Brooks has solo exhibitions throughout the United States and her work has been showcased in juried exhibitions including curators from the Whitney Museum of American Art, The Museum of Modern Art, Los Angeles County Museum of Art. Brooks received her BA at UC Berkeley and studied painting at Otis and UCLA. www.kimberlybrooks.com.
Poems:
Red Sugar Blue Smoke
The Second Ovation Study
KABOOM
It’s been Thursday for two weeks
Just Moments After Eternity’s Musicians Had
Taken a Break to Retune Their Instruments
She
Side Effects
When Wilhelm Röntgen Visits the Farm
A World of Things
Talitha
In Advance of the Sage Smudge
If a Poet Writes About Herself in the Bathtub, and No One is Around to Care,
Can She Still Call It a Poem?
Angel/Mother/Goddess
The Myth of the Cave
These Violent Delights: A Novel
By Victoria Namkung
243 pages, Hardcover, 6.19 x 9.35 inches
ISBN 978-0-9993153-1-6
Publication Date: November 7, 2017
$29.95
At Windemere School for Girls, one of America’s elite private schools, Dr. Gregory Copeland is the beloved chair of the English Department. A married father with a penchant for romantic poetry—and impressionable teenage girls—he operates in plain sight for years, until one of his former students goes public with allegations of inappropriate conduct. With the help of an investigative journalist, and two additional Windemere alumnae who had relationships with Copeland as students, the unlikely quartet unites to take him down.
Set in modern-day Los Angeles, These Violent Delights is a literary exploration of the unyielding pressures and vulnerabilities that so many women and girls experience, and analyzes the ways in which our institutions and families fail to protect or defend us. A suspenseful and nuanced story told from multiple points of view, the novel examines themes of sexuality, trauma, revenge, and the American myth of liberty and justice for all.
Victoria Namkung’s journalism and essays have appeared in The Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, NBC News, and VICE, among other publications. She is the author of the romantic thriller, The Things We Tell Ourselves, and a contributor to the anthology, Asian American Youth: Culture, Identity, and Ethnicity. Victoria has taught courses at UCLA, UCSB, and 826LA, and resides in Los Angeles. Learn more at victorianamkung.com.
Upcoming Events
Saturday, May 12, 2018
Wine, Women, and Words “Literary Ladies” Panel
4:00 PM – 7:00 PM
Giracci Vineyard and Farms
16162 Jackson Ranch Rd
Silverado, CA 92676
Saturday, May 19, 2018
LitFest Pasadena “No More Mean Girls: A New Era For Female Friendship in Fiction” Panel
3:00 PM – 4:00 PM
Walter Girdner Studio
27 S. El Molino Ave
Pasadena, CA 91101
Listen to an extended interview with Victoria on LA Talk Radio (07:00 mark)
The Asian/Pacific American Librarians Association’s Q&A with Victoria
Victoria’s Op-Ed on stopping predatory teachers in Medium
Kirkus Reviews’ Book Report on These Violent Delights
PRAISE FOR THESE VIOLENT DELIGHTS:
“… a worthwhile read. A sober, personable tale about the complexities of sexual abuse and its aftermath.” —Kirkus Reviews
“These Violent Delights is smart, suspenseful, unsettling, and only too relevant. I promise you won’t be able to put it down. Just don’t forget to breathe.” —Kim Askew, co-author of the Twisted Lit novels from Simon & Schuster
“A devastating yet empowering narrative of women banding together to bring the teacher who abused them to justice. It powerfully illustrates how the abuse affects them each differently, how institutions enable predators in order to protect their own liability, and the life-changing courage it takes to speak out. As more women refuse to stay silent in the face of sexual assault each day, These Violent Delights could not be more timely.” —Andrew Grant Jackson, author of 1965
“These Violent Delights is a deeply thought-provoking story about the ways abuse ripples through our lives. It’s for every woman who has ever been in a situation that could have ended with the question ‘but what were you wearing?’ In other words, this book is for every woman.” —Tiffany Hawk, author of Love Me Anyway
Press Contact: Holly Watson, holly@hollywatsonpr.com
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SisterWriterEaters, Edited by Claire LaZebnik and Ann Brown
268 pages,
Hardcover, 9.5 X 6.25 in.
44 Photos and Illustrations
ISBN 978-0-9981686-8-5
$35.00
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE —
Hilarious and heartbreaking essays about love, life, families, and food, accompanied by recipes and written by a curated group of kick ass women. To be released just in time for Mother’s Day. Edited by Claire LaZebnik (author of Things I Should Have Known and Overcoming Autism) and Ann Brown (Dr. Strangemom). Contributors include Merrill Markoe (It’s My F-ing Birthday), Jeb Sharp (PRI’s The World), Carolyn Omine (The Simpsons) and Liza Donnelly (The New Yorker).
Recipes include:, Savory Bitch Ramen, Saffron Hot Chocolate and Roasted Opossum and Chicken Soup A La Bachelor. Accompanying stories make them come alive– A playwright shares “Warm Cinnamon Rolls for the Broken-Hearted” that consoled her the night her boyfriend brought home another woman; a wife describes an elaborate meal bartered for forgiveness after she adopts a dog without her husband’s permission.
Writers, illustrators, performers and poets share their stories, memories, struggles, embarrassing moments–and favorite recipes. “SisterWriterEaters is the literary equivalent of a heart-to-heart over a warm slice of coffee cake,” says LaZebnik. Adds Brown, “We’re human, and we’re hungry.” SisterWriterEaters is published by Griffith Moon.
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Contributors:
Davis Alexander Kim Allen-Niesen K. Bidus
Valerie Breiman Kimberly Brooks May-lee Chai
Liza Donnelly Becky Hartman Edwards Leslie Greenberger
Barbara Horowitz Wendy Kout Leah Krinsky
Nina Laden Cathy Ladman Annie LaZebnik
Lisa Grace Lednicer Bernadette Luckett Amy Wang Manning
Merrill Markoe Nell Minow Carolyn Omine
Asmita Paranjape Claudia Reilly April Salazar
Laurie Sandell Alice Scovell Nell Scovell
Susan Senator Jeb Sharp Marcie Smolin
Caissie St. Onge Sarah Thyre Ellen Twaddell
Norma Safford Vela Lunaea Weatherstone Michele Willens
Maiya Williams Anna Winger Kate Fuglei
Claire LaZebnik has written five adult novels and five young adult novels, including Epic Fail and the recently published Things I Should Have Known (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt). She is the co-author of Overcoming Autism and Growing Up on the Spectrum and lives in Los Angeles.
Ann Brown writes about family life for newspapers, public radio and literary magazines. She has a video series on parenting: The Motherload, Not Your Mother’s Parenting Advice, and a blog at: www.drstrangemom.com. She lives in Portland, Oregon where she only has to shave her legs two months out of the year.
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Daniel Maidman: Nudes
Essays by Max Ritvo and Vincent Desiderio
7.5 x 9.25 in. Hardcover
120 pages, 80 illustrations
ISBN 978-0-9981686-3-0
$39.95
Daniel Maidman is one of the foremost masters of figure drawing in America. Based in Brooklyn, New York, Maidman has spent several decades grappling with the challenges and opportunities of life drawing. The resulting body of work – deft, ripe depictions of the human body in all its shapes and actions – has developed an avid following amongst artists and admirers alike. Griffith Moon Publishing’s “Daniel Maidman: Nudes” celebrates Maidman’s drawing oeuvre, selecting 80 recent pieces to provide an in-depth look at his powerful vision of the beauty and pathos of the human condition.
“For me, there is something close to the meaning of existence itself bound up in the spectacular field of light interacting with flesh. Flesh makes light visible, and light redeems the futility of matter. What is more important than making an image of this?” – Daniel Maidman
Daniel Maidman (born Toronto, Canada, 1975) is an artist whose imagery occupies a spectrum from high rendering to almost total abstraction. He has produced paintings in collaboration with best-selling novelist China Miéville, award-winning poet Kathleen Rooney, and independent film icon Martin Donovan. Maidman’s art has been shown in solo and group shows in Manhattan and nationwide. Maidman’s drawings and paintings are included in the permanent collections of the Library of Congress, the New Britain Museum of American Art, and the Long Beach Museum of Art. His art and writing on art have been featured in ARTnews, Forbes, W, Juxtapoz, Hyperallergic, American Art Collector, International Artist, PoetsArtists, and Manifest. He blogs for The Huffington Post.
“These are studies in the best sense of the word, offering a keen insight into Maidman’s thought process while clarifying a system of formal articulation that has been at the core of visual thought for centuries. … In their simplicity and economy of means they speak to an audience of young artists unfamiliar with the discourse of form as an analogue of reason. They demonstrate an unflinching belief in the potential for clarity in a world all too familiar with the sloppy threshold upon which it is perched.”
– Vincent Desiderio, from the foreward
Instagram @danielmaidman
Samantha Fields: Ten Years
Essay by Eve Wood
110 pages, hardcover, 7.5 X 9.25 inches, 80 illustrations & photographs
ISBN 978-0-9981686-9-2
$39.95
Griffith Moon is pleased to introduce Samantha Fields. This book, a collaboration between Griffith Moon and Lancaster Museum of Art and History, will showcase Fields’ painting work, along with an essay by Eve Wood. In her work, Fields explores the experiential nature of light through painting – immersing the viewer in the ever-shifting mood of a specific time and place. Her subject matter includes landscapes consumed by disaster both natural and manmade. Her work has been featured in the Los Angeles Times, ArtWeek, Art in America, Artillery, Art ltd.,The Detroit News, The Detroit Free Press and the Cleveland Plain Dealer.
Up in the Cheap Seats: A Historical Memoir of Broadway
243 pages, hardcover, 9.5 X 6.25 inches, 8 illustrations & photographs
ISBN 978-0-9981686-2-3
$29.95
In his touching and often hilarious theatrical memoir, Ron Fassler tells the real-life stories of how he saw over 200 Broadway plays and musicals between the ages of 12-16 for as little as $2 a ticket, self-funded by the profits from his Long Island paper route. In the days when 50-60 shows came to Broadway every season, Fassler sat in the last row of the balcony, then headed home to write reviews which he reveals for the first time so many decades later. Ron’s eyewitness account to some of the greatest shows and stars of the 1960s and 70s (with visits backstage to many of them), is furthered by conversing over the past four years with legendary actors, writers, producers, directors, and composers who were part of this remarkable time. Threading his own personal stories with theirs, the book features memories and insights from Jane Alexander, Sheldon Harnick, James Earl Jones, Stacy Keach, Nathan Lane, Hal Linden, John Lithgow, Bette Midler, Austin Pendleton, Harold Prince, Doris Roberts, Stephen Sondheim, and Mike Nichols among many others.
News about the book in Forbes and New York Times
“Theatre is a transient art, here and then gone, but in his enormously entertaining book UP IN THE CHEAP SEATS, Ron Fassler has made it a little more permanent. Both a moving coming of age memoir and a compulsively readable memoir of Broadway itself, UP IN THE CHEAP SEATS pays homage to the men and women who devote their lives to making great theatre.” – John Logan, Tony Award-winning playwright (Red)
“Ron Fassler’s UP IN THE CHEAP SEATS reminds me why I am WHO I am. The introduction to live theatre, the spark that lit the creative flame inside me that has become the foundation of my life’s work on this planet. Everyday artists/warriors in the trenches transforming lives one person at a time. – Billy Porter, Tony Award winner (Kinky Boots)
RECENT SIGNINGS & EVENTS
NEW JERSEY
April 5th at 7:00 p.m.
Watchung Booksellers
54 Fairfield Street, Montclair, NJ 07042
Featuring Author Ron Fassler & Tony Winner Priscilla Lopez (“A Chorus Line,” “In the Heights”)
LOS ANGELES
March 19th at 3:00 p.m.
Diesel Books
225 26th Street, Los Angeles, CA 90402
Featuring Author Ron Fassler & Broadway legend Robert Morse (“How To Succeed in Business Without Really Trying,” “Mad Men”)
Chie Hitotsuyama: To Hear Your Footsteps
ISBN 978-0-9981686-0-9
$39.99
$39.99Add to cart
A collaboration between Museum of Art and History, Lachaster, and MOAH:CEDAR and Japanese artist Chie Hitotsuyama, Griffith Moon introduces Chie Hitotsuyama: To Hear Your Footsteps is comprised of an introduction by Shana Nys Dambrot and Hitotsuyama’s animal sculptures made entirely from recycled newspaper. Her work, whimsical though often serious, is a commentary on global climate change. Hitostsuyama has exhibited her works in many places around Japan, including the Ginza Mitsukoshi Gallery (2013) and the Child Museum at the H.C. Andersen Park in Funabashi City, Chiba Prefecture (2014), and she is currently the Artist in Residency at MOAH.
Jock McDonald
Griffith Moon is pleased to announce a book deal with Canadian photographer Jock McDonald. McDonald is a fine art photographer who works in both color and black-and-white. His work has been widely published and exhibited in galleries and museums around the world. McDonald’s photography is best known for its humor, pathos, and mystery. His book will soon be available on the Griffith Moon website. Stay tuned.
UC Berkeley Arts + Design: Inaugural Showcase 2016
136 pages, 121 illustrations
$28
The University of California at Berkeley is filled with a diverse, multi-talented student population. It is an environment that is ideal for artistic exploration and identity development. UC Berkeley Arts + Design: Inaugural Showcase 2016 is a collection of work by students and their mentors. The artistic media includes literature, film, architecture, poetry, painting and design. Witness the development and product of these young creative minds, and be inspired, too, to create.
Rebecca Campbell: The Potato Eaters
Essay by Betty Ann Brown
118 pages, hardcover, 7.5 X 9.25 inches, 80 illustrations & photographs
ISBN 978-0-9882831-8-3
$39.95
The Potato Eaters celebrates the exhibition of Rebecca Campbell’s 2016 exhibition at the Lancaster Museum of Art and History (MOAH). Campbell’s new work examines aspects of family and cultural history, memory, documentation and nostalgia. The title is taken from Vincent van Gogh’s 1885 masterpiece that portrays Dutch peasants gathered at a meager meal.
As in van Gogh’s celebrated work that addresses themes of noble human existence and connection to the land, Campbell references her family history and relatives who lived in Idaho during the early and mid-twentieth century.Rebecca Campbell: The Potato Eaters
Rebecca Campbell is a figurative artist, whose work focuses on themes associated with human existence in contemporary society. Embracing both realism and abstraction, Campbell makes paintings, drawings and sculptures that frequently revolve around the day-to-day lives of average people, to whom she lends a heroic quality. Campbell’s new series of work, entitled The Potato Eaters, examine aspects of family and cultural history, memory, documentation and nostalgia. The title is taken from Vincent van Gogh’s 1885 masterpiece that portrays Dutch peasants gathered at a meager meal. As in van Gogh’s celebrated work that addresses themes of noble human existence and connection to the land, Campbell references her family history and relatives who lived in Idaho during the early and mid-twentieth century. The series includes paintings that convey disappearing rural and sub-urban landscapes, as well as figurative works inspired by old black and white photographs. In addition, Campbell both honors and reflects upon oft-ignored domestic activities, such as canning and cleaning, through several sculpture installations.
Campbell earned her Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in painting from the Pacific Northwest College of Art in Oregon in 1994, and Master of Fine Arts in painting and drawing from the University of California, Los Angeles in 2001. Her work has been exhibited nationally and internationally at the Phoenix Art Museum, Arizona; the Cornell Fine Arts Museum, Winter Park, Florida; the American Academy of Arts and Letters, New York; The Portland Art Museum, Oregon; the Central Utah Arts Center and Brigham Young University, Utah; the UCLA Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, and L.A. Louver, Venice, CA, among others. Campbell has taught at Art Center College of Design, Claremont Graduate University and Vermont College of Fine Art, and is currently assistant professor at California State University, Fullerton. Rebecca Campbell lives and works in Los Angeles.
Contact: Joseph Cabral 661.723.6053
Rebeccacampbell.net | Lancaster Museum of Art and History
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