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  • Burt Payne 3: The World Is Getting To Be A Funner Place (1994)

    Payne’s infamous book based on his CalArts MFA thesis that explored the school’s admissions process. He secretly applied to the school under four aliases and documented each one’s journey through the admission process. Who is... $ 39.95 $ 19.95

  • Marcel Dzama: Famous Drawings [Pinspot #1]

    Seemingly aimless but in fact hungrily selective, Marcel Dzama’s quirky ink-and-watercolor drawings reflect a unique passion for ambiguity. Conscientiously mined from a range of stylistic sources—from Beatrix Potter to MTV, film noir to Surrealism —... $ 90.00

  • Cameron Jamie: Rugburn [Pinspot #3]

    The inspiration for Cameron Jamie’s Rugburn is a late-sixties phenomenon known as “apartment wrestling,” in which participants staged wrestling matches at home, photographed them, and sent the photographs to wrestling magazines—a kind of homemade soft... $ 4.95

  • Jody Zellen: Invisible Cities [Pinspot #2]

    The “Invisible Cities” series is a suite of computer-generated photographs that juxtapose the mysteries of image and text. In each image a found photograph — an urban setting taken from a newspaper, magazine, or book... $ 6.95 $ 4.95

  • Rob Craigie: Think Thought Think [Pinspot #4]

    The work of Rob Craigie explores the interface between nature, technology, and humanity. His “Drawing Experiments” series, from which this Pinspot is taken, poses the creative process as an eccentric metaphor for the scientific process.... $ 6.95 $ 4.95

  • Laurie Steelink: Clowndog [Pinspot #5]

    Like Frankenstein’s monster, the surreal characters in Laurie Steelink’s meticulous drawings are cobbled together from sources in the animal world, art history, prehistoric motifs, cultural icons, popular legend, and her own vivid imagination. Juxtaposing humor... $ 6.95 $ 4.95

  • Eric White: Blue Folds of Skin [Pinspot #6]

    A complete departure from the intensive, “hyper-anal” paintings that Eric White is known for, Blue Folds of Skin is an informal and unrestricted romp through the warped pages of the artist’s sketchbooks. Grotesque drawings, obscure... $ 5.95

  • Jim Shaw: Dreams

    Just published… The long overdue 2nd printing of “Dreams.” Most people consider their dreams private property—too personal, too scary, and too weird to share—but not internationally renowned Los Angeles artist Jim Shaw. In Dreams, a... $ 29.95 $ 20.95

  • Alan Rath: Plants Animals People Machines

    Using technology as both subject and medium of his artistic inventions, Alan Rath’s deft hands animate industrial detritus with a curious life force. His sculptures—part botanical, part anthropomorphic, part mechanical—conflate the disparate realms of technology... $ 19.95 $ 8.95

  • Jeffrey Vallance: "Blinky, The Friendly Hen"

    A book dedicated to the “billions of hens sacrificed each year for our consumption,” Blinky is the quintessential conceptual artwork of the 1970s. Blinky is the seriocomic brainchild of artist Jeffrey Vallance, who has taken... $ 24.95 $ 13.95

  • Daniel J. Martinez, The Things You See When You Don’t Have A Grenade!

    Of the work and ideas of Daniel J. Martinez, Peter Sellars has said: “[He is] one of the most important and articulate artists of his generation. Impossible to pin down, a genuinely free spirit, he... $ 24.95 $ 8.95

  • Karen Finley: Pooh Unplugged

    In the spirit of Karen Finley’s riotous performances, Pooh Unplugged dissects social hypocrisy and commercialism by moving Pooh and Christopher Robin, Tigger and Eeyore out of their fairy tale and into real life. Pooh has... $ 19.95 $ 9.95

  • Monica de la Torre and Terence Gower: Appendices, Illustrations & Notes

    This surreal and funny artist’s book is a collaboration between conceptual artist Terence Gower and writer Mónica de la Torre, who have created an anthology of meaningless book-marketing blurbs, reviews of dubious exhibitions, evil-spirited notes... $ 14.95 $ 6.95

  • William Anthony: War is Swell

    From the beginning of World War II, when William Anthony was seven years old, to its end, when he was almost eleven, he was a real “American patriot.” In his child mind, he loved every... $ 24.95 $ 9.95

  • Pedro Alvarez: How Havana Stole from New York the Idea of Cuban Art [Pinspot #7]

    The paintings of Cuban artist Pedro Alvarez are dense tapestries that weave art historical and pop culture images together to explore issues of geography, race, and identity, challenging viewers to look beneath the surface of... $ 6.95

  • Pinspot Series: The Complete Set!

    Pinspot is a series of artist’s books that explore the printed page as an environment for unfettered creativity. A Pinspot book is an artist’s notebook, an area free of commercial restraints where artists can explore... $ 139.95 $ 89.99

  • Milagros de la Torre "punzocortante" [Pinspot #9]

    Born in Lima, Peru in 1965 and living and working in Mexico City, she has had major exhibitions of her photography include one-person shows at the Palais de Tokyo in Paris (1993); the Miraflores Cultural... $ 6.95 $ 4.95

  • Fernando Bryce [Pinspot #10]

    Fernando Bryce lives in Berlin and in Lima. The idea of the panopticum inspires his work. Fernando Bryce combines copied images, drawings and abstract compositions with which he sets up large-scale visual fields of drawings... $ 6.95 $ 4.95

  • Saidel Brito [Pinspot #11]

    Cuban artist Saidel Brito’s installation Sobre la felicidad del mayor numero posible (On happiness: in as many ways possible) consists of 82 pieces: 41 portraits of Ecuadorian presidents, and 41 portraits of the children who... $ 6.95 $ 4.95

  • The Sermons of Reverend Ethan Acres

    After receiving a Bachelor’s Degree from the University of Texas in Austin, a young man named Ethan Acres, like the prophets of old, wandered into the desert to find God. He found Him in the... $ 14.95 $ 7.95