IKO IKO at Printed Matter’s Los Angeles Art Book Fair

The Geffen Contemporary at MOCA
Printed Matter’s Los Angeles Art Book Fair
February 1-3, 2013
Opening: Thursday, January 31, 2013, 6–9pm

IKO IKO will be participating at Printed Matter’s first annual Los Angeles Art Book Fair, with WAKA WAKA book-friendly furniture; a selection of forty books from Texfield, Inc.; IKO IKO limited edition screen prints, t-shirts and totes; and a MATERIAL Press special edition by artist Michael Bauer.

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Free and open to the public, the Los Angeles Art Book Fair is a unique international event for artists’ books, art catalogs, monographs, periodicals and zines presented by more than 220 international presses, booksellers, antiquarians, artists, and independent publishers from twenty countries.

Featured projects include an Homage to Mike Kelley presented by Gagosian, a Larry Clark Pop-Up Shop by BOO-HOORAY, and a stunning new installation by John Armleder with Three Star Books. Fulton Ryder will present publications by John Dogg and Howard Johnson; unique books and Untitled Originals by Richard Prince, and naughty pulp paperbacks.

Zine World is a super-sized subsection of the Los Angeles Art Book Fair, featuring zinesters from home and abroad, together with three zine exhibitions. GSD: Skate Fate till Today begins from Gary Scott Davis’ early, ground-breaking zine publishing of the 80s. Zine Masters of the Universe features zines by Mark Gonzales, Ari Marcopoulos, Ray Pettibon, and Dash Snow. Bedwetter and Beyond is a survey of the artist books and zines of Los Angeles-based artist Christopher Russell.

The Los Angeles Art Book Fair is the companion fair to the New York Art Book Fair, held every fall in New York. Over 20,000 artists, book buyers, collectors, dealers, curators, independent publishers, and other enthusiasts attended the New York Art Book Fair in 2012.

HOURS and LOCATION
Opening: Thursday, January 31, 6–9pm
Friday, February 1, 11-5pm
Saturday, February 2, 11-6pm
Sunday, February 3, 12-6pm

The Geffen Contemporary at MOCA
152 North Central Ave
Los Angeles CA 90012
(213) 626-6222

AA Bronson, Brooke Hodge, Distribution, Ginny Cook, Hrag Vartanian, IKO IKO, Jonathan Maghen, Kim Schoen, Kristin Dickson, LAABF, Los Angeles, MATERIAL Press, Michael Bauer, MOCA, Printed Matter, Publishers, Shin Okuda, WAKA WAKA

Eric Wesley

Eric Wesley, Eric Wesley
Softcover, 60 pp., offset 4/4, 8 x 10 inches
Edition of 2000
ISBN 978-0-914357-97-1
Published by MOCA

$25.00 · out of stock

West Coast artist Eric Wesley was born in 1973 in Los Angeles. His work, which can take the form of sculpture, painting, drawing, architectural model or public artwork proposal, often uses decrepit materials and conveys a humorous take on the world and his own identity within it. For the Whitney Biennial, he created scale sets for a faux reality show; his kinetic sculpture Kicking Ass was a mechanized donkey that kicked holes in the gallery wall behind it. This small monograph is the first publication dedicated solely to the artist’s work, and is published on the occasion of his exhibition as part of the MOCA Focus series.

Art, Cornelia Butler, DAP, Elizabeth Hamilton, Eric Wesley, Jane Hyun, Lisa Mark, Michael Worthington, MOCA, Sculpture, Yasmin Khan