NORTH BEACH Frank Koči 8.5 x 11 PB • 64 Pgs • $20.00 • ISBN 978-1-60052-199-7 Frank Koči might have been called a “Street Artist,” but this exceptional “Creative Artist” was extremely more than that. In 1921 the 16-year old Frank Koči left his native Czechoslovakia, hoping to find better opportunities in America. He and …
HABITAT ANNIHILATION Will Roger 6 x 9 PB • 224 Pgs • $45.00 • ISBN 978-1-60052-202-4 Book available for pre-order. Habitat Annihilation: Humans have changed the Earth, Now the Earth will change Humans. Asserts that humanity is deeply entrenched in a regressive culture that is wreaking havoc on the planet. Our culture, rooted in dominance, …
OFFERINGS ΠΡΟΣΦΟΡΕΣ VOLUME I Steven Alberic de Laet 12 x 10 PB • 134 Pgs • $80.00 • ISBN 978-1-60052-187-4 In 1966, my parents gave me a Leica M2 camera for my high school graduation. It is a gift that I treasure to this day. I have carried this camera everywhere for fifty years and …
THE ARETE STORYBOOK OF HEROES VOLUME II Dianne Tittle de Laet 9 x 12 PB • 100 Pgs • $40.00 • ISBN 978-1-60052-194-2 The Arete Storybook of Heroes Volume II: In 2023, The Arete Fund and The FOUGARO ART CENTER in Nafplio, Greece, initiated an educational project that explores the theme of the hero in …
THE BUILDING OF THE MATTHEW TURNER Ann Thompson & Richard Moore 8.5 x 11 PB • 256 Pgs • $80.00 • ISBN 978-1-60052-192-8 A 260 page book with 2000+ photos 2013 – 2020. Includes web-links to videos of: “Force 10 Sailmakers” and a complete photo collection. Call of the Sea’s 132′ Brigantine is styled from …
MICRO-DOSING FLOW: SAY YES TO STRESS Lucie Charping 7.5 x 10 PB • 398 Pgs • $60.00 • ISBN 978-1-60052-198-0 Micro-Dosing Flow™ unveils a revolutionary path to healing and self-mastery. This book empowers you to take control of your brain health and well being. Discover innovative techniques to enhance neurogenesis, boost neuroplasticity, optimize your nervous …
A STORY FROM THE EARTH Dianne Tittle de Laet 9 x 12 PB • 90 Pgs • $75.00 • ISBN 978-1-60052-094-5 The generation of figures in this book is a response to an old soldier’s request that the Anglo-Saxon race create “a towering monument” in memory of a Cherokee woman’s act of compassion in 1838, …
THE CITY DIONYSIA Anthony Gantner 6 x 9 PB • 160 Pgs • $20.00 • ISBN 978-1-60052-189-8 Illustrated by John Mattos and Susan Beardon The City Dionysia, a prequel to Eye of the Parrot, once again accompanies Tom McCabe, a hard-loving, hard-drinking young columnist about the hills and hollows of San Francisco, the Cool Grey …
THE CITY DIONYSIA (HARD COVER) Anthony Gantner 6 x 9 HC • 160 Pgs • $46.00 • ISBN 978-1-60052-190-4 Illustrated by John Mattos and Susan Beardon The City Dionysia, a prequel to Eye of the Parrot, once again accompanies Tom McCabe, a hard-loving, hard-drinking young columnist about the hills and hollows of San Francisco, the …
SHOOT OUT Lloyd Johnson 8 x 10 PB • 126 Pgs • $60.00 • ISBN 978-1-60052-177-5 Create – to bring into being – to make grow From Latin creare, from the Roman goddess of agriculture, Ceres. It can be argued there are only two types of people on earth. Those that create and those that …
THE BÉARNAIS OF SAN FRANCISCO Olivier Lafaye 6 x 9 PB • 170 Pgs • $26.00 • ISBN 978-1-60052-195-9 Translated by Arwen Dewey Olivier Lafaye’s book Béarnais of San Francisco does a great job of telling and documenting the history of immigrants to San Francisco from the area of France known as Béarn. It is …
THE ARETE STORYBOOK OF HEROES VOLUME I Dianne Tittle de Laet 9 x 12 PB • 134 Pgs • $40.00 • ISBN 978-1-60052-193-5 The Arete Storybook of Heroes Volume I: Is a book of Myth, Hope & Fable is one mother’s response to the once upon a time midnight feedings that turned into poetry readings …
ROSHI SAN FRANCISCO Mark Mitchell 6 x 8 PB • 120 Pgs • $25.00 • ISBN 978-1-60052-169-0 San Francisco, cornered between sea and sky, is Mount Olympus. It is where he talks to the Gods. They are all here, along the geography of the town, hiding within the wind and fog, sliding down the hills …
THE OSR 50YR REUNION BOOK Norfolk Press 9 x 9 PB • 84 Pgs • $40.00 • ISBN 978-1-60052-173-7 Since several people have inquired, the print version of our Class of 1971 reunion e-book is ready to order. We hope you enjoy reminiscing about Rome and learning what your classmates have been up to. Back …
BEFORE THE GOLD John Alioto 6 x 9 PB • 394 Pgs • $34.95 • ISBN 978-1-60052-174-4 Alioto puts the microscope of historical research on the period 1835 – 1848, something which has not been done before. In doing so, he explores those features of the birth of San Francisco. Alioto brilliantly and thoroughly lays …
TO CLEAN Susan Bearden 9.5 x 8 PB • 28 Pgs • $14.00 • ISBN 978-1-60052-172-0 A string of housekeeping misadventures are resolved to the satisfaction of all – and just in time for lunch! Click here to visit the author’s website Back to books
GOING OVER Jim Sottile 12 x 9 PB • 194 Pgs • $85.00 • ISBN 978-1-60052-176-8 Painting as an art form has been challenged for the last two centuries in different movements dealing with the meaning and act of painting. In his latest book, Jim Sottile takes the century long debate about what constitutes visual …
WILEY Patrick Welch 5.5 x 8 PB • 82 Pgs • $19.95 • ISBN 978-1-60052-175-1 This book Wiley, is a story of two orphaned cats who randomly end up together and become each other’s guides and guardians. Written from a cat’s perspective, author Patrick Welch, has skillfully woven a love story filled with the power …
PANDEMONIUM Michael Brennan 9 x 12 PB • 160 Pgs • $85.00 • ISBN 978-1-60052-179-9 Paper bound edition currently unavailable. Click here to get the hard cover edition. I have been living, painting, and exhibiting in San Francisco, since finishing art school in the mid-seventies. For the past seven years, I have been working on …
ENIGMA – THE ART OF WILLIAM WALLACE REID S. Duncan Reid 12 x 10 PB • 126 Pgs • $60.00 • ISBN 978-1-60052-183-6 The art and graphic design studio of William W. Reid, my father, was on the bottom floor of our 1876 Victorian on 194 Connecticut Street, San Francisco. He spent a good deal …
UNMARKED GRAVE Dianne Tittle de Laet 6 x 9 PB • 230 Pgs • $24.95 • ISBN 978-1-60052-188-1 In response to a request made by an American lieutenant who assisted in the Removal of the Cherokee Indians to the West in 1838, I have written a love song to the dead. My story is a …
PANDEMONIUM (HARD COVER) Michael Brennan 9 x 12 HC • 160 Pgs • $150.00 • ISBN 978-1-60052-181-2 Signed and Numbered Limited Edition of 125. I have been living, painting, and exhibiting in San Francisco, since finishing art school in the mid-seventies. For the past seven years, I have been working on a painting project that …
TALKING WITH MARCELO Doreen Stock 6 x 9 PB • 50 Pgs • $18.00 • ISBN 978-0-9909203-4-2 A chapbook- length interview with Argentine journalist Marcelo Holot in which he answers six questions posed by Stock, involving his arrest during the Dirty Wars, and his long, distinguished career at the heart of Argentine history. Back to …
DIGNITY OF CHOICE Claudia Chapline 5.5 x 8.5 PB • 68 Pgs • $25.00 • ISBN 978-1-60052-161-4 An important work of love, of Chaplin’s being with & dealing With the death of Harold Schwarm, her artist husband of 32 years. Written in direct style, his dying process unfolds through her words with aching clarity. Heartbreaking …
MORPHOSIS Tobias Tovera 9.5 x 8 PB • 52 Pgs • $35.00 • ISBN 978-1-60052-163-8 Norfolk Press presents Morphosis, a curated collection of new work by Tobias Tovera whose paintings and metamorphic sculptures explore themes of energy and transmutation. Using materials that transmute from one form to the next, Tovera’s work sparks connection with nature …
LIFE AND TIMES OF BENNY THE CAT Freddy Nazzal 7.125 x 10.125 PB • 60 Pgs • $20.00 • ISBN 978-1-60052-166-9 Benny’s adoption from an animal protective league was initiated solely for the purpose of mice prevention and control: as cats are generally recognized for their uncanny abilities to take control of their environment. This …
THE HELL’S ANGELS LETTERS: HUNTER S. THOMPSON, MARGARET HARRELL AND THE MAKING OF AN AMERICAN CLASSIC Margaret Harrell 9 x 12 PB • 298 Pgs • $60.00 • ISBN 978-1-60052-167-6 SOLD OUT The Hell’s Angels Letters: Hunter S. Thompson, Margaret Harrell and the Making of an American Classic is an important revelation in the legacy …
SAN FRANCISCO HANDBOOK #03 Jim Sottile 4.25 x 5.5 PB • 58 Pgs • $9.95 • ISBN 978-1-60052-168-3 San Francisco Handbook explores human touch on the physical landscape in images of lost or discarded gloves found around San Francisco. This and previous volumes also include gloves found in other cities in the United States, Japan, …
THE HELL’S ANGELS LETTERS: HUNTER S. THOMPSON, MARGARET HARRELL AND THE MAKING OF AN AMERICAN CLASSIC (HARD COVER) Margaret Harrell 9 x 12 HC • 298 Pgs • $160.00 • ISBN 978-1-60052-170-6 This is the beautiful limited edition of just 120 books, signed and numbered by the Author. Signature sewn, the hard cover is hot stamped …
AN ARTISTIC LIFE (HARD COVER) Ronald Garrigues 8 x 10 HC • 376 Pgs • $150.00 • ISBN 978-1-60052-159-1 Signed and numbered, limited edition of 125 The artist creations of Ronald Garrigues began with carved wooden sculptures when he was 30 years old. After a long hiatus in his artistic career, he produced 60 cast …
SAN FRANCISCO’S GOLDEN GATE PARK: A Thousand and Seventeen Acres of Stories Christopher Pollock 8.75 x 10.75 PB • 152 Pgs • $60.00 • ISBN 978-1-60052-165-2 One of the world’s most spectacular urban oases, San Francisco’s Golden Gate Park surely is one of the most beloved. This 1,017 acre green space is the middle of …
SAN FRANCISCO’S GOLDEN GATE PARK: A Thousand and Seventeen Acres of Stories [DE] Christopher Pollock 8.75 x 10.75 PB • 152 Pgs • $75.00 • ISBN 978-1-60052-196-6 Deluxe Edition – Includes flaps with a fold-out map One of the world’s most spectacular urban oases, San Francisco’s Golden Gate Park surely is one of the most …
DOCTOR SMILO Renata P. Smilo, MD 5.5 x 8.5 PB • 168 Pgs • $24.00 • ISBN 978-1-60052-152-2 Esteemed physician Renata P. Smilo, MD, shares the highlights of her heroic journey of triumph over adversity in this riveting, short memoir. Torn suddenly and violently from a loving family in 1942 Poland, Renata and her sister, …
TURN AND FACE THE STRANGE Natasha Dennerstein and Kaye Freeman 9 x 9 PB • 122 Pgs • $25.00 • ISBN 978-1-60052-160-7 What began as a symbiotic overlap in content and expression became a journey all its own. The artistic sediments of Dennerstein’s and Freeman’s work permeate each other’s brains, unknowingly asking questions and finding …
HEAR/SAY VOL. 2 UCSF Memory and Aging Center 6 x 9 PB • 335 Pgs • $20.00 • ISBN 978-1-60052-164-5 The hear/say oral history project records and shares the personal stories of aging people (with and without dementia), caregivers, and people working in the field of dementia. Sharing these narratives with the broader community can …
MY NAME IS Y Doreen Stock 6 x 9 PB • 158 Pgs • $15.00 • ISBN 978-1-60052-154-6 With her poet’s pen, Doreen Stock brings her own remembered experience to life on every page of this haunting memoir—the story of a woman navigating her daily roles as wife, mother, writer, political activist. Each word waxes …
OUR TOWN: BEST OF THE NEW FILLMORE (HARD COVER) Thomas R. Reynolds and Barbara Kate Repa 11 x 12.5 HC • 268 Pgs • $120.00 • ISBN 978-1-60052-155-3 Fillmore Street is one of San Francisco’s great treasures. Wildly diverse and rich with history, the neighborhoods along Fillmore range from the richest to the poorest, and …
TURN AND FACE THE STRANGE (HARD COVER) Natasha Dennerstein and Kaye Freeman 9 x 9 HC • 122 Pgs • $60.00 • ISBN 978-1-60052-157-7 What began as a symbiotic overlap in content and expression became a journey all its own. The artistic sediments of Dennerstein’s and Freeman’s work permeate each other’s brains, unknowingly asking questions …
BELOW UNDERSTANDING Joseph Slusky and Andy Brumer 8 x 10 PB • 54 Pgs • $20.00 • ISBN 978-1-60052-151-5 Below Understanding represents an important landmark in our long and close friendship. Though we both believe the book speaks for itself, we also want to include the following as a sample of the many conversations about …
INFINITE REFRAIN James Butler 8 x 10 PB • 84 Pgs • $40.00 • ISBN 978-1-60052-153-9 Publishing a first book of poems is no small step. Some poets arrive at this inflection point via the traditional path of academic study, while others follow a more self-directed route. Regardless, assembling a collection and considering each poem …
ISLAND OF ZA Doug Lawler 8 x 10 HC • 106 Pgs • $120.00 • ISBN 978-0-692-13340-8 Early in 2016, the Oakland, California based printmaker Doug Lawler, began a creative voyage that has taken him deep into the cavernous, enchanted, and shapeshifting world of the “Island of Za.” In 100+ intricately-detailed, sepia-toned dry point etchings …
OUR TOWN: BEST OF THE NEW FILLMORE Thomas R. Reynolds and Barbara Kate Repa 11 x 12.5 PB • 268 Pgs • $80.00 • ISBN 978-1-60052-156-0 Fillmore Street is one of San Francisco’s great treasures. Wildly diverse and rich with history, the neighborhoods along Fillmore range from the richest to the poorest, and are among …
LOVE YOUR COLOR Rhonel Roberts 9 x 12 PB • 104 Pgs • $40.00 • ISBN 978-1-60052-140-9 Rhonel Roberts was born in French Camp, California. From a young age, he was excited about art. “My 7th grade art teacher started me out on India ink. He encouraged me to use washes and textures. I liked …
THREE TALES FROM THE ARCHIVES OF LOVE Doreen Stock 5.5 x 8.5 PB • 317 Pgs • $20.00 • ISBN 978-1-60052-144-7 The tales told here originate in two medieval beggars’ letters, a stone epitaph, and Egyptian papyri dating from the time of the prophet, Jeremiah. Far apart from one another in time, all spring from …
TRAPDOOR William Keihn/RPM 8 x 10 PB • 144 Pgs • $50.00 • ISBN 978-1-60052-143-0 William Keihn (b. 1983, Muncie, IN) is the son of a nurse and a steelworker. Through his prolific output of underground West coast out rock posters and record covers he developed his non-technical aesthetic. Trapdoor is the culmination of road …
ABOUT A GIRL Natasha Dennerstein 5.5 x 8.5 PB • 86 Pgs • $15.00 • ISBN 978-1-60052-142-3 Natasha Dennerstein’s “About a Girl” is a complex and compelling work that turns on a dime to tell the story of a life through shifting perspective and rhythm. This exquisitely crafted novella in verse reads like a great …
WILD BLACKBERRIES Claudia Chapline 6 x 7 PB • 72 Pgs • $24.00 • ISBN 978-1-60052-147-8 Claudia Chapline’s 7th collection of poems considers love in all its seasonings. Her lyric expressions of many kinds of love range from the personal to the universal, written from the 1960s to 2017, these poems are for lovers everywhere. …
EYE OF THE PARROT Anthony Gantner 6 x 8.75 PB • 224 Pgs • $24.00 • ISBN 978-1-60052-138-6 2nd Edition Eye of the Parrot unveils a fog-swept mosaic of high-spirited characters who inhabit the bohemian hills and hollows of the Cool Grey City of Love at the tip of America’s sunset trail. Flying above the …
OUTPOST Isak Lindenauer 8 x 10 PB • 164 Pgs • $24.00 • ISBN 978-1-60052-148-5 For the last forty years, Isak Lindenauer has had a nationally recognized gallery in the Castro neighborhood in San Francisco devoted to fine art objects from the American Arts and Crafts movement. He has provided valuable scholarship on the Art …
THE DRAWINGS AND PAINTINGS OF RENÉ MARTINEZ PEÑA Barry Graynor 9.25 x 8 PB • 162 Pgs • $40.00 • ISBN 978-1-60052-149-2 René Martinez Peña (Renato) was born in 1953 in Camagüey, Cuba. In 1980 he left Cuba as part of the Mariel boatlift and moved to San Francisco, where he met his life partner …
LOVE YOUR COLOR (HARD COVER) Rhonel Roberts 9 x 12 HC • 104 Pgs • $80.00 • ISBN 978-1-60052-141-6 Fillmore Street is one of San Francisco’s great treasures. Wildly diverse and rich with history, the neighborhoods along Fillmore range from the richest to the poorest, and are among the city’s most interesting. The New Fillmore …
EYE OF THE PARROT (HARD COVER) Anthony Gantner 6.375 x 9 HC • 224 Pgs • $58.00 • ISBN 978-1-60052-139-3 2nd Edition Eye of the Parrot unveils a fog-swept mosaic of high-spirited characters who inhabit the bohemian hills and hollows of the Cool Grey City of Love at the tip of America’s sunset trail. Flying …
BY FIRE Barbara Kyne 8.75 x 7.25 PB • 32 Pgs • $20.00 • ISBN 978-0-578-16037-5 The series By Fire examines the human experience of tragedy that has often been described as a trial by fire. If we move through the metaphorical fire with awareness, we may find that facing mortality creates expansion and renewed …
BRUSH OF THE CAT Kitty Yin Ling Miao 9 x 9 HC • 112 Pgs • $150.00 • ISBN 978-1-60052-117-1 Kitty Yin Ling Miao is an artist, poet, and scholar specializing in ancient Chinese bone and turtle script (sometimes called oracle bone script). She is renowned for her unique style integrating Chinese calligraphic techniques, pictorial …
MAGIC CARPET RIDE Ekfrasi-Yianna Grammatopoulou Gallery 8.5 x 8.5 PB • 48 Pgs • $17.50 • ISBN 978-1-60052-121-8 “Magic Carpet Ride – San Francisco Bay Area Sculptors Meet Athenian Sculptors”, Exhibition catalogue, Ekfrasi-Yianna Grammatopoulou Gallery, Athens, Greece, September 22 – October 17, 2015. An international collaboration between 12 Athenian sculptors and 17 San Francisco Bay …
ANATOMIZE Natasha Dennerstein 8.5 x 5.5 PB • 74 Pgs • $14.95 • ISBN 978-1-60052-122-5 In ANATOMIZE, Natasha Dennerstein is the poet as sensual anatomist, delineating the corporeal realm with a kind of spiritual fervor. What we are, we are, she splendidly affirms, from our heads down to our toes. Reciting the saga of her …
PAINTINGS Jerome Carlin 9.25 x 11.5 PB • 178 Pgs • $60.00 • ISBN 978-1-60052-118-8 The Bay Area Figurative painters of the 1950s sought to renew the Abstract Expressionist process by connecting it to figurative subject matter. Like the figurative painters, Carlin also delights in richly saturated color, simplified forms, and gestural painting that makes …
ONE WAY TO ASK Daniel Ari 7.5 x 9.25 PB • 232 Pgs • $35.00 • ISBN 978-1-60052-124-9 Poems by Daniel Ari with Illustrations by 67 Artists. Daniel Ari first met poetry in 1985 and has had a tumultuous but ultimately rewarding relationship with the muse ever since. He constantly strives to de fine poetry …
SAN FRANCISCO HANDBOOK #02 Jim Sottile 4.25 x 5.5 PB • 68 Pgs • $9.95 • ISBN 978-1-60052-128-7 After exploring the urban landscape with his camera for a decade Jim Sottile is releasing the first of several volumes of “handbooks”. This next installment compiles photos of discarded gloves he found on the ground. The work …
TRIPTYCH CALIFORM Natasha Dennerstein 8.5 x 5.5 PB • 88 Pgs • $15.00 • ISBN 978-1-60052-130-0 Natasha Dennerstein’s poetry, which she names ekphrasis (literally ‘to speak out,’) is to decoct the form of cinematic, kink, and Californian archetypes-the blonde noir vixen, the golden shower scene, the more-spiritual-than-thou hippie-into these seemly and seedy forms, swift as …
HEAR/SAY UCSF Memory and Aging Center 6 x 9 PB • 352 Pgs • $20.00 • ISBN 978-1-60052-136-2 The hear/say book collaboration includes personal stories from patients, caregivers, healthcare providers, researchers, staff, and artists. Click here for Vol. 2 of hear/say Back to books
SPIRIT OF PLACES Dieter Tremp 9.25 x 12 HC • 76 Pgs • $80.00 • ISBN 978-1-60052-134-8 Dieter Tremp’s Spirit of Places explores the innate spiritual power of places and structures on Earth – a spiritual force discovered and frequently explored by successive cultures. Magnificent buildings and stories of remarkable power and impact were created …
FRANKIE & THE PHOENIX Marc Goldyne 12 x 9 HC • 36 Pgs • $25.00 • ISBN 978-0-9777588-1-4 An earthquake strikes San Francisco and a fireboat, the Phoenix, and a portable fire hydrant spring into action. Follow their adventures Back to books
TOSCA’S PARIS ADVENTURE Abby Wasserman 8.5 x 6 PB • 36 Pgs • $12.50 • ISBN 0-9753559-8-8 Poire and Poireau take their cat Tosca to Paris for a vacation. Tosca meets street-smart cat Basho who invites her to see the sights. Comes with French translation Back to books
THE STORIED HOUSES OF ALAMO SQUARE Joseph B. Pecora 8.5 x 11 PB • 326 Pgs • $65.00 • ISBN 978-1-60052-092-1 We have all seen books filled with pretty pictures of historic houses. But what are the stories of these houses? In The Storied Houses of Alamo Square, Joe Pecora brings these houses to life …
SAN FRANCISCO HANDBOOK #01 Jim Sottile 4.25 x 5.5 PB • 68 Pgs • $9.95 • ISBN 978-1-60052-101-0 After exploring the urban landscape with his camera for a decade Jim Sottile is releasing the first of several volumes of “handbooks”. This premiere installment compiles photos of discarded gloves he found on the ground. The work …
CALIFORNIA FAIENCE Kirby Brown 9 x 12 PB • 280 Pgs • $48.00 • ISBN 978-1-60052-100-3 California Faience at once invokes both the familiar and the exotic. It is a name fortuitously chosen for a ceramic enterprise that operated in Berkeley, California, from 1913 to 1959. Its wares found homes in humble cottages and the …
MOVING OUT OF THE FRAME Claudia Chapline 5.5 x 8.5 PB • 148 Pgs • $24.00 • ISBN 978-1-60052-116-4 On art from the studio to the community, including modern dance, art performance, installation, feminism, public art – a must for anyone interested in feminism and the arts. Written in a reader friendly style with many …
JOSEPH SLUSKY SCULPTURE 1965-1975 Joseph Slusky 9 x 9 PB • 128 Pgs • $30.00 • ISBN 1-60052-045-6 Beyond the more immediate art Beyond the more immediate art historical roots of my work in the Cubist, Constructivist and Surrealist Movements is a sensibility in which everything one encounters in the visual realm is grist for …
EARTH JOSEPH SLUSKY DRAWING 1991-2001 Joseph Slusky 9 x 9 PB • 224 Pgs • $35.00 • ISBN 1-60052-070-7 The drawings that comprise the series entitled Earth were done on business cards. Being able to carry all the materials needed for creating these images with me, in essence becoming a mobile studio had an attraction …
JOSEPH SLUSKY POSTCARD DRAWINGS 1997-2008 Joseph Slusky 9 x 9 PB • 160 Pgs • $30.00 • ISBN 1-60052-057-X-2 The postcard drawings done between 1997-2008 were about doodling and free associating on easily available source of paper. Recurring themes depicted on the cards were self portraits examining inner psychological states, the head as a sculptural …
JOSEPH SLUSKY PAINTED PAPER SCULPTURES Joseph Slusky 5.5 x 8.5 PB • 46 Pgs • $20.00 • ISBN 978-1-60052-119-5 I have always maintained a drawing practice as well as making sculptures. They are separate and complementary endeavors, but the drawings were never intended as possible sculptures. I see this series of “Menu” drawings somewhat differently. …
BAY AREA COPPER 1900-1950 Gus Bostrom 8.5 x 11 PB • 118 Pgs • $40.00 • ISBN 1-60052-076-6 Dirk van Erp arrived in San Francisco from the Netherlands in 1891 and transformed coppersmithing in the Bay Area.. He and his followers and apprentices became a vital part of the Arts & Crafts Movement. This a …
LEGACY IN CONTINUUM: BAY AREA FIGURATION Vikki L Cruz 9 x 8 PB • 42 Pgs • $20.00 • ISBN 978-1-60052-052-5 A catalog of a 2012 comprehensive exhibit at the Bakersfield Museum of Art. Many of California’s most famous figurative painters—Nathan Olivier, Kim Froshin, Joan Brown, Richard Diebenkorn, Siddharth Parasnis and others—displayed their work and …
FALLING UP THE STAIRS Claudia Chapline 5 x 8 PB • 102 Pgs • $10.00 • ISBN 0-965356-9-7-3 A memoir by Claudia Chapline, a creative artist–painter, writer, teacher and major influence on art in California. She is an avid supporter of women’s issues. Click here to visit the artist’s website Back to books
CLANDESTINE CHARACTERS Peter Kimack 9 x 11 spiral • 70 Pgs • $39.95 • ISBN 1-60052-043-X-1 Over 1000 clandestine characters drawn in parks, coffee shops, bars and at bus stops. If you were hanging around in San Francisco sometime in the last 50 years, you or your friends might be here, too. Back to books
NEXT ONE BILLION YEARS Ronald Garrigues 8 x 10 PB • 76 Pgs • $30.00 • ISBN 1-60052-047-1 Ronald Garrigues’ sumi ink paintings on hand made paper and mounted on Chinese silk are variations on a single overarching theme: thousands of sperm remorselessly targeting the hapless egg, Another one billion times over the next ten …
PAINTED METAL SCULPTURE 1977-2012 Joseph Slusky 9 x 9 PB • 196 Pgs • $40.00 • ISBN 1-60052-057-X The wild, colorful, metal sculptures of Joseph Slusky retired UC Berkeley professor reveal both a fluidity of feeling, a solidity of form and a multi-dimensional personality. I have no preconceived ideas about what a finished work will …
WORKS ON PAPER Judy Molyneux 8.5 x 11.5 PB • 184 Pgs • $50.00 • ISBN 978-1-60052-059-6 Judy Molyneux shows us a life in and around the breakaway Republic of Bolinas.—beyond the Purple Gate—where people are, just different and in paintings, sketches, and photographs she rapturously depicts a town where the priorities are right and …
DUAL DOODLES Peter Kimack 6 x 7.5 spiral • 238 Pgs • $29.95 • ISBN 1-60052-043-X A coloring book for adults, crazy wild adults. Each image began with a doodle drawn by an unsuspecting café patron, then handed off to Peter Kimack to improvise on the spot. Back to books
CALIFORNIA GOLD Judy Molyneux 8.5 x 11.5 PB • 282 Pgs • $60.00 • ISBN 1-60052-044-8 More views of her beloved Bolinas: somber ocean scenes, winter storms, sunlit beaches and the ever present fog. “Simple scenes,” she writes, “with the underlying tough of grandeur, which is always present.” Back to books
IMPULSE TO DRAW Joseph Slusky and Chip Sullivan 9 x 12 HB • 250 Pgs • $60.00 • ISBN 1-60052-090-1 Passion. No Blandisity. Two teachers from UC Berkeley don’t teach technique, at least not in the usual sense. They imbue their subject matter—and their students—with a new vitality. Their job is to breakdown barriers and …
GARRIGUES III Ronald Garrigues 8 x 10 PB • 74 Pgs • $30.00 • ISBN 1-60052-037-5 In 33 black and white etchings on clayboard, Ronald Garrigues envisages the Big Bang: how it all might have begun, “east of nowhere.” Back to books
LOVE OF THE STONE Ruth Wall 8.5 x 11 PB • 205 Pgs • $45.00 • ISBN 1-60052-023-5 “Art is murdered by How to, Why, What for, And endless reading and explanations” wrote Ruth A Wall who had no intent to murder her creations, she just wanted them out of the house where others might …
QUIET PEOPLE Ryoko Tajiri 8.5 x 10 PB • 54 Pgs • $25.00 • ISBN 1-60052-019-8 The abstract paintings and monotypes shown as Quiet People came from Ryoko’s art show at the Academy of Art fine art gallery in San Francisco in March of 2006. Using her experimental layering techniques with “Woman at White Table” …
DRIVING INTO THE OCEAN Sherie Franssen 8.375 x 11 PB • 20 Pgs • $10.00 • ISBN 1-60052-029-7 Sherie Franssen approaches each new painting looking for trouble and with no notion of the finished composition. Applying her pigments in broad strokes to vast canvasses, she works ten hours at a stretch, often covering the same …
NEW PAINTINGS Siddharth Parasnis 9.25 x 8 PB • 16 Pgs • $10.00 • ISBN 1-60052-087-1 Much has been written about Siddharth Parasnis but no words can truly replace the powerful, immediate, and personal impression his lush canvasses make on the viewer. Parasnis’ paintings evoke emotion, whether as a first response to the dynamically structured, …
PRESENT HISTORY Stacey M. Carter 17.64 x 7.25 PB • 68 Pgs • $30.00 • ISBN 1-60052-006-5 Besides the architecture, there are other elements in my work that record time: cars, clothing, street signs, lights and traffic. All of it is part of a documentary on modern society. Even my use of color evokes a …
REINCARNATION Suhas Bhujbal 8.5 x 11 PB • 20 Pgs • $29.95 • ISBN 1-60052-032-4 Suhas Bhujbal’s work begins with cityscapes. With thickly encrusted paint and transparent glazes, he subtracts the architectural forms in his own, unique way. His palette conveys emotions from happy sunny days to calm, quiet, lonely evenings. Small countryside towns from …
NUDES Theophilus Brown 8.25 x 10 PB • 58 Pgs • $35.00 • ISBN 1-60052-088-X William Theophilus Brown’s life has been marked by travel and adventure, hard work, dedication, individual perseverance and resilience and artistic accomplishments that have ensured him a place in the history of art. Along with other artists, he combined abstract and …
TRACEY ADAMS Tracey Adams 12 x 9.25 PB • 88 Pgs • $38.00 • ISBN 1-60052-030-8 Art and music have always played huge roles in my life. I studied piano for many years, then earned my advanced degrees in composition and conducting, while simultaneously enrolling in drawing and painting classes. In 1992, I arrived at …
WOMEN ARTISTS IN MARIN: FIVE DECADES Various Artists 8.5 x 8.5 PB • 46 Pgs • $30.00 • ISBN 1-60052-089-8 Women Artists in Marin: Five Decades of Women’s Art is a catalog of a 2009 exhibition of the works of a group of Marin County artists who present a collective statement through a variety of …
A CONSIDERABLE STUDY Nelson H. Basel 10.5 x 8.75 PB • 108 Pgs • $50.00 • ISBN 1-60052-084-7 A Considerable Study is an extensive program of, and about, keyboard music and song. Written or composed over twenty-five years, Basel shows us the greatness of classical music. This comprehensive survey with its historic information, personal commentary, …
IN THE MOMENT Randall C. Sexton 8 x 10 PB • 130 Pgs • $60.00 • ISBN 1-60052-024-3 My paintings are a direct response to the world around me as I strive to be “in the moment.” Each painting is a simple sentence in an ongoing story that will take a lifetime to unfold…much like …
HAVANA AND BACK Randall C. Sexton 8 x 10 PB • 126 Pgs • $55.00 • ISBN 1-60052-002-2 Since the turn of the millennium Randy Sexton has become widely regarded as one of the premier plein-air painters working in Northern California. He embraced this tradition, following a brief exploration of abstract and abstract-expressionist art, soon …
RICHARD LINDNER Richard Lindner 7.75 x 11 PB • 24 Pgs • $35.00 • ISBN 1-60052-086-3 No one painted like Richard Lindner. His heraldic symbols of New York and his paintings of pimps and armored women were cultural commentaries far removed from Pop’s bland images. Dore Ashton writes of Lindner: “These masked creatures with their …
PEOPLE, PLACES AND THINGS Robert Bedoar & Douglas Whitfield 8.5 x 8.5 PB • 96 Pgs • $29.95 • ISBN 1-60052-012-X Images from an online exhibit featuring the work of Robert Bedoar and Douglas Whitfield. Whitfield’s subjects are people, and he describes his oil on canvas work and the subsequent glclees as being dreamlike, filled …
TROUBLED GOODS Robert Colescott 11 x 8.5 PB • 54 Pgs • $30.00 • ISBN 1-60461-558-6 This exhibition, which speaks of the vigor and sheer abundance of Robert Colescott’s work over the last decade compels us to look at his oeuvre through the lens of the last ten momentous years. Meanwhile the narrative questions he …
GARRIGUES II Ronald Garrigues 8 x 10 PB • 84 Pgs • $30.00 • ISBN 1-60052-022-7 Thirty-six views of Mount Shasta for the ghost of Hokusai writes Ronald Garrigues about his 2007 exhibit of charcoal drawings. He uses chalk, pastel and conte to wonderful affect. Back to books
LINES UNLIMITED VOLUME 1 Peter Kimack 8.75 x 11 PB • 53 Pgs • $40.00 • ISBN 1-60052-020-0-1 This “Coloring Book for all Ages” embodies the creative spirit of San Francisco artist Peter Kimack, whose mind-bending illustrations stretch the imagination far beyond recognition. A look at the samples on the inside front cover flap beckons …