This publication presents more than 60 never-before-seen photographs by Catherine Opie (born 1961), drawn from over 30 years of making pictures in and of Los Angeles. Illustrated by more than 100 color and black-and-white images, Harmony Is Fraught sheds new light on a variety of subjects familiar to Opie’s expansive oeuvre. It includes intimate portraits of lovers and friends, documentary-style photographs of iconic and lesser-known landmarks, unprecedented experiments in self-portraiture, and scenes of queer life from the 1990s to the present. In Catherine Opie’s Multiverse,” a new catalog essay penned in response to the exhibition, Karen Tongson considers the analogical . . . .go to book page >>

This volume celebrates and documents the career of pioneering New York–based artist Jack Pierson (born 1960). Published on the occasion of Pierson’s tenth solo presentation with Regen Projects, Los Angeles, this full-color publication illustrates works produced over 35 years of the artist’s multidisciplinary practice. The publication follows the design of the exhibition, creating a personal sojourn through the artist’s career. Featuring a new contribution by Evan Moffitt that surveys the artist’s body of work in relation to queer cultural zeitgeists of the 1990s, a conversation between the artist and Andy Campbell, and an essay by Bruce Benderson, Less and more . . . .go to book page >>

This is the first major monograph dedicated to the New York–based artist Sable Elyse Smith (born 1986). Through her wide-ranging multimedia practice, Smith elucidates how the carceral state (read America) quietly inflicts violence and is constantly reinforced by the seemingly banal: from furniture found in prison visitation rooms, to pages from state-issued children's coloring books. Included in this publication are works produced from 2015 to the present day to provide a comprehensive overview of Smith’s videos, sculptures, photography, texts and printed matter. Accompanying over 140 color images are texts by Horace Ballard (Theodore E. Stebbins Jr. Associate Curator of American . . . .go to book page >>