KIMA
Lauren Kima Graycar
Los Angeles
kimabooks@gmail.com
Kima Ten Years
2024


Institute of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles
February 10–March 10

The exhibition is organized by Wendy Yao as part of the museum’s Ooga Booga residency, and presents editions and ephemera from the past decade of the imprint.
K.73r
Public Type
2024


Available to license from Public Type, with additional symbols and alternates and updated type table of over 10,500 glyphs. K.73r is both functional and experimental, and can be set as body or display type. Included in the font are upper and lowercase letters, lining and oldstyle figures, basic punctuation, math symbols, currency, diacritics, and ligatures. If there were an ideal typesetter for it, they would tightrope what it can do in terms of legible writing with its potential to work as graphic art.

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Cultural History
2023


Edition of 40
28 × 28 in flat
9.5 × 14 in folded
Silver and black 2-color silkscreen on newsprint, printed by Press Friends

28-year perpetual calendar set in K.73r.

$50
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Do It Yourself
2023


Silkscreen on vinyl sticker for Kima ten year anniversary

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K.73r
2023


Started in February 2021, K.73r is a geometric sans type family in 5 styles. Continuing early Modernist exercises about modular typography, it is constructed of square, circle, triangle in counterpoint. Unlike those types, and as a working font file created a full century later, K.73r’s ultra-expansive type table is made up of 9,989 glyphs, with up to 100 alternates per character. K.73r is both functional and experimental. Its highly legible base style should interact with its stylistic counterparts to affirm the poetic and practical potential of all intelligently designed language.


Specimen

Edition of 30
44 pages
9 × 12 in
Stitchbound digital print

$30
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Butterfly Impressions
2022


Edition of 20 + 5 AP
32 pages
9 × 12 in
Stitchbound digital offset with tracing paper dust jacket

Stamp drawings by John Bortal. Each dust jacket is unique, with drawings hand stamped by the artist.

$120
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5×5=25
2022


Edition of 100
15 mm width
Custom gold foil washi
tape in hand stamped glassine bag

Pikake lei drawn after the early Cubo-Futurist still lifes of Liubov Popova.

$10
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Vapor Trail
2022


Edition of 4 + 2 AP
Tag 2.5 × 11 in
Bell diameter 1.625 in
Nambu cast iron wind chime with 2-sided hand silkscreened cotton tag

Opening melody of Joe Hisaishi’s “A Town with
an Ocean View.”
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Mantis
2022


Short film
18 min 10 sec

Director
Nathan Rickard

Art director
Lauren Graycar

Cast
Tracy Nguyen
Trang Nguyen

Over a series of trips to visit Nathan’s father in Arizona, we filmed a portrait of daily life with his step sister and her mother. Over time, we observed their relationship and documented the environment surrounding their intersecting family ties.

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The Home and the World
2022


Edition of 20 + 2 AP
19 × 22 in
Hand silkscreen
on CAD print

Books 1–99 between trompe-l’oeil White Rabbit bookends.

$30
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99
Cha Cha
2022


Edition of 25
8.5 × 11 in
Hand silkscreen on flat paper bag

$15
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98
From Abroad
2021


Edition of 19
24 pages
5.875 × 8 in
Stitchbound digital offset

John Millington Synge, Heinz Edgar Kiewe, and the myth of the Aran sweater.
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Chinese Supper
2021


Edition of 25
52 pages
6 × 8 in
Stitchbound digital
offset with hand silkscreened cover

Images of vintage Chinese packaging, mainly sweets, collected and archived
by Tooly.
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Lovable You
2021


Edition of 20
64 pages
5.25 × 8.75 in
Stitchbound digital print with foldout plates

Stories from Pai Hsien-yung’s Taipei People
(2000, The Chinese University Press).

Film stills from Lin
Tuan-chiu, Liang Zhefu, Hsin Chi, Hou Hsiao-hsien, Wang Tung, and
Lin Cheng-sheng.
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Luka’s Garden
2021


10.5 in diameter
Phenakistoscope disc, digital print

Isolated floral ornaments
of Killarney capitals looping A–Z.
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Killarney
2021


Edition of 25
26 pages
8 × 11 in
Digital print in
handmade encasing

Typographic specimen of custom drawn decorative capitals with ornamentation based on the floral patterning of Killarney inlaid wood furniture.

$20
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Panorama
2021


Edition of 30
Canvas tote bag
15 × 16.5 in
2-sided hand silkscreen
on 100% organic carbon neutral cotton

$30
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Things I Learned
2020


Edition of 16
12 pages
7.375 × 10.75 in
Hand silkscreen each page on stitchbound high gloss digital print

Cover lettering from Johann Schönsperger the Younger’s 1529 edition of Ein new getruckt model Büchli: earliest known textile pattern book and first printed fashion publication.

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New Generation
2020


Hand embroidered vintage Prada shirt

Kraft box custom drawn numerals after Wodan, Schelter & Giesecke.
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3DX 121
To The Birds
2020


Edition of 20 + 4 AP
Cotton sweatshirt
US small & medium only
Hand silkscreen

With Harsh Patel

A portion of sales were donated to the National Audubon Society
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Simple Chinese
Home Cooking

2020


Edition of 30
20 pages
6.5 × 9.5 in
Stitchbound digital print with tipped-in cover photograph

Recipes and photographs
by Cao Di

$20 Order
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Chinese for European Market
2020


Edition of 18
32 pages
5.85 × 8 in
Stitchbound digital print
on alternating uncoated
and satin coated stock
with woven twill cover

18th century Chinese painted and embroidered pictorial silks and wallpapers for export
to Europe.

Josef Mysliveček Divertimento in F. Excerpts from Fanny Burneyʼs Evelina, or the History of a Young Lady's Entrance into the World (1778).

$35 Order
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Lilikoi and lychee,
vanilla ice cream, azuki bean

2020


Hawaiian heirloom engraved plumeria
scroll-around bangle
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Kroj
2020


Edition of 7
Cotton mock neck shirt
US medium only
Custom embroidery

Ornamentation drawn from the Hawaii State Public Library System motif. Clothing tags include section of traditional Slovak kroj ribbon made in the Czech Republic.
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Places to Visit
2020


Edition of 24
12 pages
6.5 × 10.125 in book
12 × 7.5 in poster
Stitchbound digital print with newsprint poster insert

2019 in movies and snacks. Poster still from Hong Sang-soo’s Grass, 2018.

$25 Order
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Yoona Cooking
2020


Edition of 25
20 pages
6 × 8 in
Stitchbound digital print

Recipes from Yoona of Girls’ Generation compiled from Hyori’s Homestay,
her 2016 Chongqing fan meeting, and Weibo.

$20 Order
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Ulice před domem
2020


Edition of 3
7 × 4 in
Enamel nameplate

My grandfather’s original Slovak last name in custom drawn type after the work of Martin Benka (b. 1888, Kostolište, Slovakia). Made in the Czech Republic.
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For NRG
2019


Edition of 50 + 10 AP
28 pages
7 × 10 in
Stitchbound digital print with glassine endsheets

Photographs by
Zoë Ghertner
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How We Used to Live
2019


Edition of 20
20 pages
5.75 × 9 in
Stitchbound digital print

Collected interviews with Sarah Cracknell of Saint Etienne on being young, going on benders, and loving David Essex.

$20 Order
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Cigarette, a cup of tea,
a bun...

2019


Edition of 50
1 in enamel pin
8.5 × 10.5 in poster
Enamel pin in sketch
paper poster

$25 Order

Staffordshire Dogs
Book release & opening
2019


August 17, 7pm

Mrs. Wong’s
2850 ½ Sunset Blvd
Los Angeles, 90026
Tokyo Art Book Fair
2019


July 12–15

Museum of
Contemporary Art

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Staffordshire Dogs
2019


Edition of 18 + 3 AP
20 pages
9 × 12 in
8 × 10 in C-print
Stitchbound digital offset print and single C-print
in hand silkscreened butcher paper wrapping

Paintings by Miles Jopling

$55 Order
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Cabinet Doré
2019


Edition of 20
5 prints
5.5 × 9 in
Tipped-in digital prints
in handmade portfolio

With Carmel Ni

$30 Order

Printed Matter’s
LA Art Book Fair
2019


April 12–14
Preview April 11

MoCA Geffen

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Palettes II
2019


Edition of 45 + 7 AP
32 pages
7 × 9.5 in
Stitchbound digital print

By Jessica Williams

$25 Order
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Summer Romance
2019


Edition of 20
16 pages
6.25 × 9 in
Stitchbound digital print
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Almost No Memory
2019


Edition of 12 + 4 AP
8.5 × 12.5 in
Digital offset prints in
hand silkscreened portfolio
9 digital offset prints
(8 × 12 in)
1 newsprint poster
(12 × 16 in)

Photographs by
Nathan Rickard taken
in Los Angeles and Taiwan

$50 Order
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Avenue
2019


Edition of 15
12 pages
6.1875 × 9 in
Stitchbound digital print

Journey to Italy, Roberto Rossellini, 1954; Theorem, Pier Paolo Pasolini, 1968; La Danse, Frederick Wiseman, 2009; A Good Marriage, Éric Rohmer, 1982; Secrets of Women, Ingmar Bergman, 1952.

$18 Order
Building Block + Kima
2018


Edition of 15
Hand-silkscreened
100% silk handkerchief
and vegetable-tanned leather box
Handkerchief 17 × 17 in
Box 3.5 × 4.25 in
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Shasta
2018


Edition of 30
12 × 18 in
Digital print

$15 Order

TW 82
Taiwanese Cinema
Since 1982


October 13, 2018
8pm

Screening organized
by Lauren Graycar
and Nathan Rickard

Folder Studio
1031 N Broadway
Los Angeles
Printed Matter’s
New York Art Book Fair
2018


September 21–23
Preview September 20

MoMA PS1

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SNSD04
2018


Custom embroidered vintage Tricot
Comme des Garçons shirt
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Anna Magdalena Bach
2018


Edition of 15
20 pages
6.5 × 8.5 in
Stitchbound digital print

The Chronicle of Anna Magdalena Bach,
Jean-Marie Straub and Danièle Huillet, 1968. “Anna Magdalena as Bach’s Copyist,” Yo Tomita, 2007.

$20 Order
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Delphi 1
2018


Edition of 20 + 5 AP
7" flexi disc
45 rpm
Handmade cover with tipped-in C-print

Cover photograph
by Mitch Brown

Debussy, La Fille
aux Cheveux de Lin
,
Préludes 1, no. 8,
played by Jascha Heifetz.

$50 Order
69
Linguiça
2018


22 × 30 in
Poly crêpe de chine flag
68
C Files
Taiwan, Hong Kong

2018


Edition of 20
24 pages
9.5 × 13 in
Fastener bound digital print

Document on street style

$30 Order
67
Red White Blue “K”
2018


Edition of 45
Postcard
4 × 6 in
Digital print

$3 Order
66
Real Love
2017


Edition of 25
Canvas tote bag
14 × 15 in
2-sided hand silkscreen on cotton

The Beatles’ final live concert, Candlestick Park, August 29, 1966.

$20 Order
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Ritan Park
2017


C-pop, HK-pop, and cha cha compilation by James Elaine, artist and curator
in Beijing.
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A few steps ahead,
a cherry stone.
In my mouth,
the taste of cherry.
A few steps behind,
the cherry tree.

2017


Edition of 25
16 pages
5.25 × 8 in
Stitchbound digital print with cover tipped-in plate

Films from verse. Featuring Address, Sohrab Sepehri (Where is the Friend’s Home?, Abbas Kiarostami), Book of Revelation 8:1, 6 (The Seventh Seal, Ingmar Bergman), Age of Bloom, Zhou Xuan (In the Mood for Love, Wong Kar-wai).

$20 Order
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Monterey Park
2017


Edition of 20
Cotton t-shirt
US medium & large only
Hand silkscreen

Originally designed by Harsh Patel in 2006 for Raymond Tseng’s store Lion’s Den. Cities was a series of shirts marking Chinese suburbs in greater LA. They were given to friends and family. The original colorway was yellow and black.
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C.Z.
2017


Edition of 15 + 3 AP
4 prints
6 × 8 in folded
Suite of prints in envelope, various sizes

Photographs by
Ami Watanabe

$20 Order
61
Golden Days
2017


Edition of 20
28 pages
6 × 8.5 in
Stitchbound digital print
60
Sketchbook
2017


Edition of 10
102 pages
8.5 × 11 in
Digital print with hand
tape binding

Decorative borders drawn from the illustrations and sketches of neoclassical French architect, interior decorator, and designer Charles Percier (1764–1838)

Miss Read
Berlin Art Book Fair
2017


July 14–16

Haus der Kulturen der Welt

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Chamomile
2017


Arrangement by
Paul Forney
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Vaganova Ballet Academy
2017


Edition of 15
Cotton sweatshirt
US small only
Hand silkscreen

Oh!
2017


Ditch Projects
Springfield, OR
May 20–June 17

Oh! presents a selection
of work from Kima.

Also included is an “exhibition within an exhibition” with works
by friends/collaborators Theresa Guntli, Miles Jopling, Harsh Patel,
and Jessica Williams.

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Two Texts on Wanda
2017


Edition of 15
36 pages
7.75 × 10.125 in
Stitchbound digital
print book with
CAD poster jacket
French and English

Two texts on the film Wanda (1970) by Barbara Loden. Marguerite Duras and Elia Kazan in conversation, Cahiers du Cinéma, December 1980. Stéphane Delorme on Wanda, Cahiers du Cinéma, July–August 2003.

$35 Order
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Film Drawings
2017


Edition of 20 + 10 AP
5 pages
9 × 11 in
Stitchbound digital print

Drawings by Theresa Guntli

Interiors from An Autumn Afternoon (Yasujirō Ozu),
A Tale of Springtime (Éric Rohmer), Picnic at Hanging Rock (Peter Weir).

$30 Order
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AB 1910
2017


Willi Wegener (Magdeburg) designed Alpha and Beta in 1910 for the Frankfurt type foundry Flinsch. This revival was created between 2016 and 2017 in Mar Vista, Highland Park, and Altadena, California. The letterforms and their alternates are drawn near-exact to his originals, and the ornaments are culled from different sources and time periods. As little is known about the original author, the gap in history
is filled by interpretation.

Specimen
$10 Order

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Chapters: Book Arts in Southern California
2017


Craft Contemporary
Group exhibition
January 29–May 7

51 with Harsh Patel

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Polichinelle
2017


Edition of 12
3.5 × 6.5 in
5 candles in hand silkscreened Shikoku
paper package
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Jueju
2016


Edition of 10
12 pages
6.5 × 9.5 in
Tipped-in digital prints on rice paper, stitchbound

Poetry by Du Fu,
Chengdu, 759–765

$30 Order
52
Yunnan
2016


Edition of 15
28 pages
6 × 8.5 in
Stitchbound digital print interior; fabric cover with grosgrain ribbon weaving

Yunnan province,
summer 2016

$45 Order
51
2016


Suite of 3 prints
14 × 17 in (prints)
16 × 20 in (portfolio)
Gold leaf on board
in handmade encasing
with twill closures

With Harsh Patel

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50
Madeleine
2016


Edition of 6
Handkerchief
18 × 18 in
Hand silkscreen on cotton

$60 Order
49
Bolschoi Drill
Ein Jahr an der Moskauer Ballettakademie

2016


Edition of 20
40 pages
6.5 × 9.75 in
Stitchbound digital print

Transcribed subtitles
from the documentary

$20 Order
48
Sunday
2016


Edition of 10
Cotton sweatshirt
US medium only
Hand silkscreen

Typography from
One Wonderful Sunday
(Kurosawa)
47
Palettes
2016


Edition of 20
28 pages
8 × 10.75 in
Stitchbound digital print
with postcard insert

By Jessica Williams
46
Carnaval
2016


Edition of 15
Suite of 3 prints
7.5 × 9 in
Digital print

$20 Order
45
Mei Hua
2016


Edition of 30
5 × 5 in
Compilation CD with digital print cover and insert

Chinese pop songs from
the late 70’s to 90’s

Artists include Teresa Teng, Tsai Chin, Delphine Tsai, Sylvia Chang, Yawei Hong, Helen Wang, Ying-ying Yu, and Waken Chau

Cover calligraphy by
Sum Cheung



$20 Order
44
Светлана
2016


Edition of 20
20 pages
5.5 × 8.75 in
Stitchbound digital print

Svetlana Zakharova in Vaganova Academy 1996 final exam; Russian translation of Depeche Mode’s “Strangelove”

Special thanks to Viktor Alekseyev for his help with the translation

$20 Order
43
Constance
2016


Edition of 20
11.6 × 16.5 in
Digital print on
sketch paper
42
Opoponax
2016


Customized Times
New Roman

41
Popina's
2016


Edition of 20
Canvas tote bag
15 × 16 in
Hand silkscreen, 2-sided

$20 Order
40
Anthem Part Two
2016


16 × 24 in
Silk crêpe de chine flag
39
The Wedge
2015


Edition of 10 + 3 AP
10 × 15 in
Digital and CAD prints
in hand silkscreened, handmade portfolio
3 CAD prints (18 × 27 in)
4 posters (8 × 12 in)
2 postcards (4 × 6 in)

By Stephen Aldahl

$75 Order
38
U.A.T.W.
2015


Edition of 25
11.6 × 16.5 in
Digital print on
sketch paper

Poster by Harsh Patel

$15 Order
37
All Summer Long
2015


Edition of 20
24 pages
7 × 9.5 in
Digital and inkjet print with marble-marbled cover and satin ribbon binding

Texts by Ingmar Bergman and Amy Sherman-Palladino

$30 Order
36
Empress
2015


Edition of 5
Pocket square
16 × 16 in
Hand silkscreen on silk
35
Pearl
2015


Edition of 25
24 pages
7.25 × 9.25 in
Stitchbound digital print
with tipped-in photographs

Text and images from Chinese Flower
Arrangement: Literati Style
by Pearl W. Hsu

$25 Order
34
Hawaii of China
2015


Edition of 35
24 pages
8 × 10 in
Stitchbound digital print
with tipped-in photograph

Text by Jeannette Graycar (stories by my mother
of growing up in the Philippines and Hawaii)

$20 Order
33
The Dying Swan
2015


Edition of 30
24 pages
6.25 × 9.5 in
Stitchbound digital print

Poem by Alfred Lord Tennyson, music by Camille Saint-Saëns

$20 Order
32
Wayside Flowers
2015


Edition of 20
9 photographs
7.5 × 10 in
Digital and inkjet print

Photographs by
Suzanna Zak
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Mary
2015


Edition of 50
Canvas tote bag
15 × 17 in
Hand silkscreen
30
Perfume Bottle I
2015


Edition of 500
Postcard
4.25 × 6 in
Offset print

Photograph by
Miles Jopling

Single, addressed to you
$3 Order
Set of 5
$10 Order
29
Mei Mei
2015


Edition of 20
32 pages
9 × 11.5 in
Stitchbound digital
print with parchment
paper jacket

Taiwanese style from the films of Edward Yang
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Parade
2015


Edition of 20
16 pages
7.5 × 9.5 in
Digital offset, stitchbound

$30 Order
27
Please
2015


Edition of 50
0.75 in
Enamel pin

26
Narciso
2015


Edition of 50
11 × 15 in
Letterpress

$20 Order
25
Folly Promise Bagger
2015


Edition of 20
16 pages
8.5 × 12 in
Stitchbound digital print

Photographs by
Johann Mun

$20 Order
24
Sweet Dew
2015


Edition of 30
8 pages
7.25 × 10 in
Stitchbound digital print

Poem by Richard Brautigan

$10 Order
23
Zhang Da
2014


Edition of 30
16 pages
9 × 12 in
Stitchbound digital print
Chinese and English

Interview with the fashion designer fromView International Fashion & Fabrics, 2008

$15 Order
22
Tulips
2014


Edition of 35
16 pages
8 × 10 in
Stitchbound digital print

Text from the poem
by Sylvia Plath

$15 Order
21
Nocturne
2014


Edition of 7
12 pages
12.5 × 15 in
Stitchbound digital print

$20 Order
20
Grace
2014


Edition of 40
11 × 15 in
Letterpress

$20 Order
19
Specimen Drawings
2014


Edition of 30
24 pages
7.25 × 10.75 in
Stitchbound digital print

Drawings by
Marinna Wagner

$20 Order
18
Life's a Ball (for Alex)
2014


Edition of 20
12 pages
9 × 12 in
CAD print

Photographs by Harsh Patel
17
Endless Everywhere
2014


Edition of 20
44 pages
8.5 × 11 in
Stitchbound digital print

Poetry and notes from
the archive of Dr. Shea Zellweger

$15 Order
16
Strangelove
2014


Edition of 8
15 × 17 in
Inkjet print on silk
crêpe de chine
15
Anthem
2014


Edition of 4
Canvas backpack
13.5 × 18 in
Hand silkscreen
14
Delta
2014


Edition of 10
12 pages
8.5 × 14 in
Stitchbound hand silkscreen

$30 Order
13
Paradise II
2014


Edition of 3
Short pants
Hand sewn inkjet print
on silky faille

With Anna Reutinger
12
Morning
2014


Edition of 30
10 pages
7.5 × 10 in
Digital and inkjet print

$20 Order
11
Paradise I
2014


Edition of 20
7 × 5 in
Set of 4 postcards
Digital offset

$10 Order
10
Niu
2014


Edition of 8
17 × 25 in
Inkjet print on cotton voile
9
Husky
2014


Edition of 25
12 × 16 in
Letterpress

$20 Order
8
Calligraphy
2014


Edition of 30
24 pages
9 × 11.75 in
Stitchbound digital print

Common forest trees
of Hawaii

$20 Order
7
The Gorgonic Aura
2014


Edition of 50
28 pages
9 × 12 in
Stitchbound digital print
Croatian and English

Text by Radmila Iva Janković, Museum of Contemporary Art, Zagreb

Download PDF

$20 Order
6
For Ann Demeulemeester
2014


Edition of 15
6 pages
10 × 12 in (folded)
60 × 12 in (flat)
CAD print and hand silkscreen
French and English

Poetry by Stéphane Mallarmé

$30 Order
5
Flora
2014


Edition of 20
7 pages
10 × 13 in
Digital and inkjet print

Flowers from the prints
of Prada Resort 2008

$20 Order
4
Animals and Man in Space
2014


Edition of 10
40 pages
8.5 × 10 in
Inkjet print and acetone transfer

Text from US naval report; images of Laika and Belka, Soviet space dogs

$20 Order
3
In Watermelon Sugar
2014


Edition of 10
164 pages
5 × 8.5 in
Stitchbound digital and
inkjet print

Text by Richard Brautigan
2
Marni ss11
2013


Edition of 10
24 pages
9.5 × 11 in
Stitchbound digital print with custom embroidered ribbon

Images from Marni Spring/Summer 2011
1
The Logic Alphabet
2013


Edition of 10
26 pages
8.5 × 10 in
Stitchbound inkjet print and hand silkscreen

From the Logic Alphabet
of Dr. Shea Zellweger

$20 Order