TMRWLND, spoken as â€œTomorrow Land,â€ is the creative brainchild of Los Angeles based artists Tina St. Claire and Dereck Seltzer, who in 2013 created a zine that showcased the black and white illustrations that provided the skeletal structure for the collaborative process which they became best known for. This hardcover edition of TMRWLND is a unabridged compendium of the first 3 sold out zines, with additional previously unpublished material created before the untimely passing of Tina St. Claire in 2016. With over 100 original drawing's, design's and pattern's this book provides a unique look at the artistic processes of the two Los Angeles based artist's and a intimate guide into the world of TMRWLND.

TMRWLND: The Secret Stays Unknown

Arts & Photography

Seltzer, Dereck

History & Criticism

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A Study of Hands is an attempt to remove male intimacy from its sheath. It is an incision into Bodney's last relationship, as well as the ongoing one he has with his father. It is the peeling of layers from his own experiences of love and abuse with the men in his life and how that translates into the ways he communicates vulnerability. It is a reconstruction of safety while navigating the revolution that is continuing to define Bodney, what it means to survive, and to love all at once.

A Study of Hands

Literature & Fiction

Bodney, Edwin

Poetry

Transmorphing Utopia is the first major publication on the astutely absurd work of artist Paul W. Wadell. This richly illustrated book includes essays by independent curator Santiago Vernetti and celebrated author Jonathan Griffin, as well as an exclusive interview between Waddell and the artist Chelsea Coon. The texts offer generous insights into the full scope and depth of Waddellâ€™s career across his varied mediums and disciplines. The full color reproductions bring together images from two seminal series of painting: LOOSE HEADS (paintings that look for you) and TRANSMORPHING. Vernettiâ€™s essay, which is chock-full of his characteristically refreshing wit, deftly situates these paintings within their appropriate art historical lineage while offering amusingly perceptive interpretations. Griffinâ€™s personal reflection untangles the various strands of Waddellâ€™s oeuvre, and considers what artistic personas the artist adopts when addressing his audience. The interview between Coon and Waddell, two of the most engaging and exciting figures in the contemporary art scene, lays bare the impulses and influences that drive and inform their performance practices. Despite its content and contributors, this publication just barely scratches the surface of one of Southern Californiaâ€™s most intriguing artists, and will leave readers delightfully unquenched.

Transmorphing Utopia

Waddell, Paul W.

The poems in this series are based on Lanford Wilsonâ€™s Pulitzer Prize-winning play â€œTalleyâ€™s Folly.â€ The play takes place in rural Missouri on July 4, 1944 in a boathouse belonging to the Talley family. It is the ninety-seven minute courtship of Sally Talley, a nurseâ€™s aide from a Protestant family, by Matt Friedman, an accountant and German-Jewish refugee. One year before the events of the play, the two had met and had a week-long affair, during which theyâ€™d fallen in love. However, each being the keeper of great secrets and intense private traumas, theyâ€™d decided to part ways. Over the course of the play it is revealed that Matt, unable to fully let go, had been writing and sending a letter per day to Sally before finally deciding to come back, confess his love, tell his story, and ask her to marry him. These poems come out of the rehearsal process of the play in which the author worked on the role of Matt. They were intended as a way in which to generate a greater understanding of the character, but ended up taking on a life of their own; exploring the space between actor and role, and as communion between withheld desire, perceived unlovability, Jewishness, loss of faith in the body and the spaces the body occupies, and ultimately, a tremulous sort of hope.

Dear Sal

Radin, Jeremy

HOW THE BODY WORKS THE DARK is the new, long awaited collection of love poems from one of Americaâ€™s most beloved touring poets, Derrick C. Brown. These haunting, funny, erotic love poems fit neatly into the canon of Brownâ€™s quotable style. This book is the perfect way to say I need you now, right now. Mostly written in the Channel Islands, Los Angeles, Texas, and Serenbe Develpoment in the Chattahoochee Hills of Georgia, these poems are feisty and capture the human experience of being horny and beautiful at the same time. There is a yearning in these poems, a fire set bright that burns hotter than ever. â€œOur love is a lake full of lightning.â€

How the Body Works the Dark: Love Poems by Derrick C. Brown

Brown, Derrick C.

ICONS is a series of 100 semi-fictionalized portraits of LA's eccentric personalities. Parker Day is a Los Angeles based artist whose work explores identity and the masks we wear. Through costuming and exaggerated expressions, Day toys with the truth of who and what she portrays. She deliberately eschews Photoshop in favor of in-camera capture on film. Lurid color bathes her work and heightens the surreality of her subjects while the grain and grit of the photographs make them palpably real.

Icons

Photography & Video

Used PaintingsÂ is a book-form survey on the paintings of Los Angeles-based artistÂ Max Maslansky, spanning from 2012 to 2016, including essays by writer / filmmaker Laura Kipnis; curator / writer Michael Ned Holte; and curator / writer Jacquelyn Davis.

Used Paintings

Maslansky, Max

Individual Artists

Pizza Witch cards are a modern take on divination. Instead of using traditional tarot imagery, they reference pop culture (the mosquito in amber from Jurassic Park), real places (the now-closed Lusty Lady peep show in San Francisco), imaginary places (Hernando's Hideaway from the '50s musical The Pajama Game), folklore (La Llorona), Greek and personal mythology (Medea and This Glorious Bear, respectively), and daily life (The Mystery Text).

Pizza Witch

Andujar, Courtney

White Power

Sia, Beau

Corazón

Corazón is a love story. It is about the constant hunger for love. It is about feeding that hunger with another person and finding that sometimes it isn’t enough. Salgado creates a world in which the heart can live anywhere; her fat brown body, her parents home country, a lover, a toothbrush, a mango, or a song. It is a celebration of heartache, of how it can ruin us, but most importantly how we always survive it and return to ourselves whole.

Salgado, Yesika

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