The second annual Los Angeles Art Book Fair opened at MOCA’s Geffen Contemporary Thursday night, and the West Coast sister edition to Printed Matter’s New York Art Book Fair (now in its ninth year) has a great program lined up. The free event showcasing artists’ books, catalogues, monographs, periodicals, zines, and more boasts over 250 exhibitors from all over the world, and four special editions by Printed Matter to benefit the fair by Laura Owens, Jeremy Deller, Patrick Lee, and Parra.
Some project highlights for this year’s fair include the Queer Zines Exhibition curated by Philip Aarons and AA Bronson; talks and lectures in The Classroom series, curated by David Senior; MOCAtv’s series of special screenings, panels, and performances; and the Contemporary Artists’ Books Conference (CABC) will be in attendance for the first time for a one-day event.
Zines will have their own dedicated section in (XE)ROX & PAPER + SCISSORS, which will house a special exhibition of photographs and ephemera by Alexis Dibiasio about the 1980s and ’90s New York club kid scene and celebrating the recently published book “Fabulosity: A Night You’ll Never Forget…Or Remember,” by Wild Life Press.
If we were in L.A. we’d be soaking up the sun and hoarding zines right now, so get on that. A complete list of exhibitors can be found below:
‘SUP MAGAZINE
[ 2nd Floor Projects ] San Francisco
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20th Century Art Archives
2D Cloud / MariNaomi
2nd Cannons Publications
6 Decades Books
88Books / XXX
90 Proof Press
A Love Token
a/b Books
ABC Artists’ Books Cooperative
Adam Villacin
Aint-Bad Magazine
Alden Projects
AMMO Books
Ampersand Gallery & Fine Books
Anal Magazine
Anartist
Andrew Roth, Inc.
Antena
Aperture Foundation
Arcana: Books on the Arts
Area Sneaks & Make Now Press
Art Catalogues at LACMA
Art Metropole
Art Paper Editions
ARTBOOK | D.A.P.
Artforum / Bookforum
Arthur Fournier Fine & Rare
Artspeak
Aye Aye Books / Victor & Hester
B-B-B-Books
Bad Day
Barcode Art
Bedford Press
Benjamin Critton Art Dept. / Colophon
Bidoun Projects
Bijan Berahimi
billy ocallaghan
BLONDE ART BOOKS
Blood of the Young
Bodega
Boo-Hooray
BOOK STAND
Booklyn
Booklyn Art Gallery
BOOKMARC
Brendan Monroe & Evah Fan
Browns Editions
Bywater Bros. Editions
C Magazine
Cabinet
Capricious
CASUAL LIVING
Catalogue Library / Shabazz Projects
Cathy Busby / Garry Neill Kennedy
CCOOLL
Center for Book Arts
Center for Sex and Culture
The Center for Urban Pedagogy (CUP)
Chris Golden
Christine Burgin
Cinders Gallery
Colour Code
Colpa / Basement
Container Corps
Contemporary Art Gallery, Vancouver
Conveyor Editions
COP DAD magazine / Justin Jorgensen
cura.magazine and books
Daily Life Storage
Dale Wittig
Dale Zine Miami Fl
Darin Klein & Friends
Dashwood Books
Datacide Journal
DDMMYY
Deadbeat Club
Deth P. Sun
Division Leap
Dominica
DoPe Press
Drinkollage / Acid Rain
Drippy Bone Books
DUM DUM Zine
East of Borneo
Ediciones Acapulco
Edie Fake
Edition Patrick Frey
Empty Purse
Empty Stretch
Errant Bodies: publishing as practice
Eve Fowler
Everlasting Secret Family
Fabulousity
Family Bookstore
Fillip / New Documents
FIST
Flash Art International
Florence Loewy
Foggy Notion Books
For the Common Good
Freeways Collide
Frenemies: Matt Gualco and Paul Shortt
Frieze
Funchicken
Fundación Alumnos47
Gagosian Gallery
Gallery 16
Giant Robot
Gloria Glitzer
Golden Spike Press
Good Press
Goodbye Ranch
Goteblüd
Gottlund
Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts
Gregory R. Miller & Co.
Hamburger Eyes
HAMMER
Harper’s Books
Hassla
Headmaster
Hello Mr. Magazine
Horses Think Press
Human Resources / Lockitch Press / Semiotexte
I Never Read,
I WILL DESTROY YOU
The Ice Plant
ICI Press
IIIII Columns
Insane Dialectical Posse
Insert Blanc Press
INSTIGATOR
Issue Press
j. morrison
J&L Books
Jane & Jeremy
JIMMY the zine
Journal of Aesthetics and Protest
Justseeds Artists’ Cooperative
Juxtapoz
Kaleidoscope
KARMA
Kayrock Screenprinting
KCHUNG
KesselsKramer
KesselsKramer
Kickstarter
Kingsboro Press
Knowsgay
Knust / Extrapool
Kodoji Press
LACE (Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions)
LACMA Museum Store
LAND AND SEA
Laurence McGilvery
Leisure Labor
Les Figues Press / OTIS BOOKS | SEISMICITY EDITIONS
Library of the Printed Web
Library Store On Wheels
Little Big Man
Little Paper Planes
Livraison
Lokos Only
Louis M. Schmidt
Mörel Books
MACK
Maia Ruth Lee / Peter Sutherland
Marquand Books
MASSIVE: Gay Manga
MER. Paper Kunsthalle
Miniature Garden
Minor Matters Books
modlitbooks
Monograph Bookwerks
Mossless
Needles & Pens/& Pens Press
Never Press
New Territories Studio
The Newsstand
NOAH LYON / RETARD RIOT
OHWOW
OMMU
onestar press / Three Star Books
Onomatopee
Ooga Booga
Or Gallery
Original Plumbing
OSMOS
Otis Fine Arts/Art & Publication Class
Pacific Stacks
Packet Biweekly
Paper Chase
Paper Monument
Pau Wau Publications
Paul Mpagi Sepuya
Peradam
Perimeter Books
Perish Publishing
PIN-UP
PINUPS
Poety Unlimited
Pop-Hop Books & Print
Prairie Fortress
Presentation House Gallery
Primary Information
Printed Matter, Inc.
Project Projects
Project Space
PROSPECTUS
prvtdncr & bodega vendetta
Public Fiction
Public School Editions
The Public School L.A.
Publication Studio Portland
Queering Zine
R. A. P.
RAM Publications U.S.A.
Re:Surgo!
RE/Search Publications
Red76
Redfoxpress & Antic-Ham
Rhein-Verlag
Richardson Magazine
Ridinghouse
ROCK BOTTOM
Roma Publications
SCB ART BOOK COLLECTION
Scott Hug
Secret Behavior
Secret Headquarters/Thank You
Seite
Sensitive Boys
Shelter Press
siglio
Sigrid Calon
SISTERS
Soberscove Press
Sternberg Press
Studio Montespecchio
Taller de Ediciones Económicas
Taller Monstruo
TBW Books
Temporary Services / Half Letter Press
Texte zur Kunst
The Thing
thingsthatfall
The Third Rail
threewalls
Torpedo Press
Triangle Books
Ugly Duckling Presse
Univocal Publishing
US (LA + Austin + NYC)
Vacancy Projects
Vacation Days
Valiz
Vasta Images / Books
VUU
WAX Magazine
Werkplaats Typografie
White Columns
Wild Life Press
William Steinman & Kate Miss
Wizard Skull
WSSF
Wuvable Oaf
X-TRA & Project X Foundation
YES PRESS
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