Eleven Mega Churches

NEW BOOKEleven Mega Churches

by Travis Shaffer
color offset-printed, glue bound
5.5" x 5.5" ( 14 x 14 cm)
32 pp.
edition size: 1000 (unsigned and unnumbered)
20$ US

"Eleven Mega Churches, a play on Edward Ruscha's Thirtyfour Parking Lots (1967) features google maps screen-captures of a selection of 11 of the 100 largest churches in the US. This book contains images depicting sprawling parking lots, coupled with cul-de-sac laden homogenous housing developments and swimming pools, all icons of a distinctly American and more distinctly middle class ex-urban/suburban landscape.
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US $27.00 International $35.00 Studio Pick-up / Multiple $20.00

Sorority Skin Tones | a PANTONE color guide

Sorority Skin Tones | a PANTONE color guide
©2010

Artists' book ; archival inkjet printed ; hand sewn saddle stitch binding ; color ; 15.24 x 15.24 cm. ; [28] pp. ; edition size 50 ; signed and numbered.

Sorority Skin Tones contains 20 pantone color swatches sourced from color averaged screen captures isolating the necks, chests, legs, foreheads, etc. of 10 popular american sororities in their facebook photographs.

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US $75.00International $82.00Studio Pick-up / Multiple $68.00

Artist's Books Cooperative

Fellow book artists + collectors - check out The Artist's Books Cooperative, a group to which I was initiated in late 2009. ABC Artists’ Books Cooperative is an international distribution network created by and for artists who make print-on-demand artists’ books. Our aim is to help artists getting their self-published books to the people who are interested in them. We don’t sell books through this site but we make information about selected books available. ABC has been working hard to grow in size and scope through participation in past + upcoming art book fairs in major cities internationally, including New York, London, Berlin, Kassel, Walsall, Paris . . .

Real Estate Opportunites | a 2010 international investment guide

Real Estate Opportunities | a 2010 international investment guide
© 2010

Artists' book ; archival inkjet printed ; hand sewn saddle stitch binding ; color ; 15.24 x 15.24 cm. ; [24] pp. ; edition size 50 ; signed and numbered.

Book Lists 20 Highest Debt per capita nations (according to wikipedia) with artist generated maps and data.

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US $75.00International $82.00Studio Pick-up / Multiple $68.00

The 2009 NY Art Book Fair

Printed Matter, a non-profit organization for artists' publishings, artist books, monographs, catalogues etc. is hosting the 4th annual NY Book Art Fair from Oct 2-4 @ P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center.

This event is free of charge, if you are in NYC and give a damn about art you should find your way there!

Keep your eyes open for our latest publishing . . . Thirtyfour Parking Lots . . . via Google Maps by Travis Shaffer.

www.printedmatter.com

www.nybookartfair.com

Thirtyfour Parking Lots in Los Angeles . . . via Google Maps

Thirtyfour Parking Lots in Los Angeles...
...via Google Maps
©2008

Artists' book ; offset-printed ; glue bound ; color ; 14 x 21.5 cm. ; [48] pp. ; edition size 400 ; unsigned and unnumbered
$24.46 (the price of Ed Ruscha’s first artist book $3.50 in 1963, run through an inflation calculator).

Artists' book playing on title by Edward Ruscha. Revisiting Ruscha's seminal book of the same title. This book features 30 images re-representing the parking lots photographed in 1967 by Art Alanis for Ed Ruscha. The images are screen captures taken from Google Maps, taking advantage of the cool, detached perspective provided by satellite surveillance.

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US $31.46International $38.46Studio Pick-up / Multiple $24.46

Welcome

Welcome to the button press, a publication venture of contemporary artist travis shaffer. You can expect to be updated on new artist's books, editons, other multiples and an upcoming etsy.com store, as well as other things we think you should be aware of.