LA’s premier poet of regret and resentment (according to the @lareviewofbooks ), John Tottenham’s Fresh Failure is a staff rec at Shakespeare & Co., Paris’ most famous bookshop, English or otherwise. If you haven’t had the pleasure of sitting with Tottenham’s poetry, do yourself a favor and start here. Indiscriminate disdain and humor await.
Please stop by The Loved One this Friday as we celebrate the LA launch of the fourth issue of Effects, a journal of art, poetry, and essays.
Joining us will be art writer and curator Jan Tumlir, with contributors Lakshmi Luthra, Paul Sietsema, and Zachary Korol Gold.
The issue is an exploration of Holes in all their psychic and bodily forms—political, philosophical, architectural, geological, destructive, productive, as grave pits, as birth canals … 🕳️
Few copies remaining. Come get one and dig in.
We’re back at our desks after four days of exhibiting our artist-driven family of titles at the 2026 edition of the Printed Matter LA Art Book Fair. Thanks to all the wonderful people who visited our booth and shopped directly with us online during the fair. And cheers to all the independent publishers, artists, and supporters for showing up. 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽
Up next, we’ll be at the @iphotofestival next weekend, @lareviewofbooks ’ LitLit festival in early June, @theanalogoutlaw in late June, and the @sfartbookfair in July. 📚 📚 📚
First slide: @emilys_sassy_lime and @mrjcgabel
Second slide: The final moments of @printedmatter_artbookfairs 2026 LA edition. Bravo, organizers. 🥂
I am so happy to reveal a special project I have been working on with @hatandbeardpress , coming this fall ! My first monograph, La Bricoleuse, is now available for pre-sale at the link in bio ! I can’t wait to share this comprehensive look at my work, alongside essays by the amazing @danagoodyear and @cat.taft.cat , design by @goldella ✨
“Gabbiani’s works on paper depict overlooked landscapes across natural and urban habitats, brought to life using intricately cut paper densely layered over mixed-media washes and airbrushed gradients. The result is abundant with as much texture as meaning, revealing a fundamental understanding of humanity’s subordinate standing to the omnipresence of Mother Nature, and a reverence for the reciprocal cycles of life— withering and blossoming, death and rebirth— through an Ecofeminist lens.”
Rolling with the fun times at Printed Matter LA Art Book Fair all weekend. Good neighbors @xartistsbooks and @vacancyprojects are tabling next to us. Come get the goods. 📚 If you want to partake but can’t make it, has 40% off a bunch of our most popular titles. Use LAABF2026 at checkout. 📍Art Center, Pasadena, til Sunday. 6:00 pm. Full details @printedmatter_artbookfairs .
After three years of work, I’m very excited to finally announce DUNGEON SYNTH — a new photography book published by Hat & Beard Press.
Over the course of this project, I documented dungeon synth’s global underground: musicians, artists, and the private worlds they create in forests, ruins, bedrooms, and home studios.
What emerged was something far larger than a musical genre — a self-sustaining culture existing outside mainstream visibility.
Edited by Johan Kugelberg, with an introduction by Jordan Whiteman.
Hardcover / clothbound / 256 pages
Pre-orders are now live. Link in bio
Shipping Fall 2026.
Excited to announce The City Unseen is headed to Printed Matter’s LA Art Book Fair tomorrow with Hat & Beard Press! They’ll also be exhibiting a few of my fine art photography prints. Looking forward to seeing you there! VIP opening is tomorrow, Thursday, May 7, 6-9pm
We are starting another busy week today, but anxiously looking forward to opening night of the 2026 Printed Matter LA Art Book Fair at Art Center this Thursday. Come find us on the first floor, booth C27, among many of the world’s finest specialty art book publishers and purveyors of piece de résistance printed matter.
As part of the fair’s The Classroom series, @clarecrespo will be in conversation with @lisawpics about their words-and-image wrangling process during the production of Clare’s new book Oralee. Saturday afternoon, May 9th, 12:00-1:00, second floor of the 950 building. Come say hey. Full details, including ticket info, @printedmatter_artbookfairs .
Excited to see you all—print/book collectors, publishers, admirers, everyone! More details about specials and out-of-print titles coming Thursday. Stay tuned.
La Bamba: A Visual History by Merrick Morton is back in stock at Tia Chucha’s! Featuring photographs by Merrick Morton, interviews with the filmmakers and cast and essays by Carlos Aguilar and RJ Smith on the making of the movie and the legacy of Ritchie Valens.
Find it in store at Tia Chucha’s open this week Tuesday-Friday 2pm-9pm, Saturday 12pm-8pm, or online bookstore at
#RitchieValens #Sanfernandovalley #818 #labamba
I’m thrilled to be a part of this year’s National Poetry Month celebration. This billboard is running throughout April at Santa Monica Boulevard and La Brea at the West Hollywood Gateway.
Headshot by the absolutely extraordinary @carolinewphoto@carolinewfineart
With heartfelt and unending thanks to @stevenreigns and @westhollywoodgateway
#poetry #nationalpoetrymonth #nationalpoetry #april #losangeles
