(2005-2006) This series of drawings started with a show at Miller Block Gallery which I called "Book Club." I kept making them, and came up with the subsequent title when I assembled some of my favorites for an editioned poster. Some of these books are my favorites, some not-so-much, and others I love for their nostalgia value above content. Together, they make something of a very intentionally narrow self-portrait.
Each drawing is in a frame that has the book's MLA style bibliography written directly onto its lower lip with an ultra-fine permanent marker.
Right-click (PC) or control-click (Mac) here to download a hi-res, 11" x 17" version of the poster so that you can print your own. (file size = 11.3MB)
"2001," 2005
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"The Anchor Book of New American Short Stories," 2005
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"Gravity's Rainbow," 2005
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"Ida," 2005
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"The Hobbit," 2005
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"Genji Monogatari," 2005
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"The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe," 2005
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"Dance, Dance, Dance," 2005
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"Dance, Dance, Dance (1st Ed.)," 2005
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"Flying Saucers," 2005
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"Lunch Poems," 2005
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"Understanding Media," 2005
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"Montaigne: Essays," 2005
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"Montaigne: Essays (Alt. Version)," 2005
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"The Catcher in the Rye," 2005
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"Nine Stories," 2005
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"My Life in the Bush of Ghosts," 2005
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"On Photography," 2005
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"Young Torless," 2005
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"Wide Sargasso Sea," 2005
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"Ulysses and Ulysses Annotated," 2005
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"Rosshalde," 2005
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"Tlooth," 2005
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"Naked," 2005
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"Notable American Women and Arcadia," 2005
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"Notable American Women," 2005
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"Arcadia," 2005
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"1984," 2005
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"The Rachel Papers and Emerson's Essays," 2005
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"Gone With the Wind," 2005
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"The Defense," 2005
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"Nadja," 2005
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"Plexus," 2005
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"Venus in Furs," 2005
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"Alma Mahler-Werfel: Diaries 1898-1902," 2005
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"Typee," 2005
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