Book Beat Books – Sea Urchin Editions

Cary Loren – Eye Zone

Cary Loren (1955) is an artist, musician, publisher and bookstore keeper from Oak Park, Michigan. Together with Niagara, Mike Kelley and Jim Shaw, Loren was a founder member of proto-punk noise band Destroy All Monsters in the early 1970s. He also founded his psych-folk band Monster Island and teamed up with the Miller brothers in the short-lived band Xanadu in the late 1970s and with Barry Roth in Nightcrawlerz in the 1980s. As a visual artist Loren has been active as a photographer, filmmaker and collagist since the early 1970s. Together with his wife Colleen Kammer, he has run Book Beat, a fine independent bookstore in Oak Park…

€ 25.00

John & Leni Sinclair – Poetry is Revolution Poster

This silkscreened reprint of a Trans-Love Energies 1967 poster was published in an edition of 75 by Bookbeat, Oak Park in 2009. Trans-Love Energies was founded in Detroit in the early 1960s as a communal living environment, but later relocated to Ann Arbor. Founded by poet and political activist John Sinclair and his then wife Leni Sinclair, one of its slogans was…

Iodine Pilz #1

First issue of art zine Iodine Pilz. 32 pages of “Good Hot Stuff” were brought together and edited by Cary Loren and published in a limited edition of 100 hand-numbered copies by Omeggkkamann Press in 2012. Photos, writings, and artwork by Cary Loren, James Hoff, Elizabeth Sporleder and guest artist Cameron Jamie were photocopied in colour and b/w and staple bound. The images and text of this…

€ 50.00

Savage Pencil – Destroy All Monsters Hungry for Death Poster

Hungry for Death was a comprehensive Destroy All Monsters exhibition at Printed Matter, New York in 2009. From there the show, curated by Cary Loren and James Hoff, toured to St Louis, Oslo, London, Rome, Lausanne, Athens, Paris and Boston. For the show at SPACE Gallery, London in 2010 a poster was designed by British artist Edwin Pouncey aka Savage Pencil. The poster was silkscreened, signed and hand numbered…

Destroy All Monsters – It Melts in your Mind, not in your Mouth

A set of 20 vinyl stickers and one White Panther Party button, designed by Destroy All Monsters and produced for the Whitney Biennial 2002. Limited edition of 300…