Events

Tuesday, May 4, 7pm

2010-04-26T17:24:00.000-07:00

Launch of the new Abrams book:
The Art of Jaime Hernandez-The Secrets of Life and Death.
Book Signing and Discussion with Jaime Hernandez, Jordan Crane, and Todd Hignite

Jaime Hernandez, along with his two brothers, Gilbert and Mario, changed American cartooning forever when they self-published their first comic book, Love and Rockets in 1981. Over twenty-five years later it is still going strong. Hernandez’s stories chronicle the lives of some of the most memorable and fully formed characters the comics form has ever seen. His female protagonists, masterfully delineated with humor, candor, and breathtaking realism, come to life within California’s Mexican-American culture and punk milieu. an acknowledged inspiration to countless artists-without Love and Rockets, the entire graphic novel landscape would look very different and that much worse without it.
The notoriously private artist has opened his archives for the first time for acclaimed Editor/Writer Todd Hignite, revealing never-before-seen sketches, childhood drawings, and unpublished work, alongside his most famous Love and Rockets material. Beautifully designed by the award winning cartoonist and designer, Jordan Crane, this new book is the definitive biographical and critical essay on the artist.

Thursday, March 11, 7pm

2010-03-08T17:58:00.000-08:00

New Window Installation Party!
Parceval by Will Lemon
With a performance by Pharaohs

Saturday, February 13, 7pm

2010-02-09T16:52:00.000-08:00

Truth - A Kill Soulless Bullshit Happening
Curated by Tim Kerr

Thursday, January 28, 7:30

2010-01-06T00:10:00.000-08:00

Double reading with Trinie Dalton and Aimee Bender

To launch two new books through Madras Press:
Trinie Dalton's 'Sweet Tomb' & Aimee Bender's 'The Third Elevator'

Sweet Tomb
By Trinie Dalton
Proceeds to benefit the Theodore Payne Foundation

I’ve foreseen my death since the day my Mom named me: Candy. It will happen after I’ve binged on my gingerbread walls, eaten the frosted windowpanes, and chewed hunks off the peppermint fireplace. The cause: Sweetheart Attack, a.k.a. Sugar Overdose. It’s a classic witch affliction. After all, a witch’s house isn’t solely built to lure starving children. They design them with their favorite treats, with tips from the Witch’s Home Journal. The magazine runs a column called 'Houses To Nibble At.' Last month’s winning house had the following caption beneath its photo: This devilishly delicious Witch’s House, with its broken candy glass path, cookie graveyard, licorice barbed-wire fence, and spooky hilltop shack with graham cracker roof, will delight a crowd of 20. I took the graveyard suggestion and have been busy baking tombstones to give my family some recognition. Everyone I’m related to is out back, mostly in the form of scattered ashes.

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In Sweet Tomb, Trinie Dalton tells the story of Candy, a candy-addicted witch who resents her inherited lifestyle. After a fire burns down her gingerbread house, she leaves the forest and ventures out in search of the excitement of a more urban environment. Along the way she encounters a self-mutilating puppet, tastes meat for the first time, and falls in love with Death, a skeletal woman with a shoe fetish.

Trinie Dalton is the author of the story collection Wide Eyed, an installment in Dennis Cooper’s 'Little House on the Bowery' series for Akashic Books, and of the novella A Unicorn is Born. She is also the co-editor of Dear New Girl or Whatever Your Name Is, an art book of confiscated notes from high school students, and the editor of MYTHTYM, a collection of essays, artwork, and miscellany on a variety of mythological and horror-related subjects.

'Dalton uses absurd, whimsical circumstances to reveal poignant truths about modern life.'
— NYLON magazine

‘Trinie Dalton is as radically original a young writer as I've ever come across: a post-punk, post-apocalyptic, post-everything sensibility, casting spells of willed innocence against the powers of darkness she knows terrifyingly well.’
— David Gates, author of Jernigan and Preston Falls

‘Trinie Dalton is an effortless purveyor of wonder, strangeness, and love. She is a writer of high spirits and unguarded vision.’
— Ben Marcus, author of Notable American Women and The Age of Wire and String

‘Trinie Dalton ... [puts] a fresh spin on the world, leading the reader into places never explored—sometimes dreamlike, sometimes nightmarish, always riveting. Her vision is wholly unique and memorable.’
— Jill McCorkle, author of The Cheer Leader and Creatures of Habit

The Third Elevator
By Aimee Bender
Proceeds to benefit InsideOUT Writers

The queen took a swan for her pet. The bird was white and large, with a body so puffed out and fluffy it looked just like a small cloud, only with legs, with a beak, and with bright beaded black eyes.

‘Throw him up in the air,’ said the queen, ‘and who knows who we’d fool.’

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The Third Elevator is the story of a swan, a bluebird, the curious family they form together, and the mysterious elevators in the center of their village — one that rises into the sky, one that opens into a forest, and one that descends underground. Other characters include a miner in search of something beyond the walls of his cave, a logger too gentle to chop trees, a team of kleptomaniacal dove nurses, a king with an appetite for turtles, and his queen, the swan’s first owner.

Aimee Bender is the author of the story collections The Girl in the Flammable Skirt, a New York Times Notable Book, and Willful Creatures, nominated by The Believer as one of the best books of the year, and of the novel An Invisible Sign of My Own, an L.A. Times pick of the year. Her stories have appeared in Granta, GQ, Harper’s, Tin House, McSweeney’s, The Paris Review, and many more publications, and have been heard on PRI’s This American Life and Selected Shorts. She is the recipient of two Pushcart prizes and in 2005 was nominated for the TipTree award.

‘Aimee Bender’s images explode, her words ignite. Watching her imagination catch fire remains a sustaining joy in my readerly life.’
— Alice Sebold, author of The Lovely Bones

‘Aimee Bender’s stories come as a revelation.’
— Jonathan Lethem, author of The Fortress of Solitude and Motherless Brooklyn

‘Bender uses language the way painters move paint, working squarely in the tradition of Gertrude Stein.’
— Alan Cheuse, NPR

‘To curl up with an Aimee Bender story is to thank heaven you ever learned to read in the first place.”
— Jessica Shaw, Entertainment Weekly

Saturday, December 12, 7 - 10pm

2009-12-07T18:40:00.000-08:00

Group Show One is the first in a series of group exhibitions in FAMILY's new Back Room Gallery.

Artist Bios:
Ashley Snow Macomber is represented by Kavi Gupta Gallery (Chicago) and has shown at Proyectos Monclova (Mexico City) New Image Art (LA) Deste Foundation Center for Contemporary Art (Athens), White Box Gallery (NYC). She has been included in publications such as Revisionaries, ANP Quarterly Issue #9. Her most recent book is We Are What We Are Not
ashleymacomber.com

Kevin Christy is represented by Monya Rowe gallery (New York), and has shown at Jack Hanley gallery (San Francisco), Hope gallery (Los Angeles), New Image Art gallery (Los Angeles), White Columns (New York), Loyal gallery (Sweden), and Space 1026 (Philadelphia). He has a catalogue with Cederteg, and his work was inluded in 'dear new girl, or whatever your name is' by McSweeneys, and is a regular contributor to Stop Smiling magazine. He is a co-founder of the Broken Wrist Project.
kevinsayshi.com

Nicholas Haggard has exhibited at Peter Hey Halpert gallery (NYC), Rogues gallery (Portland) and Family (LA). He has a zine with Cederteg, and his editorial work has appeared in Dazed & Confused, Pig, and Sang Bleu
nicholashaggard.com

Sarah Soquel Morhaim's films have screened at the Sundance Film Festival, Palm Springs International Festival of Shorts, CineVegas, the San Francisco Cinematheque, Philadelphia Independent, the Austin Film Society and others. Her photography has appeared in Arkitip, and received awards from the National Foundation for Advancement of the Arts
sarahsoquel.com

Sunday, December 13, 7pm

2009-12-01T15:16:00.001-08:00

Launch of Dear JD Salinger, I Forgive You Signed, Yoko.
New poems by Spencer Moody and Anthony Anzalone.
Published by Teenage Teardrops

Insecurities:
Don't worry!
We all know
what you do
not like
about yourself
-AA

There will be readings by Spencer Moody, Anthony Anzalone, and Deanna Uribe

Bios:

Spencer Moody is the vocalist for Seattle-based noise rock group Triumph of Lethargy Skinned Alive to Death. He was previously the vocalist for the Murder City Devils.

Anthony Anzalone is the vocalist for Mikki and the Mauses. He was previously vocalist for the Mean Reds. He maintains the blog: iveheardworseshit.blogspot.com/

Deanna Uribe's latest poetry zines include: Grog Head 2, and The Skeleton.

Sunday, November 15, 5pm

2009-11-09T14:52:00.000-08:00

Launch for Heads On We Shoot - by editors of Mcsweeneys, Spike Jonze, and Dave Eggers.
Signing and Q&A with Spike Jonze

HEADS ON AND WE SHOOT unveils the unique collaboration behind Where the Wild Things Are -the combined work of Maurice Sendak, Spike Jonze, Dave Eggers, and all the cast and crew. The book design is heavily image-based, a mix of early sketches, storyboards, character designs, and extensive behind-the-scenes photographs that show both incredible live-action puppetry and computer animation. The text includes forewords by Jonze and Eggers, interviews with the cast and crew, stories from on and off the set, and early drafts of the screenplay. The resulting book will be simultaneously a beautiful object for collectors, an insider′s guide for devotees, and an intimate window into the creative process.

Sunday, October 11, 7pm

2009-10-08T18:47:00.000-07:00

The Urxed
Nudge
City Center

Sunday, October 11, 7pm!

The Urxed:
The Urxed is the solo music and performance art project of High Places member Rob Barber. The name 'The Urxed' has been used for various projects since Rob was a youth. The name originated as a Graffiti name, and was a reference to the song "You're X'ed" by the early 80's Washington DC hardcore punk band The Faith.

Nudge:
Nudge is a slightly loose collective orbiting Los Angeles based musician Brian Foote, birthed premillenially in Portland with the intent to push forward with emergent technologies and antiquated kit alike. His prime collaborators are Paul Dickow who works solo as Strategy, and Honey Owens who records under the Valet moniker. Foote also plays in Atlas Sound and helps run the Kranky label.

nudge "war song" from nudge on Vimeo.

City Center:
Before delving into the sparkling, murky sound collages of his current project, City Center, Fred Thomas spent about 10 years masterminding resourcefully lo-fi pop and soul tunes under the banner of Saturday Looks Good To Me. Thomas began City Center after moving from Michigan to a more cramped situation in New York City and, in what he calls a classic New York moving story, retreated into a world of headphones, loops, and lonely electronic experimentation. Thomas' friend Ryan Howard joined up to help him flesh out the songs, resulting in City Center's recent self-titled album. City Center's sound—putting the melodies and songs under a canopy of reverb-heavy loops and samples instead of the other way around—has prompted some to accuse Thomas of "jumping on the bandwagon of weird music," as he puts it.

City Center - "Thaw" @ The Bakery (9/23/09) from Chad Paulson on Vimeo.

Wednesday, Oct 21, 8pm

2009-10-06T16:49:00.000-07:00

Double launch for new books by Marc Bell and Johnny Ryan! October 21, 8pm (presentation + signing)

Marc Bell (from Canada) will be giving a slideshow presentation and both artists will be instore signing books.

"Marc Bell’s HOT POTATOE seamlessly combines decade-plus comics activities with a lifelong devotion to, as Bell calls it, "Fine Ahtwerks." Part art monograph, part comics collection, HOT POTATOE is filled with mixed media cardboard constructions, watercoloured drawings, altered found texts and Bell’s most intense, dizzying comics from the contemporary avant-garde comics anthologies – Kramers Ergot and The Ganzfeld. Bell’s works have their roots in draftsmanship, typography and old-fashioned gags, but morph into assemblages that connect his images into real space. His comics are funny, seat-of-the pants narratives that give the characters an inner-life.

Canada's Marc Bell is one of the leading lights in the new emphasis on drawing in the art world. He comes on like a stepchild of R. Crumb, Ray Johnson and Basquiat; armed with a dashing and looping rapidograph."

"Ryan's original graphic novel Prison Pit combines his love for WWE wrestling, Gary Panter's "Jimbo" comics, and Kentaro Miura's "Berserk" Manga, into a brutal showcase of violence, survival and revenge. The prolific cartoonist is best known for his outrageous 14-issue Angry Youth Comix series published by Fantagraphics Books. Ryan also pens the weekly comic strip Blecky Yuckerella, which has been collected in three volumes including the recently released Comics Are for Idiots."

Tues, Sep 22, 7pm

2009-09-14T17:56:00.000-07:00

Launch of Bart Simpson's Treehouse of Horror #15, Edited by Sammy Harkham

Artists signing the issue at Family include Sammy Harkham, Matt Groening, Jeffrey Brown, Jordan Crane, and Tim Hensley. The issue is available at Family before it hits newstands, grocery stores, 7-11s, etc

Family will also be opening an in-store exhibition of original art from the comic that night.

Guest edited by Sammy Harkham, the award-winning creator of the popular Kramers Ergot anthology, this year's issue is jam-packed with some of the most idiosyncratic takes on "The Simpsons" universe ever.

Among Halloween-inspired short strips by such visionary cartoonists as C.F. (Powr Mastrs), Will Sweeney (Tales from Greenfuzz), Jordan Crane (Uptight), Tim Hensley (MOME), and John Kerschbaum (Petey & Pussy), are four featured tales of inspired Simpsons lunacy: heralded artists Kevin Huizenga (Ganges, Or Else) and Matthew Thurber (1-800 Mice, Kramers Ergot) collaborate on a weird and wild story equal parts Lovecraftian eco-horror and Philip K. Dick identity comedy. Jeffrey Brown (Incredible Change- Bots, Clumsy) does a creepy and suitably pathetic story featuring Milhouse in a "Bad Ronald"-inspired tale of murder and crawl space living. Harkham and Ted May (INJURY) pull out all the stops for a tragic monster tale of unrequited love, bad karaoke, and body snatching at Moe's Bar. Ben Jones (Paper Rad) does the comic of his life with an epic tale of how bootleg candy being sold at the Kwik-E-Mart rapidly spirals out of control into an Invasion of The Body Snatchers-like nightmare of a Springfield filled with cheap bootleg versions of familiar characters. And nobody does squishy, sweaty, and gross like up and coming cartoonist Jon Vermilyea (MOME), who outdoes himself with "C.H.U.M.M.," a C.H.U.D.-inspired parody featuring everybody's favorite senior citizen, Hans Moleman!

Sunday, August 23, 7:30

2009-08-21T00:37:00.000-07:00

Auto De Fe Live!

Auto Da Fe play songs from the upcoming LP 'Emit Time' and sprinkle in some reworked Chinese classical pieces for good measure. Pan-global instrumentation includes yang qin, guzheng, tambur, bouzouki, tablas, wood marimba, balalaika, handmade electric zithers, Gothic harp, Chinese banjo, Tibetan temple cymbals and bells as well as traditional guitar, bass, trumpet, and drums.

Auto Da Fe was formed out of Amps For Christ practices by Tara Tavi, Martin Kvisvic, and Joel Connell. The CD "The Spectre" was released in May, 2006 on Secret Eye Recordings. A comp track was on "False Object Sensors", put out by Vermiform Records in 2001. Leandra Gil is on percussion. Erin Barnes occasionally plays hurdy gurdy, cello and frame drums.

http://www.myspace.com/autodf

From allmusic:
Martin Kvisvic and Tara Tavi of Amps for Christ teamed up in Auto Da Fe to mess up with the geopolitics of our planet. Using a brilliantly mismatched arsenal of traditional instruments, the two of them shatter cultural and political frontiers. Through the course of the 18 tracks on The Spectre, the listener is treated to guzheng (a Chinese zither), Tibetan cymbals, tambur, balalaika (a Russian lute), bouzouki, and various bowed instruments, in addition to gothic harp, tablas (performed by guest musicians), and more conventional (i.e., Western) instruments. The songs -- all original, it seems, but there are no songwriting credits -- mimic folk styles to add to the cultural confusion. For instance, "Past Times" sounds very much like an old English song, except that Tavi's voice is backed by guzheng. Following a similar logic, "Ne'er Do Will" could be a skip-rope rhyme, "Huar Weishenme" could be a Jewish lament, and "The Spectre" might be a frantic Eastern European instrumental tune. But the instrumentation always sends such issues out the window. What is left is this duo's unbridled creativity, their knowledgeable disregard toward tradition, and Tara Tavi's voice, at times charming, haunting, or scary ("Undun"). Several guests contribute to the sound palette, including members of Man Is the Bastard. The overall attitude is definitely that of the underground folk scene, but ignores its improvisational/jam aspect; The Spectre is thoroughly composed and focuses on catchy -- if unpredictably arranged -- tunes. A find to treasure and one of the truly surprising albums of 2006.

Wednesday, July 29, 7:30

2009-07-27T15:22:00.000-07:00

Tearist + Rainbo Video

Tearist will perform live and Rainbo Video will show a video piece with live accompaniment.

Tearist is a new project of Will from Silver Daggers.

Chicago's Rainbo Video forges dance party pop, baltimore club bangers, euphoric mash-ups, and melodic ambient. His films and art are just as kaleidoscopic, integrating everything from optical illusions, cognitive puzzles, and rigorously edited found footage to guessing games, cryptography, and 3-D forays into surrealism. Rainbo Video also runs the music blog and net label Video Pop (http://videopopmusic.blogspot.com), which he founded in 2008.

Monday, July 13, 7:30pm

2009-07-06T00:28:00.000-07:00

Golden Hits Live
w/ Bulbs (San Francisco)

Wednesday, July 1, 7pm

2009-06-29T01:28:00.001-07:00

Jacob Ciocci (Paper Rad) and Fortress of Amplitude - Video Screening and Performance!

Jacob Ciocci will present a new 20-minute mix of original videos and animations, and performing 'I Let My Nightmares Go' featuring video and dance moves that grapple with mental demons, web 2.0, G.O.D., 21st-century breakdown, real lies and fake truths, cartoon violence, and awareness bracelets.

David Wightman will perform as Fortress of Amplitude, a guitar wielding minstrel from another time and place. Accompanied by a blast beat playing drum machine, He will execute a musical composition focusing on fantasy, repetition and ecstacy.

Bios:

Jacob Ciocci is a founding member of the east coast art collective Paper Rad. His work is concerned with the relationships between popular culture, technology and notions of transcendence. In his paintings, comics, performances, net art and videos, contemporary and recently forgotten cultural symbols confront one another inside a frenzied cartoon universe that is simultaneously celebratory and critical.

David Wightman lives in San Diego, California where he is a PhD candidate in music composition at UCSD. There he teaches a course on the music, history and culture of Heavy Metal.

paperrad.org/
myspace.com/fortressofamplitude

Thursday, June 4, 7:30

2009-05-26T20:20:00.001-07:00

Your Golden Opportunity is Comeing Very Soon

Our dear friend RJ Shaughnessy has a very handsome new book we'll be launching at Family June 4, at 7:30pm. In a magical pairing, RJ's favorite band Abe Vigoda will be playing against a backdrop of his projected images.

Your Golden Opportunity is a collection of black and white photos documenting street damage caused by wayward vehicles around LA. RJ manages a subtly diverse range out of a rigid concept - it's intense, funny, affecting, and resonant.

Sunday, May 24, 7pm

2009-05-19T17:33:00.000-07:00

Family Bookstore is proud to present the first release from Family Bookstore Records.

Asdsska 'Hold On'

Asdsska is a duo consisting of Aska Matsumiya (The Sads, Moonrats) and David Scott Stone (The Sads, Get Hustle, Unwound, Melvins). Matsumiya is a classical trained pianist and the single, '25', features a slow debussy-like piano refrain accompanied by her delicate voice and Stone's ethereal modular synthesizer drones. The B-side is 'We Feel it More Than They Do', an ambient instrumental variation on 25's melody.

Family will host a record release party with a live in-store Asdsska set backed by The Ladies Choir, made up of 14 singers.
There will also be a screening of the video directed by Spike Jonze and Crystal Moselle.

Sunday, May 10, 7:30pm

2009-04-27T16:46:00.000-07:00

Book Launch for Michael Schmelling's The Plan.

Between 2003 and 2005, Michael Schmelling photographed 12 private residences in the company of Disaster Masters, a New York-based company specializing in cleaning up homes and counseling compulsive hoarders. Featuring 490 photographs printed in black-and-white on 576 newsprint pages, this volume devotes one chapter to each home--producing an arresting art object and a fantastic document of urban archaeology and psychology.

Schmelling will discuss his work accompanied by a slide show, answer questions, and sign books.

michaelschmelling.com

Sunday, April 26, 7:00pm

2009-04-13T21:39:00.000-07:00

Double Book Launch with Gabrielle Bell and Ariel Schrag

The artists will conduct a slideshow, discussing elements of their work and taking questions.

Gabrielle Bell splits her cartooning time between creating wry sketchbook autobiographical comics, such as those included in her 2006 graphic novel, Lucky, and working on more detailed fictional short stories. This collection represents her short comics work that has been published in various anthologies over the past five years, including Kramer's Ergot and The D+Q Showcase. The surrealist title story, Cecil and Jordan in New York, in which a young woman turns herself into a chair so as not to be too much of a bother to those around her, was adapted into the short film, Interior Design, by director Michel Gondry (Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind and The Science of Sleep) as part of the Tôkyô! trilogy.

Thursday, April 23, 7:30pm

2009-04-13T21:32:00.000-07:00

Slide show with Mike Mills

Join us for an intimate slide show and discussion with designer/filmmaker/artist Mike Mills to launch his new retrospective book, 'Graphics Films'.

Graphics Films is the first retrospective monograph on one of the hardest-working men in contemporary creative culture. For more than 15 years, Mike Mills' works in the fields of design and film have determined the visual landscape of our times. Graphics Films is a painstakingly produced document of Mills' career to date, including many never-before-seen examples of his works in graphic design, installation, publications and film projects. Past projects by Mills include music videos for Air ("Sexy Boy"), Blonde Redhead ("Top Ranking"), Yoko Ono ("Walking on Thin Ice") and Bran Van 3000 ("Afrodiziak") and album cover designs for the Beastie Boys (the Root Down EP), Sonic Youth (Washing Machine), Air (Moon Safari and Kelly Watch the Stars) and others. He has designed graphics and textiles for Marc Jacobs and created the identity for X-Girl Clothing, and has exhibited his unique graphic installations worldwide, with solo shows at Andrea Rosen Gallery in New York and Colette in Paris, among others. In 1996 Mills cofounded The Directors Bureau, a multidisciplinary production company, with Roman Coppola. Since then, he has directed an impressive slew of music videos and films including The Architecture of Reassurance (2000) and Paperboys (2001), both of which were official selections at the Sundance Film Festival. In 2004 he completed his first feature film, Thumbsucker (starring Keanu Reeves and Tilda Swinton), and he is currently at work on his second.

Sunday, April 19, 7pm

2009-03-25T14:13:00.000-07:00

Daniel Higgs Live
with Bill Nace

Higgs is a visual artist and legendary singer of the band Lungfish.

Higgs made his first appearance in the band Reptile House, disbanding in '86. Lungfish emerged in 1987 releasing the Necklace of Heads 12" on Simple Machines. Almost immediately thereafter they found their permanent home at Dischord, where for the next twenty years Higgs and company would create music that was challenging and thought-provoking. The most prolific of any Dischord band, Lungfish recorded ten full length LPs for the label before going on hiatus in 2006.

In the time since the pause in the Lungfish journey Higgs has been pursuing a solo career, often taking to just a banjo and a jaw harp, and setting about to make his newest masterpiece, as well as a continued partnership with longtime musical/artistic compatriot Asa Osbourne in The Pupils. Most recently he has been gathering notoriety for his artwork.

Sunday, March 15, 7pm

2009-03-10T13:32:00.000-07:00

Live! Free!

Come out for a special west coast Ambergris performance (Soiled Mattress and The Springs) from artist/musican Matthew Thurber!

Sunday, March 8, 7:30

2009-03-05T21:27:00.000-08:00

This Sunday pull up a stool at Family where Sam McPheeters will be reading new work along with Erika Anderson.

Sam McPheeters sang in seminal hardcore band Born Against, plus Wrangler Brutes and Men's Recovery Project. He is also the author of the zines "Error" and Dear Jesus, and editor of the literary magazine, Clog.

Erika Anderson plays in the bands Gowns, and Amps For Christ.

Sunday, February 8, 7:30

2009-01-28T14:25:00.000-08:00

Come to the opening of Boom! A silk-screenedposter show at Family featuring:

Misaki Kawai
Shara Hughes
Hisham Bharoocha
 Denise Kupferschmidt
Patrick Walsh III
 David Aron
 Espen Friberg
Brooke Inman
Ryan Waller
Adam Kaufman
Ted McGrath
Maryam Nassirzadeh
Anna Lowe Gustavi
Holly Stevenson

Family is proud to present Boom, an exhibition of two color silkscreen prints by artists from Europe and the US. The prints are deftly hand silkscreened, the two-color limit lending to experiments with multi-colored pulls, varnishes, and neons. Produced at the Lower East Side Printshop in the tradition of Barbara Kruger and Kara Walker.

The opening will include the debut performance of Vibes (members of Pocahaunted and Robedoor).

You may know Holly Stevenson from her book of drawings, Mexican Love Story, published by Nieves.

January 27, Tuesday, 8pm

2009-01-20T19:23:00.000-08:00

Drawlings + Infinite Body
Live! Free!

We are proud to present two very awesome solo acts from each coast playing live. Drawlings is NY'er Abby Portner of Rings new solo project. Abby is also a visual artist and you've probably seen her art but maybe didn't know it, like on the Sung Tongs record by Animal Collective (she did the flyer for the instore too!).

Infinite Body is LA native Kyle Parker's beautiful / damaged / ambient music and after a bit of hibernation Kyle has started playing shows again. We have his self-released CD in the shop, which was definitely one of my favorite releases from 2008, and with upcoming records on PPM, Monorail Trespassing, and Teenage Teardrops, you'll probably have a hard time ignoring him in 2009.

Thursday, January 15, 7:30

2009-01-03T20:38:00.000-08:00

New window installation party!

Installation by Joanna Bean

With live performance by Brother Reade!