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A sketchbook facsimile, DRM 1980 documents the rigorous thought process of Brooklyn-born minimalist painter Ted Stamm (1944-84) as he explores color within a series of 36 studies for a single composition.The warmth of these intimate works stands in contrast to the stately severity of his shaped canvasses, though lacking none of their masterly precision.

Things You Shouldn't Understand is the newest in a series of drawing books by Los Angeles-based painter Michael Williams (born 1978).It employs the motif of marker bleeding through a page to propel the narrative, each image repeating in mirror form and interacting with a new one on its facing page, as a psychedelic cast of creatures twists and turns.

How to Ruin an Omelet is the third in a series of artist's books by Los Angeles-based painter Michael Williams (born 1978), following California Land for Sale!! and Yoga Online. Using a fashion sketchbook with figurative templates as its foundation, How to Ruin an Omelet is a lively amalgam of text and image.

The first publication by American artist Walter Price, Crystal Black compiles 38 ink and colored pencil drawings that illuminate the figures and scale of Price's colorful, figure-in-landscape acrylic paintings and offer their own social critique through earnest, youthful imagery.

This volume collects nearly a decade of sculptural work from the New York-based British artist Paul Lee (born 1974). Lee is known for using everyday objects such as soda cans, light bulbs, socks and tambourines to evoke the familiar and explore affiliations between materials and their coded cultural and sexual meanings.

Blair Thurman (born 1961) creates work at the intersection of Pop art, abstract geometric art of the 50s and 60s and Americana. This volume presents his most recent abstract pieces--most of them painted on canvas covering shaped stretchers--alongside an essay by critic and curator Vincent Pécoil.

For the last two years, San Diego-native art advisor Barry Rosen has been actively gathering seashells for his personal collection. This publication documents his visually stunning assortment, including some items found on Costa Rican beaches, and others acquired for thousands of dollars.

Keith Sonnier (born 1941), along with his contemporaries Eva Hesse, Barry Le Va, Bruce Nauman, Richard Serra, Joel Shapiro and Richard Tuttle, was a leader in Postminimalist art who radically reinvented sculpture in the late 1960s. The artist experimented with previously unused materials--latex and satin, found objects, transmitters and video--until he settled upon his signature work with neon. Sonnier sketches lines, arches and curves before rendering them in glass tubing enclosed neon, creating works of line and color that become architectural installations. Keith Sonnier: Portals documents the artist's latest eponymous series of 14 wall-mounted sculptures, in which neon is investigated architecturally as well as iconographically, serving as an entrance point for readers to examine Sonnier's process. The artist has taken the orphic allegory of the portal and explored its various historical manifestations with delightful humor, evoking something more corporeal than architectural in the tension between penetration and accommodation.

Los Angeles-based artist Sam Falls' (born 1984) newest publication, Plein Air, documents a year the artist spent outdoors making his large-scale pigment-on-canvas paintings in four separate locations around the world: Hartland, Vermont; Venice, California; Hudson, New York; and Sarvisalo, Finland. Nature has always been a principle theme in Falls' work and the splendor and unpredictability with which the seasons change is transferred directly onto his canvas through the use of saturated pigments and the natural elements. The resulting paintings are lush, familiar silhouettes of ferns, flowers and the boughs of native trees. Four concise texts--naturalist and analytical in turn--by Hammer Museum curator Aram Moshayedi accompany each location and body of work.