Here is what the press says:

David Kapp Working the Grid $50  $32.50 96 color plates, 11.25 x 10.75", hardcover

"Though not detailed or sharply focused, Mr. Kapp's paintings are almost photographic in the way they freeze action, crop the visual field at oblique angles and captured stark contrasts of glare and shadow. They have a dreamy, mildly hallucinatory air and a mood of Hopperesque melancholy… Mr. Kapp's angular compositions, decisive gestures and painterly energy reflect the harsh kinetic beauty of the city itself."
-The New York Times

"Much of the interest in Kapp's work stems from his mixed style, as he shifts effortlessly from abstraction to realism and back again… Kapp's art is both physical and conceptual, a material demonstration of painting's ability to represent, and at the same time, a reflection of the artist's awareness of intellectual aspects of art-making."
-Art in America

John Yau BRENDA ZLAMANY $24.95  $16.22 48pp, 10 x 10", 50 color plates, paper

"Southeast Asian landscapes in bright color and soft focus, and wary, golden portraits of artists, rough and sensual, in a style that recalls both Abstract Expressionism and Old Master hands (neat trick!). For all the unblinking realism of the formal portraits, their air is wistful and not at all harsh."
- The New Yorker

James Barsness MONSTER'S PROGRESS $24.95   $16.22 48pp, 11 x 8.5", 20 full color plates, paper

These spectacular, complex, mixed-media paintings fuse such desperate sources as medieval European religious paintings and 1960's pop art to create haunting and sometimes bizarre scenes that alternately mock and celebrate various aspects of human behavior. "This is an accomplished and quite stunning body of work."
-Susan Kandel, Los Angeles Times

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