Dec. 11 – Feral House & Process Winter Solstice Celebration and Book Signing at La Luz de Jesus

The literary event of the year!

FERAL HOUSE AND PROCESS

WINTER SOLSTICE CELEBRATION AND BOOK SIGNING

Featuring “Dope Menace: The Sensational World of Drug Paperbacks” by Stephen J. Gertz and several other Feral House and Process titles.

Thursday, Dec. 11, 2008 ~ 7:00 – 9:00 pm

LA LUZ DE JESUS/ WACKO / SOAP PLANT

4633 Hollywood Blvd

Los Angeles, CA 90027

323-666-7667 Fax: 323-663-0243

www.laluzdejesus.com

Online press release with images and links to all books

http://leejosephpublicity.com/show/feralwinter

Feral House and Process invite you to an early Winter Solstice Celebration and book signing at La Luz de Jesus on Thursday, December 11th. Join us as we gather to honor the darkest day of the year and the rebirth of the sun with ritual book signings and celebration of our latest, greatest titles. Meet our authors, tip back some mead, and get special holiday discounts on signed copies of our books!

This event is the release and book signing party for “Dope Menace: The Sensational World of Drug Paperbacks” by Stephen J. Gertz, “Dope Menace” collects together hundreds of fabulously lurid and collectible covers in color, from xenophobic turn-of-the century tomes about the opium trade to the beatnik glories of reefer smoking and William S. Burroughs’ Junkie to the spaced-out psychedelic ’60s and of course the gonzo paranoia brought on by Hunter S. Thompson in the ’70s, when anything was everything. Author Stephen J. Gertz is a well-regarded authority on antiquarian books and contributor to Feral House’s Sin-A-Rama, an award-winning visual history of sleaze paperbacks from the sixties. Annie Nocenti, longtime editor of High Times magazine, offers an informative foreword. Gertz will be in attendance to sign his new book.

We will also be celebrating these following titles with many of the authors present to sign books and answer all your questions:

“Dark Mission: The Secret History of Nasa” by Richard C. Hoagland and  Mike Bara

“Frezno” by Tony Stamolis

“The Intimate Sex Lives of Famous People” by David Wallechinsky and Amy Wallace

“Master of the Mysteries: The Life of Manly Palmer Hall” by Louis Sahagun

“Pure Country, The Leon Kagarise Archives, 1961-1971″ by Eddie Dean”

“Secret and Suppressed II: Banned Ideas and Hidden History into the 21st Century”

by Adam Parfrey

“The Secret Source” by Maja D’Aoust

“The Urban Homestead” by Erik Knutzen and Kelly Coyne

Special Solstice sale:

10% off all signed books – 20% off all books for those purchasing two or more titles.

La Luz de Jesus is located at the Soap Plant/Wacko building, in Los Feliz at 4633 Hollywood Blvd, Los Angeles, CA 90027. Gallery hours are Monday – Wednesday: 11am – 7pm, Thursday – Saturday: 11am – 9pm and Sunday 12-6pm.  For high resolution jpegs, interview requests and more information contact: Lee Joseph Publicity, 359 E. Magnolia, Suite F., Burbank, CA 91502, leejemail@gmail.com, p (818) 848-2698  f (818) 848-2699.

Dec. 6 – Alexandra Gibson “From the Outside In” book signing, photographic exhibition and live erotic photo shoot at La Luz de Jesus

LA LUZ DE JESUS GALLERY

Alexandra Gibson “From the Outside In”
Book signing, photographic exhibition and live erotic photo shoot

Saturday, Dec. 6, 2008 ~ 6:00 – 9:00 pm
LA LUZ DE JESUS GALLERY
4633 Hollywood Blvd
Los Angeles, CA 90027
323-666-7667 Fax: 323-663-0243
www.laluzdejesus.com

Online press release with images:
http://leejosephpublicity.com/show/alexandra

In an era when popular culture shuns the mysterious & sacred for the garish & over-exposed, Alexandra Gibson cultivates a deeper, innate ideal of sexuality and eros. Her work expresses a genuine desire to explore the individual, to extract and expose the mystery of the spirit.

One could describe her style as a cross-fertilization of social realism and erotica, a distinct departure from the increasingly commonplace www-erotica that relies upon a simple algebra of nudity and exploitive pose. Gibson’s muses bare themselves in front of her camera physically and psychologically, exposing a nakedness that is far more than nudity. She documents the very immediate, captures the moment of permission, of acquiescence. When viewing these images one can almost hear the subject exhale, a thumping pulse, the hum of raw lust like electricity.

In her first book “From the Outside In,” Gibson offers her audience visions of passion that are unexpected and unique: there are men and women entwined as serpents, spells inscribed with razor and blood, nymphs tamed by rope round slender neck, and near spectral figures emerging from inky black. The body is a tableau to Gibson and she has the distinct ability to emphasize its eroticism through the shooting of the specific (i.e., portraiture) or through the revelation of its more anonymous, seductive architecture. This ability to mate the stark and secret recalls for the onlooker the work of Brassai and Arbus, Man Ray and Mark, Evans and Witkin.

Gibson’s work has appeared in countless publications including Rolling Stone, the New York Times, the L.A. Weekly, and Curve. Her photography has been shown in a list of equally prestigious locations: the California State Capitol, the corporate offices of Hewlett-Packard, the Advocate Gallery, & the Helen-Pittman Gallery in Detroit, MI. Most recently, Gibson traveled to Oaxaca, Mexico to study under photography legend Mary Ellen Mark.

La Luz de Jesus Gallery is proud to present an exhibition of new works by Gibson in conjunction with the release & signing of her book. Limited edition archival prints will be on display & available for purchase. Also, as part of this special event Gibson will be erecting one of her famous live photo stages for a live erotic photo shoot in the gallery – an event not to be missed!

Alexandra Gibson From the Outside In: $35.00, Hardcover, 40pp, published and distributed by Alexandra Gibson, www.iwillshootyourhead.com, ISBN: 978-0-9817994-2-1

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La Luz de Jesus is located at the Soap Plant/Wacko building, in Los Feliz at 4633 Hollywood Blvd, Los Angeles, CA 90027. Gallery hours are Monday – Wednesday: 11am – 7pm, Thursday – Saturday: 11am – 9pm and Sunday 12-6pm.  For high resolution jpegs, interview requests and more information contact: Lee Joseph Publicity, 359 E. Magnolia, Suite F., Burbank, CA 91502, leejemail@gmail.com, p (818) 848-2698  f (818) 848-2699.

Dec. 5 – Alex de Leon & Max Grundy at La Luz de Jesus

Alex de Leon “He Spilled His Guts Out One Too Many Times”

Max Grundy “Retro Futurism”

December 5 – 28, 2008

Artist reception: Friday, December 5, 2008 ~ 8:00 -11:00 pm

La Luz de Jesus Gallery

4633 Hollywood Blvd

Los Angeles, CA 90027

323-666-7667 Fax: 323-663-0243

www.laluzdejesus.com

Online press release with images:

http://leejosephpublicity.com/show/alexmax

Alex de Leon “Then the Party Started”

Alex de Leon “He Spilled His Guts Out One Too Many Times”

Alex de Leon’s art explores symbolic images of contemporary life. Rhythmical natural patterns interact with the subject matter of his work, balancing ironic images with the aesthetic language of art. De Leon works with enamel on steel, making high gloss images with a printmaking feel to them. His current works emanate from personal experience and observations as he explores and reflects addiction, consumption, lying, repetition and insomnia. “He Spilled His Guts Out One Too Many Times” will also feature de Leon’s extremely detailed line drawings. De Leon earned his BFA in Print Making from the Kansas City Art Institute in 1983, before establishing his studio in San Antonio. He has exhibited extensively across Texas and elsewhere in the United States, in individual and group exhibitions, and has also contributed design for film and television. De Leon has been awarded the London Studio Program grant and the International AIR Program grants from ArtPace: A Foundation for Contemporary Art, San Antonio.

Max Grundy “Antlophobia”

Max Grundy “Retro Futurism”

“The most effective images to motivate people and get a reaction are images of fear,” states painter, illustrator and graphic designer Max Grundy. Inspired by 1940’s and 1950’s B-movie, sci-fi and propaganda visuals, Grundy believes that the images of world destruction, alien invasion and communism which were predominate during the WW2 and post-war decades still have a huge influence on the phobias of contemporary society. His interest in vintage 40’s/50’s era poster design is major inspiration on his art. He admires its use of unusual perspective, limited color palette, dramatic text and design to create maximum effect. Flat shapes and clean design are conducive with the time period of influence.  He believes this style has the ability to reach out and grab a viewer because of its economical graphic quality. Grundy currently works with enamel on aluminum panel and feels this media is the most consistent with the subject matter. “We call this particular style retro futurism,” states Grundy. His works have been collected by the likes of Metallica’s James Hetfield, producer J.J. Abrams, Hell’s Angels founder Sonny Barger and “Overhauling” host Chris Jacobs. With a B.A. in Illustration and a Master’s degree in painting, drawing and art history, Grundy lives and works in Glendale California as a full time artist.

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La Luz de Jesus is located at the Soap Plant/Wacko building, in Los Feliz at 4633 Hollywood Blvd, Los Angeles, CA 90027. Gallery hours are Monday – Wednesday: 11am – 7pm, Thursday – Saturday: 11am – 9pm and Sunday 12-6pm.  For high resolution jpegs, interview requests and more information contact: Lee Joseph Publicity, 359 E. Magnolia, Suite F., Burbank, CA 91502, leejemail@gmail.com, p (818) 848-2698  f (818) 848-2699.