Browse our beautiful catalogs from exhibits over the years.
Publications
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The Power of Resilience and Hope – Photography & the Holocaust: Then and Now Catalog
$25.00CEPA Gallery publication from the exhibition for The Power of Resilience and Hope – Photography & the Holocaust: Then and Now.
The Power of Resilience and Hope – Photography & the Holocaust: Then and Now will feature 30 contemporary, regional, and international artists and writers whose works juxtapose and interact with archival material to create new imagery that delves into the complexities of time and space, place and memory, nature, and the devastation of civilized society. A 100+ page catalog accompanies the project.
The show aims to bridge growing divides that threaten our future with programming that inspires a cross-generational dialogue and creates a forum for artists and individuals of diverse lived experiences to come together and learn from one another with the intent of pushing back on hatred and racism. Community programming, public art, youth and adult workshops, discussion groups, and speakers will allow individuals to engage with the past as a way to inform the present and future. Community partners of the exhibition include the Holocaust Education Resource Organization (HERO), the Jewish Community Center of Greater Buffalo, UB’s Department of Jewish Thought, the Clean Air Coalition of Western New York, Mirabo Press, Western New York Book Arts Collaborative, and Journey’s End Refugee Services.
The exhibition has been in planning for many years, long before the current events began to unfold, and is intended to reject hate and promote understanding and empathy among all groups of people. With art’s ability to foster dialogue, CEPA is inviting the community to engage with the exhibition and reflect on the experiences of everyday individuals caught in the crossfire of hatred. CEPA and its partners stand against all forms of racism and violence.
● 122 page full-color catalogs
● Product Dimensions: 8.5 x 11 in.
● Publisher: CEPA Gallery (2024)
● Language: English
● ISBN: 978-0-939784-38-7
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Mythologies of Identity, Volume I: A Cindy Sherman Retrospective from the Gerald Mead Collection & Volume II: Real-Life Cowboys by Jean-René Leblanc & A Genderless World by Dane Adrian Smith.
$25.00CEPA Gallery publication from exhibition for Mythologies of Identity, Volume I: A Cindy Sherman Retrospective from the Gerald Mead Collection & Volume II: Real-Life Cowboys by Jean-René Leblanc & A Genderless World by Dane Adrian Smith.
Through fashion props and styling, the artists of Mythologies of Identity showcase personas that challenge heteronormative definitions of gender in photography. The project bridges the gap between masculine and feminine through various simulations. First, Sherman’s career-long identity performances through self-portraiture; then emerging trans artist Dane-Adrian Smith and their Post-Gender World; finally, a Virtual Reality project on contemporary cowboy culture in the Canadian Midwest by Jean-René Leblanc. Following a long history of exploratory art practice at CEPA, the exhibition illustrates how visuals play a role in personal agency and empowerment in gender expression.
● Two, 40-page full-color catalogs
● Product Dimensions: 6.69″ x 9.61
● Publisher: CEPA Gallery (2023)
● Language: English
●Volume I ISBN: 978-0-939784-38-7
●Volume II ISBN: 978-0-939784-39-4
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David Levinthal: Heroes, Sluts and Servants (2022)
$10.00David Levinthal: Heroes, Sluts and Servants
Mis/Representation in Material Culture
● 40 pages full color
● ISBN: 978-0-939784-36-3
● Product Dimensions : 5.5 x 8.5 inches
● Publisher : CEPA Gallery 2022
● Language : English -
Ascension of Black Stillness (2021)
$25.00Ascension of Black Stillness, Black Existence and Exploration Through The Disruption of Still Photography
An Exhibition of Black Hope, Alternate Realities, and Parallel Universes Curated by Stacey Robinson
● Perfect bound : 93 pages full color
● ISBN: 978-1-939026-16-3
● Product Dimensions : 8.5 x 11 inches
● Publisher : CEPA Gallery 2021
● Language : English
● ISBN: 978-1-939026-05-7 -
Felicific Calculus (2021)
$55.00Felicific Calculus is a catalog that was produced by CEPA Gallery & Booksmart Studio in conjunction with Eric T. Kunsman’s solo exhibition.
Introduction essay by the venerable Alison Nordstrom titled “Useful Photographs.”
Foreword by Benjamin Hickey, Curator of Exhibition, Hilliard Art Museum titled “Felicific Calculus: A Tale of Two Cities.”● Perfect bound : 222 pages full color
● ISBN: 978-1-939026-16-3
● Product Dimensions : 11.5 x 13 inches
● Publisher : CEPA Gallery & Booksmart Studio (December 2021)
● Language : English -
Odyssey | Warriors Come Home: Combat Veterans Photograph Life After War (2020)
$35.00 – $45.00Through photography, combat veterans explore their journey back from war. Thirty-seven veterans participated in The Odyssey Workshops, a year long collaborative photography project led by artist Brendan Bannon and Marine Scout/Sniper Julian Chinana. This book explores the endless journey home from war in images that reveal the veterans’ challenges and victories over circumstances.
Preview“There is anguish here, and joy, resilience, pain and courage, and experimentation of all sorts with form in the pursuit of discoveries that might make lives better, or at least more vividly real. Here we witness an odyssey of self-introspection, of battles fought and those still being fought. And they resonate.”
~Fred Ritchin, Dean Emeritus, International Center of Photography
“This is one of the great photo books about the experience of war, one like no other. Every contributor to Odyssey|Warriors Come Home has been there, on the ground. They all came back, bearing memories and deep feelings. These photographs tell us what words could not. They tell us what it was like to have been the warrior, the care-giver, and the person back home when there are no words to express what happened.”
~Bruce Jackson
SUNY Distinguished Professor & James Agee Professor of American Culture
Co-director, SUNY Buffalo Creative Arts Initiative● Soft bound : 176 pages full color
● ISBN 978-0-939784-35-6
● Product Dimensions : 10 x 9/16 x 8 inches
● Publisher : CEPA Gallery (December 2020)
● Language : English -
Wild Things Catalog (2020)
$25.00Exhibition publication from Wild Things: Disrupting the Photographic Archive in the Time of a Pandemic (2020) explores the polarity between the mechanical realism of the camera and chance expressionism of time, nature, and the maker’s hand that liberates photo-based images from their formal literalness and launches them into surprising territory.
By dispensing with the classic notion of a frozen photographic moment, wild things happen.
● Spiral bound : 75 pages full color
● ISBN 978-0-939784-34-9
● Product Dimensions : 11 x 8.5 inches
● Publisher : CEPA Gallery (2020)
● Language : English -
Place Relations Catalog (2019)
$30.00This 112-page, full-color, 8×10 CEPA Gallery exhibition catalog from Place Relations: Identity in Contemporary Israeli Avant-Garde Art (2019) features Israeli artists whose work and performances were exhibited over the course of a year. It provides a unique array of individual perspectives shaped by varied experiences with the goal being to elaborate the historical, political and cultural atmosphere of the Israeli diaspora.
Artists include R’m Aharoni, Yael Bartana, Tamy Ben-Tor, Miki Carmi, Keren Cytter, Dor Guez, Adi Nes, and Barak Zemer.
● Soft bound : 112 pages full color
● ISBN 978-0-939784-33-2
● Product Dimensions : 10 x 8 inches
● Publisher : CEPA Gallery (2019)
● Language : English -
Fast, Cheap & Easy Catalog (2018)
$25.00Exhibition publication from Fast, Cheap, & Easy: The Copy Art Revolution (2018) is an international survey featuring over 100 artists from the 1960s to the present who have explored the neglected role of the copy machine as a quick and innovative method to express ideas and cheaply produce and circulate art.
It includes individual project descriptions, artists’ statements and bios, plus hundreds of exhibition and historical images, artists’ book examples, and complete checklist. Additionally, there are essays by Robert Hirsch, Beate Reese, Kate Eichorn, and Herbert Lachmayer.
● Spiral bound : 80 pages full color
● ISBN 978-0-939784-32-5
● Product Dimensions : 11 x 8.5 inches
● Publisher : CEPA Gallery (2018)
● Language : English -
Coming Home: Reentry After Incarceration (2018)
$25.00Catalog for Coming Home:Reentry After Incarceration is an effort to humanize criminal justice statistics and portray the challenges of post-incarceration life through word and photograph. Photography by Errol Daniels and Essays by Katherine Russell, people’s stories are personalized as they re-enter society from jail or prison. The stories hope to encourage others in the community to remove barriers that lead to recidivism and shift the tone toward restorative, rehabilitative approaches.
● Soft bound : 100 pages color
● ISBN-13: 978-1-9867-3898-9
● ISBN-10: 1-9867-3898-1
● Product Dimensions : 11 x 8.5 inches
● Publisher : Errol Daniels
● Language : English -
Borderland – Marshall Scheuttle (2013)
$25.00Borderland features a collection of portrait and landscape photographs by Marshall Scheuttle that come together to tell the story of American culture, highlighting the outsiders and the places they inhabit.
● Soft bound : 26 pages full color
● ISBN 978-0-939784-28-8
● Product Dimensions : 11 x 8 inches
● Publisher : CEPA Gallery (2013)
● Language : English -
Latent Figure Protocol – Paul Vanouse (2008)
$25.00Publication printed to accompany exhibition by Paul Vanouse. Latent Figure Protocol is an artists’ book detailing Vanouse’s series discussing the utilization of DNA sequencing technologies to create emergent representational images in which there is a tension between that which is portrayed and the DNA materials used to generate them.
● Soft bound : 47 pages color
● ISBN 978-939784-19-6
● Product Dimensions : 8x 7 inches
● Publisher : CEPA Gallery (2008)
● Language : English -
Split Decision – Carolee Schneemann (2007)
$25.00Publication printed to accompany two exhibitions by Carolee Schneemann. Breaking Borders at the Museum of Contemporary Canadian Art in Toronto and Remains To Be Seen at CEPA Gallery in Buffalo New York. Her objective was to create awareness of the permeable borders between our individual bodies, our intimate psyches, the public realm and the world at large.
● Soft bound : 96 pages color
● ISBN 978-0-939784-26-4
● Product Dimensions : 10.5 x 8 inches
● Publisher : Carolee Schneemann and CEPA Gallery (2007)
● Language : English -
Ruins in Reverse: Time and Progress in Contemporary Art (1999)
$15.00This is special issue of the CEPA Journal that documents the exhibition Ruins in Reverse: Time and Progress in Contemporary Art (September 18, 1998-March 19, 1999). The title for this exhibition is taken from Robert Smithson’s 1967 work, A Tour of the Monuments of Passaic, New Jersey, in which he describes the suburbs of Passaic as “ruins in reverse. . . This is the opposite of the ‘romantic ruin’ because the buildings don’t fall into ruin after they are built but rather rise into ruin before they are built.” The experience of the ruin suggests a particular mental orientation, a sense of lost promise combined, perhaps, with a desire to redeem that promise in the future. It is a contemplative mode of thought that might lead to nostalgia and resignation or to renewed activism as the past is overlaid with, and tested against, the present. This exhibition begins then with the question of allegory in art, and with allegory as a prototypically aesthetic form of signification.
● Staple bound : 40 pages black & white
● Product Dimensions : 11 x 8 inches
● Language : English -
Uncommon Traits: Re/Locating Asia Part 3 (1997-98)
$35.00Catalog from an exhibit of the same name. Uncommon Traits: Re/Locating Asia Part 3 is a multi-site project including gallery exhibitions and installations, satellite exhibitions, public art projects, with publication and educational components exploring the critical and cultural boundaries of Asian/American and Asian/Canadian experience and its attendant cultural resonances in the artists’ country of origin. CEPA, due to its location, is particularly interested in the variant viewpoints of Asian artists living in the United States and Canada.
● Staple bound : 15 pages black & white
● Product Dimensions : 11 x 8 inches
● Language : English -
Uncommon Traits: Re/Locating Asia Part 2 (1997-98)
$35.00Catalog from an exhibit of the same name. Uncommon Traits: Re/Locating Asia Part 3 is a multi-site project including gallery exhibitions and installations, satellite exhibitions, public art projects, with publication and educational components exploring the critical and cultural boundaries of Asian/American and Asian/Canadian experience and its attendant cultural resonances in the artists’ country of origin. CEPA, due to its location, is particularly interested in the variant viewpoints of Asian artists living in the United States and Canada.
● Staple bound : 15 pages black & white
● Product Dimensions : 11 x 8 inches
● Language : English -
Uncommon Traits: Re/Locating Asia Part 1 (1997-98)
$35.00Catalog from an exhibit of the same name. Uncommon Traits: Re/Locating Asia Part 3 is a multi-site project including gallery exhibitions and installations, satellite exhibitions, public art projects, with publication and educational components exploring the critical and cultural boundaries of Asian/American and Asian/Canadian experience and its attendant cultural resonances in the artists’ country of origin. CEPA, due to its location, is particularly interested in the variant viewpoints of Asian artists living in the United States and Canada.
● Staple bound : 15 pages black & white
● Product Dimensions : 11 x 8 inches
● Language : English -
Esther Bubley On Assignment: Photographs since 1939 ( 1989)
$20.00Exhibition catalog from Esther Bubley on Assignment, Photographs Since 1939, organized by the University of Buffalo Art Department and CEPA Gallery. The exhibit covered fifty years of her work as a photojournalist and documentary photographer.
● Staple bound : 16 pages black & white
● Product Dimensions : 10 x 8 inches
● Publisher : Art Department, University at Buffalo and CEPA Gallery (1989)
● Language : English -
Verbal Landscape/Dinosaur Sat Down – Nathan Lyons (1987)
$50.00Publication from the exhibition Riding First Class on the Titanic. This book of photographs is a poetry collection of found language. Since the mid-1960’s, Lyon’s practiced photography as a form of writing. He is well known for “extending the frame” of photography for experiential displays and often worked in a series within sequence structure.
● Soft bound : 16 pages black & white
● ISBN 0-939784-16-5
● Product Dimensions : 8.75 x 8 inches
● Publisher : Albright Knox and CEPA Gallery (1987)
● Language : English -
Crocodile Tears – Douglas Huebler (1985)
$150.00Crocodile Tears features a selection of photographs, taken from Huebler’s Variable Piece no. 70 (in which the artist aimed to “photographically document the existence of everyone alive”), and found knock-offs of works by Van Gogh, Matisse, and Degas, to illustrate a disjointed screenplay involving a number of fictitious characters dealing in high-end art forgery. The cast includes Richard Decker, a “signature artist” cranking out salable objects to pay the mortgage; Arthur Lord, known as “the great corrector” for his ability to flawlessly replicate the works of the old masters without their original “mistakes”; and Alec Gregory, a con-artist who sells knock-offs of famous paintings to unsuspecting collectors. Huebler’s parable is a witty and dark reflection on art-market politics and a compelling exploration of the problematics of authorship and authenticity.
● Staple bound : 44 pages black & white
● ISBN 0-939784-13-0
● Product Dimensions : 11 x 8.5 inches
● Publisher : Albright Knox and CEPA Gallery (1985)
● Language : English -
Stock Footage by George Legrady (1984)
$15.00Borderland features a collection of portrait and landscape photographs by Marshall Scheuttle that come together to tell the story of American culture, highlighting the outsiders and the places they inhabit.
● Loose leaves in envelope (12)
● ISBN 0-939784-07-6
● Product Dimensions : 14.25 x 11.25 inches
● Publisher : CEPA Gallery (1984)
● Language : English -
Gelatin Photographs 1-12 by James Welling (1984)
$300.00James Welling’s first artist’s book “Gelatin Photographs 1-12” consists of a dozen sensuous cover to cover, high contrast images of dark Jell-O photographed against a light background
● Staple bound : 6 pages black & white
● ISBN 0-939784-12-2
● Product Dimensions : 10 x 7.75 inches
● Publisher : CEPA Gallery (1984)
● Language : English -
Prescriptives by Joyan Saunders (1984)
$10.00Prescriptives is an artist’s book containing photographs with text of overly staged scenarios presenting stylized depictions of human crisis and disturbing circumstances.
● Soft bound : 11 pages black & white
● ISBN 0-939784-08-4
● Product Dimensions : 11 x 8.5 inches
● Publisher : CEPA Gallery (1984)
● Language : English -
$19.84 – William Wegman (1984)
$75.00Publication includes drawings and color photographs by William Wegman with a focus on women. Includes an introductory statement by the artist.
● Soft bound : 22 pages color
● ISBN 0-939784-10-6
● Product Dimensions : 9 x 7.5 inches
● Publisher : CEPA Gallery
● Language : English -
In And Around The House by Laurie Simons (1983)
$35.00Laurie Simmons was one of the first artists to create self-composed picture scenarios of great atmospheric and psychological density starting in the mid-seventies. This book features the American-born artist’s early works from the years between 1976 and 1979.
● Soft bound : 16 pages black & white
● ISBN 0-939784-046-8
● Product Dimensions : 8 x 5.5 inches
● Publisher : CEPA Gallery (1983)
● Language : English -
In the Second Half of the Twentieth Century by James Casebere (1982)
$75.00From a CEPA exhibition, this publication consists of photographs of tabletop models constructed of such materials as styrofoam, foam core, plaster, and white paint. Through dramatic lighting, he creates a convincing sense of volume and expanse. The text is an implicit critique of a social system that trains its youth to become passive consumers.
● Staple bound : 16 pages black & white
● ISBN 0-939784-01-7
● Product Dimensions : 11 x 8.5inches
● Publisher : CEPA Gallery (1982)
● Language : English -
No Progress in Pleasure by Barbara Kruger (1982)
$750.00No Progress in Pleasure is the artists’ first book created after developing her mature style. This work, consisting of stark black and white images combined with provocative text in an aggressive typeface quickly became her signature style and with it Kruger went on to produce some of the most iconic images of the 1980s.
● Soft bound : 16 pages black & white
● ISBN 978-0939784028
● Product Dimensions : 11 x 8.5 inches
● Publisher : CEPA Gallery (1982)
● Language : English -
Volunteer, a Photo Novel by Anne Turyn, 1982
$35.00Volunteer is a quirky photo novel dealing with relationships.
● Staple bound : 32 pages black & white
● ISBN 0-939784-04-1
● Product Dimensions : 11 x 8.5 inches
● Publisher : CEPA Gallery (1982)
● Language : English -
Close-Cropped Tales by John Baldessari (1981)
$150.00CEPA Gallery publication from exhibition Close-Cropped Tales. A series of black-and-white film stills cropped into polygonally shapes and organized by the number of sides given to each image. Photographs are grouped according to number of sides. The cropped images suggest how just a little photographic information can stand for greater meaning, or not.
● Staple bound : 40 pages black & white
● Library of Congress Catalogue Card Number 81-50892
● Product Dimensions : 9 x 7 inches
● Publisher : CEPA Gallery (1981)
● Language : English