Curry, Aaron: (Human Non-Human), 2024

296 pages

6.75" x 9" x .75" inches

Edition of 120

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Bad Dimension Press is pleased to present (Human Non-Human), a new artists’ book from Los Angeles-based artist Aaron Curry.

(Human Non-Human) presents a sculpture cannibalized by the algorithm: generative software has scanned and obliterated a single artwork by Curry into nearly three hundred variations. Extracting nascent motifs from the original’s silhouette, an array of new mutated forms emerge. In some, faces drift through neon-jellied skulls, while in others a jack-o-lantern maw cracks open where a chin once was. Phasing between materials resembling painted wood, Christmas decorations, and molten plastic, these figures morph through a range of styles, simultaneously recalling face jugs of the American Folk Art movement, the 80s stylings of the Memphis Group, and circuit-bent vintage toys. Upon completion of (Human Non-Human), Curry destroyed the original physical sculpture, thus transforming these variations into the only record of that work’s existence. What remains is a visual projection of what could have been: an amalgamation of possibilities and latent transformations across parallel timelines. 

(Human Non-Human) is produced in an edition of 120 copies, each of which includes a flexi-disc record featuring music by Aaron Curry and Richard Hawkins.

Aaron Curry: MADE BY HUMAN, 2023

32 pages

10.75 x 14 inches

Edition of 200 signed copies

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A catalogue of works in progress for Aaron Curry’s September 2023 solo show at Michael Werner Gallery, New York. Various images of wood sculptures and paintings are printed using the Color Library Black-Yellow.icc. Book design by Brian Roettinger.

Gary Panter: Hippie Trip, 2017

272 pages

5.38 x 8.38 x .87 inches

Edition of 500 copies.
Each copy comes with prismatic sticker and iron-on patch.

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Brian Roettinger: 8 Announcements Exhibition Catalog, 2015

20 pages

10.5 x 14 x 0.5 inches

Edition of 300 copies.

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Kim Gordon: Flung, 2014

10.5 x 14 x .125 inches

Edition of 250 copies.

Part documentation, part seductive, part domestic. Flung is comprised of one 10.5 x 14 inch unbound signature (16 pages). In Flung, Gordon, with her iPhone makes the day-to-day visible prior to her exhibition, Design Office: Coming Soon, April 4–26, 2014 held at the Fitzpatrick-Leland House.

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Design Office began in 1980 as a way to practice art outside of the gallery system. The first projects involved friends’ apartments. D.O. was to be sort of a reflective intervention into the lifestyle of the clients. Objects and a physical change to the interior based on the personality and desires/needs of the client. The design activity was not meant to be well executed or look a certain way, have a certain look or style. If anything it was a lo-fi aesthetic using or recycling other aesthetics.
—Kim Gordon