Printed Matter is pleased to host “Slumburbia” a window installation by book artist David Sandlin. The multimedia installation includes silkscreened signage and excerpts from Sandlin’s 2009 handmade accordion book, Slumburbia, as well as a two-color newsprint edition. The installation will be on view June 1 through 17th, with an opening reception and coinciding book launch for several recent publications on Friday, June 1st, 6-8PM. View the Facebook invite here

Sandlin’s new books, “Mort-Gage (House of Broken Dreams)”:catalog/31176, “Pur-Ton-o-Fun Co. Scatalog”:catalog/31177 and “Slumburbia II”:catalog/30310 are impressive examples of the artist’s involved graphic and narrative style. In Mort-gage various ghosts and demons of foreclosure and dread descend on a onetime dream home in this rumination on the financial crisis. Printed in an edition of 200 by Le Dernier Cri in France, the four-color hand silkscreen measures 30 x 21 cm, with the cover and the centerfold extending out to be 60 x 42 cm. Mort-Gage retails for $50 and can be purchased “here”:catalog/31176.

Pur-Ton-o-Fun Co. Scatalog is a full-color accordion-style compendium of puritanical novelty items, including the Sinner’s Safety Belt and Sin-Away Hood. The work is silkscreened on 100% rag paper, measures 22 x 16.5 cm, and folds out to 22x165 cm. The book retails for $150 and can be purchased “here”:catalog/31177.

Slumburbia II is a panoramic tour of a sleepy, cloud-filled kingdom of sloth and lust. This is the tabloid newsprint version of Sandlin’s spectacular 9-meter-long silkscreened book, published in an edition of 1000 and retailing for $5.00. The book is available here. The deluxe edition measuring 42 x 28 cm and folding out to 42x112 cm comes with a silkscreened Mylar cover and double signature. That book retails for $20.00 and is available “here”:catalog/30310.