For ICA LA’s Bookshelf Residency, J&L celebrates 25 years of publishing and welcomes you to the Annex Gallery project titled J&L Books: Reading Room. Visitors are encouraged to browse the J&L library which includes work by Helon Habila, Miriam Toews, Adam Gilders, Gregory Halpern, Sara Perovic, Harry Smith, Manuel DeLanda, Will Brown, Mike Mandel, Chrissy Piper, Bruce Conner, Craig Taylor, Sam Lipsyte, Susanne Kippenberger, Corita Kent, Lisa Kereszi, Gus Powell, Amy O’Neill, Michael Northrup, Elisabeth Tonnard, Corin Hewitt, Octavian Esanu, Mike Slack, Michael Schmelling, Shoboshobo, Amie Barrodale, David Shrigley, Shary Boyle, Marcel Dzama, Paul Davis, Dame Darcy, Myles Langlois, M. Dumontier, Neil Farber, Jason Logan, David Berman, Lenka Clayton, and more.

As part of the exhibition, book recommendations may be offered by taking a pencil and writing the title and author onto a blank spine on the wall of the reading room, or on a blank wooden book on the shelves. The library will grow with visitor suggestions.

J&L Books is a non-profit Atlanta / New York based publisher of artists’ books, founded in 2000 by Jason Fulford and Leanne Shapton.

J&L is committed to making new books by or about contemporary artists.