Flexible, perfect bound cover
8 in. x 10 in. | 20.32 cm. x 25.40 cm.
Full color, 48 pages

Redaction was produced by Hat & Beard Press on the occasion of Los Angeles-based artist Percival Everett’s second solo exhibition at Show Gallery in Los Angeles. The work featured a new selection of mixed media collage paintings and drawings.

“My interest lies in the stories and images that viewers create. I take it as a given that not only is no construction complete, but that it is necessarily always incomplete.  There is no story, no painting, no musical composition that has no gaps. It is in these gaps, these interstitial moments, that we find, isolate, and create meaning.  The question may not only be about what is covered up, but is there anything to be covered up?  One might argue that I am seeking to exploit the uncanny, and in some regard that might be true, but I prefer to imagine that I am nudging the boundaries of meaning and interpretation, one way or the other, toward the boundless expanse or toward an infinite interiority.  My canvases are oil paints and I use a knife almost exclusively.  My works on paper have become, in recent years, mixed media, employing oils, pencil, ink and collage (sometimes implied, rather than literal).” — Percival Everett

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Percival Everett is the author of more than 30 books of fiction and poetry, including Erasure, the book on which American Fiction was based, the winner of the 2024 Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay. His latest novel is James, based on the character of Jim from Huckleberry Finn. He is a Pulitzer and Booker Prize finalist and has been awarded Guggenheim and Creative Capital fellowships, has received the NBCC Ivan Sandrof Life Achievement Award and The Windham Campbell Prize from Yale University, and is a Distinguished Professor of English at USC. He lives in Los Angeles with his wife, writer Danzy Senna, and their children.