Brooklyn Arts Press

Brooklyn Arts Press, BAP, is a small literary press devoted to publishing art monographs, chapbooks, and poetry books by emerging artists. Experimentation, innovation, and devotion to formal and historical aspects of art are all honored here. We hope to serve the community by placing books of varying aesthetics side by side, and by subverting the current notion that artistic camps exist in vacuums, apart from the culture in which they reside and apart from other camps. Language and imagery will be used to whatever ends by the voices that manipulate them, which are by nature numerous and diverse.

BAP was founded in 2007. Our staff is comprised of unpaid loyalists, whose editorial resolve, time, effort, and expertise allows us to publish the best of the submissions we receive.

New Books

Jonathan Allen

Superstructure

Art Monograph

Jonathan Allen’s collages and paintings combine pop imagery, abstraction, and propaganda to reflect the contradictions that arise from within our cultural and political climate. The various media he uses—oil/acrylic, pen and ink, pencil, and newspaper and magazine cuttings— sometimes coalesce in formal harmony, though more often they serve to diagram the breakdowns triggered by irreconcilable clashes in perspective.

Adam Courtney

Box Project: Series I

Art Monograph

Adam Courtney's work involves constructing environments; sometimes those environments become part of a photograph involving models, sometimes they remain the final product. He lives in Brooklyn, New York.