Zak Smith: We Did Porn

[Dave Monroe]

Wed Jul 8 - Thu Jul 9
Zak Smith: We Did Porn

Location Date and Time
San Francisco Locations

City Lights Books
261 Columbus Ave.
San Francisco, CA 94133 map
cross street: Broadway
district: North Beach/Telegraph Hill
Thu Jul 9 (7pm)

Berkeley Locations
Moe's Books
2476 Telegraph Ave
Berkeley, CA 94704
district: Berkeley (Cal Campus)
Wed Jul 8 (7:30pm)

Description

Blending memoir with Smith's own drawings and paintings, We Did Porn
will do for alt porn what Hunter S. Thompson did for motorcycle gangs
and Tom Wolfe for psychedelica.

Punk artist and icon Zak Smith made a name for himself by visually
re-creating Thomas Pynchon's Gravity's Rainbow and drawing pictures of
girls in the "naked girl business." His artistic pedigree and acute
observation landed him in high-profile shows from the Whitney to the
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. Somewhere along the line, Smith
went from the observer to the observed, from the guy in the corner
with a sketchpad to the guy on-screen doing the unnamable for anyone
eighteen or older to see. We Did Porn follows Zak Smith (or Zak
Sabbath) from the New York art scene to Los Angeles's seedy, yet
colorful, underbelly—the world of alt porn. Smith narrates his own
foray into pornography and gives his readers a new understanding of
the industry, its players, and its audience.

Zak Smith's two previous books are Zak Smith: Pictures Of Girls and
Pictures Showing What Happens on Each Page of Thomas Pynchon's Novel
Gravity's Rainbow (Tin House Books). He is a frequent contributor to
several independent comics and zines, including Paping and See How
Pretty, See How Smart. His work has appeared in numerous publications
worldwide and in many museums, including the Museum of Modern Art and
the Whitney Museum. He lives in Los Angeles, where he works as an
artist and performs in adult films.

http://www.sfstation.com/zak-smith-we-did-porn-e637371