Client

Jeffrey Deitch

Year

2023

Location

Los Angeles, CA

Purchase

Alake Shilling
The Hippest Trip in America – By Land, Air & Sea

Alake Shilling’s characters travel through a saturated world where disco and Lisa Frank collide, often in a grassy knoll or ocean swell. In The Hippest Trip in America - By Land, Air and Sea, they are displayed alongside Shilling’s source material and translated into a sticker sheet inset on the back cover of the book. Texts by Laura Owens, Kidogo Kennedy, Perwana Nazif, and Grant Levy-Lucero compliment a series of works from Shilling's solo exhibition with Jeffrey Deitch gallery.

Published by Pacific and Jeffrey Deitch, Hardcover with sticker sheet insert, 8 × 10 inches, 128 pages, Edition of 1,000

Both pages of the open book are bright blue. A strip of pink can be seen between the open cover and the left page. Dark blue psychedelic letters take up most of the right page. A light blue ribbon sticks out of the bottom center of the book, near the binding.
A book rests on a white background. It is opened to the table of contents page. The paper is light blue and the numbers and chapter titles are royal blue. The lettering is a soft, curly, psychedelic font.
An open book with light blue pages and dark blue text. A turquoise ribbon sticks out of the bottom of the book, near the binding.
An open book with a grid of six images on each page. The images are all colorful cartoon scenes, landscapes or animals.
An open book that features a colorful painting of a cartoon bear and horse riding through a swamp.
Open book which features a painting of a cartoon, pink bear driving a pink buggy car along a rolling stone road. Several crying sunflowers dot the edge of the road.
An open book that displays a painting of a blue, cartoon dolphin jumping out of the water on the right page. The left page is blank.
A book centerfold that shows a full bleed image of an exhibition. It's a corner of a room in which four colorful paintings hang on a light blue wall. The carpet on the floor is deep purple.
A book centerfold that shows a full bleed image of an exhibition. Several large purple carpet mounds rise up out of the floor. A colorful cartoon creature sits atop each mound. A wall of windows in the background looks out onto the street. The walls are pink.
A purple book lays flat on a white background. Only the back cover and light blue ribbon bookmark is visible.
A corner of a room in which four colorful paintings hang on a light blue wall. The carpet on the floor is deep purple and the corner of a skylight can be seen peeking out at the top of the image.