Ann Dean is the Director of Art Metropole.

Scott Treleaven, Cimitero Monumentale, 2009
A small-format photo album with clear protective pockets filled with removable black and white photographs of graveyard statuary that seems to have emerged from Treleaven's own gothic fantasies. Forty-three separate photographic c-prints, each 4 x 6 inches, all taken in the cemetery of Milan, depict weathered stone monuments of androgynous figures draping themselves over gravestones or lying back in religious ecstasy, or grief. The Milan cemetery is unusual in that the statuary exhibits an extreme tenderness in its depiction of the male figure, unlike the heroic sculpture most often associated with the dead. A signed and numbered signature card is inserted in each photo album. Edition of 150, signed and numbered.

Dan Graham, Dan Graham, Pavilions: a guide, 2009
Since the '60s, Dan Graham has been making radical work in print, video, performance, and architectural installation. In the late '70s he began designing his pavilions, structures in steel and semi-reflective glass that comment on local architecture and offer rich social moments for people to reflect on the world around them. Compiled by Josh Thorpe, this pocket guide book is a simple guide to the dozens of Graham's pavilions available around the world. Includes an introduction and interview with the artist by Josh Thorpe. ISBN: 978-0-9809184-2-7

Maura Doyle, Dear Universe, 2008
A giant letter to the Universe requests assistance with an upcoming project that involves the Panama Canal and a chewed beaver log. Unique work.

Seth Scriver, S. P. Ehman, Stewart Scriver, Hitchhikers Suitcase, 2006
The ubiquitous red plastic gas can is renovated as a suitcase. Now it accommodates various possessions for transport while maintaining it's auspices as harboring gas to the unsuspecting driver. Unique sculpture.

Haim Steinbach, OBJECT, 2009
A board book--with a hole punched in the middle. Each page reproduces one object selected by Steinbach, and photographed head-on, as a portrait. The sixty-one images in this two-kilogram book constitute one of the most moving and autobiographical accounts of the personal journey of Steinbach. A picture book, a dictionary, a self-portrait, and a lesson in art-making.

Kevin Hegge, Anne Frankincense, Rheinland In Love, 2006
A video of 20th century revisionist German History starting Anne Frankincense. Edition of 10. Package includes DVD, Anne Frankincense sticker and welcoming card.

Geoffrey Farmer, Signs, Statements and Proclamations, 2007
Partially inspired by the memory of his grandfather using his own Oxford shoe as a hammer to nail a sign to a post, Vancouver-based artist Geoffrey Farmer has created an unusual multiple intended to be used as a variable sculpture/installation kit. Included in a specially constructed transparent plexiglass shoebox is a brown Oxford men’s dress shoe, a gold plated nail, and a series of objects (text-based signs, found objects and other ephemera) that one is encouraged to hang with the shoe and nail. From an edition of eight with two artist proofs.

Xan Hawes, The Perfect Shelf, 2008
A shelf fusing the rustic and modern. Aspenite and one by one lumber are painted and combined to create a crude De Stijl inspired shelf, designed to hold a library of minimal proportions.

Birdhead, XinCun, 2006
The artist duo Birdhead presents a hefty, cacophonous photo book picturing its neighborhood, Xin Cun, and its total razing to make way for the World Expo 2010 site. As a reflection of the nation and the times, in a typical Birdhead way, "XinCun" not only records a disappearing cityscape, but also their day-to-day lives. Packaged in a cardboard box packed with garbage found on the street or in their studio in China, including crushed cans of coke, plastic bags and innumerable paper products. Includes a signed 3.5 x 5 photo. Edition of 250.