CLAYTON PATTERSON | BOOKS 

FRONT DOOR BOOK The Front Door photos are a summation of everything I have ever learned. The photos are taken in front of the door at 161 Essex Street, which leads into Clayton Hats, Clayton Gallery and the Outlaw Art Museum. This also happens to be the place I live.

Our House West of Wynwood Press, Miami 2009

ARABIC TATTOOS: Although Islam prohibits tattooing, there has been a surge in recent years of non-Muslims getting Arabic tattoos. From names converted from Latin to Arabic script, to words such as love and peace, the popularity of Arabic tattoos shows the extent of the impact that Arab-speaking cultures have made. "Arabic Tattoos" examine the cultural ramifications of non-Arabic speaking individuals wearing religiously and culturally rich scripts.

Mark Batty Publisher, New York NY, 2007

RESISTANCE: This collection of writings and images documents the political history of NYC’s Lower East Side, describing the lives and struggles of the radicals, artists, and immigrants that populated and politicized one of America’s strangest and most beloved neighborhoods. Current and former residents of the neighborhood explore the social, political, and human landscape of one of America’s most storied bohemias.

Seven Stories Press, New York 2007

CAPTURED: The definitive anthology of New York’s underground cinema, in its creators’ own words. New York’s Lower East Side has been a fountain of creativity and art since the early 1950s, a free-wheeling bazaar of ideas and artists that has challenged and shaped mainstream culture. Captured tells the story of film and video in the Lower East Side and the East Village in the artists’ own words. Captured is part formal history and part inspirational text.

Seven Stories Press, New York 2005

WILDSTYLE put together by Clayton Patterson and Jochen Auer. Featuring hundreds of photographs taken by Patterson and a handful of essays (in both English and German) written by tour participants, Wildstyle illustrates exactly how, given the focus and enough manpower, a ready-made subculture can be inflicted upon an unsuspecting continent. In a way, the tour accomplished the same thing the Pistols' Anarchy tour had two decades earlier.

Unique Publications, New York 2003

INSIDE OUT: The Art World of the Squats documents an exhibition (outdoor and indoor) curated by Alan Moore, Clayton Patterson and Laura Zelasnic about squatters on E. 13th Street in Manhattan October 15 - 22, 1994. Inside, the artists in question scheduled a multimedia exhibit including video and performance. There were events that accompanied the evenings including a special tour of historic sites in the East Village, etc. What has evolved is a study of a squat culture over the years, engendering a visual art that both expresses and transcends its material and social conditions. There are manifestos, press releases, posters all documented and many articles and essays about art of the homeless. Those of you familiar with the Rivington School, the Neoist connection, and squats throughout the world should add this highly charged subject to your collection. — Printed Matter, New York 1994