Sandow birk biography of christopher

"[Birk] is paying close, complicated attention to what may be the single most important, and least understood, book in the world at present.

Just by trying to introduce it to a new audience, and to do so with maximum ease and minimum harm, “American Qu’ran” is an ambitious and valuable undertaking." - Holland Cotter, New York Times

'“This is great work for this time.

It’s crude and violent, but done in the service of portraying the greed and brutality of its era.” - Julie Friedman, Hyperallergic

"The work of American printmaker Sandow Birk is anything but boring and nothing if not informed." - Patrick Mahon, Open Studio Publishing, Toronto

"Birk is unafraid to engage the ugly truths of our time and ranks among the more sharply satiric artists of our era.” - Art ltd.

Magazine

"Birk is pursuing one of the most fascinating, unpredictable careers in Los Angeles art." - New Times Los Angeles

"Sandow Birk emerges from the same just-left-of-the-mainstrea