Cary Loren – Eye Zone

Cary Loren (1955) is an artist, musician, publisher and bookstore keeper from Oak Park, Michigan. Together with Niagara, Mike Kelley and Jim Shaw, Loren was a founding member of proto-punk noise band Destroy All Monsters in the early 1970s. He teamed up with the Miller brothers in the short-lived band Xanadu in the late 1970s and with Barry Roth in Nightcrawlerz in the 1980s. Loren founded his psych-folk band Monster Island in 1995. As a visual artist Loren has been active as a photographer, filmmaker and collagist since the early 1970s. Together with his wife Colleen Kammer, he has run Book Beat, a fine independent bookstore in Oak Park, Michigan, since 1982. Through his label and press The End Is Here / Book Beat Loren publishes books, zines, CDs and records – most of them related to Destroy All Monsters – and documents Detroit’s radical subcultures of the 1960s and 1970s.

Eye Zone is a 32-page risographed zine of some of Loren’s collages, which was published in an edition of 250 copies by The End Is Here / Book Beat in 2023. In stock are a small number of copies of this handsome zine that have been signed by the artist.