Battle of Malibu (in Three Parts) 1795 - (Hardcover)

Book Synopsis

1000-piece puzzle featuring the artwork of acclaimed Los Angeles-based artist Umar Rashid. Made with recyclable materials.

A 1000-piece puzzle featuring the artwork of Umar Rashid.

Did the Battle of Malibu actually happen? Probably not. OK, definitely not. But also maybe it did? LA based artist Umar Rashid has given the question a lot of thought and decided that it would be cool if it had happened so for all intents and purposes it did.

And if the Chumash, Tongva, Gabrielino, and other indigenous LA types had in fact gone on to fight the Spanish, armed with a little red Corvette driven by Black Jesus, then, well, we'd have liked to see that. So here it is. It happened.

Review Quotes

"Lately, Metal has been drawn to work with subtle shifting color gradients and lots of visual activity. Umar Rashid's "Battle of Malibu" (2020) portrays a fictitious uprising of Los Angeles-area Indigenous tribes against a European imperial force. 'You'll spend four to eight hours or more with the work, and you'll get to know that artist pretty well, ' Metal said. 'You can frame the puzzle, too. It's literally an artwork.'"--Aaron Short "Hyperallergic"

About the Author

Umar Rashid (b. 1976, Chicago, IL) employs writing, illustration, painting, and sculpture to construct alternative historical narratives that reference a panoply of cultures, collapsing geography and time. Word play and double entendres permeate his pictures and can prove to be a dizzying hopscotch of cinema, rap, anime, and literature intertwined as epic battle scenes. His painterly tales complicate the idea of what is true and false, prompting us to consider whether the "truths" that we are taught may in fact be lies.