Project: Oculus, is the first of a series of thematic treatises examining selected projects and research to engage and reveal alternative narratives and ecologies. Developed with Anglim Gilbert Gallery now Anglim/Trimble Gallery, San Francisco ,CA and FractalTerror Press.

Project Oculus was published (belatedly in 2009) by Gallery Paule Anglim, FractalTerror Press and the artist upon the occasion of the installation of Oculus: Emerson/Beebe (Sonomia), 2000, at the di Rosa Preserve in Napa, CA. 125 pages.

Project: Oculus is available in limited form as a portfolio edition from the artist. A formal publication is under design/revision.

Project: Metafossil, is the second of a series of thematic treatises examining selected projects and research to engage and reveal alternative narratives and ecologies. Developed with Anglim Gilbert Gallery now Anglim/Trimble Gallery, San Francisco ,CA and FractalTerror Press.

Project: Metafossil, utilizes the work Metafossil (Pinus: radiatia, ponderosa, balfouriana), 1992, as a lens for examing themes of the ship, organic systems, paleogeographies/migrations land/sea :: sea/land and related themes.

Project: Metafossil is available in limited form as a portfolio edition from the artist. A formal publication is under design/revision.

Project: Land Kilns, is the third of a series of thematic treatises examining selected projects and research to engage and reveal alternative narratives and ecologies. Developed with Anglim Gilbert Gallery now Anglim/Trimble Gallery, San Francisco ,CA and FractalTerror Press.

Project: Land Kilns, a treatise on realized and proposed environmental kilns from 1979 to 1992. Project documentation, formative, conceptual and generative studies, site research, as well as essays, exhibitions, installations and selected work inspired by the kiln projects form the essence of this document. The kiln or furnace as an alchemical instrument in and of the landscape, exploring salient and poetic questions/themes related to ceramics, geology, global metabolism, systemic thought/material practice and environmental art, and other works influenced by or extrapolations/ conceptual extensions of the kiln projects/process.

A new edition V.1.1 / 2019 is now available, print on demand from LULU Press:

Project: Land Kilns

Synthetic Ecologies, is the fourth of a series of thematic treatises examining selected projects and research to engage and reveal Developed with Anglim Gilbert Gallery now Anglim/Trimble Gallery, San Francisco ,CA and FractalTerror Press.

Synthetic Ecologies examines themes of: systemic practice, proto-works, meta-ecologies/narratives, research-driven, para-architectures/ works, symbiotic-structures/works, sea within the sea and related themes.

Synthetic Ecologies is currently in the design phase.

The Sea Within the Land/Laramide, is a special edition documenting a project of the same name. Developed with Anglim Gilbert Gallery now Anglim/Trimble Gallery, San Francisco ,CA and FractalTerror Press.

The Sea Within the Land/Laramide is a manual for a project done for the Denver Art Museum in 2011 for the exhibition Overturned: Ceramics Without Limit. The document describes the concepts, research and construction of the project so that it may be re-constructed by the museum as part of their permanent collection. 96 pages.

The Sea Within the Land/Laramide is available in limited form as a portfolio edition from the artist. A formal publication is under design/revision.

Sentient Terrains, is a slide by slide documentation of the lecture: Sentient Terrains (Selected Projects) / Graduate Lecture Series / San Francisco Art Institute / San Francisco, CA / November 2, 2012. Updated work and selected essays have been added to the lecture images.

Developed with Anglim Gilbert Gallery now Anglim/Trimble Gallery, San Francisco ,CA and FractalTerror Press.

Information about other lectures and a video of the 2012 Sentient Terrains (Selected Projects) talk can be found at: Sentient Terrains (Selected Projects) / SFAI / San Francisco, CA / 2012 / 54:22:07 HD

Sentient Terrains is available in limited form as a portfolio edition from the artist. A formal publication is under design/revision.

Photo Works 1981-2019 / SelectedWorks/Installations/
Studies, is a treatise, archive and documentation of photographic and conceptual artworks by John Roloff that comprise individual photographs, photographic series, architectural and site-based photo installations, process photo works as well as proposals and concepts for new works of photographic, trans-photographic and extended media from 1981 to 2019. Developed with Anglim Gilbert Gallery now Anglim/Trimble Gallery, San Francisco ,CA and FractalTerror Press.

Now available, print on demand from LULU Press:

Photo Works 1981-2019

Shear Zones: Ceramics (40 Years), (working title and cover) is a treatise, archive and documentation of ceramic and expanded ceramic artworks by John Roloff that comprise: objects, process works, installations, envrionmental projects, reviews, writings and commentary. Developed with Anglim Gilbert Gallery now Anglim/Trimble Gallery, San Francisco ,CA and FractalTerror Press.

Shear Zones: Ceramics (40 Years) is currently in the design phase.

John Roloff: MATRIX / Berkeley 110, was published in honor of the installation of Vanishing Ship (Greenhouse for Lake Lahontan), commissioned for the MATRIX program at the Berkeley Art Museum, University of California, Berkeley, curated by Connie Lewallan in 1987.

The publication in singular form is probably not available but is included in several compilations such as: MATRIX Berkeley 1978-1998, published by BAM UCB in 1998.

51 MILLION BTU'S, was published to celebrate the group of kiln/furnace works, Untitled (Earth Orchid), 1988, Oculus: Dead Sea/Oil Field, 1989, and Humboldt Ship, 1989, collectively known as 51 Million BTU's.

This publication is archived in the Smithsonian Institution and numerous University and private libraries. It is available in limited supply from Anglim/Trimble Gallery, San Francisco, CA, and the artist

A special edition of 51 copies was organized for Shadowshop, a project by the artist, Stephanie Syjuco at SFMOMA opening November 2010.

The Rising Sea: Images and Constructions from South Florida and Other Selected Works, was published to celebrate this solo retrospective-like exhibition, curated by Jim Peele for the Museum of Contemporary Art, Lake Worth, FL in 1998. Essay by Robert C. Morgan.

This publication is archived in the Smithsonian Institution and numerous University and private libraries. It is available in limited supply from Anglim/Trimble Gallery, San Francisco, CA, and the artist

Devonian Shale: Aquifer I, was published in 2000 as a limited edition of 4 specially bound books by FractalTerror Press. The publication describes the research, fabrication and concepts related to Devonian Shale: Aquifer I.

The editions are archived in:

San Francisco Art Institute, Special Collections Library

Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC

The Schein-Joseph International Museum of Ceramic Art, Alfred University, Alfred, NY (as part of their collection that also includes the sculpture: Devonian Shale: Aquifer I)

Library of the artist.

San Francisco Wharf Complex, is a special edition documenting work and research done through a series of grants and fellowship at the Exploratorium, San Francisco.

San Francisco Wharf Complex, considers the geologic and industrial history of the wharf complex in San Francisco as a landscape made of previous landscapes.

Developed with Anglim Gilbert Gallery now Anglim/Trimble Gallery, San Francisco ,CA and FractalTerror Press. A video version of the book can be found at: https://vimeo.com/105900403

San Francisco Wharf Complex is available in limited form as a portfolio edition from the artist. A formal publication is under design/revision.

Rapson Group / Site Index, is a documentation of the concepts, project evolution, site research, design and installation of the projects: Rapson Group and Site Index completed at the College of Design, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN by John Roloff and Rebecca Krinke between 2001 and 2013. Developed with Gallery Paule Anglim (now Anglim Gilbert Gallery), San Francisco ,CA and FractalTerror Press..

Rapson Group is currently in the design phase. It will be produced in a limited form as both a portfolio and formal version. A formal version is intended for the College of Design library at UMN.