Allan is always interested in providing his art for publication.
Please contact ark@arksurreal.com if you have an upcoming book cover need, or a marketing project that could benefit from unique illustrations!
The Employee by Jacques Sternberg, Wakefield Press, Cambridge, 2025. Book cover.
14 x 14 by Ian Monk. Publication date February 2024. The collage used for the cover was made by Allan Kausch.
Exhibitions
Rayko Gallery, San Francisco, May 1991: “Surrealist Salon” group show
David Ireland’s Capp Street House, San Francisco, June 1991: group show
F F & E Gallery, San Francisco, October 1991: solo show
Falkirk Center, San Rafael, July 1995: “Artists of Lucasfilm” group show
San Francisco Fashion Center, San Francisco, December 1997: “Lucasfilm Art Show” group show
Portland State University, Portland, OR, March 2022: “Corporeal Gestures Collage Exhibition” group show
List of Publications
Antiseptic Magazine #2, Big Dada Art Enterprises, Berkeley, CA, 1981: Two collages
Club DV8, San Francisco, February 20th, 1987: Two collage posters for Winston Tong’s band TONG GANG
Athena Incognito Magazine #10, A.I. Publishing, San Francisco, 1989: Two collages
Furious Fictions Magazine #1, Furious Fiction Publishing, San Francisco, 1992: Three collaged short stories
Dickens Magazine #8, Copperfield’s Publishing, Sebastopol, CA, 2005: One collage
Leviathan 4: Cities, Night Shade Books, Portland, OR, 2005: Collaged short story “Mimosa in Heligola”
Siege 13 by Tamas Dobozy, Thomas Allen & Son Ltd, Toronto, 2012: Front cover collage
Siege 13 by Tamas Dobozy, Milkweed Editions, Minneapolis, 2013: Front cover collage
Wonderbook by Jeff VanderMeer, Abrams, New York, 2013: One collage
The Arthritic Grasshopper by Gisèle Prassinos, Wakefield Press, Cambridge, 2016: Twenty-four collage illustrations plus front cover collage
Verbal 4, John King: Publisher, London, 2016: Collaged short story: “Polypeptidal Lagoon” and collage illustration
Verbal 5, London Books, London, 2016: Collaged excerpt from Warehouse Afternoons “Morgue Dolls”
Verbal 6, London Books, London, 2020: Front cover collage
Verbal 9, London Books, London, 2023: Collaged short story “Attrition of the Dehumanized” plus collage illustration
Maintenant 13, Three Rooms Press, Brooklyn, 2019: One collage
Maintenant 14, Three Rooms Press, Brooklyn, 2020: One collage
Maintenant 15, Three Rooms Press, Brooklyn, 2021: One collage
5 Mishaps by Tamas Dobozy, School Gallery, London, 2021: Six collage illustrations plus limited-edition tie-in giclée print
Fantastic Metropolis website, 2002: Collaged short story “Minton”
Fantastic Metropolis website, 2003: Collaged short story “Ianthina”
Fantastic Metropolis website, 2003: Collaged short story “Remorse Code”
Fantastic Metropolis website, 2003: One collage
Fantastic Metropolis website, 2004: “Collage Gallery” Four collages
50 Watts website, 2011: “War is a Verb” Twelve collages
PM Press website, 2013: “Author page” One collage
Numero Cinq website, 2017: Two collages to illustrate Rikki Ducornet’s “Bees are the Overseers”
Householders by Kate Cayley, Biblioasis, Windsor, Ontario, 2021: Front cover collage and frontispiece
The Anarchist Review of Books 2, ARB Collective, Astoria, NY, 2021: One collage illustrating James Kelman’s “The Block”
Karl Max Private Eye by Jim Feast, PM Press, Oakland, CA, 2024: Front cover collage
14 x 14 by Ian Monk, Sagging Meniscus, Montclair, NJ, 2024: Front cover collage
Verbal 10, John King: Publisher, London, 2024: Front cover collage
New Worlds #224, Jayde Design, London, 2024: Portfolio of four color collages plus two black and white collages and color collage for back cover
TYPO #8, Black Scat Books, Fairfield, CA, 2024: Collaged short story: “Polypeptidal Lagoon” and two collages, photo of readymade
Times Literary Supplement #6342, TLS, London, 2024: One collage
The Employee by Jacques Sternberg, Wakefield Press, Cambridge, 2025: Front cover collage plus collage frontispiece
Limited Edition Self-Published Experimental Writing
Voyage of Exile (1986)
Blackberry Castle (1992)
Fetch the Stick Dog (1992)
“The Wax Baby” (1993)
Remorse Code and Other Tantrums (2003)
Warehouse Afternoons (2013)
Schröttkopfe (2014)
Parapraxes from Paper Proxies (2015)
“The Butterfly Eater” (2016)
Saône Tragedienne of the Moiré Slum (2020)
Londie and the Bloodwidow (2021)
Excerpt from Warehouse Afternoons