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Conceptually Oriented, Practically Confused
72pt Sans Serif #686
I’ll be honest. I have an ongoing love-affair with type. It doesn’t matter if it is digital, on a photopolymer plate, or cast metal… I love typography.
My friend and studio-mate Christopher dela Pole and I have been investing heavily in letterpress technology lately. We’ve both got the itch to make some new, dare I say, amazing text art projects in the very near future. One of our Ebay treasures has arrived today: this beautiful 72pt Sans Serif font. I can’t wait to get some ink on these…
How I Became Modern (Again)
Josef Albers. Shielded from Homage to the Square: Ten Works by Josef Albers. 1962
Karen Kunc
I am searching for inspiration this morning. Luckily, I didn’t have to look too far. Checkout this brief video about printmaker Karen Kunc’s work. I was exceptionally lucky to be an undergrad at the University of Nebraska and to be given the opportunity to both take classes with her and study abroad under her guidance. Her work is amazing and I have one of her small intaglio prints from my archives on display in my home. She has definitely influenced me – from my love of “printedness” to the way I see and understand the spatial properties of my surroundings.
Karen Kunc Print
Deb Oden
Is a fantastic printmaker that I had the pleasure of working near while completing my BFA at the University of Nebraska. Check it.
07/10/2009
josh_3020_P003 ® Geotypografika
There seems to be a relationship unfolding in my art and work life. When I’m actually engaged in what I’m doing/making I have absolutely nothing to write about. Hence, I haven’t updated this thing for awhile. At the moment, I am just reading and researching for my trip to Montreal next week. My reading list is topped off by books concerned with architecture/space/place/modernism-as-utopia. The question I’ve been asking myself this week: what exactly is my relationship with utopia? As a person that has grown up in the “post-utopian” age of postmodernism, is there any reason for me to be interested in lofty and impossible things like utopian thought?
According to Yi Fu Tuan in Space and Place “such places had to exist because they were key elements in complex systems of belief. To discard the idea of terrestrial paradise would have threatened a whole way of looking at the world.” It is my hope with the new series of photographs I am undertaking I will be able to better understand/visualize that “whole way of looking at the world”.
In the meantime:
Check out the Flickr photostream of Geotypografika aka Erik Brandt. (CLICK IMAGE ABOVE FOR LINK) I find his work in Amsterdam particularly amazing… and his MCAD GD student’s work… fantastic. Cheers.
Asbjørn Hollerud
From Ex - Posed © ASBJØRN HOLLERUD
One of the great things about the post-MFA world is watching how far all of my colleagues have been able to travel in the last year. Printmaker, photographer, and friend David Stordahl has been living and working in Norway since January. Through him I have been introduced to the outstanding work of Asbjørn Hollerud. His portfolio site can be viewed HERE. Details »