Author Archives: Michael Ast

Michael Ast – Photographer, publisher, printmaker

Idleness Will Kill Me in the End

Back from Dixie . . . 1,000 miles and more of back road volition, and nearly as many concerted photographs made. Too many days idle in the safe harbor of home, suburbia, white-washed, where privileged politicking rattles like a relentless paradiddle, from a population’s pulpit that never steps into other’s rings . . . or, […]

Winter Woods (Threshold) – Print Sale via YourDailyPhotograph

It’s with great honor to have my “Winter Woods (Threshold)” print selected and offered for sale internationally today on Your Daily Photograph, hosted by Duncan Miller Gallery (Los Angeles). Limited to an edition of 8. The print is available through YDP until 9:00 am, pacific standard time tomorrow, July 15th. YourDailyPhotograph print offers are curated […]

Digital Negative / Silver Gelatin Print, Michael Ast (June, 2019)

Michael Ast Poster Release, Featured Artist, Nava Posters

Fine art poster by Michael Ast for Nava Posters, 2019

New Portfolio: Threshold / Walking (May, 2019)

The photographs presented in “Threshold / Walking” are an attempt at intimating emotive feelings awoken after Winter’s dormancy.

Self Portrait / Composite (April, 2019)

Recently featured in exhibition at Hicks Art Gallery, Newtown, Pennsylvania (May 3 – May 14, 2019)

Equinox

Equinox Arrived. I’ve been loitering a lot in random woods, toeing at the underbrush, seldom stirred enough to make a photograph. The blacks have to make jazz with the whites. Things are still a bit gray inside.

Self Portrait / Composite Sketch (April, 2019)

Living Image Exhibition – Halide Project December 7 – Jan. 26, 2019

Happy to have my photopolymer gravure print “Habana Vieja (2018)” featured in the Living Image exhibition. The opening at Halide Project (Philadelphia) is Friday, December 7th, running through January 26th, 2019. Living Image, an internationally juried exhibition, highlights photographers continuing to present work in analog print form. Selections were made by Kat Kiernan, director of […]

CKY – Too Precious to Kill, Cover Photos

Extremely psyched to have my photos on the cover of CKY’s new EP Too Precious to Kill. Serious tracks on this wax! Pressed in an edition of 1,500 copies on 180 gram colored vinyl, on behalf of Record Store Day, Black Friday, November 2018. eOne Records.