July 15th, 2019
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, maybe just to get away from myself?
Maryland, West Virginia, Kentucky, Tennessee, Alabama. Idleness will kill me in the end.
Editing commence.
near Bridgeport, West Virginia © Michael Ast, 2019
July 14th, 2019
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 and sent out to 9100 different collectors, galleries, museums and other institutions.
Purchasing & Print Info HERE
May 28th, 2019
Honored to be one of Nava’s 2019 featured artists. “We Sell Dreams” poster, fresh off the press, along with another 20+ posters by an astounding array of contemporary artists. Nava posters are offset printed, in an open-edition, on gorgeous heavy coated paper. Signed posters are projected to be available in bookstores internationally later this Summer in a limited quantity.
Michael Ast, 17.33”x25”. Offset printed on heavy coated paper © NAVA, 2019
Now available for purchase at NAVA HERE (posters begin shipping August 1, 2019)
May 14th, 2019
Excited to share my new portfolio Threshold / Walking after five months photographing and printing.
Threshold / Walking (here)
The images shown are derived from a portfolio of nearly 3 dozen archival pigment prints made in May, 2019
Archival Pigment Prints © Michael Ast, 2019
April 22nd, 2019
Recently featured in exhibition at Hicks Art Gallery, Newtown, Pennsylvania (May 3 – May 14, 2019)
Self Portrait © Michael Ast, 2019 (Archival Pigment Print)
April 10th, 2019
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.
Michael Ast © 2019
December 1st, 2018
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 Panopticon Gallery (Boston), and editor-in-chief of Don’t Take Pictures magazine. An artist reception will take place December 8th 5:00 – 9:00 pm. Halide Project’s new gallery & darkroom in the Northern Liberties neighborhood is a fantastic space to witness, soon to be equipped with a community darkroom, too. Honored to be in the gallery’s inaugural show, amid the versatile array of artists.
November 30th, 2018
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.
