Author Archives: Michael Ast

Michael Ast – Photographer, publisher, printmaker

Hand-Pulled Photopolymer Gravure, Awarded

I’m deeply honored to have my gravure print awarded 2nd Place at this year’s Arts & Cultural Council of Bucks County’s R.E.D. group exhibition: Artist Share Their Where. It’s with gratitude that I thank juror Harry Boardman (gallerist of Exhibit B Gallery) and the award sponsor Gratz Gallery & Conservation Studio. The show is on […]

Threshold (August/September)

Threshold, August/September (2021) . . . thumbnails of photographs made in Cape Cod and from our Pennsylvania home’s front stoop, looking up . . . Summer Nights . . . emotive the day long.

Just About Done . . . June, 2021

Returning to this one, nearly finished. I needed something new in life, a new mechanism for expression, a mechanism for which I had absolutely no skills. Painting is incredibly alienating. I persevere.

Encampment, Wyoming . . . . Masterful Publication, 2021

… and just like that, FW Books presents a masterpiece … Nicole Jean Hill’s edit of one incredible unknown photographer’s pictures – Lora Webb Nichols – an archive spanning almost 50 years 1899-1948, all made in Wyoming, where she lived since her early teens. Hill’s edit is impeccable, the fluidity of its sequence showcases Nichols’ […]

Dry & Complete, February, 2021

Calling it Done, Acrylic on Canvas, Jan. 2021

photographer Michael Ast, acrylic on canvas, January, 2021

Hand-Painted Postcards, edition of 125

Photographer Michael Ast

I Cannot Paint, But I Do, on Occasion

Painting by Michael Ast, July, 2020

Interview / Feature, Bucks County Herald (Phillips Mill Photographic Exhibition, 2020)

I talked with local reporter Jodi Arthur of the Bucks County Herald in regards to my awarded body of photographs by Emmet Gowin, Phillips Mill Photographic Exhibition. Awarded Best in Show & Best Body of Work. (Published on 5.28.20.)

Best in Show / Best Body of Work

Photographer Michael Ast awarded Best in Show & Best Body of Work by acclaimed American photographer Emmet Gowin, 2020