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Author Archives: Michael Ast
Selected for Ectoplasm Exhibition – Juror Ulrike Biets for Oranbeg Press (July, 2015)
July 30, 2015 – 6:51 pm
Psyched to have been selected for Oranbeg Press’ “ECTOPLASM” exhibit, juried by Belgium photographer Ulrike Biets. Big shout out to Oranbeg Press mastermind John O’Toole in all that he does with OP view ECTOPLASM Exhibit here
Archipelago by Matthew Porter (Mack Books, 2015)
June 24, 2015 – 3:46 pm
Can’t put it down . . . a photobook where conceptual play does not detract the experience. Quite the editing here . . . I wasn’t surprised to see Roe Etheridge’s name in the acknowledgments. I’m new to Matthew Porter’s photography. “Archipelago” pulls from the history of his output (from what I’ve gathered), utilizing a […]
TIS Books
May 8, 2015 – 2:32 pm
The best $40 I have possibly ever spent. Even better than splurging for a case of Guinness. This set published by TIS books (This Is Sausage), unveiled just a couple weeks back at the Philadelphia Art Book Fair, is beyond beautiful in its meditation on place, pilgrimage, investigation and memory. All 4 books by Tim […]
Walking, 4.2.15
April 4, 2015 – 1:46 pm
This is the time in the northeast to get inside the wooded interior and peregrinate the blithesome creek. Before the ticks. Before katydids, or the excitement of hyacinthus. Naturally, the mind brakes the body and idles itself at bends and tiny falls along its length. The watershed penetrates the bone, snow-thawed. The water echoes giddily, […]
Nathan Pearce – Midwest Dirt
April 1, 2015 – 8:38 am
Big shout out to Nathan Pearce and his “Midwest Dirt”. The book is a fine gem, consisting of images made and sequenced with a sincerity that depicts a rural American town and its inhabitants in southern Illinois. Without exploiting or simplifying the character of place by resorting to the ever-cliche’ lawless or hopelessness of small […]
Photopolymer Etching – Art Works 2nd Annual Juried Print Exhibition
March 9, 2015 – 4:03 pm
Framed and delivered to Art Works for the opening of their internationally Juried 2nd Annual Printmaking Exhibition. The show runs from at Art Works from March 11 – April 25th, 2015 (opening reception March 14, 6-8:00pm).
