I’m honored to be featured and interviewed for Blak Dot by founder/curator Matt Sanchez, the delightful Oregon-based photographer. I discuss Guinness among more important things, namely image-making . . . .
Michael Ast – Interview / Feature, Blak Dot, October, 2013
“Spinnerstown” – Michael Ast © 2013
I’m honored my photo-etching was selected as part of the juried printmaking exhibition “Under Pressure” at the West Windsor Arts Center, Princeton, NJ.
Opening Sept. 9 through November 15th, 2013.
CZE Magazine has always been a great patron for the photographic arts, remarkably curating a huge diversity of image makers. It’s an honor to be featured in their latest issue “Blurry”! Be sure to check CZE Issue #13 out!
Happy to have featured my etching in next months “Members Show” at the Crane Arts Center, Philadelphia. Multiple works from a diverse mix of artists, belonging to the art collectives InLiquid, Second State Press & Philadelphia Photo Arts Center will be showcased. Exhibition runs from August 3rd – 24th. Artist Reception will be held on August 8th, 6-9 pm. Crane Arts Building (Ice Box Project Space and Grey Area), 1400 N. American Street, Philadelphia. Come on out!
Happy to be among an array of great international photographers in One Giant Arm’s “Issue #4: White & Black”. The current issue is dedicated to analog photography. Published in England, the first edition is limited to 60 copies.
View “Issue #4: White & Black” at One Giant Arm . . . check her out here!
Issue #4: White & Black, published by One Giant Arm (Apr. 2013)
Etching, 12×18″ – 3.26.13 (© Michael Ast)
From Home Schooling:
“Recent etchings and photographs made within a couple miles of home. An ode of sorts to Gary Snyder and the discipline he’s stressed of knowing one’s own “backyard” first and foremost. Snyder may have been referring to domestic fauna, but as with any poet who gazes intensely into the outer world, he speaks of two gardens . . . the one we may find in our backyard, but more importantly, nurturing the dormant one inside, awoken by sensations and conscious awareness felt and discovered from experiencing oneself in his maternal environment.” ~ Michael Ast
Photopolymer etching – from “Work in Progress” (© Michael Ast, 2012)
I’m pleased to announce being published in another fine issue of No Thoughts Magazine, “The Music Issue, #9.”
My photo from Salzburg graces the back cover, “Punks Not Dead!” Check the issue out.
View “Issue #9” at NoThoughtsMagazine.com here
. . . . offset images from Michael’s upcoming book: “Trying to Find the Ocean”
Offset press proof of some images featured in my upcoming book “Trying to Find the Ocean” . . . with a little bit of fussing, the printer and I have settled on the right paper stock. Tentative release date is January, 2013. I’ll keep progress posted on my blog here. Thanks for looking, as always.
Offset Press Proof, Oct. 2012 – Images from upcoming book “Trying to Find the Ocean”
