Losing Ground

Losing Ground

Studio Arts, Environmental Studies

" Viewpoint Editions: Images from many series of Krause's work … were collaged in Adobe Photoshop into 12 x 12” double-page spreads. The text, selected from the publications of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, was made a part of the images using the appropriately named font ""Dirty Ergo"" by Eduardo Recife. Details printed on vellum, silver, and photo gloss papers were tipped into the book. Graphite, colored pencils, markers, metallic pigments, and gold leaf were used to add texture and reflectivity. Mylar stencils were cut by Universal Laser Systems to facilitate the application of embossing powder and leaf."" Clare Baker, Printing with Purpose, June 2009: How does someone express the idea that our fragile environment is in trouble? Scientists and researchers use numbers and statistics to communicate this point. Activists and politicians may relate a story full of detail and examples to get their statement across. Fine artists, often without those same communication tools, often create artwork that visually speaks to the subject matter. Artist Dorothy Simpson Krause did just this with her recent exhibition Losing Ground—a visual commentary on how the effects of a growing global population and global warming are causing a figurative and literal loss of ground. http://www.vampandtramp.com/finepress/v/viewpoint-editions.html"

Krause, Dorothy Simpson

Viewpoint Edtions

2009

"Scope, Physical Description, and Images from Vamp and Tramp http://www.vampandtramp.com/finepress/v/viewpoint-editions.html"

12 x 12;” 44 pages. Printed on the HP Indigo 5500 on Mohawk Options 65 cover of 100% post consumer content with renewable wind power. 8 x 8" embossed and patinated copper title plate inset on front cover. Bound in black Brillianta book cloth. In matching clamshell box with magnet closure. This clarion call for the environment comes out of a traveling exhibition of the same name created by Dorothy Simpson Krause. This digitally printer version is the mid-tier form of the book. It also exists in a print-on-demand version as well as a deluxe edition of 6 bound in Nigerian goat. http://www.vampandtramp.com/finepress/v/viewpoint-editions.html

English

35108007025000

DEN Spec Coll NK7433.4.K73 .L6 2009