Woodcut
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| Rating | : | 4.89 (524 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1616890487 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 128 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-02-10 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
His sculptures and drawings are heavily influenced by the New England countryside but also by geographical regions as diverse as Carrara, Italy, New Orleans, and northern California where he has lived and worked. Bryan Nash Gill was born and raised in the same rural, north-western corner of Connecticut were he works as an artist today.
"A swell coffee table companion for hip young DIY-ers who cultivate a lumberjack look that says they've come straight from splitting firewood, the new book "Woodcut" is also likely to appeal to a much wider audience." -- Wall Street JournalIt's a strangely moving experience to flip through Woodcut (Princeton Architectural Press, $30), a book of Bryan Nash Gill's relief prints of tree-trunk cross sections, which the artist harvests from felled trees, cedar telephone poles and discarded fence posts in his native Connecticut. Verlyn Klinkenborg ,
Amazing record of one man's intense relationship with trees and nature Gill's prints pass his personal, perhaps metaphysical relationship with the grain of each tree trunk or piece of wood cross section on to the viewer. As you stare at the many circles, you find yourself entering into a sort of mental maze, asking some of the same questions Gill must have asked – how old was this tree, what caused the aberrations in circular patterns, wh. Hope you like getting to know your trees! S. Bruce I bought this book after having viewed an exhibition of the artist's work. Like most books of this type, it serves as a record of the work and the process the artist used to create it. The actual prints, of course, are much larger and vivid than the reproductions in the book. Beyond that, the book goes into detail about the living history of the trees extracted from study of the cross secti. I really like the idea of this book I really like the idea of this book, when I got it I was a little disappointed by the prints. I thought this was more of a coffee table picture book, there's a lot more text than I was expecting. That may be a silly complaint, I was just expecting more artwork inside. :)
Creating large-scale relief prints from the cross sections of trees, the artist reveals the sublime power locked inside their arboreal rings. These exquisitely detailed prints are collected and published here for the first time, with an introduction by esteemed nature writer Verlyn Klinkenborg and an interview with the artist describing his labor-intensive printmaking process. Also featured are Gill's series of printed lumber and offcuts, such as burls, branches, knots, and scrubs. If there is, indeed, nothing lovelier than a tree, Connecticut-based artist Bryan Nash Gill shows us why. He rescues the wood from the property surrounding his studio and neighboring land, extracts and prepares blocks of various species (including ash, maple, oak, spruce, and willow), then makes prints by carefully following and pressing the contours of rings and ridges until the intricate designs transfer from tree to paper. Gill creates patterns not only of great beauty but also year-by-year records of the life and times of fallen or damaged logs. Woodcut will appeal to anybody who appreciates the grandeur and mystery of trees, as well as those who work with wood and marvel at the rich history embed