~STO LEN . . ‘BAD WATER PLACE’ / NEW BOOK RELEASE / NYABF 2017
STO LEN . . WILL BE RELEASING A NEW BOOK – ‘BAD WATER PLACE’ . . !!
this weekend – at:
NY ART BOOK FAIR – SEPT 22-24, 2017 / PREVIEW THURS SEPT 21
CINDERS GALLERY BOOTH: R07
MoMA PS 1, 22-25 JACKSON AVE, LONG ISLAND CITY, QUEENS, NY 11101
‘BAD WATER PLACE’ . . documents my printmaking adventures on the polluted waters of Newtown Creek in NY – come find me for a signed copy !!” – STO
and, I’m / artlovers . . . thinking the big IRONY is, NEWTOWN CREEK, once meant . . New Town !!
as in: fresh, clean . . HOPEFUL.
see: NEWTOWN CREEK, NY – WIKIPEDIA
see: NEWTOWN CREEK, BROOKLYN/QUEENS, NY – SUPERFUND
from the press release:
‘BAD WATER PLACE’ . . documents the site-specific work of artist STO LEN.
“Highlighting the relationship between aesthetic beauty and UGLY truth, Sto investigates urban sprawl and the illegal dumping of toxic waste in natural habitats through a series of prints pulled from the actual surface waters, in this book he focuses on NEWTON CREEK, one of the most polluted bodies of water in the U.S.
Working en plein air from a rowboat, Sto uses an original process he calls ‘Tsunaminagashi’- a mix of traditional suminagashi and his own techniques – to print directly off of the water. These works are arresting, psychedelic experiments in marbleized texture and design that reveal a dark, tactile truth of urban pollution in our city’s water.
It is within this context that Sto Len exposes the physical consequences of this abused urban landscape through land art, performance & printmaking as a site of discourse on environmentalism and art activism.”
‘BAD WATER PLACE’ features photography . . by TRACIE WILLIAMS, R. NICHOLAS KUSZYK, and WALTER WLODARCZYK.
Full Color, 80 pages, 8.5 x 5.5 in., signed & numbered first edition of 100, 2017
($20)
‘BAD WATER PLACE” . . is also available online: CINDERS GALLERY – ‘BAD WATER PLACE’
additionally, see: STO IS HERE / ARTIST PORTFOLIO WEBSITE
NOTE: ALL PHOTOS COURTESY OF STO LEN / THANK YOU.