Karl "Kayrock" LaRocca ’91
Artist’s Statement
“Working as an artist and graphic designer in Brooklyn since 2000, I am also one of the owners of Kayrock Screenprinting, Inc. My influences include minimalism, repetitive pattern, permutations, mapping, typography, charts and tables. My recent work explores issues of politics, class and economy using both manual and digital techniques.
In the Floorplan series, I research publicly available floor plans of new luxury loft construction in Manhattan and Brooklyn. Redrawing and rearranging them into supersized condos, via mirroring and rotation, I use a computer to calculate the exact square footage of each drawing. Combined with the price per square foot of the actual condominium, this metric is used to calculate the price of each print. Using a graphite dispersion to screen-print a single print of each image, I consider these works assisted drawings rather than print editions.
In the ATM Reciept series, I take found ATM receipts and redraw them with a mechanical pencil at actual size. The hand translation of the machine printed words and numbers is a meditative process for me, drawing each typeset letter slowly as its own object, instead of writing entire words or sentences. Exposing the amount withdrawn and the balance remaining in various stranger's checking accounts affords a glimpse into their socio-economic strata. The price of the piece is equivalent to the amount of money withdrawn in the original transaction.
My recent work has evolved from the receipt drawings into hand replications of government documents ( FORM 1040EZ ), cookbook pages ( Cornbread ) and charts ( Sunrise/Sunset Summer 2010 ). Current drawings and drawings and prints also explore mathematical structures that I find visually fascinating and meditatively enlightening. Eneagons, chiliagons, quantum physics and the bagua all influence these pieces which explore science's attempt to reconcile with the reality of nature.”
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Joshua Marsh ’91
Artist’s Statement
“My paintings may begin with an observation of an existing object, or sometimes with the relation of three or four colors, or often with a doodle of an invented form. Making the paintings is a process of continuous revision. Forms move or are painted over, objects change shape and point of view, and the causes of colors loosen. Following impulses and perceptual logic, I work to bring them towards an eventual clarity.”
About the Artist
Joshua Marsh lives and works in West Chester, Pennsylvania. He received his MFA from Yale University in 1997, and his BFA from Washington University in St. Louis in 1995.
His work has been exhibited in NY, Miami, Houston, Philadelphia, and at Geoffrey Young Gallery in Great Barrington, MA. His 2010 show Ten Things at Jeff Bailey Gallery was written about in the Brooklyn Rail and Art in America.
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