Stephen Talasnik with Liam Talasnik
Glacial Mapping, 2023
Edition of 25
Ink on archival giclee paper, signed and editioned
16 x 20 inches
Printed by Duggal Fine Art Printers, New York, NY
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This unique hand-signed and editioned piece by internationally renowned artist Stephen Talasnik is a special edition print, created exclusively for the Museum for Art in Wood on the occasion of the exhibition FLOE: A Climate of Risk | The Fictional Archaeology of Stephen Talasnik. The print is based on the large-scale work, also titled Glacial Mapping, which is presented in the FLOE exhibition.
In the artist’s words, the image—drawn in the spirit of a glaciologist—depicts “a theoretical charting of a cluster of glaciers that were presumed to have been wandering with the current off the coast of Iceland into the North Atlantic. Not actually based in science, it is the result of notetaking by observers on the ships and eventually formed the basis of the fictional mapping of glacial movement.”
About the artist
Stephen Talasnik has built an artistic career by exploring the links between drawing and building. His work is site-specific, occupying a scale that blurs the line between sculpture and architecture. Trained as an architect but known worldwide for his organic structures installed in challenging natural settings, Talasnik creates work informed by time travel and “fictional function," as well as the infrastructure of the urban environment.
Originally from Philadelphia, he is a graduate of the Rhode Island School of Design and Temple University’s Tyler School of Art. After completing his graduate study at Tyler, he spent 15 years commuting between NYC and Southeast Asia, where a fascination with hand building reemerged through his study of the art of bamboo construction.
He has created site-specific installations for Storm King Art Center, the Denver Botanic Gardens, and Manitoga, the Russel Wright House in Garrison, NY, as well as the Tippet Rise Art Center in Montana, Architektur Galerie Berlin, and the Curitiba Biennale at the Oscar Niemeyer Museum in Brazil. His drawings are in the permanent collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art (NY); The Albertina, (Vienna); Centre Pompidou (Paris); National Gallery of Art (Washington DC); and the Kupferstichkabinett (Berlin).
