ALL: Master Collection List
Nationality
American
Artist Dates
b. 1948
Preview
Date of Work
2012
Medium
Poster press on poster board
Height
15 3/4"
Width
11"
Collection/Provenance
Art & Design Study Collection
Status
Stored: CE, Binary Inventions portfolio B
Location
UND Art Collections Repository
Artist Bio
Amos Paul Kennedy, Jr., who is African American from Detroit and has described himself as "a humble Negro printer," once worked as a computer programmer and lived a comfortable middle-class lifestyle. Then. at age 40, he quit his corporate job to become a journeyman letterpress printer in the small rural town of Gordo, Alabama. His works range from letterpress posters to art books, installations, and calligraphy. Unlike other artists whose prints are exhibited here, Kennedy challenges the ascendancy of digital technology- even though he was trained to use it. An advertisement for his printing business boasts: "We are on the cutting edge of 19th century technology!".
Condition
Excellent