DREAMS ARE RUNNING AHEAD OF ME
Prints exemplify how decontextualizing, recasting, remultiplying, reanimating and juxtaposition function as productive forces in my art making. A combination of different techniques such as letterpress, silkscreen, and xerox serve as a symbolic template for blurring the boundaries between art and design, copy and original. The prints spring from known images sources yet have their own strange independence. The figurations are often found or copied from printed matter, then incorporated with abstract design elements. In a way this process places forgotten images back into distorted circulation in smaller quantities, sometimes for distribution. The minimal units of visual information are free from context and classification to participate in playful formal experimentation that have the potential to conjure multiple associations.
Sad Moon, 2007
letterpress print and xerox on stonhenge paper, 16" x 9"
For Lend Me Your Ears exhibition, I gave away unnumbered editions of this zine (left). Visitors at the James Cohan Gallery were invited to take my print offering from a hand attached to a wall. The zine itself does not read in a linear narrative, it circles back upon itself with delirious images related to the senses.
Who Nose, 2008
letterpress print and xerox paper with polyresin hand, 6.75" x 4.75"
© Alisa Ochoa 2008