Ripped from the Headlines
This post isn’t about an artist making prints but one who’s making work based on print… specifically, the newspaper.
Aleksandr Amir had a show at Mary Boone Gallery this past Fall titled Newsroom 1986-2000 where he, along with a team of assistants, simulated a newsroom atmosphere to produce approximately two-hundred front page drawings. According to Amir, “New York Daily News and New York Post serve as practical tools that unite the population around shared joys and fears; they help spread the city’s gossip and form its identity. Whether one buys them or not, a glance at the headlines while passing by a deli or waiting for a bus is enough to be connected to the diverse masses that make up their readership.” The headlines featured in the drawings are sampled from the fifteen years that the artist lived and worked in the New York City.
