Скачать или смотреть Art is Hard Episode 7: Julian Montague, Graphic Artist and Illustrator

In this episode, we feature Julian Montague, a graphic artist, painter, and illustrator based in Buffalo, New York.

We discuss one of Montague's fictional book covers, called "Wildlife Incursions into Modern Architecture," a piece from his mid-century modern-inspired catalogue.

About our Guest:
Since the late 1990s, Julian Montague has been making art with a multidisciplinary approach and an undercurrent of existential humor. His artwork takes many different forms, from multi-year conceptual investigations, to making ephemera for a fictional 1970s art institution, to hard-edged abstract paintings.

Montague’s work is largely concerned with exploring and reframing the systems of order that we have come to rely on to make sense of the natural and human-made worlds. His projects can be seen as attempts to question this supposed harmony in order to reveal the absurdity that lies beneath it. The tools and visual language of graphic design play a large role in his artwork, and his two practices often influence one another.

His work has received attention from ‪@dwell‬, Frieze, It's Nice That, and many others. In 2021 The New York Times recommended his Instagram account as one of the top art accounts to follow. Montague has work in the collections of the Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Martin Z. Margulies, the Norton Museum of Art, the Progressive Insurance Company, and numerous private collections.

Montague's mid-career retrospective exhibition at the Burchfield Penney Art Center in Buffalo NY ran over summer and fall of 2023.

His book The Stray Shopping Carts of Eastern North America: A Guide to Field Identification, Revised Edition will be published by the University of Chicago Press this Fall.

Instagram: @ montagueprojects
Website: https://www.montagueprojects.com/

Episode Resources:
The Thorold Gallery: https://www.montagueprojects.com/fict...
The Thorold Gallery video:    • The Thorold Gallery  
Rudolph de Harak: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rudolph...
Fred Troller: https://www.rit.edu/carycollection/fr...
Matthew Barney: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matthew...

Chapters:
0:00 Introduction
2:48 About our guest
6:35 Chosen work: "Wildlife Incursions into Modern Architecture"
8:40 Methodology
20:00 Challenges
34:35 Inspiration

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