Works are available for sale at:
Artsy https://www.artsy.net/search?sort=-decayed_merch&term=Michael%20Dalcerro
ODETTA Digital https://www.shhhim.com/odetta
1stdibs https://www.1stdibs.com/search/art/prints-works-on-paper/?q=odetta
Pierogi Gallery Flat Files https://flatfiles.pierogi2000.com
About the work
The majority of my prints are made with oil base inks and are printed on a variety of paper, kozo, Arches Cover and Rives. A few of the prints were made with Akua, Graphic Chemical or Daniel Smith water soluble inks and were printed on Reeves Lightweight or Reeves Heavyweight paper.
My favorite ink at the moment is Cranfield Traditional Relief Inks. The prints with an image size of 24" x 18" the paper size is 30" x 22", for the 20” x 15” image size prints, the paper size is 26” x 19.5”. The prints with an image size of 15.75” x 12” are on a 19” x 15” sheet of paper. Nearly all of the prints have an edition of ten plus two artist’s proofs.
Artist’s Statement
My prints could be seen as imaginary architectural proposals. I like the idea of making something that is supposed to be exact, architecture, into something that is improbable. Cities are evolutionary creations that are the result of both chance and careful planning. I try to embrace the same kinds of creative contradictions in my work.
My interest in urbanism is informed by where I work and live. A city can expand in two ways, it can expand out or it can expand up. In my artwork the city is expanding both vertically and horizontally like a self reproducing machine. I am interested in representations of the city as a symbol of ‘Progress’ and ‘Modernity’. But I also want to explore the sense of anxiety and uncertainty that often accompanies change.
The imagery and vocabulary of forms I employ in my work are the result of working from observation, imagination, drawing and the printmaking process. An important aspect of my work is my exploration of different systems of representing picture space. One point perspective, for example, or two point perspective, are systems for representing space. In my recent work am using isometric projection, a system that architects, engineers and video game designers use to depict objects in space.
My approach to printmaking has a wide range of sources and influences, from early 20th century German Expressionist painters, printmakers and architects, to Japanese color woodblock prints. Popular culture, such as movies and comic books, also inform my work. I admire the look and feel of mass produced, 4 color printing processes used in old comic books. My imagery also owes something to the kind of sham architecture and fantastic alternate worlds found in comic books and movies with their renderings of ill-conceived futuristic cities.
Artsy https://www.artsy.net/search?sort=-decayed_merch&term=Michael%20Dalcerro
ODETTA Digital https://www.shhhim.com/odetta
1stdibs https://www.1stdibs.com/search/art/prints-works-on-paper/?q=odetta
Pierogi Gallery Flat Files https://flatfiles.pierogi2000.com
About the work
The majority of my prints are made with oil base inks and are printed on a variety of paper, kozo, Arches Cover and Rives. A few of the prints were made with Akua, Graphic Chemical or Daniel Smith water soluble inks and were printed on Reeves Lightweight or Reeves Heavyweight paper.
My favorite ink at the moment is Cranfield Traditional Relief Inks. The prints with an image size of 24" x 18" the paper size is 30" x 22", for the 20” x 15” image size prints, the paper size is 26” x 19.5”. The prints with an image size of 15.75” x 12” are on a 19” x 15” sheet of paper. Nearly all of the prints have an edition of ten plus two artist’s proofs.
Artist’s Statement
My prints could be seen as imaginary architectural proposals. I like the idea of making something that is supposed to be exact, architecture, into something that is improbable. Cities are evolutionary creations that are the result of both chance and careful planning. I try to embrace the same kinds of creative contradictions in my work.
My interest in urbanism is informed by where I work and live. A city can expand in two ways, it can expand out or it can expand up. In my artwork the city is expanding both vertically and horizontally like a self reproducing machine. I am interested in representations of the city as a symbol of ‘Progress’ and ‘Modernity’. But I also want to explore the sense of anxiety and uncertainty that often accompanies change.
The imagery and vocabulary of forms I employ in my work are the result of working from observation, imagination, drawing and the printmaking process. An important aspect of my work is my exploration of different systems of representing picture space. One point perspective, for example, or two point perspective, are systems for representing space. In my recent work am using isometric projection, a system that architects, engineers and video game designers use to depict objects in space.
My approach to printmaking has a wide range of sources and influences, from early 20th century German Expressionist painters, printmakers and architects, to Japanese color woodblock prints. Popular culture, such as movies and comic books, also inform my work. I admire the look and feel of mass produced, 4 color printing processes used in old comic books. My imagery also owes something to the kind of sham architecture and fantastic alternate worlds found in comic books and movies with their renderings of ill-conceived futuristic cities.
