A man covered in frost, a chimpanzee in a lifeboat, mountain climbers and hikers in the middle of a polar sea à la Caspar David Friedrich: Ethan Murrow (*1975 in Greenfield, Massachusetts) plays with dimensions with which we are familiar and tells a scarcely conceivable story with each of his works. Their references lie in personal experiences, historical sources, or in the romanticizing landscapes of the Hudson River School, from which his fantasy springs. At first glance one believes they are looking at edited black-and-white photographs, until it quickly becomes apparent that these are meticulously prepared pencil drawings. Through his work, Murrow examines the boundary between the artist’s fiction and depicted reality. Yet this volume deals not just with his pencil drawings-for the first time, one can also marvel at the extensive works he magically conjures on walls with simple tools like ballpoint pens.
March 22, 2016
Hatje Cantz
120 pages. 11.5 x 11.5 in
Hardcover
Text by Ethan Murrow and Ruth Erikson
