Justin Quinn: Keep Out This Frost

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Cain Schulte Contemporary Art is pleased to announce the opening of their exhibition of new works on paper by Justin Quinn. Quinn translates his personal obsessions into exquisitely subtle artwork that explores, amplifies, and ultimately celebrates, the single element, the ordinary, and the repetitive. This is Justin Quinn’s second solo show with Cain Schulte.

Justin Quinn continues to explore the distance between reading and seeing through the use of the letter E. This letter has become a surrogate for all letters in the alphabet, presenting a universal yet unreadable language. By transcribing Herman Melville’s epic Moby Dick into this simplified system, we see the transformation of a classic text into strings of letterforms that are at once majestic and impulsive.

Using specific chapters as sources for the works transforms Melville’s writings into labyrinthine and spiraling compositions that call to mind Captain Ahab’s monomaniacal quest for the White Whale.
Since 1998 Quinn has been exploring this space through the use of letterforms, and has used the letter E as his primary starting point.

Since 1999, Quinn's works on paper have been included in over eighty exhibitions, both national and international. His teaching, his exhibitions, and his role as a moderator and panelist at national conferences currently make Quinn one of the most brilliant figures in printmaking.

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