Mark Addison Smith
Typografisches Storytelling ist das Spezialgebiet von Mark Addison Smith; mit seiner Art, Text zu gestalten erzählt er Geschichten – auf Drucksachen, in Kunstbüchern und Installationen.
Für sein textbasiertes Archiv ‘You Look Like The Right Type’ zeichnet Mark seit 2008 jeden Tag mitgehörte Gesprächsfetzen und stellt sie als übergroße Konversationen als Austausch über Unausgesprochenes zwischen Fremden aus. Gezeigt wurden sie zum Beispiel in The Bakery in Atlanta, Co-Prosperty in Chicago, Hegyvidek Gallery in Budapest, Kawaura Art Space in Japan und zuletzt bei einer Einzelausstellung in der McMaster Gallery, die zur School of Visual Art and Design an der University of South Carolina gehört und das 15-jährige Bestehen des Archivs feierte. You Look Like the Right Type wurde in All Things Letters, Deadline, Hyperallergic, PRINTMagazine’s The Daily Heller, Queerty, MAGMA Brand Design’s Slanted Magazine und im Gespräch mit Debbie Millman für die allererste Episode des NYCxDESIGN Podcasts, The Mic, vorgestellt.
Seine Künstlerbücher wurden in über 80 ständige Sammlungen und Bibliotheksarchive aufgenommen, darunter die Brooklyn Museum Artists‘ Books Collection, das Center for Book Arts in New York, das Cooper Hewitt Smithsonian Design Museum, das Getty Research Institute, die Guggenheim Museum Library and Archives, die Library of Congress, MoMA Franklin Furnace, Museum of Contemporary Art (MCA) Chicago, ONE National Gay and Lesbian Archives an der University of Southern California, Smithsonian American Art and National Portrait Gallery Library Artists‘ Book Collection, Tate Library and Archives, V&A Museum National Art Library, und Watson Library at The Met.
Mark hat einen Master of Fine Arts von der School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC). Marks typografische Arbeiten sind unter MarkAddisonSmith.com und täglich auf Instagram zu finden.
Mark Addison Smith’s design specialization is typographic storytelling: allowing illustrative text to convey a visual narrative through printed matter, artist books, and site installations.
With his ongoing, text-based archive, You Look Like The Right Type, he has been drawing verbatim fragments of overheard conversations every single day since 2008 and exhibiting the works as larger-scale conversations between strangers exchanging words on topics never spoken. Exhibition spaces include The Bakery in Atlanta, Co-Prosperty in Chicago, Hegyvidek Gallery in Budapest, Kawaura Art Space in Japan, and most recently a solo exhibition at McMaster Gallery, within the School of Visual Art and Design at the University of South Carolina, celebrating the archive’s fifteenth anniversary. You Look Like the Right Type has been featured in All Things Letters, Deadline, Hyperallergic, PRINTMagazine’s The Daily Heller, Queerty, MAGMA Brand Design’s Slanted Magazine, and in conversation with Debbie Millman for the very first episode of NYCxDESIGN’s podcast, The Mic.
His artist’s books have been accessioned into over 80 permanent collections and library archives, including Brooklyn Museum Artists’ Books Collection, Center for Book Arts in New York, Cooper Hewitt Smithsonian Design Museum, Getty Research Institute, Guggenheim Museum Library and Archives, Library of Congress, MoMA Franklin Furnace, Museum of Contemporary Art (MCA) Chicago, ONE National Gay and Lesbian Archives at the University of Southern California, Smithsonian American Art and National Portrait Gallery Library Artists’ Book Collection, Tate Library and Archives, V&A Museum National Art Library, and Watson Library at The Met.
He holds a Master of Fine Arts from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC). Mark’s type-based work can be found at MarkAddisonSmith.com and daily on Instagram.