Aaron Marcus: Early Works

February 6–June 30, 2019

In these multicolored transformations of computer-generated forms, the artist makes connections between art, science, design, and visual poetry.

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Aaron Marcus: Evolving Gravity, 1972–74; serigraph; 29 1/2 x 22 in.; BAMPFA, gift of the artist.

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Artist's Talk: Aaron Marcus: Typography Dreaming

Graphic designer, artist, and author Marcus discusses his experimental visible language design and his career-long engagement with signs, symbols, and typographic compositions.

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Aaron Marcus: Early Works

February 6–June 30, 2019

Educated in physics, mathematics, and philosophy at Princeton University and trained in graphic design at Yale, Berkeley-based Aaron Marcus explores new possibilities for expression. He created his first “computer-assisted poem-drawings” in the spring of 1972, when he served as a research associate at Yale University’s School of Art and Architecture. Using standard typographical symbols, Marcus experimented with a photo-typesetting machine connected to a digital computer, reordering the symbols and their uses to create new meanings. The resulting works were meant to be seen as white symbols against dark fields, in which both the negative and positive space are significant. In these multicolored transformations of his original computer-generated forms, printed as lithographs and serigraphs, the artist makes connections between art, science, design, and visual poetry.

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Aaron Marcus: Early Works is organized by Director and Senior Curator Lawrence Rinder.

Aaron Marcus: Early Works

February 6–June 30, 2019

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Radioactive Jukebox

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Shades of Hades

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Past Events

Artist's Talk: Aaron Marcus: Typography Dreaming