Northwood Journals
by Kurt Simonson
Essay by George Slade, poem by Franz Wright
Northwoods Journals pieces together a disconnected family narrative that is marked by secrets, weathered by seasons, colored with dry humor, and haunted by death. The work forms a lyrical and strange family album, a collection of photographs that speaks to the complex merger of myth and memory that Simonson has encountered as he seeks to establish his own sense of place, story and identity.
BOOK
Hardcover Book, 10x8 inches
136 pages / 65 color images
Edition of 500
Price: $50.00
Pre-order Northwoods Journals . All pre-order books will be signed by the artist.
Books are scheduled to ship in November 2015.
Books may be ordered through: http://www.flashpowderprojects.com/northwoods-journals
SPECIAL EDITION
Option #1
Northwoods Journals Book + Print
Price: $150.00
Pre-order a signed copy of Northwoods Journals along with one of the most popular images from the series, Mikey's Truck. The image is 6 x 9" on 8.5 x 11" archival paper, in a signed, limited edition of 10. These prints are sized and priced specially for this book release.
Option #1 may be pre-ordered through: http://www.flashpowderprojects.com/northwoods-journals
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SPECIAL EDITION
Option #2
Northwoods Journals Book + Print
Price: $150.00
Pre-order a signed copy of Northwoods Journals along with one of the most popular images from the series, Brooke. The image is 6 x 9" on 8.5 x 11" archival paper, in a signed, limited edition of 10. These prints are sized and priced specially for this book release.
Option #2 may be pre-ordered through: http://www.flashpowderprojects.com/northwoods-journals
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SPECIAL EDITION
Option #3
Northwoods Journals Book + Print
Price: $150.00
Pre-order a signed copy of Northwoods Journals along with one of the most popular images from the series, Winter Bonfire. The image is 6 x 9" on 8.5 x 11" archival paper, in a signed, limited edition of 10. These prints are sized and priced specially for this book release.
Option #3 may be pre-ordered through: http://www.flashpowderprojects.com/northwoods-journals
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Limited Edition Collector Portfolios
Northwoods Journals Collector Portfolio
Price: $750.00
Purchase a limited edition portfolio box set of four 12x18" signed, archival pigment prints and a signed copy of Northwoods Journals. The four images included in this collector portfolio (Ryan in the Mufflers, Fireworks, Rat Wreath and Into the Shed) come in a handsome box and represent the diverse themes (and seasons) that are present in the project.
Limited Edition Collectors Edition may be pre-ordered through: http://www.flashpowderprojects.com/northwoods-journals
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About Kurt Simonson
Kurt Simonson (b. 1977 in St Paul, Minnesota) is an artist/educator whose work explores the longings and tensions that surround our ideas of home, community, and identity. Whether connecting the myth and memory of his own upbringing in Minnesota, wandering the globe in search of alternate forms of community, or taking intimate portraits of his closest friends, questions about family, story, and belonging remain at the heart of his curiosity.
Kurt's work is regularly exhibited throughout the country and internationally, including a recent solo exhibition at Newspace Center for Photography in Portland, Oregon, and group exhibits at the San Diego Museum of Art, the Center for Fine Art Photography (Fort Collins, Colorado), RayKo Photo Center (San Francisco, California), and the Foto8 Gallery in London, England. His work has been published in the London Sunday Times Magazine, Fraction Magazine, Lenscratch, AintBad, and Dodho Magazine. In 2012 he received a Curator’s Choice award from CENTER Santa Fe and was shortlisted in Photolucida's Critical Mass, and in 2015 he was named one of LensCulture’s 50 Emerging Talents.
Kurt teaches at Biola University in La Mirada, California, where he is an Associate Professor of Photography in the Art Department. He lives and works in Long Beach, where you can probably find him eating breakfast.