Jack Stauffacher
02 Feb - 21 Jul 2013
© Jack Werner Stauffacher
Print from Wooden Letters from 300 Broadway, 1998
Letterpress, Gift of the 2012 Decorative Arts and Design Acquisition Committee. (DA2), M.2012.56.1.6.
Print from Wooden Letters from 300 Broadway, 1998
Letterpress, Gift of the 2012 Decorative Arts and Design Acquisition Committee. (DA2), M.2012.56.1.6.
JACK STAUFFACHER
Typographic Experiments
2 February – 21 July 2013
For over seventy years, San Francisco printer Jack Stauffacher has produced books and prints that challenge the hidebound conventions of typography. His work explores the aesthetic potential of the printer’s tools—letterforms, printing inks, and the press—to create kinetic compositions that activate the entire space of the page.
Thanks to the generosity of LACMA’s Decorative Arts and Design Acquisition Group (DA2), the museum recently acquired Stauffacher’s 1998 portfolio Wooden Letters of 300 Broadway as well as several monoprints. These experimental prints are displayed with his innovative editions of classical literature, demonstrating how themes of pacing and movement permeate both streams of work.
Typographic Experiments
2 February – 21 July 2013
For over seventy years, San Francisco printer Jack Stauffacher has produced books and prints that challenge the hidebound conventions of typography. His work explores the aesthetic potential of the printer’s tools—letterforms, printing inks, and the press—to create kinetic compositions that activate the entire space of the page.
Thanks to the generosity of LACMA’s Decorative Arts and Design Acquisition Group (DA2), the museum recently acquired Stauffacher’s 1998 portfolio Wooden Letters of 300 Broadway as well as several monoprints. These experimental prints are displayed with his innovative editions of classical literature, demonstrating how themes of pacing and movement permeate both streams of work.