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    Installation view of Sandow Birk's solo exhibition The Depravities of War, 2007

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    Title Page from Depravities of War, 2007

    Woodcut prints: black ink, hand rolled and hand inked on handmade Sekishu Kozo paper from Japan, backed twice with two layers of Sekishu and archival wheat paste.

    Edition of 2 + 3 AP

    48 x 96 inches

    Printed by Paul Mullowney and published by HuiPress, Makawao, Hawaii

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    About Sandow Birk’s The Depravities of War:


    After the 2005 publication of his portfolio of etchings, The Leading of Causes of Death in America, Sandow Birk returned to HuiPress in the spring of 2006 and began a monumental print project inspired by a series of etchings called The Miseries and Disasters of War by Jacques Callot, printed in 1633.

     

    The project consists of 15 large-scale woodcut prints, each measuring 48 x 96 inches. Printed in collaboration with Master Printer Paul Mullowney, and assisted by HuiPress printer Casey Neumann, and Rhode Island School of Design interns Samuel Carr-Prindle and Nichol Markowitz, the images follow the course of the Iraq war.

     

    Just as Francisco Goya's early 19th century prints, The Disasters of War, drew on the prints of Callot for their inspiration, Sandow Birk now draws on Jacques Callot to create a series of prints commenting on the debaucheries of warfare in our times. Using Callot's images as a starting point and casting their epic compositions in both America and in the ravaged landscape of Iraq, Birk's prints depict the course of war and its aftereffects. Blown up to grandiose scale and utilizing the aggressive nature of the woodcarving process to full effect, the images are at once familiar and contemporary, while recognizable as drawing from traditions of art history and Callot.

     

    Like his predecessors, Birk draws on art history and current events in a polemical series that critiques the eternal and universally senseless practice of war and military injustice.

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    Sandow Birk

    The Riddle of the Sphynx (after Ingres -"Oedipus and the Sphynx"), 2007

    Oil and acrylic on canvas

    30 x 24 inches

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    Sandow Birk

    Investigation from Depravities of War, 2007

    Woodcut prints: black ink, hand rolled and hand inked on handmade Sekishu Kozo paper from Japan, backed twice with two layers of Sekishu and archival wheat paste

    Edition of 2 + 3AP

    48 x 96 inches

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    Sandow Birk

    Degradation from Depravities of War, 2007

    Woodcut prints: black ink, hand rolled and hand inked on handmade Sekishu Kozo paper from Japan, backed twice with two layers of Sekishu and archival wheat paste

    Edition of 2 + 3AP

    48 x 96 inches

    Printed by Paul Mullowney. Published by Hui Press, Makawao, Hawaii

    MORE about this artwork

    About Sandow Birk’s The Depravities of War:


    After the 2005 publication of his portfolio of etchings, The Leading of Causes of Death in America, Sandow Birk returned to HuiPress in the spring of 2006 and began a monumental print project inspired by a series of etchings called The Miseries and Disasters of War by Jacques Callot, printed in 1633.


    The project consists of 15 large-scale woodcut prints, each measuring 48 x 96 inches. Printed in collaboration with Master Printer Paul Mullowney, and assisted by HuiPress printer Casey Neumann, and Rhode Island School of Design interns Samuel Carr-Prindle and Nichol Markowitz, the images follow the course of the Iraq war.


    Just as Francisco Goya's early 19th century prints, The Disasters of War, drew on the prints of Callot for their inspiration, Sandow Birk now draws on Jacques Callot to create a series of prints commenting on the debaucheries of warfare in our times. Using Callot's images as a starting point and casting their epic compositions in both America and in the ravaged landscape of Iraq, Birk's prints depict the course of war and its aftereffects. Blown up to grandiose scale and utilizing the aggressive nature of the woodcarving process to full effect, the images are at once familiar and contemporary, while recognizable as drawing from traditions of art history and Callot.


    Like his predecessors, Birk draws on art history and current events in a polemical series that critiques the eternal and universally senseless practice of war and military injustice.

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    Sandow Birk

    Desecration from Depravities of War, 2007

    Woodcut prints: black ink, hand rolled and hand inked on handmade Sekishu Kozo paper from Japan, backed twice with two layers of Sekishu and archival wheat paste

    Edition of 2 + 3AP

    48 x 96 inches

    Printed by Paul Mullowney. Published by Hui Press, Makawao, Hawaii

    MORE about this artwork

    About Sandow Birk’s The Depravities of War:


    After the 2005 publication of his portfolio of etchings, The Leading of Causes of Death in America, Sandow Birk returned to HuiPress in the spring of 2006 and began a monumental print project inspired by a series of etchings called The Miseries and Disasters of War by Jacques Callot, printed in 1633.


    The project consists of 15 large-scale woodcut prints, each measuring 48 x 96 inches. Printed in collaboration with Master Printer Paul Mullowney, and assisted by HuiPress printer Casey Neumann, and Rhode Island School of Design interns Samuel Carr-Prindle and Nichol Markowitz, the images follow the course of the Iraq war.


    Just as Francisco Goya's early 19th century prints, The Disasters of War, drew on the prints of Callot for their inspiration, Sandow Birk now draws on Jacques Callot to create a series of prints commenting on the debaucheries of warfare in our times. Using Callot's images as a starting point and casting their epic compositions in both America and in the ravaged landscape of Iraq, Birk's prints depict the course of war and its aftereffects. Blown up to grandiose scale and utilizing the aggressive nature of the woodcarving process to full effect, the images are at once familiar and contemporary, while recognizable as drawing from traditions of art history and Callot.


    Like his predecessors, Birk draws on art history and current events in a polemical series that critiques the eternal and universally senseless practice of war and military injustice.

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    Sandow Birk

    Destruction from the Depravities of War, 2007

    Woodcut prints: black ink, hand rolled and hand inked on handmade Sekishu Kozo paper from Japan, backed twice with two layers of Sekishu and archival wheat paste

    Edition of 2 + 3 AP

    48 x 96 inches

    Printed by Paul Mullowney. Published by Hui Press, Makawao, Hawaii

    MORE about this artwork

    About Sandow Birk’s The Depravities of War:


    After the 2005 publication of his portfolio of etchings, The Leading of Causes of Death in America, Sandow Birk returned to HuiPress in the spring of 2006 and began a monumental print project inspired by a series of etchings called The Miseries and Disasters of War by Jacques Callot, printed in 1633.


    The project consists of 15 large-scale woodcut prints, each measuring 48 x 96 inches. Printed in collaboration with Master Printer Paul Mullowney, and assisted by HuiPress printer Casey Neumann, and Rhode Island School of Design interns Samuel Carr-Prindle and Nichol Markowitz, the images follow the course of the Iraq war.


    Just as Francisco Goya's early 19th century prints, The Disasters of War, drew on the prints of Callot for their inspiration, Sandow Birk now draws on Jacques Callot to create a series of prints commenting on the debaucheries of warfare in our times. Using Callot's images as a starting point and casting their epic compositions in both America and in the ravaged landscape of Iraq, Birk's prints depict the course of war and its aftereffects. Blown up to grandiose scale and utilizing the aggressive nature of the woodcarving process to full effect, the images are at once familiar and contemporary, while recognizable as drawing from traditions of art history and Callot.


    Like his predecessors, Birk draws on art history and current events in a polemical series that critiques the eternal and universally senseless practice of war and military injustice.

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    Sandow Birk

    Detention from Depravities of War, 2007

    Woodcut prints: black ink, hand rolled and hand inked on handmade Sekishu Kozo paper from Japan, backed twice with two layers of Sekishu and archival wheat paste

    Edition of 2 + 3AP

    48 x 96 inches

    Printed by Paul Mullowney. Published by Hui Press, Makawao, Hawaii

    MORE about this artwork

    About Sandow Birk’s The Depravities of War:


    After the 2005 publication of his portfolio of etchings, The Leading of Causes of Death in America, Sandow Birk returned to HuiPress in the spring of 2006 and began a monumental print project inspired by a series of etchings called The Miseries and Disasters of War by Jacques Callot, printed in 1633.


    The project consists of 15 large-scale woodcut prints, each measuring 48 x 96 inches. Printed in collaboration with Master Printer Paul Mullowney, and assisted by HuiPress printer Casey Neumann, and Rhode Island School of Design interns Samuel Carr-Prindle and Nichol Markowitz, the images follow the course of the Iraq war.


    Just as Francisco Goya's early 19th century prints, The Disasters of War, drew on the prints of Callot for their inspiration, Sandow Birk now draws on Jacques Callot to create a series of prints commenting on the debaucheries of warfare in our times. Using Callot's images as a starting point and casting their epic compositions in both America and in the ravaged landscape of Iraq, Birk's prints depict the course of war and its aftereffects. Blown up to grandiose scale and utilizing the aggressive nature of the woodcarving process to full effect, the images are at once familiar and contemporary, while recognizable as drawing from traditions of art history and Callot.


    Like his predecessors, Birk draws on art history and current events in a polemical series that critiques the eternal and universally senseless practice of war and military injustice.

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    Sandow Birk

    Incursion from Depravities of War, 2007

    Woodcut prints: black ink, hand rolled and hand inked on handmade Sekishu Kozo paper from Japan, backed twice with two layers of Sekishu and archival wheat paste

    Edition of 2 + 3AP

    48 x 96 inches

    Printed by Paul Mullowney. Printed by Hui Press, Makawao, Hawaii

    MORE about this artwork

    About Sandow Birk’s The Depravities of War:


    After the 2005 publication of his portfolio of etchings, The Leading of Causes of Death in America, Sandow Birk returned to HuiPress in the spring of 2006 and began a monumental print project inspired by a series of etchings called The Miseries and Disasters of War by Jacques Callot, printed in 1633.


    The project consists of 15 large-scale woodcut prints, each measuring 48 x 96 inches. Printed in collaboration with Master Printer Paul Mullowney, and assisted by HuiPress printer Casey Neumann, and Rhode Island School of Design interns Samuel Carr-Prindle and Nichol Markowitz, the images follow the course of the Iraq war.


    Just as Francisco Goya's early 19th century prints, The Disasters of War, drew on the prints of Callot for their inspiration, Sandow Birk now draws on Jacques Callot to create a series of prints commenting on the debaucheries of warfare in our times. Using Callot's images as a starting point and casting their epic compositions in both America and in the ravaged landscape of Iraq, Birk's prints depict the course of war and its aftereffects. Blown up to grandiose scale and utilizing the aggressive nature of the woodcarving process to full effect, the images are at once familiar and contemporary, while recognizable as drawing from traditions of art history and Callot.


    Like his predecessors, Birk draws on art history and current events in a polemical series that critiques the eternal and universally senseless practice of war and military injustice.

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    Sandow Birk

    Occupation from Depravities of War, 2007

    Woodcut prints: black ink, hand rolled and hand inked on handmade Sekishu Kozo paper from Japan, backed twice with two layers of Sekishu and archival wheat paste

    Edition of 2 + 3AP

    48 x 96 inches

    Printed by Paul Mullowney. Published by Hui Press, Makawao, Hawaii

    MORE about this artwork

    About Sandow Birk’s The Depravities of War:


    After the 2005 publication of his portfolio of etchings, The Leading of Causes of Death in America, Sandow Birk returned to HuiPress in the spring of 2006 and began a monumental print project inspired by a series of etchings called The Miseries and Disasters of War by Jacques Callot, printed in 1633.


    The project consists of 15 large-scale woodcut prints, each measuring 48 x 96 inches. Printed in collaboration with Master Printer Paul Mullowney, and assisted by HuiPress printer Casey Neumann, and Rhode Island School of Design interns Samuel Carr-Prindle and Nichol Markowitz, the images follow the course of the Iraq war.


    Just as Francisco Goya's early 19th century prints, The Disasters of War, drew on the prints of Callot for their inspiration, Sandow Birk now draws on Jacques Callot to create a series of prints commenting on the debaucheries of warfare in our times. Using Callot's images as a starting point and casting their epic compositions in both America and in the ravaged landscape of Iraq, Birk's prints depict the course of war and its aftereffects. Blown up to grandiose scale and utilizing the aggressive nature of the woodcarving process to full effect, the images are at once familiar and contemporary, while recognizable as drawing from traditions of art history and Callot.


    Like his predecessors, Birk draws on art history and current events in a polemical series that critiques the eternal and universally senseless practice of war and military injustice.

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    Sandow Birk

    Preparation from the Depravities of War, 2007

    Woodcut prints: black ink, hand rolled and hand inked on handmade Sekishu Kozo paper from Japan, backed twice with two layers of Sekishu and archival wheat paste

    Edition of 2 + 3 AP

    48 x 96 inches

    MORE about this artwork

    About Sandow Birk’s The Depravities of War:


    After the 2005 publication of his portfolio of etchings, The Leading of Causes of Death in America, Sandow Birk returned to HuiPress in the spring of 2006 and began a monumental print project inspired by a series of etchings called The Miseries and Disasters of War by Jacques Callot, printed in 1633.


    The project consists of 15 large-scale woodcut prints, each measuring 48 x 96 inches. Printed in collaboration with Master Printer Paul Mullowney, and assisted by HuiPress printer Casey Neumann, and Rhode Island School of Design interns Samuel Carr-Prindle and Nichol Markowitz, the images follow the course of the Iraq war.


    Just as Francisco Goya's early 19th century prints, The Disasters of War, drew on the prints of Callot for their inspiration, Sandow Birk now draws on Jacques Callot to create a series of prints commenting on the debaucheries of warfare in our times. Using Callot's images as a starting point and casting their epic compositions in both America and in the ravaged landscape of Iraq, Birk's prints depict the course of war and its aftereffects. Blown up to grandiose scale and utilizing the aggressive nature of the woodcarving process to full effect, the images are at once familiar and contemporary, while recognizable as drawing from traditions of art history and Callot.


    Like his predecessors, Birk draws on art history and current events in a polemical series that critiques the eternal and universally senseless practice of war and military injustice.

    image description
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    Sandow Birk

    Repercussion from Depravities of War , 2007

    Woodcut prints: black ink, hand rolled and hand inked on handmade Sekishu Kozo paper from Japan, backed twice with two layers of Sekishu and archival wheat paste

    Edition of 2 + 3 AP

    48 x 96 inches

    Printed by Paul Mullowney. Published by Hui Press, Makawao, Hawaii

    MORE about this artwork

    About Sandow Birk’s The Depravities of War:


    After the 2005 publication of his portfolio of etchings, The Leading of Causes of Death in America, Sandow Birk returned to HuiPress in the spring of 2006 and began a monumental print project inspired by a series of etchings called The Miseries and Disasters of War by Jacques Callot, printed in 1633.


    The project consists of 15 large-scale woodcut prints, each measuring 48 x 96 inches. Printed in collaboration with Master Printer Paul Mullowney, and assisted by HuiPress printer Casey Neumann, and Rhode Island School of Design interns Samuel Carr-Prindle and Nichol Markowitz, the images follow the course of the Iraq war.


    Just as Francisco Goya's early 19th century prints, The Disasters of War, drew on the prints of Callot for their inspiration, Sandow Birk now draws on Jacques Callot to create a series of prints commenting on the debaucheries of warfare in our times. Using Callot's images as a starting point and casting their epic compositions in both America and in the ravaged landscape of Iraq, Birk's prints depict the course of war and its aftereffects. Blown up to grandiose scale and utilizing the aggressive nature of the woodcarving process to full effect, the images are at once familiar and contemporary, while recognizable as drawing from traditions of art history and Callot.


    Like his predecessors, Birk draws on art history and current events in a polemical series that critiques the eternal and universally senseless practice of war and military injustice.

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    Sandow Birk

    Detention (from Depravities of War), 2006

    Ink on paper

    15 x 22 inches unframed, 18 x 26 ½ inches framed

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    Sandow Birk

    Preparation (from Depravities of War), 2006

    Ink on paper

    15 x 22 inches unframed
    18 x 26 ½ inches framed

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    Sandow Birk

    Incursion (from Depravities of War), 2006

    Ink on paper

    15 x 22 inches unframed, 18 x 26 ½ inches framed

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    Sandow Birk

    Occupation (from Depravities of War), 2006

    Ink on paper

    15 x 22 inches unframed, 18 x 26 ½ inches framed

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