MorningStar: A Photobook Case Study
Online Talk with Marshall Scheuttle, Kris Graves, and Caleb Cain Marcus
Thursday, July 22, 2021, 7PM EST
Free and open to the public
Registration required
Join Aurora for an online discussion about the making of MorningStar by Marshall Scheuttle, published July 2021 by Kris Graves Projects | Monolith. From creative choices to economic necessities and pandemic delays, Scheuttle, Graves, and Marcus will talk about all stages of the project’s development from initial idea to final publication.
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+ KGP | Monolith describes MorningStar:
“MorningStar shows us a Las Vegas in which the sky and the city, both blinkered with stars, stare back at each other impassively. The space between flashes which loom on the edge of an impending storm, or stillness in the wake of violent transgression. Caught in the crossfire, the people in Scheuttle’s photographs are alike in one undeniable regard: each, in his and her own way, is shot through with light. For some, that’s Las Vegas’s inescapable and smothering neon. For some, that’s the ominous and ageless light of the desert. And for some it’s the light that comes with the promise of a brand new day—the crisp sunlight that appears in the east once the morningstar has faded from the sky.”
Marshall Scheuttle is a Las Vegas based artist that mostly makes his home on the road. He holds an MFA from the University of Hartford and a BFA from SUNY Purchase College. A 2020 NAC Fellow, Scheuttle's work has been exhibited world wide including Aperture Gallery and The Albright Knox Museum. Collections include the Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago and Burchfield Penny Center.
+ KGP | Monolith collaborates with artists to create limited edition publications and archival prints, focusing on contemporary photography and works on paper that address issues of race, identity, equity, gender, sexuality, and class.
Kris Graves is an artist and publisher based in New York and London. He received his BFA in Visual Arts from S.U.N.Y. Purchase College and has been published and exhibited globally, including the National Portrait Gallery in London, England; Aperture Gallery, New York; University of Arizona, Tucson; Blue Sky Gallery in Portland, Oregon; and Brooklyn Museum, New York; among others. Permanent collections include the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; Brooklyn Museum, New York; The Wedge Collection, Toronto; and Bryn Mawr College, Pennsylvania.
Caleb Cain Marcus has work is the collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Getty Museum, the High Museum of Art, Norton Museum of Art, and Museum of Fine Arts Houston. His work has been published in contemporary photography journals such as PDN, Musée, American Photo and Professional Photographer and mainstream magazines Conde Nast Traveler, Orion and Audubon as well as online journals such as Feature Shoot, Fraction, F-stop, Slate, Lens Culture, Smithsonian, My Modern Met and Hyperallergic. Caleb is the author of A Portrait of Ice (2012), A brief movement after death (2018) and Iterations (2019). He is also the founder of Luminosity Lab, a design and print studio.
