untitled Conversation ("Men are Assholes")

Joseph Grigely, artist

born 1956

untitled Conversation ("Men are Assholes"), 2005

Portfolio/Series title: Conversation pieces

Where object was made: Lawrence, Kansas, United States

Material/technique: inkjet print; lithograph

Dimensions:
Image Dimensions Height/Width (Height x Width): 223 x 169 mm
Image Dimensions Height/Width (Height x Width): 8 3/4 x 6 5/8 in
Sheet/Paper Dimensions (Height x Width): 383 x 286 mm
Sheet/Paper Dimensions (Height x Width): 15 1/16 x 11 1/4 in
Mat Dimensions (Height x Width): 19 x 14 in

Credit line: Gift of the KU Department of Visual Art, Printmaking Area

Accession number: 2010.0119

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Brosseau Center for Learning: Disability Visibility: In Conversation with the 2022–2023 KU Common Book

Scholar and artist Grigley, who is deaf, makes art from his conversations. When alternate forms of communication fail, Grigley asks others to converse via writing. He saves these notes to create art that considers what conversations look like rather than sound like.

Brosseau Center for Learning: Six Degrees of Separation: Prints from KU and Beyond

Grigely—an artist and professor of visual and critical studies at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago—often creates art that engages with ideas relating to human communication. Since Grigely became deaf as a result of a childhood accident, his verbal interaction with others frequently takes the form of ephemeral notes and phrases written on scraps of paper. Grigely’s practice includes various mediums and techniques including printmaking, sculpture, video, and installations.

Brosseau Center for Learning: Six Degrees of Separation: Prints from KU and Beyond

Joseph Grigely—an artist and professor of visual and critical studies at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago—often creates art that engages with ideas relating to human communication. Since Grigely became deaf as a result of a childhood accident, his verbal interaction with others frequently takes the form of ephemeral notes and phrases written on scraps of paper. In describing his work, the artist has evoked the art historical tradition of still life, which focuses, sometimes in revealing ways, on the seemingly mundane. Grigely’s practice includes various mediums and techniques including printmaking, sculpture, video, and installations.

To create a lithograph, a printmaker creates an image on a printing plate, traditionally a stone, using a water-resistant substance such as a wax pencil or crayon. Next, the plate must be covered in a solution typically containing gum arabic and nitric acid that surrounds the original image and to which printing ink will not adhere. Ink can then be applied to the plate, or stone. Each desired color requires its own plate. Finally, the printer runs the plate and a sheet of paper or other substrate run through a printing press. The pressure from the press transfers the ink onto the paper. Today offset lithography, which most often uses metal or plastic plates instead of stone, has become the most popular way of printing books, magazines, posters and other mass-produced images. In order not to reverse the composition during printing, in offset lithography a photographic image transferred onto a plate is then offset onto a rubber sheet, called a blanket. The offset image can then be printed on paper while maintaining the same orientation as the original photograph.

Tap the web icon to read about Joseph Grigely’s exhibition at Air de Paris and to view some of his other works.