untitled, José Antonio Suárez Londoño; Felix Harlan; Carol Weaver; Harlan & Weaver

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José Antonio Suárez Londoño; Felix Harlan; Carol Weaver; Harlan & Weaver, untitled
José Antonio Suárez Londoño; Felix Harlan; Carol Weaver; Harlan & Weaver, untitled
José Antonio Suárez Londoño , Felix Harlan , Carol Weaver , Harlan & Weaver
untitled
2014–2015
José Antonio Suárez Londoño, artist
born 1955
Felix Harlan, printer
born 1951
Carol Weaver, printer
born 1955
Harlan & Weaver, publisher
founded 1984
untitled, 2014–2015
Where object was made: New York, New York, United States
Material/technique: etching; watercolor
Dimensions:
Plate Mark/Block Dimensions (Height x Width): 150 x 150 mm
Plate Mark/Block Dimensions (Height x Width): 6 x 6 in
Sheet/Paper Dimensions (Height x Width): 420 x 300 mm
Sheet/Paper Dimensions (Height x Width): 16 1/2 x 11 13/16 in
Credit line: Museum purchase: Letha Churchill Walker Memorial Art Fund
Accession number: 2017.0088.02
Not on display
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Big Botany: Conversations with the Plant World
José Antonio Suárez Londoño is known as a pictorial diarist who produces “yearbooks” composed of his daily drawings. While living in an apartment on Herkimer Street in Brooklyn, Londoño worked on a project that eventually took on the name of the street. The first and smallest sheet of the resulting suite incorporates images of plants and leaves he picked up in the neighborhood, as well as animals, the head of a black man, and the motif of densely connected concentric circles that recurs in every print in the series. Additionally, the daily drawings of The Herkimer Suite are layered with references to colonial Columbia. The first plate addresses Londoño’s inspiration for this subject matter: the 1783–1808 botanical expedition to Columbia of José Celestino Mutis, which received the patronage of the Spanish king. The “Mutis herbarium” contained more than 24,000 plant specimens that undoubtedly informed the 6,000 drawings by the Mutis team. In this suite of etchings, Londoño thoughtfully interweaves his work as a visual diarist with his biological and political-historical interests.
Big Botany: Conversations with the Plant World
José Antonio Suárez Londoño is known as a pictorial diarist who produces “yearbooks” composed of his daily drawings. While living in an apartment on Herkimer Street in Brooklyn, Londoño worked on a project that eventually took on the name of the street. The first and smallest sheet of the resulting suite incorporates images of plants and leaves he picked up in the neighborhood, as well as animals, the head of a black man, and the motif of densely connected concentric circles that recurs in every print in the series. Additionally, the daily drawings of The Herkimer Suite are layered with references to colonial Columbia. The first plate addresses Londoño’s inspiration for this subject matter: the 1783–1808 botanical expedition to Columbia of José Celestino Mutis, which received the patronage of the Spanish king. The “Mutis herbarium” contained more than 24,000 plant specimens that undoubtedly informed the 6,000 drawings by the Mutis team. In this suite of etchings, Londoño thoughtfully interweaves his work as a visual diarist with his biological and political-historical interests.

Exhibitions

Big Botany: Conversations with the Plant World
Stephen Goddard, curator
2018

Citations

Goddard, Stephen H, ed. Big Botany Conversations with the Plant World. Lawrence, Kansas: Spencer Museum of Art, The University of Kansas, 2018.