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Paula Scher, painted maps
Africa, 2003, Acrylic on canvas, 120” x 104.5”
Chances are you’ve already seen Paula Scher’s work outside of a gallery. A principal at Pentagram, she’s built identity systems for Citibank, The New York Public Theater, and the American Museum of Natural History. She began her career designing album covers for CBS Recordings in the 1970s.
She showed a series of paintings at the Maya Stendhal Gallery in NYC earlier this year consisting of 12 large canvases, some spanning 5’ to 12’. She uses color in a bold fashion to communicate her opinions about a particular region. She does this quite elegantly, as a seasoned graphic designer could only pull it off. Despite having a lot of text all over the paintings, there’s an understated simplicity which is pleasing and fun to interact with. I also can’t help but to feel some sort of primal obsessive-compulsive angle to these works—like aboriginal art, for example.
Emu Dreaming, 1975, Acrylic on masonite, 12” x 20”
I really love these painted maps. I’m sure in person these behemoths are even more impressive, what a pity I missed this exhibit!
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Posted on Thursday, 07 Sep 2006 
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