Printed Matter presents a new screen print edition with artist Raque Ford on the occasion of the 2024 NY Art Book Fair. The artwork captures an epistolary exchange written by, yet also addressed to, the Devil. the last person I want to speak to. is part of an ongoing body of work that explores the letter form as a transmission of intimacy and narrative. Ford’s distinctive handwriting layers on top of itself, creating a call and response between contrasting text, as well as between playful symbols. This print comes in two different colorways.
Raque Ford (b. 1986, Columbia, Maryland) lives and works in Brooklyn, New York. Ford infuses abstraction with narrative potential, producing layered works that explore how identity is crafted from the remnants of popular culture. Known for her distinctive way with materials, Ford troubles the line between painting and sculpture, using reflective acrylic and transparent Mylar, welded steel chains and laser-cut text. Her high-gloss surfaces are incised with spidery script that quotes from a range of sources: song lyrics, snippets of conversation, excerpts from fiction and diaristic jottings. Recent solo presentations include The Print Center, Philadelphia (2023); Good Weather, Chicago (2023); Greene Naftali, New York (2022, 2020); 321 Gallery, Brooklyn (2019); CAPITAL, San Francisco (2017); and Shoot the Lobster, New York (2017).
