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Louis Buhl & Co. is pleased to present a series of Float prints with Paul Kremer. Organic and minimal, each monoprint features a unique combination of shape, ground, and water. Continuously evolving, Kremer’s work retains continuity in its palettes and formal cues. What stands out is the manner in which flat fields of color embody a liveliness rarely seen in such precise works, as they are rooted in the immediacy and primacy of the everyday. An abstract approach to dealing with weight and gravity, Float 57 aims to express the act of being uncertainly still in between two states, or the anticipation of what might happen. Each work was hand-produced by Kremer at his studio in Houston, TX.

“I am lucky to work with incredibly talented people who take the time to learn how to master fine printing of all types, but I also love making messy screen prints alone in the studio,” says Kremer. “I shouldn’t be allowed to; I’m too impatient and sloppy. But I find it so immediately satisfying, and enjoy the mistakes, fingerprints and all.”

A dive into alternate media, Kremer has also produced a series of blotter art prints. These iterations of Float 57 applied to perforated paper can be torn apart or left whole. One sheet of 900 blotter tabs tears into 225 4-way window panes, each comprising one of 75 unique Floats. Blotter art first appeared in the early ‘70s as LSD manufacturers went from selling liquid and sugar cube forms of the drug to placing it on perforated paper that looks like a sheet of small stamps. LSD makers commissioned the blotter art from contemporary artists, and this tradition of making collectible paper continues to this day. “I don’t know what’s more fun: art, or drugs, or art on drugs,” Kremer says. “Unfortunately, this art is sold without the drugs. ;)”

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Paul Kremer — Float 57

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