AMY ELLINGSON

The Necessarian

Awarded
Society of Typographic Arts, Winner

On Painting and the Nature of Work recounts and examines the events of a year-long flow state, shaped by the intense pressure of preparing a major exhibition, during which she contends with the deep mysteries of painting, reckons with her artistic forebears, and wrestles with existential questions.

Structured with underlying grids like those that animate Ellingson's paintings, the design holds the tension between her analogue and digital practice. The cover’s mix of fluorescent ink on cloth creates a fluid movement between timeless and modern that gives the object its charge. The interior typography grounded in it’s grid but never static gives a through line of Ellingson's structural rigor, bright color and expressiveness.

Creative Direction: Caleb Cain Marcus | Publisher: The Necessarian | Artist and Author: Amy Ellingson | Writers: Terry Castle, Bett Williams | Book Photos: Steven Paneccasio