Digital Glass Portfolio™

Laura Letinsky and John Paul Morabito

skydesign.c Contact: Deborah Newmark

deborah.n@skydesign.com / 773-969-

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June 2017

Left to Right: Ebb, Bourne, Burgeon

Skyline Design Introduces Latest Addition to Digital Glass Portfolio™

Committed to enhancing its collection of original works by notable artists, Skyline Design expands the Digital Glass Portfolio to include a new series by artists Laura Letinsky and John Paul Morabito. Letinsky and Morabito bring photography and weaving into dialogue, exploring the cooperative possibilities between these media. Since their first collaboration in 2013, their work together has continued with Telephone Game. Letinsky’s digital photo collages were abstracted and woven by Morabito. Now translated into glass, the images are brilliant in color and texture, and saturated with a quiet nostalgia.

Letinsky’s abstracted photographs began as encounters with the aftermath of flower markets and wedding celebrations. Rather than produce a literal recreation, the artist relies on interpretation, working to capture the transitory effects of light and environment. Morabito further abstracts the photographs by taking the digital images into the physical realm of woven tapestries. Intuitively blending colorful wool threads, he simultaneously renders and transforms the original composition into a new image. The result offers a visual compression of time and events that evoke familiar reveries and temporality, underlined bya tension between deterioration and splendor. As glass, the materiality of thread is frozen once again, exposing the mechanics of an iterative

process that allows the narrative to evolve organically and on multiple scales.

This unique method of working leaves a lasting emotional impression that has global appeal and an intimate tactile presence welcome in a range of interior applications, from office to healthcare. The medium of glass lends itself to retaining the sumptuous pigment, shape, and sense of scale evident in Letinsky and Morabito’s collaboration of five images: Ebb, Burgeon, Bourne, Unbound, and Immure.

Skyline Design’s leading digital processes introduce Letinsky and Morabito’s artworks to the dynamic medium of glass capable of impacting a wide audience through its integration into interior architecture. The Portfolio offers a selection of images for large format digital printing on glass using proprietary etching techniques.

With its AST™ Digital Glass Printing technology, Skyline Design leads the field in uniting aesthetic sensibilities with innovative industrial production. Produced on low-iron, PPG Starphire® tempered glass, images can be produced with translucent printed AST etch or AST III Vitracolor® back paint (for opaque wall cladding). All images are available in sizes up to 60” x 120” and in all standard glass thicknesses. Customization and color options are available.

Digital Glass Portfolio™

Laura Letinsky and John Paul Morabito

skydesign.c Contact: Deborah Newmark

deborah.n@skydesign.com / 773-969-

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TechniquesAST™ Digital PrintingSkyline Design’s proprietary digital technology prints translucent imagery with vast color capabilities.

Vitracolor®

Skyline Design’s proprietary Vitracolorback-painting process applies water-based, low-VOC paint uniformly, creating an opaque surface for wall-cladding.

Left to Right: Bourne (AST Digital Printing), Bourne (AST + Vitracolor Back-paint)

Digital Glass Portfolio™

Laura Letinsky and John Paul Morabito

skydesign.c Contact: Deborah Newmark

deborah.n@skydesign.com / 773-969-

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Laura Letinsky

Laura Letinsky studied photography first in Canada at the Universityof Manitoba, then at Yale University’s School of Art. Her ideas and workare formed through a perspective that affords, perhaps insists upon,a kind of attention to the act of looking and of picturing. Recent exhibitions include the Neither Natural nor Necessary, Mumbai Photography Festival, Mumbai, India, Objecta, Giacomo Guidi Arte Contemporanea, Rome, Italy, Producing Subjects, MIT, Cambridge, MA, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, and, The Photographers Gallery, London, and Laura Letinsky: Still Life, Denver Art Museum, CO. Previous shows include theGetty Museum, Los Angeles; The Canadian Museum of Contemporary

Photography; The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY, Casino Luxembourg; Museum of Modern Art, New York; and The Renaissance Society, Chicago. Collections include the Art Institute of Chicago;Hermes Collection, Paris, France, The Microsoft Art Collection, Seattle, WA, The Amon Carter Museum,The John Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles; The Musée de Beaux-Arts, Montreal, QC; The Museum of Fine Art, Houston, TX; and The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. Yancey Richardson Gallery, New York represents her, and she shows with Galerie m Bochum in Bochum, Germany, and JosephCarroll and Sons Gallery, Boston, MA. A Professor at the University of Chicago since 1994, she has also taught at the Yale University School of Art Summer Program, The University of Houston, and Bennington College. Grants and awards include the Canada Council International Residency, Kunstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin, The Scotia Bank Photography Prize Short List, The Canada Council Project Grants, the Deutsche Bank Prize Nomination, The Anonymous Was a Woman Award, and the John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship. Publications include Ill Form and Void Full, Radius Press, 2014, Feast, Smart Museum ofArt, UC Press, 2013, After All , Damiani, 2010, Hardly More Than Ever , Renaissance Society, 2004, Blink, Phaidon Press, 2002, and Venus Inferred , University of Chicago Press, 2000.

John Paul MorabitoJohn Paul Morabito is a Chicago based artist and educator working through the intersection of contemporary art and hand weaving. He has exhibited widely including Document, Chicago, IL; The Center for Craft, Creativity, and Design, Asheville, NC; Dorksy Gallery Curatorial Projects, Long Island City, NY; Bakalar and Paine Galleries, Boston, MA; and John Michael Kohler Arts Center, Sheboygan, WI. Bibliography includes Chicago Gallery News,Textile: Cloth and Culture, Surface Design Journal, Fiberarts Magazine and American Craft Magazine. Collections include the Musée des maîtres et artisans du Québec, Montreal, QC. He holds a BFA from the Maryland Institute College of Art and an MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Morabito is Adjunct Assistant Professor of Fiber and Material Studies at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.

Digital Glass Portfolio™

Laura Letinsky and John Paul Morabito

skydesign.c Contact: Deborah Newmark

deborah.n@skydesign.com / 773-969-

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Skyline Design

For over 30 years, Skyline Design has redefined patterned glass in architecture, making glass the prominent creative building material it is today.The Skyline Design development approach blends a broad spectrum of creative expression with today’s most advanced technologies. Passionate and knowledgeable about fabricating glass that alters the way light is transmitted, small design and development teams collaborate with outside designers, architects, and artists for each project. This intimate approach resultsin customized quality products that enhance color, luminosity, movement, and privacy in the built interior.

At Skyline Design, sustainability has been and remains a cornerstone of day-to-day business practice. Manufacturing processes are audited for environmental efficiency and continue to be improved.This commitment to sustainability is reflected in Skyline Design’s fundamental building material: glass is made from natural materials, such as sand; it has a virtually unlimited life cycle; and it is recyclable at the end of life.

Ebb (AST Digital Printing)

Left to Right: Burgeon, Ebb, Bourne