Justin Remo
Prinmaking bfa
MICA Maryland Institute College of Art
Specialisms: Printmaking / Cartoon & Comic Art / Illustration
Location: Baltimore, United States
Justin Remo
First Name: Justin
Last Name: Remo
Specialisms: Printmaking / Cartoon & Comic Art / Illustration
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My Location: Baltimore, United States
University / College: MICA Maryland Institute College of Art
Course / Program Title: Prinmaking bfa
About
Justin Remo is a printmaker and graphic novelist from Wyckoff, New Jersey. He graduated from the Maryland Institute College of Art in 2024 with a BFA in Printmaking. Recent work includes a solo show, The Last Times on Dogwater Beach (Baltimore, MD) and leading workshops on woodcut printmaking. His printmaking and illustration work is heavily influenced by storytelling, using abnormal cartoon imagery to create fictional realities that discuss topics of global waste and the Anthropocene. Remo’s science-fiction graphic novel series, Dust, won in the Ratcliffe Center for Creative Entrepeneurship’s 2024 UP/START Competition. He is also a Public Affairs Specialist with the United States Coast Guard, where he continues to produce professional photographs, videos, and visual designs for the military.
The Last Times On Dogwater Beach is a chaotic visual odyssey that explores the interpersonal weight of solastalgia, existential distress caused by negative environmental change. This series of handcrafted large-scale prints aims to convey my own solastalgic experiences and the conflicting complicated emotions I feel towards my decomposing interpersonal friendships, the chaotic degradation of my home, and the frighteningly rapid obliteration of our planet and the animals we share it with. Hand-carved into plywood, the matrices of these prints become memorial artifacts, satisfying the raw tangible craftsmanship of relief printmaking and physically preserving every doubt and regret engraved into their surface.his series stands as a bittersweet memorial to the global and interpersonal ecosystems I have inhabited during my adolescent years, and a farewell to the weight of my personal history as I witness the place from which my life began continue to sink from a distance.
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