Martin Kruck
Professor, Department Chair
Art
Summary
Research Interests
My research investigates landscape imagery and the ideology of nature in contemporary culture. I explore real and fabricated landscapes through my photographic, digital, and printmaking work. The work addresses the impulse behind urban-escape ideologies initiated in the European, and later American, Romantic era that created a vanity for distant wildernesses still perpetuated, and commercially exploited today. Recent technical innovations in my Printmaking practice have centered on digital transposition of latent image catalysts onto photo-polymer gravure plates. This process permits for a faster and less toxic approach to traditional photo-engraving while also providing an unmatched level of continuous tone printing. I have lectured and conducted workshops internationally on this process and collaborated with fellow master printmakers on expanding its creative potential.
Education
M.F.A., State University of New York at Buffalo
B.F.A., Queen's University