Gregor Turk: “I always focused on the map’s ability to simultaneously represent and distort reality.”
Description
Atlanta visual artist, sculptor and “topophiliac” Gregor Turk on walking 250 miles of the U.S./Canada border, creating landscapes with clay, wood and recycled inner tubes, turning Landsat imagery into hundreds of hand-painted ceramic tiles, making 1:1 scale maps, chasing phantom streets, fighting real estate developers’ efforts to erase Blandtown, confusing Beltline tourists with “misinformation” wayfinding maps, and “pushing the idea of what a map can be.” See his work at gregorturk.com
- “Latitudes + Legends”: 86 feet wide and 18" tall, ~200x handmade ceramic tiles
- “49th Parallel”: traveling the rule-straight part of the U.S./Canada border
- “Monumap: West Poplar (Saskatchewan)”
- “Misinformation”: Atlanta toponymy atop Chicago, San Francisco and New Orleans topography
- Rubber maps
- Blandtown
- “Choke II”
- Peirce quincuncial projection, rendered in clay
- “Phalanx”
- Andrew Lynch’s “Unbuilt Highways” maps
- The Bellman's Map from Lewis Carroll's The Hunting of the Snark
- Lordy Rodriguez
- Maya Lin
- The Center for Land Use Interpretation
- You Are Here: Personal Geographies and Other Maps of the Imagination
- The Map as Art: Contemporary Artists Explore Cartography
- Mapping Reality: An Exploration of Cultural Cartographies
- The Lure of the Local: Senses of Place in a Multicentered Society
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