Artist Biography:
KR Windsor is a digital artist drawing inspiration from the written world. Obsessed by letterforms from a young age when he would trace letters from old books in his local library, KR went on to study design and typography at Bezalel Academy of Art and Design in Jerusalem and gain his MFA in design from Cranbrook Academy of Art in Michigan.
During a successful career as a designer and strategist, he received broad recognition for his work creating brand identities for institutions around the world. Working in over 35 countries, he also gained a profound appreciation of the diversity, richness and beauty of the many scripts that diverse cultures use to express meaning. Today, this wealth of experience informs his work as a visual artist, exploring the beauty and the shadows that the letterform and its vast array of structures cast over us to influence thought and action.
Artist Statement:
Throughout my career, type has been my muse, and my canvas. The letterform, and the structures it populates (word, sentence, page, book, and the screen), are the foundation of the written world. My work explores the evolution of these structures, combined with the hyper-vivid color palette of modern media, querying the tension between the visual and the semantic to seek out inherent dilemmas. A key aspect of my work is subverting the form–meaning construct of these abstract glyphs we imbue with intention, interrogating how they express the historical record we’re left with, but also mediating the relationships we have with institutions, other cultures and each other. In excavating the underside of the written world––the shadows that words cast, parallel meanings and, increasingly, the intentional misappropriation of language––I aim to create a visual conversation with the viewer that illuminates the hidden corners of how language and the symbols that represent it are used today.
