Artist: MK Semos & Hugo G. Urrutia
Title: 'City Slicker'
Size: 43h x 36w x 4d cm (16.93h x 14.17w x 1.57d in)
Media: Custom print on reclaimed wooden floor.
Unique work
'City Slicker' is an original artwork from a collaboration between MK Semos and Hugo García Urrutia. Working primarily in recycled substrates and materials, Hugo Garcia Urrutia and MK Semos do what they do best, unifying image and form along with celebrating world capitals, in their current, and ongoing series, Wooden Postcards. The photographic artwork created by Semos and Garcia Urrutia in this collaborative style is a visual interpretation of an urban landscape, full of nostalgia, decay and charm, from New York City, London, Paris, and other cities around the globe, as places of inner experience as well as urban sprawl. Like a web slowly forming, these special hubs of the world act as melting pots, cradling vast amounts of cultures and ideas; Live organisms that become cultural icons themselves.
The imagery is initially created by Semos, who utilizes a manual, very basic Holga lm camera, allowing her to create and manufacture intuitive collages of composition inside the camera by overlapping frames and double-exposing the lm. Later, after processing the lm, “story boards” are chosen from her lengthy narrative of images, signs, pop-color, and surprise code. Her cross-processing technique gives colors maximum saturation. In 2011, this collaborative team earned and completed an artist in residency with the luxe Fairmont Hotel chain, where they produced artwork in-house and lived in a penthouse upstairs, in the Fairmont’s downtown Dallas location. Later that same year, they moved to London. They now divide their time between the UK and the States.
The imagery is initially created by Semos, who utilizes a manual, very basic Holga lm camera, allowing her to create and manufacture intuitive collages of composition inside the camera by overlapping frames and double-exposing the lm. Later, after processing the lm, “story boards” are chosen from her lengthy narrative of images, signs, pop-color, and surprise code. Her cross-processing technique gives colors maximum saturation. In 2011, this collaborative team earned and completed an artist in residency with the luxe Fairmont Hotel chain, where they produced artwork in-house and lived in a penthouse upstairs, in the Fairmont’s downtown Dallas location. Later that same year, they moved to London. They now divide their time between the UK and the States.
The original image was photographed by MK Semos
HUGO GARCIA URRUTIA
A graduate and active member of the Architectural Association’s Master of Architecture Design & Make programme in the United Kingdom, Urrutia’s work creates a distinct spatiality located at the interstice of art and architecture. His work explores and uses the technology for design and fabrication, with a sensitive and conscious reminder of the creativity of human endeavor.
MK SEMOS
Greek-American photographer MK Semos is a highly committed professional whose deep appreciation of beauty and culture can be found in each of her photographs. She specializes in travel, portrait, and environmental art photography, but is most well known for her 15+ years of work with the Holga camera. Born in Dallas, Texas, she earned Bachelor Degrees in Journalism, Photojournalism and Photo- Illustration from the University of Texas at Austin in 1995.
Please note the visual simulations of the artwork in a domestic setting included in the photo gallery are provided purely as a visual reference and may not be to scale. If you have a specific space in mind for the artwork, you can email us with the details and we can create a mock up of your space with this specific artwork to scale for you.