Tipográficos

* New Work/personal
experimental research

Photography series

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2025— Awarded as one of the 100 best examples of typographic excellence produced around the globe by the Society of Typographic Arts (STA)︎︎︎

2025— Exhibited at SECAC’s National Conference + Juried Show. Exhibition held at Art Academy of Cincinnati's SITE1212. Sso-Rha Kang, juror.

2025— Exhibited at The 27th annual Peggy Doole National Small Works. Exhibition held at the long-established Washington Printmakers Gallery in Washington, DC. Awarded the Blick Art Prize by Juror, Margaret Winslow. 


2024— Exhibited "Magnitude Seven" exhibition of small works. Held at Manifest Gallery in Cincinnati, OH.

Tipográficos is an ongoing photography series exploring new abstract typographic expressions. This series emerges from a process of purposeful play that embraces chance operations and inexactness as a strategy to experiment with analog and digital methods.

Each composition takes shape on the translucent stage of an overhead projector, where materials such as glass, wood blocks, colored cellophane sheets, letter stencils, typography printed on transparency film, and various found objects with transparent, reflective, or porous qualities are arranged and intersected. When projected, the assemblage of materials transforms into luminous compositions of light, color, patterns, and silhouettes.
Inkjet prints on metallic photo paper.


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Mario f. Bocanegra Martinez ::: Graphic / Motion Designer + Educator