Ian Cozzens [2005, Architecture]

Ian Cozzens is a visual artist who makes prints, sculptures, quilts, zines, spaces, collections, & shelves, among other things. He loves analog & semi-obsolete methods of creating film positives for screenprinting: hand-drawing letterforms, cutting intricate Rubylith stencil films, and working with Rapidograph ink on mylar. Over the past ten years, he has been building installations incorporating silkscreened paper, wallpaper, and text, as well as shelves, boxes, and constructions, laid out by making perspectival projection drawings by hand. His interests in pattern, geometry, and history have led him to the craft of patchwork and quiltmaking, elements of which have also become part of the installations (as well as part of his daily life). Ian is always trying to bring things together and make it all make more sense, seeking out some kind of unity of content with form, craft, and existence.