Artist Profile Justin Remo
Justin Remo, Under the Weather, from The Last Times on Dogwater Beach series, 2023, Monotype on Hahnemühle paper, 18″ x 24″ (457 mm x 610 mm).
Remo’s lyrical, graphic monotypes articulate the nuances of contemporary loss.
Artist Statement
This work originates from my series titled The Last Times On Dogwater Beach, a chaotic visual odyssey that explores the interpersonal weight of solastalgia, existential distress caused by negative environmental change. This collection of handcrafted large-scale prints and monotypes aims to convey my own solastalgic experiences and the conflicting complicated emotions I feel towards my decomposing interpersonal friendships, the chaotic degradation of my home, and the frighteningly rapid obliteration of our planet and the animals we share it with.
Hand-carved into plywood, the matrices of these prints become memorial artifacts, satisfying the raw tangible craftsmanship of relief printmaking and physically preserving every doubt and regret engraved into their surface.his series stands as a bittersweet memorial to the global and interpersonal ecosystems I have inhabited during my adolescent years, and a farewell to the weight of my personal history as I witness the place from which my life began continue to sink from a distance.
Artist Biography
Justin Remo is a printmaker and graphic novelist from Wyckoff, New Jersey. He graduated from the Maryland Institute College of Art in 2024 with a BFA in Printmaking. Recent work includes a solo exhibition, The Last Times on Dogwater Beach (Baltimore, MD) and participation in the Royal Society of Painter-Printmakers’ 2024 International Original Print Exhibition (London, UK). His printmaking and illustration work is heavily influenced by storytelling, using abnormal cartoon imagery to create fictional realities that discuss topics of global waste and the Anthropocene. Remo’s science-fiction graphic novel series, Dust, won in the Ratcliffe Center for Creative Entrepeneurship’s 2024 UP/START Competition. He is also a Public Affairs Specialist with the United States Coast Guard, where he continues to produce professional photographs, videos, and visual designs for the military.