LETTERS PATTERNS STRUCTURES

by Andrew Topel

In LETTERS PATTERNS STRUCTURES, Andrew Topel treats his viewers to an architectural purity in which positive and negative spaces become interchangeable. These precise arrangements of letters and punctuation build forms that function equally as lattice works of theory, as finite sculptures, and as art. Topel ‘s craftsmanship locates and then captures the richness of individual angles superimposed on one another, yielding large, musical constructs that undergo successive phases of preparation, suspension, and resolution.

Andrew Topel’s hand is sure, his eye is clear, his vision, superb. Within these creations, delicacy and boldness are not incompatible, but progress through mutually celebratory elements within successive pieces. When viewing Topel’s art, I do not have to work at loving what I see and feel. My admiration is inevitable. His masterful constructions enhance my own capacity for sensory awareness, melding discoveries that inform each new moment of joy in finding what is present and continually reconfiguring itself into conceptual possibilities that hold, for all their majesty, within a greater actuality space.



- Sheila E. Murphy

October 4, 2009

Reviews

[Paul Siegell · Rating 5 out of 5]

Andrew Topel brings me back to when I used to play with Legos, making not what the instructions told me I should do, but whatever it was that I felt like. Playful shapes and structures that I formed out of the feel of the blocks, almost going where they wanted to. And that’s what it seems Topel loves to do as well. Letting the shapes, curves and angles of our alphabet guide him in creating wild and ever-interesting formations. Magical patterns, kaleidoscopic canvases, snowflake stunners, and one page is even an entire interactive maze made out of the T, I, and 1, begging you to find your way through. LETTERS PATTERNS STRUCTURES is must for typography fans. Definitely check it out.