arts & letters: a lloyd schermer retrospective
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Lloyd Schermer’s art career began decades before he became an artist. As a newspaper publisher, the very material that would ultimately become his extraordinary sculptures and monotypes surrounded him. But it would take another 30 years before idea and material would join into the exceptional work we see today.TRANSCRIPT
ARTS & LETTERS Revisiting the Diverse Artworks of a Man of Letters
A LLOYD SCHERMER RETROSPECTIVE I JUNE 14 - JULY 7, 2016
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Lloyd Schermer, Type a la Carte, 20 x 20 inches, Antique Wood Type
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Lloyd the artist has come full circle. As an eleven year old Cub Scout, he was carving sculptures out of clay. His art career then went into recess—but was reactivated 55 years later. He still has his old sculpting tools.
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Lloyd Schermer’s art career began decades before he became an
artist. As a newspaper publisher, the very material that would
ultimately become his extraordinary sculptures and monotypes
surrounded him. But it would take another 30 years before idea and
material would join into the exceptional work we see today.
Like all newspapers in the 1960s, Schermer’s paper in Montana was
printed using hot metal typeset technology; methods that evolved
from the manual technique of placing wooden or metal letters by
hand, into page forms, aligned, inked, then printed. Schermer’s
newspaper was one of the first in the U.S. to change to offset
lithography, which uses photographic typesetting that is then
placed into page forms. Faster and less expensive, it wasn’t long
before this technology spread to the entire newspaper industry.
Simultaneously, millions of blocks of wood type, many hand carved,
others a century old, became obsolete. Seen as useless, virtually
all of this material was discarded and destroyed.
Fortunately, Schermer saw the beauty in these little gems.
He held onto his own private cache until the idea for his unique
sculpture formed. Over the years, he has added to his type
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collection, but believes he has found most of what is available in
quantity. As Lloyd likes to remind his collectors, “You are dealing
with two diminishing resources: antique type and me!”
Type is part of history and the story of communication. Before
Gutenberg, type was made by carving wood, which was slow and
expensive. Then in 1477 he discovered how to make molds of
letters into which molten metal was poured. He revolutionized
communications. Printing books, leaflets, and posters were now
made quickly and inexpensively. In Schermer’s work, the impact
of this change is captured in man’s most lasting medium—art.
Today Schermer is only slowing down slightly. For him that means
working on two commissions and a solo exhibition. He is designing
an installation for the New York Public Library, and another large
piece entitled “Gateway to the West,” for the Jefferson Memorial
Arch Museum in St. Louis. His retrospective exhibition is a celebra-
tion of the long and increasingly colorful career of a true man of
Arts and Letters.
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A Pyramid of Knowledge VII, Bronze, 20” x 14” x 5”
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A Puzzle for Letters, Antique Wood Type, 36” x 24” x 4”
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A Puzzle for the Future, Antique Wood Type, 28” x 48” x 5”
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Comet of Type I, Monotype, 26” x 22”
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Wood Type on Paper & Ink #4, Monotype and Collage, 34” x 45”
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Table 1, Steel and Antique Wood Type, 30” x 48” x 15”
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Table 2, Steel and Antique Wood Type, 30” x 48” x 15”
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Serenity #4, Monotype, 30.50” x 42.50”
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Falling Leaves #1, Monotype, 33” x 25”
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Mickey’s Pyramid of Fun, Antique Wood Type, 20” x 20” x 6”
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Small Aspen Leaf 2, Antique Wood Type, 18” x 25” x 2.50”
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Embossed and Rising Type #6, Monotype and Collage, 34” x 34”
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A Centsible Pyramid, Antique Wood Type, 16” x 16” x 6”
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Aha!, Antique Wood Type, 16” x 16” x 6”
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Word Seeds for the Future, Antique Wood Type, 30” x 48” x 4”
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Y Not?, Antique Wood Type, 30” x 20” x 2”
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Type a la Carte, Antique Wood Type, 20” x 20” x 2”
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Window of Leaves #2, Monotype, 33” x 25”
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Embossed and Rising Type 2, Monotype and Collage, 34” x 34”
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Happy Times, Antique Wood Type, 18” x 38” x 6”
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Making Sausage II, Antique Wood Type, 15” x 15” x 2”