Jason Urban and Leslie Mutchler: Fraktur Fire and Elemental Inventories & Visit of Atelier Circulaire
Atelier Circulaire, 5445 Av. de Gaspé #105
On Friday, May 2 at 2 p.m., step inside Atelier Circulaire!
Join us for a one-hour guided tour to discover Fraktur Fire and Elemental Inventories, the new exhibition by Jason Urban and Leslie Mutchler, presented in our gallery (space 105).
The exhibition explores the magic of artistic creation as a ritual: starting with simple materials, the artists transform the world—one gesture at a time.
The tour will continue with an exclusive behind-the-scenes look at our expansive printmaking studio on the 5th floor (space 517). Discover screen printing, intaglio, lithography, laser engraving, and our full range of specialized services.
Open to everyone, no registration required — please be on time!
Meeting point: Atelier Circulaire Gallery, Space 105.
Duration of the tour: 1 hour.
About Fraktur Fire and Elemental Inventories
“When artists set out to create magical objects and incantations, the result is magic multiplied. It’s louder, and brighter. Jason Urban and Leslie Mutchler offer us this by drawing on the visual language of the Natural History Museum: an archive. Through their work, they reveal a shifting inventory of talismanic objects and spells, designed for our times. This kind of magic is essential.”
– Chloë Lum
JASON URBAN and LESLIE MUTCHLER (JULMstudios) have been collaborating since 2012. They live and work in Brooklyn, New York. As a duo, they exercise an egalitarian approach to art and life that focuses on research and problem-solving. Their practice, which joins the physical to the metaphysical, focuses more and more on the natural world and how digital technologies influence and distort our relationship to nature.
Urban and Mutchler have had solo exhibitions at Eastern Edge (St. Johns, Canada), the Center for Book Arts (New York, NY), Monaco (St. Louis, MO), the Delaware Contemporary (Wilmington, DE), the NARS Foundation (Brooklyn, NY), Grizzly Grizzly (Philadelphia, PA), The Print Center (Philadelphia, PA), Centre for Fine Print Research (Bristol, UK), Space Gallery (Portland, ME), Atelier Circulaire (Montreal, Canada), among others. They have been granted numerous residencies, notably at Edition/Basel in Basel, Switzerland, the Cork Printmakers International Visiting Artist Residency in Cork, Ireland, and the Dieu Donne Workspace Residency in Brooklyn. Both are affiliated with the Pratt Institute, where Mutchler runs the Foundation Program and Urban teaches publishing courses in the Communication Design program.
