About the Press
Pantograph is an independent small press for artist prints and books established gradually and intermittently between 2015 and 2023 by publisher Austin Kennedy. Pantograph exists to support emerging artistic voices and to help realize projects that might otherwise stay in the back of a drawer or their creator’s minds.
Each project under the Pantograph imprint encompasses a thought on an individual scale, expressed as a work of art that resonates beyond its own material and conceptual boundaries. Pantograph looks for ideas that are graphically and linguistically metonymic, where a telling detail speaks to a larger context.
Core to this philosophy is making process and media choices that ground the work in its elemental materiality, avoiding superfluous embellishment and distraction.
We welcome submissions by artists of all backgrounds, with a special interest in cross-cultural and -linguistic perspectives, as well as neurodiverse and other under-heard voices. To start a conversation, please contact us.
Photo by Anna Watts, 2023Austin Kennedy is an artist and publication designer, based out of Boston and northeastern Connecticut.
Beginning in his late teens he taught himself darkroom photography and was mentored in the rudiments of silkscreen. A first studio job in New York City had him working both on exhibition silver gelatin prints and book production; moving forward he made collaborative and multi-channel creative processes the core of his work. He has worked with other artists on print and digital publications for over 20 years.
Born in New York City and raised in Switzerland and Turkey, Austin brings a multicultural slant to his work. With a degree in literary translation from Brown University he began to develop an approach to making art that transcends its original context, and through a career working with artists of all backgrounds, he has embraced the ever-evolving challenge of creating connections across material and conceptual boundaries.
Austin was Design Director of Pace Prints from 2011 to 2024. He is now with Krakow Witkin Gallery. All projects created under the Pantograph imprint are entirely independent.
