PAUL GRAVES:

Serigraph printed on paper, size: 30” x 30”

Michael Young’s 10-pass screen print is a complex artistic creation that intricately layers and splices together photogrammetry scans of two distinct paintings situated in disparate physical locations. This work draws upon Michael Graves's "Crooks House," a piece held within the basement archive of the A83 architecture gallery, and Caravaggio's renowned "The Conversion of Saint Paul on the way to Damascus," which resides in the Palazzo Odescalchi Balbi. Young seamlessly integrates the point clouds generated from these separate 3D scans. This fusion transcends temporal and spatial boundaries, collapsing the distinct eras and environments of the original artworks and their creators. The resulting composition presents as a vibrant yet ethereal mass, characterized by the misty superimposition of numerous layered dots.


Michael Young is an architect and educator practicing in New York City where he is a founding partner of the architectural design studio Young & Ayata. Young & Ayata have received the Progressive Architecture award, the Design Vanguard Award, the Young Architects Prize, and a first-place prize for the design of the Bauhaus Museum in Dessau, Germany. Their work has been exhibited at the Museum of Modern Art-New York, the Istanbul Modern, the Graham Foundation, SCI-Arc and Princeton University. Michael has published numerous essays and the books The Estranged Object (Graham Foundation, 2015) and Reality Modeled After Images (Routledge, 2021). He was the 2019-20 Rome Prize Fellow at the American Academy in Rome.

Paul Graves was produced for the exhibition, The Sixth Somewhat Annual Meeting, held at A83 in 2025.
Signed and numbered by Michael Young in a limited edition of 10.