Tooth and Nail Gallery, 2024 | Softcover, 142pp | 22 x 30.5 cm
A striking collection of recent graphic works by Rob Sanders, spanning 2023–2024. Dubious Splendor explores the tension between decay and structure through layered, distressed compositions that echo urban surfaces, eroded signage and industrial residue. Sanders’ visual language blends abstraction with traces of typography and architecture, creating images that feel both excavated and constructed.
Rob Sanders is an award-winning commercials director, and Dubious Splendor operates as an ongoing side project of graphic works - a kind of urban collage. Photographically collecting scratches, scrapes, marks, tears and spills, these images are not just an assemblage of textures, but a translation of human energy to print.
Printed in a clean, spacious layout, the book allows each work to hold its own presence, emphasising texture, gesture and material depth. The interplay of muted tones with sharp graphic interruptions gives the series a raw, tactile intensity - part document, part visual archaeology.
Excellent - as new - condition: Unread copy, internally pristine - clean, crisp and tightly bound. A touch of edge wear to convers from handling and storage.
