Intaglio I & II
November 16 - December 11, 2009
The current exhibition in The Maslow Study Gallery is the result of a meeting
a few weeks ago with Peter Hoffer and the students in his printmaking class.
The students had initially searched The Maslow Collection homepage and prepared
lists of works that interested them. We then discussed these works and brought
out a number from storage to preview.
The printmaking class this semester is working on intaglio processes, which
could include etching, engraving, drypoint, or aquatint, therefore the selection
of works for this exhibition are all intaglio prints. And since there are a
number of significant and varied prints of this type in The Maslow Collection
the Curator will change out four of the smaller works midway through the exhibition
in order to provide the greatest depth possible for the consideration and examination
of these processes by the students.
For a number of the works in this exhibition the artists and printmakers employed
multiple processes to achieve the final prints. Frank Stella’s Pergusa
Three – State I, used etching and woodcut, while in La Penna
di hu he utilized etching and aquatint. Affirming Flame by Willy
Heeks involved etching, drypoint and screenprinting, and the series of 4 works
know as The Seasons by Jasper Johns involved etching and aquatint,
as is the case also for Ellsworth Kelly’s Wall from 1979.
The works that will be changed out during the course of the exhibition will
be those by Julien Schnabel, Melissa Meyer, Ellsworth Kelly and Willy Heeks,
to be replaced with works by Francesco Clemente, Sandro Chia, and David Salle.
This exhibition includes the following works:
Willy Heeks, Affirming Flame, 1988, etching, drypoint, screenprint, 20
X 16, Edition: a/p
Jasper Johns, The Seasons, 1987, etching and aquatint from five copper
plates, 26 1/4 x 19 1/4 each [four in series], Edition: 50/73 [ULAE –
Universal Limited Artists Edition]
Jasper Johns, Target with Four Faces, 1979, color etching, 30 x 22 1/4,
Edition: 10/88 [Petersburg Press]
Ellsworth Kelly, Wall, 1979, etching and aquatint, 31 1/2 x 28, Edition:
44/50 [Tyler Graphics]
Melissa Meyer, Ten Eyck (from Survey Suite II), 1992, intaglio, 18
x 15 1/4, Edition: 7/50
Robert Rauschenberg, Bellini #2, 1987, 11 color intaglio, 58 7/8 x
37 1/4, Edition: 25/48 [ULAE – Universal Limited Artists Edition]
Julian Schnabel, Tod Cage Without Bars, 1982, etching, 29 1/2 x 23
1/4, Edition: 8/50
Frank Stella, Pergusa Three – State I, 1983, relief-printed etching
and woodcut, 66 3/8 x 51 1/2, Edition: 5/10 [Tyler Graphics]
Frank Stella, La Penna di hu, 1988, two color relief etching and aquatint,
77 1/2 x 58 3/4, Edition: 41/42 [Tyler Graphics]
[Click on image to enlarge.]
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