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Mel Bochner Monoprint

Brightly Colored Monoprint by Mel Bochner
By Mel Bochner
Located in Newport Beach, CA
exhibited American artist, Mel Bochner (b. 1940). Selected solo exhibitions: Carnegie Museum of Art
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Early 2000s American Contemporary Art

Materials

Paper

"Gobbledygook" monoprint with collage, engraving and embossment by Mel Bochner
By Mel Bochner
Located in Boca Raton, FL
"Gobbledygook" monoprint with collage, engraving and embossment on hand-dyed Twinrocker handmade
Category

2010s Contemporary More Prints

Materials

Oil, Handmade Paper, Engraving

Mel Bochner "Blah, Blah, Blah" oil monoprint with collage, engraving, embossment
By Mel Bochner
Located in Boca Raton, FL
handmade paper by artist Mel Bochner from Two Palms Publishing. Signed and dated Bochner '23 lower right
Category

2010s Contemporary More Prints

Materials

Oil, Handmade Paper, Engraving

"Kvetch" monoprint in oil with collage, engraving and embossment by Mel Bochner
By Mel Bochner
Located in Boca Raton, FL
"Kvetch" monoprint in oil with collage, engraving and embossment on handmade paper by artist Mel
Category

2010s Contemporary More Prints

Materials

Oil, Handmade Paper, Engraving

"Money" monoprint in oil with collage, engraving and embossment by Mel Bochner
By Mel Bochner
Located in Boca Raton, FL
"Money" monoprint in oil with collage, engraving and embossment on handmade paper by artist Mel
Category

2010s Contemporary More Prints

Materials

Oil, Handmade Paper, Engraving

8-foot "Thank You" monoprint in oil with collage, engraving and embossment
By Mel Bochner
Located in Boca Raton, FL
artist Mel Bochner. Signed and dated in graphite on front lower right. Image size: 91 5/8 x 81 3/8 inches
Category

2010s Contemporary More Prints

Materials

Oil, Handmade Paper, Engraving, Monoprint

Scoundrel
By Mel Bochner
Located in Boston, MA
Artist: Bochner, Mel Title: Scoundrel Date: 2011 Medium: Monoprint with collage, engraving and
Category

2010s Contemporary Prints and Multiples

Materials

Monoprint, Engraving

Top Dog
By Mel Bochner
Located in Miami Beach, FL
Unique artwork, Mel Bochner, signed in pencil, includes COA
Category

2010s Contemporary Paintings

Materials

Monoprint

Easy Difficult
By Mel Bochner
Located in Miami Beach, FL
Oil and mixed media, unique monoprint
Category

2010s Contemporary Mixed Media

Materials

Monoprint

No
By Mel Bochner
Located in Austin, TX
Monoprint in oil with collage, engraving and embossment on handmade paper Hand-signed and dated
Category

2010s Contemporary Prints and Multiples

Materials

Oil, Handmade Paper, Engraving, Monoprint

No
No
H 35.5 in W 28 in
Obvious
By Mel Bochner
Located in Miami Beach, FL
Mel Bochner, unique monoprint
Category

2010s Contemporary Mixed Media

Materials

Oil

Head Honcho
By Mel Bochner
Located in Miami Beach, FL
Mel Bochner, unique monoprint
Category

2010s Contemporary Mixed Media

Materials

Oil

Money
By Mel Bochner
Located in Miami Beach, FL
Mel Bochner, unique monoprint
Category

2010s Contemporary Mixed Media

Materials

Oil

Money
H 34 in W 23 in

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Oh Well
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Blah Blah Blah
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Babbles
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Head Honcho
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Blah, Blah, Blah
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Blah, Blah, Blah
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Blah, Blah, Blah
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Blah, Blah, Blah
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"Amazing"
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Kvetch
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Blah, Blah, Blah
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HA HA
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Artist: Bochner, Mel Title: HA HA Date: 2019 Medium: Oil Paint Monoprint with collage
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Kvetch
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Blah, Blah, Blah
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Blah, Blah, Blah
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Blah, Blah, Blah
By Mel Bochner
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Blah, Blah, Blah
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Blah, Blah, Blah
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Blah, Blah, Blah
By Mel Bochner
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Blah, Blah, Blah
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Blah, Blah, Blah
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Mel Bochner 1940 - Blah, Blah, Blah, 2014 signed and dated upper left, recto Monoprint with collage
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Blah, Blah, Blah
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Going Out of Business
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: 1. Bochner, Mel. Monoprints: Mel Bochner: Words, Words, Words…New York: Two Palms, 2012. General
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Thank You
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BLAH BLAH BLAH
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BLAH BLAH BLAH
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Blah, Blah, Blah
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Blah Blah Blah
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handmade paper Mel Bochner (American, b.1940) is one of the pioneers of Conceptual Art. He has helped to
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Blah Blah Blah
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Oh Well
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Oh Well
Oh Well
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Head Honcho
By Mel Bochner
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ince the 1960's Mel Bochner has been an important contributor to conceptual art in America. Along
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Blah Blah Blah
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Blah Blah Blah
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Original, Mel Bochner Artwork
By Mel Bochner
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regarded, internationally exhibited American artist, Mel Bochner (b. 1940). Monoprint with collage
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Original, Mel Bochner Artwork
Original, Mel Bochner Artwork
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Obvious
By Mel Bochner
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As Good As It Gets / It Could Be Worse
By Mel Bochner
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MEL BOCHNER As Good As It Gets / It Could Be Worse, 2020 Monoprint in oil with collage, engraving
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Blah Blah Blah
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Money
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Mel Bochner experimented with a range of styles before finding his eventual success as a pioneer in Conceptual art. An audacious 1966 show at School of Visual Arts (SVA) in Manhattan that he presented, “Working Drawings and Other Visible Things on Paper Not Necessarily Meant to Be Viewed as Art,” remains a seminal touchstone for Conceptualism.

Bochner was born to a Pittsburgh sign painter in 1940. While attending the Carnegie Institute of Technology (now Carnegie Mellon) in the late 1950s, he studied color theory and modernist movements as well as classical drawing, a balance that was formative in his career. After graduation, he moved to San Francisco, creating paintings influenced by Clyfford Still and Jean Dubuffet.

It wasn’t until Bochner “found his way out of the labyrinth of late Abstract Expressionism,” as he put it to The Brooklyn Rail, that he began to create his most meaningful work. Following a stint auditing philosophy classes after a friend introduced him to the work of Heidegger, Bochner relocated to New York, finding work as a guard at the Jewish Museum. In Manhattan, he ran in the same circles as Dan Flavin, Brice Marden and Donald Judd.

“One of the conversations going on in New York in the late ’60s was about the relationship of the object to the art experience,” Bochner said. “...Younger artists like myself were talking about what it would mean to eliminate the object altogether.” This idea would become the foundation of the Conceptual movement, in which Bochner was instrumental. The artist is probably best known for his text-focused paintings, including a series that plays with the phrase “Blah Blah Blah.” He produces work that regards art as an experience, rather than an object, centering on the process of creation and viewership as opposed to the finished product.

Bochner’s “Working Drawings and Other Visible Things on Paper Not Necessarily Meant to Be Viewed as Art” featured drawings, notes and outlines from the likes of Milton Glaser, Carl Andre, Sol LeWitt and others as well as pages from Scientific American. Bochner, then an art history professor at SVA, photocopied the assemblage of works, added them to binders and positioned them on pedestals for the exhibition because the show’s organizers lacked the funds to frame the pieces.

Bochner’s works can be found in the collections of many major museums, including the Museum of Modern Art, the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Whitney Museum of American Art.

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