Liliana Porter

Latin American Mixed media Collage Photo Intaglio Gravure Print with Embroidery

2010

Elvis:The Sewing Lesson (2011) Mixed media intaglio print with embroidery, photogravure, thread, and collage on Magnani Pescia white paper. edition of 100 plus 12 APs, 6 printers proofs, and 6 CCP archive proofs 17 ¾" x 13 ½" Published by Center for Contemporary Printmaking. Elvis Presley, Rock & roll icon. Liliana Porter (born 1941) is a contemporary artist working in a wide variety of media, including photography, printmaking, painting, drawing, installation, video, theater, and public art. Porter was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina in 1941, but lives and works in New York. As a teenager, she attended the Universidad Iberoamericana in Mexico City, Mexico, where she studied under Guillermo Silva Santamaria and Mathias Goeritz. She returned to Argentina and completed her training at the Escuela Nacional de Bellas Artes in Buenos Aires. In 1964, she moved to New York City, where she co-founded the New York Graphic Workshop with fellow artists Luis Camnitzer and José Guillermo Castillo. In 1974 she was a co-founder and etching instructor at Studio Camnitzer, an artist's residence studio near Lucca, Italy that welcomes artists working in all media. After holding teaching positions at the Porter-Wiener Studio, the Printmaking Workshop, SUNY Purchase and State University of New York at Old Westbury, Porter became a professor at Queens College, City University of New York in 1991 and remained there until 2007. Porter cites Luis Felipe Noe...

Embossed print after Braque, based on his sculpture by the same name. Embossed in the print paper is "'Cephale', Hommage aux bijoux de braque, or fin 23 carat, sculpt heger de Lowen...

Tracey Emin My Heart is With You Always, framed with hand signed and inscribed tag, 2015 Embroidered Linen Handkerchief, Hand Signed, dated and Inscribed in Ink on attached tag Signe...

Contemporary work of art by Christine Graf. A collage work of art created using rust, string and vintage book. Graf skillfully employs unconventional m...