2020
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.
Find original Mel Bochner prints and other art on 1stDibs.
$1,600
H 35 in W 28 in D 1 in
Atropurpureum, Botanical, Floral, Nature, work on paper, Mixed Media, Purple
By Cynthia MacCollum
Located in Riverdale, NY
Atropurpureum is a botanical mixed media work on paper by Cynthia MacCollum. This original artwork is 30x22 on archival paper. It is framed to...
Mixed Media, Monoprint
Collage of Monotype: 'Manahatta #5'
By Angelica Bergamini
Located in New York, NY
From my ongoing series, 'Portable Landscape or Landscape for the Traveler.' Before European contact, the Lenape Manhattan's original inhabitants called the island Manahatta, which me...
Mixed Media, Monoprint, Monotype
$1,700
H 36 in W 24 in D 0.188 in
Surreal Mixed Media Collage on Yupo Paper, 2024, "Sunny Side Down"
By Monica DeSalvo
Located in Franklin, MA
Monica DeSalvo’s “Sunny Side Down” is a surreal mixed media collage over an asymmetrical digital inkjet photo montage on Yupo paper with blue, green, teal, white, and purple. The abs...
Paper, Glue, Mixed Media, Acrylic, Archival Paper, Color, Digital, Monop...
$1,050
H 16 in W 20 in D 2 in
"The Beauty on the Way There", Abstract Landscape, Blue, Red, Black, Mixed Media
By Patty deGrandpre
Located in Franklin, MA
Patty deGrandpre’s “The Beauty on the Way There” is a predominately turquoise blue, black, grey, and red contemporary abstract landscape represented on a 16 x 20 x 2 inch “Ampersand Claybord” block embracing creative photography, mixed media, and collage. Snapshots of a Western United States highway and it’s vast scenic surroundings are printed on Awagami Bamboo Japanese paper in both black and white as well as monochromatic red. The prints are cropped and combined with thoughtfully shaped monoprint fragments and collaged onto smooth fields of turquoise and grey hued water based block printing ink. The graphic design approach to this modern composition is appreciated as the viewer recognizes a glimpse through a car window of distant mountains and roadside terrain. A rectangular red and blue print reminiscent of vintage floral wallpaper...
Paper, Mixed Media, Color, Inkjet, Monoprint
$4,600
H 31.25 in W 25.25 in
Cottonwood in Jemez Canyon, by John Hogan, mixed media, monotype, New Mexico
By John Hogan (American)
Located in Santa Fe, NM
Cottonwood in Jemez Canyon by John Hogan mixed media monotype, New Mexico unique framed mixed media mono print John Hogan A graduate of Northeast Louisiana State University with a b...
Mixed Media, Monoprint
$1,650
H 36 in W 24 in
"Swinging against plumb", Surreal, Blue, Green, Yellow, Collage, Monoprints
By Monica DeSalvo
Located in Franklin, MA
Monica DeSalvo’s “Swinging against plumb” is a 36 x 24 inch surreal collage on a digital enlargement of two adjoined acrylic monoprints on paper. Wavy l...
Mixed Media, Archival Paper, Digital, Monoprint
$600
H 14 in W 11 in
"Vintage Hawaii and Some Lady Legs", Contemporary, Blue, Mixed Media Print
By Patty deGrandpre
Located in Franklin, MA
Cropped and deconstructed images of clouds, palm trees, an abandoned Hawaiian hotel facade, a car, an Aloha Airlines vintage trademark, a beach chair and a vintage photo of the two ladies in skirts are represented on 14 x 11 inch Awagami Bamboo Japanese paper in Patty deGrandpre’s contemporary abstract monoprint titled “Vintage Hawaii and Some Lady Legs...
Paper, Ink, Color, Digital, Inkjet, Monoprint, Mixed Media
$600
H 14 in W 11 in
"Standing in Line (red knees)", Contemporary, Red, Green, Ink, Mixed Media Print
By Patty deGrandpre
Located in Franklin, MA
Cropped and deconstructed images of a brick wall with a painted advertisement for a vintage cafe, four sets of mannequin legs, and cement barrier of hex...
Paper, Ink, Color, Digital, Monoprint, Mixed Media, Digital Pigment
$600
H 14 in W 11 in
"Referrals and Networking", Contemporary, Green, Yellow, Ink, Mixed Media Print
By Patty deGrandpre
Located in Franklin, MA
Cropped and deconstructed images of a two typewriters, a fence, a distant suburban landscape, and the lower half of three mannequins donning flowered coats are represented on 14 x 11...
Paper, Ink, Monoprint, Mixed Media
$425
H 14 in W 11 in
Abstract Mixed Media Print, 14x11, "Landlocked (The End of the Line)"
By Patty deGrandpre
Located in Franklin, MA
Patty deGrandpre’s “Landlocked (The End of the Line)” is an 14 x 11 inch unique abstract mixed media print represented on Awagami Bamboo Japanese paper utilizing both printmaking and...
Ink, Mixed Media, Digital, Monoprint, Bamboo Paper
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By Mel Bochner
Located in Miami Beach, FL
Monoprint in oil paint with collage, engraving and embossment on hand-dyed handmade paper Signed and dated to lower margin
Monoprint, Oil
The White Lotus
Located in Miami Beach, FL
Created for The White Lotus series, season 2, Italy Silkscreen on silk, gold leaf, acrylic Mounted on aluminum, custom wood framed
Gold Leaf
Here today, gone tomorrow - blue-raspberry (outdoor sculpture)
By Tim Berg & Rebekah Myers
Located in Miami Beach, FL
handmade, resin, lacquered wood wall sculpture Available in 5 flavors: blue-raspberry, cherry, lime, orange and grape Our objective is to distill the stereotypical perceptions and a...
Resin, Wood
and then some...
By Tim Berg & Rebekah Myers
Located in Miami Beach, FL
handmade, resin and lacquered wood, wall sculpture
Resin, Wood
Here today, gone tomorrow - lime (outdoor sculpture)
By Tim Berg & Rebekah Myers
Located in Miami Beach, FL
Can be installed outdoors Handmade - fiberglas, resin, UV sealed, treated wood Available in 5 flavors: cherry, orange, grape, lime and blue raspberry Things disappear. Sometimes t...
Resin, Fiberglass, Wood
The calm of the horizon III
Located in Miami Beach, FL
Abel Barreto Olivera, based in Havana Cuba
Marble
