Skip to main content
Want more images or videos?
Request additional images or videos from the seller
1 of 10

Steven Sorman
Those From Away, plate II

1989

About the Item

This artwork titled "Those From Away, plate II" 1989, is an original hand colored linocut with collage on Fuji Handmade paper by noted American artist Steven Sorman, b.1948. It is hand signed, dated and numbered 15/32 in pencil by the artist. The artwork size is 14.5 x 12 inches, framed size is 22.75 x 21.75 inches. It is custom framed in a wooden white wash frame, with fabric backing and liner. It is in excellent condition. About the artist: Since his debut in the early 1970s Steven Sorman has built a reputation with, openly decorative mixed-medium works. Sorman's ornamental predilections have often provoked comparisons with the sensibilities of Matisse and Motherwell, though his work displays an equally strong kinship with Rauschenberg's cooler, "flat bed" organization of pictorial space. Like his accomplished precursors, Sorman has made collage a central part of his artistic practice. In fact, until recently, Sorman's pieces were typically organized around a persistent motif of broken and overlapping technical forays, so that sections of contrasting color were played against translucent scrims, gestural marks and framed areas that often held figural silhouettes or splashed paint placed to calculated effect. In recent years the tapestried poise of the earliest work has yielded to something more energetic, with Sorman employing wild arabesques to draw together the disparate elements of his compositions. Collaged from handmade paper, sheer drapery, gold leaf and other exotic materials, his works often exude an Oriental sumptuousness. Sorman applies paint in two distinct manners: on the one hand, he makes use of a thinned out, almost watercolor transparency that bares every splatter and much of the canvas beneath, on the other, he allows himself passages of heavily worked, al- most chalky opacity. Filled with bio-morphic shadows and overlapping lines, this painting evokes a horizon-less inner landscape where natural forces reveal themselves with graphic certainty. Private as thought, Sorman's oil proposes a transcendent identity between life's energies, painted gestures and the trace of consciousness. One could say that Sorman's paintings have evolved from ornaments to devotional emblems; a change that bodes well for Sorman's future. His work is housed in numerous international museums that include Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam, Netherlands, The Museum of Modern Art and the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York, New York, the Art Institute of Chicago in Chicago, Illinois, and Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, Minnesota. Sorman won the Bush Foundation Artist's Fellowship in 1979, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art Merit World Print III Award in 1980, the Rockefeller Foundation American Center Artist in Residence in Paris in 1982 and the 2nd Bhrat Bhavan International Biennial of Prints Merit Award in 1991.
  • Creator:
    Steven Sorman (1948, American)
  • Creation Year:
    1989
  • Dimensions:
    Height: 22.75 in (57.79 cm)Width: 21.75 in (55.25 cm)Depth: 1.85 in (4.7 cm)
  • Medium:
  • Movement & Style:
  • Period:
  • Condition:
  • Gallery Location:
    San Francisco, CA
  • Reference Number:
    Seller: sor/tho/awa/011stDibs: LU666315277792

More From This Seller

View All
Untitled
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork "Untitled" 2011 is a original color linocut on Strathmore paper by artist Maxime Maurice Grossman, b. 1989. It is hand signed and numbered 7/35 in pencil by the artist. The image (plate mark) size is 9 x 18.5 inches, framed size is 19 x 27.85 inches. Published by Joseph Grossman Fine Art...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Pop Art Abstract Prints

Materials

Linocut

Galactika II
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork titled "Galactika III Variant" 2012 is a original color linocut on Strathmore paper by artist Maxime Maurice Grossman, b. 1989. It is hand signed and numbered 8/40 in pencil by the artist. The image (plate mark) size is 17.85 x 11.85 inches, framed size is 31 x 23.75 inches. Published by Joseph Grossman Fine Art...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Pop Art Abstract Prints

Materials

Linocut

Galactika I
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork titled "Galactika I" 2012 is a original color linocut on Strathmore paper by artist Maxime Maurice Grossman, b.1989. It is hand signed and numbered 8/40 in pencil by the artist. The image (plate mark) size is 18 x 11.85 inches, framed size is 34.75 x 27 inches. Published by Joseph Grossman Fine Art...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Pop Art Abstract Prints

Materials

Linocut

Galactika II
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork titled "Galactika II" 2012 is a original color linocut on Strathmore paper by artist Maxime Maurice Grossman, b. 1989. It is hand signed and numbered 14/40 in pencil by the artist. The image (plate mark) size is 18 x 11.85 inches, framed size is 34.75 x 27 inches. Published by Joseph Grossman Fine Art...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Pop Art Abstract Prints

Materials

Linocut

Snapdragon
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork titled "Snapdragon" 2011 is a original color linocut on Strathmore paper by artist Maxime Maurice Grossman, b. 1989. It is hand signed and numbered 6/40 in pencil by the artist. The image (plate mark) size is 17.85 x 11.85 inches, framed size is 31 x 24 inches. Published by Joseph Grossman Fine Art...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Pop Art Abstract Prints

Materials

Linocut

Son Abrines
By Joan Miró
Located in San Francisco, CA
"Son Abrines" Original etching with aquatint printed on Guarro paper. Ink stamp signed, numbered 23/75 in pencil. Also hand signed in pencil on the back by the grand son of the artis...
Category

1980s Abstract Abstract Prints

Materials

Aquatint

You May Also Like

Abstract Print India Artist Proof Linocut Nature Earth Love Red Orange
By Mukesh Sharma
Located in Norfolk, GB
There is a natural and raw understanding in Mukesh Sharma’s prints that both depict, and are influenced by, the Rajastani communities of his home town in rural India. In these Limited Edition fine-art prints, made over a period of twenty years, we are offered the colours of India’s ancient land, the textures, light and the patterns that are everywhere. In the patterns of the arable fields to the jali's (carved screens) in the architecture. This work is however not romantic nor nostalgic but shows a deeper rooted need to offer a visual heritage of place, of where the artist is from and the journey that he is taking. The results are both compelling and honest. Mukesh Sharma, Twin Showcase, Lino-cut on German Ivory paper Edition: AP, 2005 Image size: 47 x 39 cm / Sheet size: 79 x 55 cm Unframed 'We belong where love finds us' Mukesh Sharma's work: It is often in childhood that paths are set for what we will become. Mukesh Sharma hails from a rural, agricultural village in Rajasthan, India. His Father is a craftsman who fixed and mended farm machinery and understood the working parts in the processes. Sharma followed in his Father’s footsteps, as is often the case in Indian families, but his was not the machines of the fields but the presses of the printing studio. Like his Father, Mukesh Sharma is fascinated with understanding how things work and how he can manipulate the metal in his hands. It is not surprising then that his medium of choice is printing. One of the most physically challenging of all the practices, it can often be physically challenging as well as technical and detailed. In his youth, Sharma would draw with stones on walls and floors. He was lucky his family encouraged this and he is grateful for his early art-training at the Jaipur School of Art but it was at the Baroda Art Department that he was introduced to the great printing traditions of Jyoti Bhatt...
Category

Early 2000s Abstract Abstract Prints

Materials

Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Linocut, Archival Pigment

Abstract Landscape Indian Art Edition 3/5 Linocut Print Nature Orange Australia
By Mukesh Sharma
Located in Norfolk, GB
There is a natural and raw understanding in Mukesh Sharma’s prints that both depict, and are influenced by, the Rajastani communities of his home town in rural India. In these Limited Edition fine-art prints, made over a period of twenty years, we are offered the colours of India’s ancient land, the textures, light and the patterns that are everywhere. In the patterns of the arable fields to the jali's (carved screens) in the architecture. This work is however not romantic nor nostalgic but shows a deeper rooted need to offer a visual heritage of place, of where the artist is from and the journey that he is taking. The results are both compelling and honest. Mukesh Sharma, Jetty 1, Lino-cut chin- coll’e on German Ivory paper Edition: 3 of 5, 2005 Image size: 50 x 33 cm / Sheet size: 79 x 55 cm Unframed ''What mesmerised me was the meeting of the sea and the mountain peak. Where the Jetty, a special curved wooden staircase leading to one end and the deep crystal clear sea at a distance. These scenes were amazing to me." Mukesh Sharma's work: It is often in childhood that paths are set for what we will become. Mukesh Sharma hails from a rural, agricultural village in Rajasthan, India. His Father is a craftsman who fixed and mended farm machinery and understood the working parts in the processes. Sharma followed in his Father’s footsteps, as is often the case in Indian families, but his was not the machines of the fields but the presses of the printing studio. Like his Father, Mukesh Sharma is fascinated with understanding how things work and how he can manipulate the metal in his hands. It is not surprising then that his medium of choice is printing. One of the most physically challenging of all the practices, it can often be physically challenging as well as technical and detailed. In his youth, Sharma would draw with stones on walls and floors. He was lucky his family encouraged this and he is grateful for his early art-training at the Jaipur School of Art but it was at the Baroda Art Department that he was introduced to the great printing traditions of Jyoti Bhatt...
Category

Early 2000s Abstract Abstract Prints

Materials

Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Linocut, Archival Pigment

Untitled Abstract, linocut by Walter Hoyle
By Walter Hoyle
Located in London, GB
Walter Hoyle (1922 - 2000) Untitled Abstract Linocut 10 x 68 cm Signed and inscribed A/P in pencil. This linocut by Walter Hoyle is a striking abstract composition that blends geo...
Category

Mid-20th Century Abstract Geometric Abstract Prints

Materials

Linocut

Black sun
By Roger Bissière
Located in Paris, FR
Linocut, 1960 Handsigned by the artist in pencil Edition : 80 65.00 cm. x 40.00 cm. 25.59 in. x 15.75 in. (paper) 52.50 cm. x 24.00 cm. 20.67 in. x 9.45 in. (image) After Bissière...
Category

1960s Abstract Abstract Prints

Materials

Linocut

TV Re-Run A Unique mixed media monotype and colored embossing geometric abstract
Located in New York, NY
Alan Shields TV Re-Run A, 1978 Mixed Media Monotype embossing, linocut, with watercolor and silver leaf applied decoration on TGL Handmade Paper. Mounted on Linen Board Signed by Ala...
Category

1970s Abstract Geometric Mixed Media

Materials

Silver

V from La Magnanerie de la Ferrage, Abstract Linocut by Alberto Magnelli
By Alberto Magnelli
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Alberto Magnelli, Italian (1888 - 1971) Title: V from La Magnanerie de la Ferrage Year: 1971 Medium: Linocut on Japon, signed in pencil Edition: Pour Leon Amiel Image Size: 1...
Category

1970s Abstract Geometric Abstract Prints

Materials

Rice Paper, Linocut

Recently Viewed

View All