Sharon Augusta Mitchell

Ram Skull

1990

Rudolph Taylor created this single color lithograph at Tamarind Institute in PTP. It was printed by Emery Spina in an edition of 15. This is impression #8. Mawu-Lisa is a creator goddess, associated with the Sun and Moon in Dahomey mythology. In some myths, she is the wife of the male god Lisa. Mahu and Lisa are the children of Nana Buluku, and are the parents of Xevioso, The Kingdom of Dahomey was a West African kingdom located within present-day Benin that existed from approximately 1600 until 1904. Dahomey developed on the Abomey Plateau amongst the Fon people in the early 17th century and became a regional power in the 18th century by conquering key cities...

Marc Balakjian was enigmatic in his subject matter creating images that are disturbing in their ambiguity. Is this image just striped fabric tied with ropes on a platform or is this is a flag-draped coffin symbolizing those who passed "in memory of an historic phrase"? Politicians may turn the phrase but a price must be paid. This small edition mezzotint was created in 1975 in an edition of only 5. Armenian by descent, Marc Balakjian was raised in Lebanon. He spent his early years in the small town of Rayak, before moving to Beirut at the age of 10. He came to England in 1966, initially to study architecture with a firm in Oxford. He then decided to study art at Hammersmith College of Art and took up a postgraduate degree in printmaking at the Slade School of Art in 1971. After graduating he began working at Studio Prints in 1973, just as it was establishing itself in Queen’s Crescent. By 1976 he had become a full time partner, collaborating with other artists as well as continuing his own work, much of which is inspired by his Armenian and Lebanese culture and heritage. By the 1980s work was falling off, so Balakjian and Studio Prints introduced in-house plate-making to serve painters and sculptors who had little experience with printmaking. Artists such as Leon Kossoff, Frank Auerbach, Lucian Freud and Ken Kiff...

Stone and Press Gallery is excited to offer several works in celebration of the LGBTQ community. Christine Ravaux created Peau d' Are which is signed by pencil. This impression is ...

A snail and the head of a horse figure prominently in the artist's landscape of memory. This image was published at Tamarind Osmeivy Ortega Pacheco, b...

Elizabeth Quandt (1922 - 1994) Aries III, 1978 Etching on Arches paper Singed and dated in pencil, lower right Edition IX/L (9/50) With artist's embossed stamp to lower center Image 11 1/2in H x 6 1/2in Lin x 11in: Sheet 22 1/4in H x 18in L. Unframed. The ram's skull pictured was found entwined in a stand of trees in Mendocino by the artist's grandchild, Timothy Brien Mailliard. The first 25 prints in this edition of 50 are identified by Roman numerals and comprise the portfolio suite...

Elizabeth Quandt (1922 - 1994) Aries II, 1978 Etching on Arches paper. Deckled edges. Singed and dated in pencil, lower right Edition IX/L (9/50) With artist's embossed stamp to lower center Image 8in H x 10 1/2in L: Sheet 22 1/4in H x 18in L. Unframed. The ram's skull pictured was found entwined in a stand of trees in Mendocino by the artist's grandchild, Timothy Brien Mailliard. The first 25 prints in this edition of 50 are identified by Roman numerals and comprise the portfolio suite...

The Bull's skull is an original etching artwork realized after Charles Coleman (1807, Yorkshire - 1874, Roma) in 1992. Signed on the plate. The rare edition of only 25 copies. Good...

Elizabeth Quandt (1922 - 1994) Aries IV: Ram in a Thicket, 1978 Etching on Arches paper Singed and dated in pencil, lower right Edition IX/L (9/50) With artist's embossed stamp to lower center Image 5 1/4in H x 5in L: Sheet 22 1/4in H x 18in L. Unframed. The ram's skull pictured was found entwined in a stand of trees in Mendocino by the artist's grandchild, Timothy Brien Mailliard. The first 25 prints in this edition of 50 are identified by Roman numerals and comprise the portfolio suite...