Joel Shapiro

Up Down Around (e)

2011

Mary Bauermeister Rainbow, 1973 Lithograph and silkscreen on creamy white paper Hand signed, dated and numbered 56/250 by the artist on the front 19 x 25.5 inches Unframed This work is on the permanent collection of various institutions like: Rice University, Samuel Dorksy Museum of Art, Rutgers Zimmerli Museum and Wheaton College Massachusetts. While studying the fringe sciences the 1970s, Bauermeister created Rainbow (1973), a lithograph and silkscreen. She uses a creamy white background as the base. Two intersecting diagonal bands of color transcend across the page, and black cursive lettering dances over the surface serving as a mind map of interweaving ideas. Through the central band, Bauermeister shifts through the color spectrum; she begins with red and finishes with violet. Inspired by music, she uses strokes of color that are rhythmically smeared across the lithograph. The surface lettering, a kind of visual poetry, explores her interest in human emotion and science. The viewer can see Bauermeister’s thoughts as they flow into one another through the use of words such as bliss, love, and healing. Bauermeister also includes a repetition of words such as cancer, sickness, and cure. The word cancer emerges from a cell-like shape. A careful study of the words shows that they may seem dark in nature; however, she juxtaposes these words against the cheerful title and colors. Perhaps the rainbow symbolizes a new hope, an inspiration for an optimistic future. -Courtesy to the Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art About Mary Bauermeister: A multidisciplinary artist known for her intricate and enigmatic assemblages, Mary Bauermeister (1934-2023) continues to defy categorization with layered works in a range of media. A precursory figure of the Fluxus movement—her studio was the meeting point for a number of defining artists of the avant-garde—her work plays an integral role in the discussion of art, both European and American, that emerged from the 1960s. Her reliefs and sculptures, which have incorporated drawing, text, found objects, natural materials and fabric, reference a plethora of concepts: from natural phenomena and astronomy to mathematics and language, as well as her own “spiritual-metaphysical experiences.” Maturing amidst the currents of Minimalism and Pop Art, Bauermeister’s art has resisted labels due to the singular expression of her interests and concerns, among them the simultaneous transience and permanence of the natural world with experimentations in transparency and magnification, multiplication and variation, structure and order, chance and ephemerality, introversion and extroversion. Her three-dimensional receptacles of thoughts, ideas, and notes contain visual, conceptual, and philosophical paradoxes that challenge perceptions and that offer literal and metaphorical windows into which one can glimpse the inner workings of the artist’s mind. - Courtesy of Michael Rosenfeld...

George McNeil Untitled Figure, 1986 Lithograph on paper. Publisher's and Printer's Blind Stamps Hand-signed, numbered 78/84 and dated by the artist on the front with publisher's and...

Shusaku Arakawa Untitled 3 from "No!" Says the Signified, 1973 Lithograph and Silkscreen on Arches Paper with Deckled Edges Hand signed and dated on the lower right front Artist's Pr...

Artist: Donald Sultan (American, born 1951) Title: Pears Year: 1991 Medium: Color silkscreen and lithograph Edition: Numbered 31/125 in pencil Paper: Arches 88 Image size: 12 x 12 inches paper Size: 22 x 23 inches Signature: Hand signed in pencil by the artist Publisher: Parasol Editions Press L.T.D. Portland, Oregon. Condition: Excellent Frame: Unframed Description: From the suite, Fruits Sultan is an American painter, sculptor, and printmaker, well-known for large-scale still life paintings and the use of industrial materials such as tar, enamel, spackle and vinyl tiles. He has been exhibiting internationally in prominent museums and galleries, and his works are included in important museum collections all over the globe. Donald Sultan rose...

This artwork titled, Flower, 1990 is a color silkscreen and lithograph on Arches 88 paper, by artist Donald Sultan (American, b. 1951) It is hand signed and numbered 31/125 in pencil by the artist. It was published by Parasol Editions Press L.T.D. Portland, Oregon. From the suite,Fruits. It is beautifully framed in a wood maple custom frame, with bevel and fabric matting. Donald Sultan is an American painter, sculptor, and print maker, well-known for large-scale still life paintings and the use of industrial materials such as tar, enamel, spackle and vinyl tiles. He has been exhibiting internationally in prominent museums and galleries, and his works are included in important museum collections all over the globe. Donald Sultan rose...

Artist: Donald Sultan (American, born 1951) Title: Blue Flower Year: 1991 Medium: Color silkscreen and lithograph Edition: Numbered 31/125 in pencil Paper: Arches 88 Image size: 12 x 12 inches paper Size: 22 x 23 inches Signature: Hand signed in pencil by the artist Publisher: Parasol Editions Press L.T.D. Portland, Oregon. Condition: Excellent Frame: Unframed Description: From the suite, Fruits Sultan is an American painter, sculptor, and printmaker, well-known for large-scale still life paintings and the use of industrial materials such as tar, enamel, spackle and vinyl tiles. He has been exhibiting internationally in prominent museums and galleries, and his works are included in important museum collections all over the globe. Donald Sultan rose...

Artist: Larry Rivers (1923-2002) Title: Dutch Masters Year: 1991 Medium: Lithograph and silkscreen on wove paper Edition: 23/500, plus proofs Size: 25 x 3...

Serigraph in colors on paper. Hand signed and numbered by the artist. Edition of 300. Sheet size 24 x 31 inches. Artwork is in excellent condition. Certificate of Authenticity i...

Ayako Rokkaku - Untitled, 2022 Date of creation: 2022 Medium: Pigment print with silkscreen varnish on paper Edition: 3591 Size: 60 x 80 cm Condition: Brand new, in mint conditions ...

This print by Robert Indiana is part of an 8-piece portfolio published by The New York Graphic Society in 1983 and includes works from Red Grooms, Robert Indiana, Alex Katz, R.B. Kit...