Roy Ahlgren

Genesis III, Geometric Abstract Op Art Screenprint by Roy Ahlgren

1969

Artist: Roy Ahlgren, American (1927 - 2011) Title: Galaxy V Year: 1969 Medium: Silkscreen, signed in pencil Edition: AP Image Size: 17 x 17 inches Size: 20 x 20 in. (51.44 x 50.8 cm)

Artist: Roy Ahlgren, American (1927 - 2011) Title: Homage to the Cross II Year: circa 1970 Medium: Serigraph, signed and numbered in pencil Edition: 100 Image Size: 17 x 17 inches Si...

Artist: Roy Ahlgren, American (1927 - 2011) Title: Conceptual Perspective II Year: 1969 Medium: Serigraph, signed and numbered in pencil Edition: 100 Image Size: 17 x 17 inches Size:...

Artist: Roy Ahlgren, American (1927 - 2011) Title: Energia I Year: 1969 Medium: Silkscreen, Signed and numbered in pencil Edition: 100, AP Image Size: 17 x 17 inches Size: 20 x 20 in...

Hand signed and numbered limited edition print. David Roth studied at the Illinois Institute of Technology's Institute of Design and was twice the recipient of the Moholy-Nagy Scholarship in visual design. It was Roth's initial work as a designer at fine art for commercial use that brought him interesting positions as art director for Lanvin, Charles at the Ritz, and Germain Monteil. . The strings are tied in bunches and closely hung tram a wooden bar. The size and shape of the string is similar to that at a canvas painting. Each bundle is represented by a vertical row at squares on the graph and the groupings at string are lined up along the wall according to the horizontal rows at the program. The six primary and secondary colors are used in their full intensity along with black, grey, and white. As a painter Roth works to formulate with color. Some painters regard color as a concomitant of form, hence a subordinate, but Roth's color is the chief medium of his pictorial language. A programmed juxtaposition at primary color allows Roth and the viewer to play upon various combinations. The graphs Roth executes are proportioned according to a strict mathematical formula - the pictures are Composed according to horizontal and vertical divisions on the graph paper. The optical quality of color, deliberately sought, has its roots in the Bauhaus investigations of illusion, and thus has a direct relationship to the Op art produced in postwar Europe. Roth has arranged his hues so as to persuade the planes to separate from the ground on which they are planted, and float free in space. It is almost as if Roth is giving us a "readout" on his creative process. Although the graphs appear to vary in their use of color the same colors are used throughout, also the same amount of color. Roth's work illustrates the sophistication of the human eye-brain relationship that has developed and invites the viewer to participate in the evolution at visionary ideas. One Man Shows 1966 The Gallery Upstairs, Buffalo, New York 1967 The Gallery Upstairs, Buffalo, New York 1969 The House of Graphics, New York 1969 Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago, Illinois 1972 Robert Elkon Gallery, New York 1973 Robert Elkon Gallery, New York 1974 Robert Elkon Gallery, New York 1975 Michael Wyman Gallery, Chicago 1975 Robert Elkon Gallery, New York 1976 G.W. Einstein, New York 1976 Robert Elkon Gallery, New York 1977 Robert Elkon Gallery, New York 1977 G.W. Einstein, New York 1978 Sunne Savage Gallery, Boston, Massachusetts 1978 Robert Elkon Gallery, New York 1979 Nancy Roth Gallery, Katonah, New York Group Exhibitions 1967 State University of New York, Buffalo 1970 Ronald Feldman Gallery 1970 The Everyman Gallery 1971 Robert Elkon Gallery, New York 1972 The Brooklyn Museum, New York 1972 The Newark Museum, New Jersey 1972 Art...

Screen printing on BFK Rives paper, edited in 1975. Limited edition of 200 copies , numbered as 42/200 in lower left corner.
 Hand-signed by artist in pencil in the lower right corne...

Composition VII is an original serigraph realized by Franco Cannilla in 1971. The artwork is hand-signed in pen by the artist. Edition of 40 prints. ...

Hand signed and numbered. Edition of 100 prints. On headed paper.