Blah, Blah, Blah (Limited Edition face mask with Bochner's most famous text)
By Mel Bochner
Located in New York, NY
Brand new in original sealed packaging (not shown) - never opened MEL BOCHNER Blah, Blah, Blah Limited Edition Mask, 2021 Machine washable lightweight fabric with three layers of pro...
Textile, Cotton, Mixed Media, Screen
$17,500
Mel Bochner - Kick Against the Pricks Blah Blah Blah, Silkscreen Signed/N Framed
By Mel Bochner
Located in New York, NY
MEL BOCHNER Kick Against the Pricks (Blah..Blah...Blah...), 2018 Two color silkscreen on boutique silk fair paper with blue-colored back, 350 gsm paper Signed, dated, and numbered 29...
Screen
Price Upon Request
BLAH BLAH BLAH
By Mel Bochner
Located in Miami Beach, FL
Rare early Mel Bochner painting - unique - oil on canvas - exhibited at Peter Freeman New York Signed, dated, titled to verso
Oil, Canvas
$24,500
Mel Bochner - UNNAMEABLE, Monoprint with collage, engraving & embossment, Signed
By Mel Bochner
Located in New York, NY
While the commonly encountered "BLAH BLAH BLAH" offers an immediately accessible entry point into Bochner's language-based practice, UNNAMEABLE engages more directly with the concept...
Handmade Paper, Engraving, Monoprint
Blah Blah Blah
By Mel Bochner
Located in New York, NY
“Anything I did with them would be mine.” Blah Blah Blah is rendered in Bochner’s signature style of neon hues, geometric shapes and contemporary font.
Monoprint
BLAH BLAH BLAH
By Mel Bochner
Located in Boston, MA
Signed recto in graphite
Mel Bochner 'Blah Blah Blah' Unique work, 2023
By Mel Bochner
Located in New York, NY
Mel Bochner 'Blah Blah Blah' Unique work, 2023 is signed in pencil on front by the Artist.
Oil, Acrylic, Pigment
Sold
H 27 in W 35 in
Mel Bochner "Blah, Blah, Blah" oil monoprint with collage, engraving, embossment
By Mel Bochner
Located in Boca Raton, FL
Brightly colored "Blah, Blah, Blah" monoprint in oil with collage, engraving and embossment on handmade paper by artist Mel Bochner from Two Palms Publishing.
Oil, Handmade Paper, Engraving
Sold
H 14.97 in W 14.97 in
Blah, Blah, Blah + Background Noise, Print, Screenprint, Text Art by Mel Bochner
By Mel Bochner
Located in London, GB
MEL BOCHNER Blah, Blah, Blah + Background Noise, 2013 Double sided screenprint on printed paper Unique colour variant Signed, dated and numbered from the edition of 100 (each uniqu...
Screen
Blah, Blah, Blah
By Mel Bochner
Located in Palo Alto, CA
Rich colors stand out upon your first glance at Mel Bochner's Blah, Blah, Blah. The background consists of bright colors.
Oil, Handmade Paper, Engraving, Monoprint
Blah, Blah, Blah
By Mel Bochner
Located in Palo Alto, CA
Mel Bochner Blah, Blah, Blah, 2023 is a quintessential offering from American conceptualist, Mel Bochner, balancing and the artificial and organic nature of art and language.
Oil, Handmade Paper, Engraving, Monoprint
Blah Blah Blah
By Mel Bochner
Located in Palo Alto, CA
Mel Bochner Blah, Blah, Blah, 2022 is a quintessential offering from American conceptualist, Mel Bochner, balancing and the artificial and organic nature of art and language.
Oil, Engraving, Monoprint
Blah, Blah, Blah, 2024
By Mel Bochner
Located in Palo Alto, CA
Mel Bochner Blah, Blah, Blah, 2024 is a unique and original work.
Oil, Monoprint
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H 14.97 in W 14.97 in
Blah, Blah, Blah + Background Noise -- Screenprint, Text Art by Mel Bochner
By Mel Bochner
Located in London, GB
Blah, Blah, Blah + Background Noise, 2013 Mel Bochner Double sided screenprint on printed paper A unique colour variant Signed, dated and numbered from the edition of 100 (each uniq...
Screen
Blah, Blah, Blah
By Mel Bochner
Located in Boston, MA
Artist: Bochner, Mel Title: Blah, Blah, Blah Date: 2018 Medium: Oil Paint Monoprint with collage, engraving and embossment on hand-dyed Twinrocker handmade paper Unframed Dimens...
Monoprint
Blah, Blah, Blah
By Mel Bochner
Located in Boston, MA
Artist: Bochner, Mel Title: Blah, Blah, Blah Date: 2017 Medium: Oil Paint Monoprint with collage, engraving and embossment on hand-dyed Twinrocker handmade paper Unframed Dimens...
Oil, Monoprint
Blah, Blah, Blah
By Mel Bochner
Located in Boston, MA
Artist: Bochner, Mel Title: Blah, Blah, Blah Date: 2018 Medium: Oil Paint Monoprint with collage, engraving and embossment on hand-dyed Twinrocker handmade paper Unframed Dimens...
Monoprint
Blah, Blah, Blah
By Mel Bochner
Located in Boston, MA
Artist: Bochner, Mel Title: Blah, Blah, Blah Date: 2018 Medium: Oil Paint Monoprint with collage, engraving and embossment on hand-dyed Twinrocker handmade paper Unframed Dimens...
Monoprint
Blah, Blah, Blah
By Mel Bochner
Located in Boston, MA
Artist: Bochner, Mel Title: Blah, Blah, Blah Date: 2018 Medium: Oil Paint Monoprint with collage, engraving and embossment on hand-dyed Twinrocker handmade paper Unframed Dimens...
Monoprint
Blah, Blah, Blah
By Mel Bochner
Located in London, GB
Mel Bochner 1940 - Blah, Blah, Blah, 2014 signed and dated upper left, recto Monoprint with collage, engraving and embossment on hand-dyed Twinrocker handmade paper 132 x 109 cm 52 x...
Engraving, Monoprint
Blah, Blah, Blah
By Mel Bochner
Located in Boston, MA
Artist: Bochner, Mel Title: Blah, Blah, Blah Date: 2017 Medium: Oil Paint Monoprint with collage, engraving and embossment on hand-dyed Twinrocker handmade paper Unframed Dimens...
Oil, Monoprint
Blah, Blah, Blah
By Mel Bochner
Located in Boston, MA
Artist: Bochner, Mel Title: Blah, Blah, Blah Date: 2019 Medium: Monoprint with collage, engraving and embossment on hand-dyed Twinrocker paper Unframed Dimensions: 23" x 31" Fra...
Monoprint
Blah, Blah, Blah
By Mel Bochner
Located in Boston, MA
Artist: Bochner, Mel Title: Blah, Blah, Blah Date: 2017 Medium: Oil Paint Monoprint with collage, engraving and embossment on hand-dyed Twinrocker handmade paper Unframed Dimens...
Monoprint
Blah, Blah, Blah
By Mel Bochner
Located in Boston, MA
Artist: Bochner, Mel Title: Blah, Blah, Blah Date: 2017 Medium: Oil Paint Monoprint with collage, engraving and embossment on hand-dyed Twinrocker handmade paper Unframed Dimens...
Monoprint
Blah, Blah, Blah
By Mel Bochner
Located in Boston, MA
Artist: Bochner, Mel Title: Blah, Blah, Blah Date: 2019 Medium: Oil Paint Monoprint with collage, engraving and embossment on hand-dyed Twinrocker handmade paper Unframed Dimensi...
Monoprint
Blah, Blah, Blah
By Mel Bochner
Located in Boston, MA
Artist: Bochner, Mel Title: Blah, Blah, Blah Date: 2019 Medium: Oil Paint Monoprint with collage, engraving and embossment on hand-dyed Twinrocker handmade paper Unframed Dimensi...
Monoprint
Blah, Blah, Blah
By Mel Bochner
Located in Boston, MA
Artist: Bochner, Mel Title: Blah, Blah, Blah Date: 2019 Medium: Oil Paint Monoprint with collage, engraving and embossment on hand-dyed Twinrocker handmade paper Unframed Dimensi...
Monoprint
Blah, Blah, Blah
By Mel Bochner
Located in Boston, MA
Artist: Bochner, Mel Title: Blah, Blah, Blah Date: 2019 Medium: Oil Paint Monoprint with collage, engraving and embossment on hand-dyed Twinrocker handmade paper Unframed Dimensi...
Monoprint
Blah, Blah, Blah
By Mel Bochner
Located in Boston, MA
Artist: Bochner, Mel Title: Blah, Blah, Blah Date: 2019 Medium: Oil Paint Monoprint with collage, engraving and embossment on hand-dyed Twinrocker handmade paper Unframed Dimensi...
Monoprint
Blah, Blah, Blah
By Mel Bochner
Located in Boston, MA
Artist: Bochner, Mel Title: Blah, Blah, Blah Date: 2016 Medium: Oil Paint Monoprint with collage, engraving and embossment on hand-dyed Twinrocker handmade paper Unframed Dimens...
Oil, Engraving, Monoprint
Blah, Blah, Blah
By Mel Bochner
Located in Boston, MA
Artist: Bochner, Mel Title: Blah, Blah, Blah Date: 2017 Medium: Oil Paint Monoprint with collage, engraving and embossment on hand-dyed Twinrocker handmade paper Unframed Dimens...
Blah, Blah, Blah
By Mel Bochner
Located in Boston, MA
Artist: Bochner, Mel Title: Blah, Blah, Blah Date: 2017 Medium: Oil Paint Monoprint with collage, engraving and embossment on hand-dyed Twinrocker handmade paper Unframed Dimens...
Monoprint
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.
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