Art Werger
American, b. 1955
Art Werger was born in Ridgewood, New Jersey, in 1955. He received a bachelor of fine arts degree from the Rhode Island School of Design, in 1978 and a master of fine arts degree from the University of Wisconsin, in 1982. From 1982 to 2000, he was a professor of art at Wesleyan College, in Macon, Georgia. Since 2000, he has been the director of foundations and professor of printmaking at Ohio University, in Athens, Ohio. Werger’s impressive, intense prints invite audiences to assume new perspectives and consider the unfolding scene, as though they were casual bystanders. He encourages viewers to develop their interpretations of the action. Werger thrives on dealing with the technical complexities of print media. He most often uses mezzotint, a type of intaglio printmaking, where the artist works from dark to light. Werger carefully refines his images to reflect the precision of this process. His prints have received many awards and have been displayed in numerous international and national exhibitions. They are included in corporate and museum collections, such as the Corcoran Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C., Boston Public Library, Brooklyn Museum, Philadelphia Museum of Art and the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston.
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Artist: Art Werger
No U-Turn
By Art Werger
Located in Palm Springs, CA
Medium: Mezzotint
Year: 2023
Edition: 25
Image Size: 9.25 x 6.25 inches
Art Werger’s prints show a keen observation of quiet and normally unnoticed moments. Pedestrians passing each...
Category
2010s Art Werger
Materials
Mezzotint
Exposure 2023, by Art Werger
By Art Werger
Located in Palm Springs, CA
Medium: Etching w/ Aquatint
Year: 2033
Edition: 20
Image Size: 24 x 32 inches
Rocky outcroppings off the California coastline.
Werger has received over 250 awards in national and ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Art Werger
Materials
Etching, Aquatint
Playing With Fire
By Art Werger
Located in Palm Springs, CA
Medium: Etching and Aquatint
Year: 2024
Edition: 25
Image Size: 12 x 18 inches
Signed, titled and numbered in pencil by the artist
Dramatic etching of a male nude juggler performing a fire breathing act. From the artist's Circus cycle of prints.
Werger has received over 250 awards in national and international exhibitions. In 2015 he recieved the Guanlan International Printmaking Prize at the Guanlan Biennial in China, followed by the Grand Prize at the Ekaterinburg mezzotint festival in Russia. In 2012 he received the Award of the Rector at the International Print Triennial in Krakow, Poland and the Prize for Full Correspondence between technique and Imagery at the First International Mezzotint Festival in Ekaterinburg, Russia. He currently teaches printmaking at Ohio University, in Athens Ohio. Previously he served at the Chairman of the fine Arts division, and as professor of Art, at Wesleyan College in Macon...
Category
2010s Contemporary Art Werger
Materials
Aquatint, Etching
Clarity, by Art Werger
By Art Werger
Located in Palm Springs, CA
Medium: Etching with aquatint
Year: 2021
Edition: 45
Image Size: 35.5 x 23.75 inches
A Birds-eye view of a sea gull sailing over the California surf.
Werger has received over 250 a...
Category
2010s Contemporary Art Werger
Materials
Aquatint, Etching
Showcase (color), by Art Werger
By Art Werger
Located in Palm Springs, CA
Medium: Color mezzotint
Year: 2024
Edition: 25
Image Size: 24 x 18 inches
Signed, titled and numbered in pencil by the artist
Dramatic mezzotint of the tattooed back of a circus per...
Category
2010s Contemporary Art Werger
Materials
Mezzotint
The Fool, by Art Werger
By Art Werger
Located in Palm Springs, CA
Medium: Color Etching with aquatint
Year: 2024
Edition: 25
Image Size: 24 x 18 inches
Signed, titled and numbered in pencil by the artist
Dramatic etching of high wire walker...
Category
2010s Contemporary Art Werger
Materials
Aquatint, Etching
The Fool: Homage a Philippe
By Art Werger
Located in Palm Springs, CA
Medium: Etching with aquatint
Year: 2024
Edition: 25
Image Size: 24 x 18 inches
Signed, titled and numbered in pencil by the artist
Dramatic etching of high wire walker...
Category
2010s Contemporary Art Werger
Materials
Etching, Aquatint
Personal Space
By Art Werger
Located in Palm Springs, CA
Medium: Mezzotint
Year: 2004
Edition: 100
Image Size: 15.5 x 11 inches
Art Werger’s prints show a keen observation of quiet and normally unnoticed moments. Pedestrians passing each ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Art Werger
Materials
Mezzotint
Seventy Percent Chance
By Art Werger
Located in Palm Springs, CA
Medium: Mezzotint
Year: 2023
Edition: 50
Image Size: 11.75 x 17.5 inches
Pedestrians sheltering from the rain under umbrellas in an urban downtown setting,
Art Werger’s prints show...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Art Werger
Materials
Mezzotint
Delayed (suburban New Jersey commuter walks thru rain because bus is late)
By Art Werger
Located in New Orleans, LA
"Delayed" is an edition of 100.
Art Werger creates a memory of his boyhood home in suburban New Jersey. It's late, cold and rainy as this woman raises her umbrella to brave the wal...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Modern Art Werger
Materials
Mezzotint
As We Were
By Art Werger
Located in Fairlawn, OH
As We Were
Mezzotint printed on Hannemuelle Copperplate paper, 2014
Signed and dated in pencil lower right (see photo)
Titled lower left (see photo)
Chop stamp of the publisher, The ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Art Werger
Materials
Mezzotint
Rising Tide (color version)
By Art Werger
Located in Palm Springs, CA
Medium: Mezzotint
Year: 2015
Edition: 40
Image Size: 24 x 24 inches
Signed, titled and numbered in pencil by the artist
Moon reflecting on ocean waves crashing on a beach. Werger's mezzotint prints are masterful at capturing a mood, and suggesting a story for the viewer to complete. His seascapes and ocean prints are from the California coastline. Signed and numbered from the edition of 40.
Werger has received over 250 awards in national and international exhibitions. In 2015 he recieved the Guanlan International Printmaking Prize at the Guanlan Biennial in China, followed by the Grand Prize at the Ekaterinburg mezzotint festival in Russia. In 2012 he received the Award of the Rector at the International Print Triennial in Krakow, Poland and the Prize for Full Correspondence between technique and Imagery at the First International Mezzotint Festival in Ekaterinburg, Russia. He currently teaches printmaking at Ohio University...
Category
2010s Contemporary Art Werger
Materials
Mezzotint
Follow (73/100), mezzotint of New York sidewalk by Art Werger
By Art Werger
Located in Palm Springs, CA
Mezzotint, from the edition of 100. Signed, titled and numbered by the artist.
Art Werger’s prints show a keen observation of quiet and normally unnoticed moments. Pedestrians passi...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Art Werger
Materials
Mezzotint
Passage, by Art Werger
By Art Werger
Located in Palm Springs, CA
Werger's mezzotint prints are masterful at capturing a mood, and suggesting a story for the viewer to complete. Anonymous pedestrians passing on a snowy walk through Central Park. Um...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Art Werger
Materials
Mezzotint
The Three Graces
By Art Werger
Located in Palm Springs, CA
A print from his series titled "Submerged". These prints play with the reflections of light beneath the surface in suburban pools, this time featuring three young girls.
His prints...
Category
1990s Realist Art Werger
Materials
Etching, Aquatint
Storm Wave III
By Art Werger
Located in Palm Springs, CA
Werger's mezzotint prints are masterful at capturing a mood, and suggesting a story for the viewer to complete. His seascapes and ocean prints are from the California coastline. Sign...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Art Werger
Materials
Mezzotint
At the Crossroads 2
By Art Werger
Located in Palm Springs, CA
Werger's mezzotint prints are masterful at capturing a mood, and suggesting a story for the viewer to complete. He is known for his portraits of American cityscapes and skylines. Sig...
Category
2010s Contemporary Art Werger
Materials
Mezzotint
American Dream
By Art Werger
Located in Palm Springs, CA
An idealized American suburb, but without an exit...
Werger's mezzotint prints are masterful at capturing a mood and suggesting a story for the viewer to complete. He is known for h...
Category
2010s Contemporary Art Werger
Materials
Mezzotint
Memory and Presence (left)
By Art Werger
Located in Palm Springs, CA
Signed, titled and numbered from the edition of 25. This is the left image in the triptych of prints titled Memory and Presence. Werger created this image of the California coastline...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Art Werger
Materials
Etching, Aquatint
Rising Tide
By Art Werger
Located in Palm Springs, CA
Werger's mezzotint prints are masterful at capturing a mood, and suggesting a story for the viewer to complete. His seascapes and ocean prints are from the California coastline. Sign...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Art Werger
Materials
Mezzotint
7 A. M. St. Louis
By Art Werger
Located in New Orleans, LA
It's early morning I'm St. Louis in this 2002 mezzotint that is signed and numbered
Art Werger’s lyrical suburban scenes are evocative of boyhood summer evenings while his city imag...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Modern Art Werger
Materials
Mezzotint
Muse (a young novice in colorful swim suit struggles thru a pool of blue)
By Art Werger
Located in New Orleans, LA
Muse is #43 of 45. It depicts a young woman in a colorful swimsuit doing her best to swim through the blue waters of the pool. Her mouth is pursed and the bubbles flow out. I sold ...
Category
Early 2000s American Modern Art Werger
Materials
Etching
Times Square I (the neon signs in Manhattan's Times Square)
By Art Werger
Located in New Orleans, LA
Times Square I is a montage of large neon signs that dominate Manhattan's Times Square. This impression is pencil signed, titled and dated and is #40 ...
Category
Early 2000s American Modern Art Werger
Materials
Mezzotint
Vertigo
By Art Werger
Located in Palm Springs, CA
Werger's mezzotint prints are masterful at capturing a mood, and suggesting a story for the viewer to complete. Urban cityscapes and nighttime skylines are common themes. This bird's...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Art Werger
Materials
Etching, Aquatint
Three Fold Path:Time
By Art Werger
Located in Palm Springs, CA
Signed, titled and numbered from the edition of 10. This image was created by cutting the copper plates of a large trilogy of prints (Memory and Presence, which are also listed here)...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Art Werger
Materials
Etching, Aquatint
Listening
By Art Werger
Located in New Orleans, LA
Listening is a 2000 mezzotint that is signed by the artist.
Art Werger’s lyrical suburban scenes are evocative of boyhood summer evenings while his city images are fraught with tens...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Modern Art Werger
Materials
Mezzotint
Memory and Presence (middle)
By Art Werger
Located in Palm Springs, CA
Signed, titled and numbered from the edition of 25. This is the center image in the triptych of prints titled Memory and Presence. Werger created this image of the California coastl...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Art Werger
Materials
Etching, Aquatint
Empty Glasses
By Art Werger
Located in Palm Springs, CA
Werger's mezzotint prints are masterful at capturing a mood, and suggesting a story for the viewer to complete. He is known for his portraits of American cityscapes and skylines. Sig...
Category
2010s Contemporary Art Werger
Materials
Mezzotint
Life Below
By Art Werger
Located in Palm Springs, CA
Werger's mezzotint prints are masterful at capturing a mood, and suggesting a story for the viewer to complete. Urban cityscapes and nighttime skylines are common themes.
Werger has...
Category
1990s Contemporary Art Werger
Materials
Etching, Aquatint
Tidal Shift # 1 (Young bathers stroll on beach with others out in surf Montauk)
By Art Werger
Located in New Orleans, LA
'Tidal Shift' refers not only to the endangered coastal tideland but also to the psychological mindset of the characters. At first glance, the image projects seaside relaxation but ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Art Werger
Materials
Etching, Aquatint
At the Crossroads
By Art Werger
Located in Palm Springs, CA
Werger's mezzotint prints are masterful at capturing a mood, and suggesting a story for the viewer to complete. He is known for his portraits of American cityscapes and skylines. Sig...
Category
2010s Contemporary Art Werger
Materials
Mezzotint
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