32" x 25"
47 layer hand-pulled serigraph
Coventry rag 320gsm
Deckled edges
Edition of 50
Signed & numbered by the artist
From the Studio:
"For the first time, I ran out of colors"
This is the most colors I've ever printed in one edition and I couldn't be happier with it. It was the first publishing project I worked on after relocating to Austin TX so I was working in a fresh new physical space as well as a new mental space. For the first time in a long while, I didn't feel rushed to move on to the next project as quickly as possible. It took about two months of printing this edition to reach the 46th color, a point where I had essentially run out of possible colors. It was the first time I took this type of technical printing to the point where any color separation I made only looked good if it wasn't changing anything in the print. I would mix a color for the next layer but while proofing it, I would end up shifting the color until it just wasn't making a visible difference in the print. I took this to mean that I had reached a point where I must be finished. Andy had one request after seeing the print at that stage. There was a slight shift needed in most of the red and it was done at 47 layers!
From the Artist:
Red Composition with Violin is part of what I guess is becoming my Red Era. The tomato-red background—Matisse-inspired—collapses everything into a flat, graphic stage. The props are borrowed from vanitas still lifes, but I treat them more like musical samples than moral lessons: chop them up, layer them, see how they get along. It's both an homage to art history and a playful remix of its greatest hits.
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