Serigraphy: The
Rise of Screenprinting in America, is on view through February 11, 2018. In the
Eisenberg Gallery, at the Zimmerli Art Museum, Rutgers University, New
Brunswick, NJ, the show includes works by ADOLF DEHN, HUGO GELLERT, MERVIN JULES,
CHARLES KELLER, HUGH MESIBOV, and ANTHONY VELONIS.
As an aside, David
and Ruth Eisenberg were New Jersey collectors who were an absolute pleasure to
work with; it’s so great to know that pieces we poured over together have gone
to the Zimmerli.
It was wonderful
to go on a walk-through of the Serigraphy show with curator Nicole Simpson and
if there’s still a chance to do that before the show closes, but all means make
that most of that opportunity.
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Anthony
Velonis, Local Stop (NYC), 1939
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Simpson recognized
Anthony Velonis as a founder of the medium. While on the New Deal Works
Progress Administration (WPA), it was Velonis who ran Serigraphy Workshop and
developed methods and systems still used today. Further Simpson wrote that as
the technique expanded in use “These prints showcase the diverse approaches of
the artists and vividly demonstrate the remarkable flexibility of the medium
from mimicking the thick impasto of oil paintings to capturing the flowing
lines of drawings to producing flat, crisp surfaces in eye-popping colors.”
In several
instances we are offering the exact subjects that are on view in the Zimmerli
show – such as the Velonis shown here. This is the link to the Serigraph page
on our site:
serigraph,
silkscreen, screenprinting, zimmerli, Rutgers, nicolesimpson, AnthonyVelonis,
NewDeal, WPA
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